Barry Soltani, Ph.D.

146 Main Street, Suite 404

Los Altos, California 94022

(650) 941-3850 (Tel)

(650) 941-1835 (Fax)

 

PROFESSIONAL      Senior Associate and Project Manager                                1996 - Present

EXPERIENCE           FMY Associates, Inc.

 

Provide financial and economic advice and support to clients anticipating financial restructuring of their projects.

·        Provide financial and strategic advice on various financial restructuring options for clients and projects in all industries, assist clients in understanding their alternatives and help them make appropriate decisions.

·        Successfully conducted negotiations on behalf of clients to financially restructure debt and obligations in order to make ventures economically viable and competitive.

·        Assist in developing financial models, provide project management, and contribute to formulation and implementation of policy and strategy in various projects and assignments.

·        Specialize in assisting clients with projects or interests in Asia, provide strategy to clients with respect to economic and political events and their impacts on the clients’ business decisions.

                                    President                                                                                1997 - Present

                                    PIC Computers, Ltd.

 

Provide system solutions to institutional clients to address complex communications and computing needs.

·        Manage a twenty five person team to analyze client specific problems and needs in the communications and computing field and provide unique solutions to address such problems and needs.

·        Specialize in harnessing the communications and computing power of the internet, intranets and related technologies to deliver business benefits, serving complex projects for institutional clients, such as major utilities.

·        Complete profit and loss responsibility in highly competitive environments in Macau and China.

·        Project management of major IT related assignments for utilities dealing with multi-party team formation and project implementation.

                                    Financial Advisor and Director                                             1993-Present 

                                    Dasibi Environmental Corporation

 

Provide financial and strategic advice on a variety of complex transactions managed by the firm.

·        Instrumental in securing project with China State Environmental Protection Administration involving eleven Chinese cities.

·        Successfully closed a multimillion deal in a complex transaction involving US Eximbank and Bank of America, among numerous other deals.

                                    Co-founder and Chief Financial Officer                                1993 - 1996

                                    Transpacific Industries Corporation

 

Managed financial controls and funding, supervised international project management.

·        Negotiated multi-party international industrial joint ventures.

·        Played key role in setting up complete turnkey manufacturing facilities from conception to startup and hand-over.

·        Initiated and closed the sale of group equity stake in an industrial joint venture to a large multinational conglomerate.

                                    Chief Financial Officer                                                          1991 - 1993

                                    Pacific Infotech Group

Financial management of a multinational engineering and project management firm.

·        Played key role in the financial restructuring of the group’s financial liabilities and international joint ventures.

·        Highly successful in complex liability management. Directly saved company over $1.3 million in the 1st year and millions more during subsequent years.

Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions                                       1989-1991

The Esot Group, Inc.

Area of responsibilities: private company Mergers & Acquisitions analysis. Advised senior executives of client companies on matters relating to: acquisitions, divestitures, inter-generational asset transfers, ESOPs.

Professor of Finance, California Polytechnic State University       1988-1990

EDUCATION            Ph.D., Economics, University of California, Riverside, 1989.

                                    Thesis: Hostile Tender Offers in a Game-Theoretic Framework.