Thomas A Bryan - President & CEO
Mr. Bryan has published over 100 articles on commercial law, insurance law, intellectual property and tax in a range of business and legal publications. He received his B.A. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and his J.D. from New York Law School where he was a member of the Law Review. Following a federal clerkship (District Court, N.J.) and a term as a Special Assistant United States Attorney (District of N.J), he entered private practice at the New York City law firm of Kaye, Scholer, LLP where he practiced domestic and international litigation and international transactions. Mr. Bryan then became Of Counsel to the French law firm of Berlioz & Co. located in Paris, France where he continued his international practice on behalf of several multi-national companies. After his admission to the French Bar in 1994, Mr. Bryan returned to the United States to co-found Dartmouth Recovery Services, LLC, a leading subrogation recovery vendor specialized in property subrogation. Mr. Bryan was also an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School and has given numerous lectures throughout Europe and the United States on a variety of international and domestic topics, including international commercial transactions, insurance law and intellectual property.
Keith D. Bellman - Comptroller
Mr. Bellman received his law degree from the University of Bristol and was also a Member of Grays Inn of Court in the UK. Mr. Bellman worked for 4 years with Peat Marwick and Mitchell, Ltd (KPMG) in the City of London, focusing mainly on the Banking and Insurance sectors. He then joined Reuters in 1975, where he was instrumental in creating a worldwide computerized budgeting, planning and forecasting system spanning 136 countries. Within the next three years, Mr. Bellman headed the Corporate Budget and Planning department, reporting to the Managing Director and the Worldwide Executive Planning Group. He was sent to New York for a year in 1979 to assist a team investigating the possible acquisition and merger of Reuters with UPI. He returned to New York in 1981 as Director of Administration and M.I.S. and also finally Director of Finance for Reuters computer manufacturing and development subsidiary IDR, Inc. During this time Mr. Bellman worked closely with the Department of Commerce, Justice and Treasury in Washington with respect to corporate compliance in the export of computer technology. Mr. Bellman subsequently worked with a number of Internet startup companies specializing in internet video streaming and successfully raised $4.0 million in venture capital for Media On Demand, Inc. before the company was purchased by On-Stream Media. More recently Mr. Bellman worked for STA International Inc. a privately owned collection agency.
