Terry Cross
Principal, Windward Associates
Mr. Cross started his career with The Cross Company of Detroit in 1964. In 1968 Mr. Cross started his own company, CP Systems Company and built it up to $10 million dollars before selling it in 1972 to the Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company.
Mr. Cross entered he securities business in 1972 where he spent the next 26 years with Kidder, Peabody & Company and PaineWebber. During that time he worked in Detroit, New York and San Francisco. Mr. Cross spent two years with Highland Capital Management, a registered investment advisor prior to co-founding Sonoma Photonics, Inc in Santa Rosa, CA where he raised $10 million dollars in venture funding.
Mr. Cross’ past board memberships include: G2 Networks, Inc. of Los Gatos, CA; Safari Technology Inc. of Lawton, MI; GCB Technologies of San Jose, CA; InGenius Technologies of Kalamazoo, MI; Wordenglass Inc. of Kalamazoo, MI; Machine Vision International of Ann Arbor, MI; Inivest of Detroit, MI and Triumph Resources of New York City. He was also a founding investor in three companies resulting from MIT’s Technology Transfer Department: Intellitec, Axiomatics, and LNL Technologies.
He currently serves as a Director of Municipal Financial Consultants, Inc; non-executive Chairman of the Board of IMS Solutions and as a Director of Green Daisy. Mr. Cross is a Board member of Great Lakes Angels, a founding member of Michigan Venture Capital Association, and a Board member of Automation Alley’s Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan.
Mark Schlussel
Partner, Schlussel & Schefman, P.L.L.C.
Mr. Schlussel started his career as a founding partner in the law firm Schlussel, Lifton, Simon, Rands in 1969. He has continued to practice law since then with some of the Midwest’s most prominent law firms until starting Schlussel & Schefman in 2004.
In addition to his distinguished legal career, Mr. Schlussel also founded two companies: M&A Consulting, LLC, (a healthcare consulting company); and Med-i-Bank a software company focused on the electronic payment of flexible medical benefit spending accounts which he sold for in excess of $150 million.
Mr. Schlussel’s past board memberships include: Sinai-Grace Hospital; The Detroit Medical Center; Sinai Hospital of Detroit; Monsignor Clement Kern Hospital for Special Surgery; and the Veridien Corporation.
He currently serves on the boards of the following organizations: HealthCor, Inc., (a holding company for Great Lakes Health Plan); The Jewish Fund; Keyco Bond Fund; Artrain, Inc.; Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit and the United Jewish Foundation.
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