Management Team - Fortune Empire

Steven E. Trabish

Executive Managing Director

Jack Schneider Jr.

Managing Director, TMT

Frederick Newcomb

Managing Director of Investment Banking & Global Finance

Frederick Newcomb

Frederick Newcomb serves as our Managing Director of Investment Banking & Global Finance. In today’s international financial world, design and buildout of financial instruments has risen to mission-critical funding needs, ranging from local startups to country financing.

Owner and President of Newcomb and Company for over three decades as an NASD/FINRA Registered General Securities Principal and Registered Representative licensed to sell securities, he is known for financial services institutional and mutual fund building, development, and sales. This led to specialization ln investment banking, wholesale syndications and the development of investment pools, serving large and small national and international financial institutions, agencies, and even governments themselves.

During that period, as President of AIM Financial Services, he guided that financial services industry company, as a provider of software, systems, through data processing and mutual fund transfer agency and investment banking, from arranging the financing of Samsung’s entry into the computer market in the United States in the commercial arena, to the creation and sales of investment companies in the mutual fund, insurance, hedge fund and venture capital industries and eventually on a worldwide basis.

Prior to AIM, Mr. Newcomb was employed by Putnam, where he was Vice President of the Putnam Daily Dividend Trust and Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing for Putnam and Eberstadt, working in the areas of load mutual fund distribution through broker/dealers, the introduction to no load institutional and retirement markets and the creation of the bank market for the Putnam Funds, which became half of Putnam’s assets. Prior to Putnam, he was Director of Marketing for the Scudder Funds for eleven years.

In the insurance industries, he served in several management positions at NEL Equity Services Corp. including national sales manager for equity products, a broker/dealer, and distributor for New England Life Insurance Company, the firm that acquired Mr. Newcomb's first financial services industry employer, Loomis Sayles & Company, where he was an officer of the Loomis Sayles Funds. The affiliation with insurance companies has spanned Mr. Newcomb‘s entire career through to today.

A pioneer of the mutual fund industry, Mr. Newcomb was one of the founders and directors of the No-Load Mutual Fund Association (NLMFA), where he served as industry President. He also was a director and Executive Committee member of the National Investment Company Services Association (NICSA) as well a member of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) and the Investment Counsel Association (ICA). His industry firsts include: the first cash management system for money market funds; the first wire transfer between unaffiliated investment companies; the inclusion of 403(b) plans placed into ERISA; the first mutual fund 401(k) plan filed and produced under ERISA; and the first international mutual fund merger, involving Loomis Sayles Canadian & International Fund and Scudder International Investments Fund.

As part of his practice at Newcomb & Company, Mr., Newcomb combined investment banking and financial services by building the Advantage Trust Funds for Great American First Bank, the Sierra Trust Funds for Great Western Bank, sold the original Pro Funds to the American Medical Association to create AMA Funds and did the consulting analysis for the sale of Stein Roe and Farnham to Liberty Mutual Financial Services. He provided the original consulting for the formation of the Morgan Stanley Mutual Funds, built the Alexander Hamilton Life Variable Annuities and restructured the investment company services structure for Riggs Bank of Washington, DC. Mr. Newcomb has also built international and foreign fund portfolios outside of the United States.

An integral part of Mr. Newcomb’s work has been the reorganization of the structure and operation of mutual and investment funds and their service support systems to ensure stronger compliance, reduce costs, provide superior service and to increase sales and assets. The background and experience to do this work were at the many fine and prestigious investment firms in his earlier career that provided Mr. Newcomb with the opportunity to create, build, sell, deliver and support what became billions of dollars of industry assets.

Mr. Newcomb is a graduate of Boston University, attended the University of Maine School of Management and is a graduate of the Career Life Underwriting School. He has served on the Board of Directors of the US Boston Funds and Board of Advisers of General Defense Systems and other various companies.

Chris Majer

Chief Operating Officer

William Noe

Managing Director, Real Estate, Infrastructure, & Alternative Investments

William M. Noe

William M. Noe is Fortune Empire’s specialist for real estate, infrastructure, and alternative investments. He brings nearly 50 years of experience on Wall Street in the financing and management of technology ventures, resource projects from oil & gas exploration and development, to precious metals mining and real estate development. He has tempered his deal making and financial market expertise with the realities of “hands-on” management of innovative companies in the competitive business environment.

Mr. Noe currently has investments and management responsibilities in several high tech companies. He serves as the President of AmeriStar Network, Inc., a public company (AMWK.PK) acquiring technology enterprises focused on cyber-security solutions, cloud-based internet services, and “Software-as-a-Service” products. He serves as the Chief Financial Officer of nVIAsoft, Inc., a company with biometric identification technology licensed from a major US Government affiliated laboratory that is non-invasive, leaves no trace and is as accurate as fingerprints and iris scans. In addition, Mr. Noe is the President of American Energy Glass, Inc., a company exploiting the nano-technology employed in creating clear glass that can function like a solar panel in generating renewable energy, while at the same time offering resistance to hurricane damage. Mr. Noe is also the Managing Partner – US Operations for ADAC Investments Management, LLC which manages over US$1 Billion in a real estate development fund, ADAC Overseas Properties, LLC based in Hong Kong with investments in Malaysia, Australia, Japan and now the USA. The fund was established in by partners in China responsible for the development of over 100 million square meters of condominiums, office buildings, retirement villages, retail and theme parks in many cities throughout China.

He holds a M.B.A. (Finance) from the Harvard Business School and a B.A. (Economics) from the University of Southern California and brings deep wisdom and experience to the team.

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Robert Whitmore

Managing Director, Media & Entertainment

Jonathan Morley

Regional Director, London

Chloe Sowers

Chief Technology Officer

Jim Elvidge

Director of Marketing

Iman Ousseyran

Executive Director, UAE

Iman Ousseyran

Iman Ousseyran is Fortune Empire’s Executive Director in UAE. She is in charge of building new and maintaining existing relationships in UAE/GCC and Africa. Iman brings over 36 years of experience in variety of fields such as investors relations, sales & marketing, logistics, HR & legal functions of various for-profit, non-profit companies and public sectors globally. Iman is the CEO and Principal Consultant at Laurel & Tercel, a management consultancy and corporate learning & development company. Among her inventions, she invented one of a kind costs cutting tools that helped in saving millions of dollars and sustainable higher profitability over the years. Past experiences include various senior management positions within multi-national organizations including: Smith & Nephew, British American Tobacco, Chanel, Fattal Holding, and MEBCO Bank. She also spent many years in academia as visiting lecturer and faculty member in universities such as Alfaisal University, Riyadh, KSA, Masdar University, Abu Dhabi, UAE and others. She was honored for reaching a level of recognizable success in the field of Management Consultancy by Madison Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals Iman currently serves as the Chairperson of committee at International Union for Sustainable Development for the Arab and African countries under UN. Iman also serves as a board member and marketing advisor of World Green Citizen, France. She is a member of The Institute of Business Consulting (IBC) and The Chartered Management Institute (CMI), recognized for consulting in world trade with special consulting focus by the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC). She is also a member of Rotary Club Dubai where she is the chairperson of PR committee, Global Study Exchange and past board member. She served as a past President of The International Business & Economic Development Institute (IBEDI), UAE chapter. Iman mentors and coaches young entrepreneurs with their ventures as a part of her support to the community. During her free time, Iman enjoy writing poetry and articles in English & Arabic for her blogs and social media followers. She is an avid fan of gardening flowers. She received under undergraduate degree in law from Lebanese University. She is a graduate of American University of Beirut with an MBA. She also received degrees from various educational institutions throughout her life and continue to pursue higher educations.

El Varah Mohamed Lemine Doua

Executive Director, Africa