Smg Industries Inc
Officers & Directors
Ailon Z. Grushkin has been our President and a Director since inception and
a member of Specialty Metals Group Advisors LLC, our former manager through
December 31, 2014. Currently, he is our Chief Executive Officer, President and
Chairman of the Board under an arrangement with Nano-Cap Advisors LLC, of which
he is the sole member. He is currently the Managing Member of the General Partner
of a micro-cap focused hedge fund he founded in January 2000 and is also currently
the Managing Member of a commodities based hedge fund he launched in January
2004. From 1996 to 2011, Mr. Grushkin was also the General Partner of the Nano-Cap
Hyper Growth Partnership L.P., a hedge fund he founded in 1996. From 1990 to
1996, Mr. Grushkin worked or interned at Merrill Lynch Futures Investment Partners
(‘‘MLFIP’’), Thompson McKinnon Securities, Prudential
Securities and Sumitomo Bank Ltd. At these firms, he held various positions
including assistant commodity trader, commodity trading advisor analyst and
assistant derivatives trader. Mr. Grushkin is qualified to serve on our Board
because of his experience purchasing and taking delivery of minor physical metals
for his own personal investment as well as his experience managing a fund dedicated
to investing in commodities and equities linked to commodities. Mr. Grushkin
is a graduate of the John M. Olin School of Business at Washington University
in St. Louis with a Bachelor’s of Science in Business Administration.
Mary E Paetzold has been our Chief Financial Officer since July 2011. Ms. Paetzold
is a Certified Public Accountant with over 35 years of experience with the audit,
accounting, internal control and finance functions of public and private companies.
From 2002 to 2017, Ms. Paetzold served as a director, chairman of the audit
committee, and member of the compensation, nominating and governance committees
for Immunomedics, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company. From 2003 to
2011, she served as a director and chairman of the audit committee of Orthovita
Inc., a publicly traded orthobiologics and biosurgery company that was acquired
by Stryker Corporation in June 2011. From January 2008 to December 2008, she
was an adjunct professor at the Cameron School of Business at the University
of North Carolina at Wilmington. From 1994 through February 2000, she served
as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Director (1996-1997) of Ecogen
Inc, a publicly traded agricultural biotechnology company. From 1973 to 1994,
Ms. Paetzold practiced with KPMG Peat Marwick, LLP, predecessor to KPMG, LLP,
serving as an audit partner from 1984 to 1994. Ms. Paetzold has a Bachelor of
Arts in Mathematics from Montclair State University and received her certification
from the New Jersey Board of Accountancy in 1977. She is a member of the New
Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants.
Smg Industries Inc currently has 1 employees.
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