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DOUGLAS CASTLE: PROFESSIONAL PROFILE


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Douglas Castle is a senior level expert in all matters of high-level corporate negotiations, deal structure and finance, strategic planning, international business, major project management and all aspects of business communication. He speaks, consults and writes frequently about these subjects, as well as about key aspects of leadership, crisis management and the Human Condition. He has authored a great many articles on a very wide variety of subjects. Mr. Castle is currently a private consultant to young companies in several different countries.


Mr. Castle has been, and continues to be a seasoned and acclaimed advisor, director and trustee to emerging enterprises and growing companies worldwide, across a broad variety of industries on matters of organizational development, strategic planning, financing (both institutional equity and debt), international incorporations and negotiating of joint ventures, licenses of intellectual property, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Castle’s current passions are centered upon leveraging his wealth of experience in high-stakes corporate negotiations, deal structure, organizational engineering, strategic planning, business communications, social media marketing campaigns and financing to foster innovation and entrepreneurial growth and success in promising early-stage companies.


Mr. Castle’s professional resume has encompassed: international banking, asset-based financing, merchant banking (equity), factoring, purchase order financing, trade financing, leasing, sale/leaseback transactions, credit enhancement and surety bonding, transactional structuring (mergers, acquisitions, LBOs, ESOPs, management buy-outs, transnational and domestic co-ventures), real estate investment syndication, and the creation and monetization of unique investment instruments.


He has written and presented operating plans for international and offshore banks, finance companies, leasing companies, guarantee (bonding and other credit enhancements) companies to various financial institutions and government agencies and ministries; he has chartered a number of international commercial and economic development banks and reinsurance companies in multiple offshore and international jurisdictions -- these institutions had a combined aggregate capitalization at their operating outset of in excess of US$12,800,000,000.00.


During the past thirty five years, he has also incorporated close to one hundred IBCs (International Business Companies) and formed more than a dozen APTs (Asset Protection Trusts) in conjunction with domestic and international legal counsel across many business sectors. He has worked as a turnaround expert for troubled US and UK companies, and has renegotiated loan terms with banks, other creditors, bondholders and shareholders for these companies, both as pre-bankrupts, and as debtors-in-possession or trustees-in-possession.


Some of Mr. Castle’s prior engagements have included: Chairman of Global Edge International Consulting Associates, Inc.; Executive Director of Global Business Intel™, an unincorporated Division of Global Edge Technologies Group, LLC; Director and Senior Consultant of The Castle Consultancy; Managing Director and Member of Global Edge Technologies Group LLC; Acting Chairman and CEO of TNNWC Group, LLC; Senior Financial Analyst In Charge Of Special Projects for National Westminster Bank, plc; Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Banking, Finance and Investments at the Hofstra University School Of Business; Director of Capitol Guaranty Surety Company Inc.; Director of First Empire Capital Corporation and First Empire Autolease, Inc.; Intelligence Contractor for Kroll International Inc.; Interim CEO for AGP Group (publicly-traded, subsequently privately purchased); Member of the Board Of Directors, Triangle Group International, Inc. (publicly-traded, subsequently divided into several private concerns, each one a Management Buyout); and numerous others.


Mr. Castle received his B.S. in Economics from Stony Brook University (1976), with Omicron Delta Epsilon honors (as well as a New York State Regents Scholarship), and he received his MBA in Public Accounting from The Hofstra University Graduate School Of Business (with a graduate fellowship) in 1979.


Mr. Castle is a passionate and prolific speaker and writer about topics relating to Internationalism, futurism, leadership, negotiation, communication, and a variety of other non-financial topics.


You can obtain more information about Douglas Castle’s personal, educational and professional background by visiting his Linked In profile, which can be found by going to http://www.linkedin.com/in/douglascastle



Douglas Castle

914.462.2299 (Direct Telephone)

914.514.1673 (Facsimile)

douglascastle (Skype, By Appointment)

douglas.castle@yahoo.com (Email - Preferred)

douglas.castle@icloud.com (Email - Large Document Transfers, By Arrangement)


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Friday, December 1, 2017

Funding Startups Through Joint Ventures




Funding Startups Through Joint Ventures
Why It Might Be Smart To Form A Partnership With An Established Business


Entrepreneurs with brand-new pre-revenue companies, developmental-stage enterprises (DSEs) and fledgling companies having won their first client contracts are, generally speaking, desperately in need of capital. And, generally speaking, most funding sources shy away from companies with limited operating histories and limited tangible collateral assets. Yet these intrepid (but naive) newcomers insist on shopping the capital markets in search of either an investor or lender who will make them the “special exception” and grant them free rein and total discretion with a pile of money. Shopping in this marketplace is all too often a waste of time.

A more viable alternative for any one of these entities in need of cash might be to form a joint venture with an established and synergistic (or complementary) company. Not only do some of these existing companies have capital and credit lines of their own, but in many cases their management teams [at the senior level] have business acumen, contacts and other non-financial resources that can be leveraged by their younger counterpart in the joint venture relationship.

The key, of course, is in finding the right joint venture partner. In order to insure a productive, long-lasting (and non-traumatizing), entrepreneurs might give serious thought to utilizing the services of an outside management consulting firm or agency to facilitate the matchmaking process and to advise and assist in negotiating terms. In the immediate term, this may cost a bit of money, but in the near-term and the longer term, engaging the services of an independent third-party professional firm may save you the costs of a meandering, time-consuming, trial-and-error process.

Give some sincere thought to either financing your startup though a joint venture, or, if you are a well-established organization, to seeking out fresh, new co-venturing and licensing opportunities through an impartial, experienced consultant. In a well-crafted joint venture, all parties win.

If you have questions or thoughts regarding this brief article, please contact me via email at douglas.castle@yahoo.com .

As always, thank you for reading me. - Douglas Castle


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