Mr. Petkanas is a veteran of the capital markets and has been actively involved in many facets of the financial services industry since 1985. From 1985 to 1989, he was a Real Estate credit analyst and loan officer for Morsemere Federal and First Federal S & L of Rochester. During this period of time He was responsible for the placement of over $400 million in new origination Freddie Mac multi-family dwelling permanent debt financing. From 1989 to 1995, he devoted most of his time to securities research, fundamental and technical analysis of stocks, bonds and markets and corporate financing of small to medium sized public corporations. From 1995 to 2001 he started up, financed, owned and operated two separate boutique investment firms on Wall Street. From 2001 to the present, his focus has been practicing as independent executive consultant and entrepreneur, where he concentrates his efforts primarily in the start-up enterprise and corporate finance arena. As part of his work in executive consulting, he provides his expertise in, among other things, interim management, expert business evaluation services, work out solutions for troubled & crisis situations, strategic business development, planning & execution, executive board consultation and oversight, M & A structure and valuation, structuring public and private financings and independent research. Throughout his career he has been involved in over 100 public and private corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions totaling over $500 million in financing. Mr. Petkanas is the founder and developer of MOJAVA®, the principal product of Mojito Brands, Inc.