Howie is an executive with extensive experience in managing businesses in the technology, media and communications industry. He has started, financed and/or managed a variety of businesses and taken several public or sold them to strategic investors. He was the co-founder and CEO of Ad.Venture Partners, Inc., a Special Purpose Acquisition Company that acquired 180 Connect, Inc., a $400 million leading provider of installation and fulfillment services to the cable TV and satellite industries. Prior to that, Howie was Chairman and a Managing Member of Innovation Interactive, LLC, a leading digital communications agency, which he helped acquire in a management buyout from Net2Phone, Inc. in May 2002. Prior to that he was CEO of Net2Phone, Inc., the pioneer Internet telephony company, where he sold a controlling interest to AT&T for $1.4 billion Previously, Howie was employed by IDT Corp., a diversified international telecommunications company, where he was a member of the board of directors and its COO from 1993 to 1998 and CFO from 1993 to 1995.
Howie holds advanced degrees in Applied Mathematics from New York University, and a BA from Yeshiva University. He has four children and two grandchildren and is very active in numerous charitable endeavors and causes.
Ilan brings twenty years’ experience helping to finance and grow smaller businesses into large companies, both public and private. Ilan was the co-founder and President of Ad.Venture Partners, Inc, a Special Purpose Acquisition Company that acquired 180 Connect, Inc., a $400 million leading provider of installation and fulfillment services to the cable TV and satellite industries. Prior to that, Ilan was Vice Chairman and a Managing Member of Innovation Interactive, LLC, a leading digital communications agency, which he helped acquire in a management buyout from Net2Phone, Inc. in May 2002. Previously, Ilan was Chief Financial Officer at Net2phone, Inc, the pioneer Internet telephony company and helped grow the company from a small business to $160 million in annual revenue. While at Net2Phone, Ilan raised hundreds of millions in capital, both private and public, and helped engineer a strategic change of control investment by AT&T for $1.4 billion. Prior to his employment with Net2Phone, Inc., Ilan was employed by IDT Corp. in several capacities, most recently its Executive Vice president of Finance. Ilan also worked for Merrill Lynch in several capacities from 1992 to 1995.
Ilan holds an MBA from the Stern School of Business at NYU and a BA in Economics from the University of Pittsburgh. He and his wife have four children and are very active on the boards of several charitable organizations.
Shloma founded Pioneer Interactive in 2001 and is currently its President and Chief Technology Officer. Shloma started his career as a custom application programmer, and has always been passionate about creating software that is both robust and intuitive. He was previously the President of SB Data Module which created custom software applications for finance, education and media companies. During that time, Shloma was approached by several business owners in the field services industry, who wanted to be able to run their entire company on one application program. They outgrew QuickBooks - which didn't meet many of their unique functional needs - and were desperate for a program that was specifically designed for field service organizations and that was comprehensive and yet easy to use. Shloma worked closely with owners of field service businesses to develop FieldOne to bring to market a concept of what customers really needed in a business application program. Shloma and his development team have worked continuously to add functions requested by customers, who consider the application robust, intuitive, and indispensable
Shloma is proficient in a variety of programming languages and technologies. He has designed and implemented multi-tier systems and architected and designed large, complex systems, and successfully managed applications though their lifecycles. Shloma and his wife have six children and live in Orange County, New York.