Simon Newman
Mr. Newman is the president of Cornerstone Management Group, a private investment and advisory business based in Los Angeles. In early 2008 Mr. Newman merged Cornerstone's investment activities with JP Capital Partners at which time he became one of two Managing Directors of the firm's $100 million fund. At JP Capital Partners, Mr. Newman is responsible for all investment activity.
In his 25 year career, Mr. Newman has extensive M&A experience having completed over 65 engagements on deals valued at $108 billion many of them cross border transactions. He has raised over $20 billion in equity and debt financings to support bids and acquisitions he has originated from Cornerstone. Mr. Newman has a deep expertise in business strategy and profit improvement especially within the Media and Entertainment, Telecommunications, Foods, Business Services, Software and Manufacturing industries. He has worked in six countries including USA, United Kingdom, Sweden, Holland, Belgium and Australia.
Prior to founding Cornerstone in 1995 Mr. Newman worked at Bain & Company with Mark Curcio, and LEK Consulting for ten years where he co-founded LEK's West Coast office. At these firms Mr. Newman completed numerous re-engineering and performance improvement projects. Representative clients include Time Warner, Pacific Telesis, Universal Studios, Disney, Viacom, US West, Blockbuster, Imperial Group, British Aerospace and Imperial Chemical Industries.
Mr. Newman has also held the positions of controller and director of operations for FilmNet, now Canal+ International, one of Europe's largest pay-tv companies. He has founded or cofounded three software or service businesses.
Mr. Newman has a BA with honors and an MA in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Email: Simon@CornerstoneMG.com
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Adam Gerstein
Mr.Gerstein is a Senior Associate at Cornerstone, where he brings nearly 20 years of entrepreneurial and management consulting experience. Prior to joining Conerstone, Mr. Gerstein was the founder and CEO of Beauty Addicts, a New York based Cosmetics Company. He previously co-founded TexYard, a B2B software company that managed supply chain and procurement for some of Europe's largest clothing retailers. He was also the co-founder of Neurosmith, the maker of intelligent learning toys, where he was the director of sales and marketing and built the company to $17 million in it's first three years.
In addition to his entrepreneurial work, Mr. Gerstein has a decade of management consulting experience at Bain & Company and LEK Consulting, where he specialized in sales growth and cost reduction strategy and implementation, as well as financial consulting to the banking industry in first world and developing countries.
He has spent more than 4 years outside of the US, living and working with clients in countries around the globe, including South Africa, United Kingdom, Mexico, Italy and Turkey.
Adam has a BA in Mechanical Engineering from Berkeley where he was a Drake Scholar.
Email: agerstein@cornerstonemg.com |
