Eugene L. Cobuzzi
 



Mr. Cobuzzi is a senior executive with strong management and leadership ability and a proven track record of success in a variety of product and service businesses. His experience encompasses all business applications and functions with an emphasis on operational, administrative, and financial areas. Mr. Cobuzzi has been responsible for the successful negotiation and completion of Domestic and International transactions in both traditional and e-commerce business environments and is capable of developing a winning business strategy and mobilizing a flexible and responsive organization to successfully implement such a strategy. Since 2003, Mr. Cobuzzi has exhibited an aptitude in developing and executing a plan for the successful restructure and reorganization of troubled organizations.

In January of 2004, Mr. Cobuzzi partnered with JHW Greentree Capital, a J.H. Whitney company, to acquire companies in the Corporate Event Production industry. Serving as Chief Operating Officer of TBA Holdings, LLC, he and his team went on to acquire TBA Entertainment Corporation in June, 2004 and PGI, Inc. in July of 2005. The resulting merged organization, TBA Global Events, LLC, had annual sales exceeding $150 million. After reorganizing the management team and restructuring overhead costs down by over 25%, the resulting organization was able to achieve profitability in calendar year 2006.

Prior to TBA, Mr. Cobuzzi had been with MediaLive International since January 2001 as Executive Vice President of Operations and Strategic Planning. In that role, his responsibilities included heading up worldwide operations, major vendor relationships, and mergers and acquisitions. Instrumental in all company acquisitions and business development activities for MediaLive, he completed a series of transactions at a value in excess of $120 million domestically and $30 million internationally ranking them among the largest transactions consummated in the industry during 2001. Assisted in leading this organization through a reorganization and restructuring via a successful chapter 11 filing in conjunction with a change of control transaction and the development of a complete go forward plan which was adopted by the new ownership.

Mr. Cobuzzi joined MediaLive International from MusicNet, a division of Real Networks, where he served as Chief Operating Officer. During his tenure with MusicNet, he helped create one of the first legitimate subscription based digital music services with a launch budget of just over $18 million.

Prior to MusicNet, Cobuzzi served as Chief Operating Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Ticketmaster Group, Inc. His tenure at Ticketmaster covered almost 15 years during which he served in a variety of senior leadership roles where responsibilities included the direct supervision of all operations, research & development, administration, finance, business development, legal and human resources functions worldwide. During his career with Ticketmaster, the company’s enterprise value went from just a few million dollars to nearly $1 billion.

Mr. Cobuzzi, a CPA, holds a BBA from Iona College.