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News and Events 2003
November 2003
Open Solutions, Inc. Announces Completion of Initial Public Offering Raising Approximately $88 million
Glastonbury, Conn. Dec 10, 2003 -- Open Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: OPEN), a provider of software and services for financial institutions, today announced that it completed its initial public offering of 5,750,000 shares of common stock on December 2, 2003.
September 2003
VoiceGLO, funded by Michael Egan, founder of Alamo Rental Car, H. Wayne Huizenga, former CEO of Blockbuster Video, and William Esrey, former CEO of Sprint, hires Mount Vernon Strategies to head strategic marketing and promotions in the New England area.
July 2003
High Falls Brewing Company engages MVS. High Falls Brewing Company, located in Rochester, NY, is the fifth largest brewing company in America, and is the brewer of brands including JW Dundee's Honey Brown Lager, Michael Shea's Irish Amber, Genny Light, the Genesee Family of brands and Koch's Golden Anniversary. High Falls distributes its fine products across 41 states and Ontario, Canada.
GoBoston engages MVS to assist with the development of a business plan that will be used to raise additional capital.
June 2003
Former client CircleLending Inc., was featured on the front page of the Boston Business Journal in the May 30th issue. Headed by Howard Schwartz, Director and Asheesh Advani, President and CEO, the Cambridge-based startup hired MVS to write a business plan that led to the raising of $1 million.
MVS Technology Solutions practice is hired by Merrill Lynch Boston to manage and support CRM (Customer Relationship Management) application for high net worth customers.
May 25 2003
MVS Senior Partner and co-founder Charles Collier weds Jodi Kesser at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland.
May 2003
MVS is engaged by Grace's Restaurant to develop business plans for raising capital.
MVS is re-engaged by The British Midlands www.thebritishmidlands.com
to conduct extensive market search in the U.S. on financial services,
manufacturing and computer industry sectors.
April 2003
MVS is re-engaged by The Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
MVS Senior Partner, Charles Collier, speaks before 120 people
at WPI’s Technology Forum www.wpiventureforum.org.
Collier’s presentation was centered on how to write a successful business
plan in today’s economic environment.
March 2003
MVS hosts a networking reception for at the Harvard Club Boston. Attending were clients of the firm, venture capitalists, representatives of the major Boston law and accounting firms. MVS' newest Senior Partner, John Kogan, was introduced. Mr. Kogan, who spent 18 years at Goldman Sachs Company, said, “He is extremely happy about his transition to MVS, and looks forward to continuing his work managing technology solutions for large companies.”
MVS is hired By Leggatt McCall Properties to assist in writing
an Offering Memorandum.
MVS nominates three individuals for Ernst and Young's Entrepreneur
of the Year Award www.ey.com.
Frank Guidara, CEO of Au Bon Pain; Kevin Murphy, CEO of Fishery Products
International and Bob Stiller, CEO of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters.
Bryan Pearce, Partner with E+Y's Boston office said, "We are delighted
to have such well qualified and dynamic CEO's nominated this year by
Mount Vernon Strategies. Clearly, a nomination by MVS raises the
bar for everyone."
February 2003
MVS is hired by The British Midlands www.thebritishmidlands.com to conduct extensive market search in the U.S. on the pharmaceutical and food and beverage sectors.
January, 2003
Dear clients and friends of MVS:
We wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone a prosperous, healthy, and safe 2003.
While the economic climate is still not what we all like it to be, MVS is optimistic about the prospects for businesses to grow this year. Companies are more focused, leaner, and committed to seeing the bottom line grow despite both economic and international uncertainties.
On that note, Mount Vernon Strategies has made a commitment to maintaining our notoriety in offering best of breed consulting services that are financially feasible for our clients’ budgets.
Most notably MVS has attracted Tom First, the co-Founder and former-CEO of Nantucket Nectars and John Kogan, former Vice President of Information Technology for Goldman Sachs, during the past year. Both of these individuals have brought an elite status to MVS’ marketing/branding and technology solutions practices.
By integrating Tom and John’s expertise with our commitment for exceeding clients’ expectations, we have been able to contribute to the success of many companies. We are honored to have been hired by the following firms over the past year: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Camp Dresser & McKee Inc. (CDM), the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (MSPCA), Sceptre Database Systems, Inventory Locater Services (ILS), Solectria Corporation, Firestar Corporation, Goldman Sachs, And1, and the Vermont Teddy Bear Company.
Again, all the best for the New Year and we look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Charles Collier, Chris White, and John Kogan
Senior Partners
