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Management
Ezio
Valentini, Co-Founder, CEO, Broker
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Ezio Valentini was
born and raised in a business family with a
presence in the Northern Italy, Southern
Switzerland and Austrian areas for many
generations. His father was a real estate and
business broker who also operated a consortium
of properties that produced and distributed
agricultural product to several countries in
central Europe. His mother, an American-born
Austrian, managed the family hotel in the
Italian Alps.
He received his
education in business, real estate, hotel
administration and finance in Europe and worked
in conjunction with the family business for 22
years. He began doing business in the U.S. in
the 1960s. In 1974 he married Rebecca Varney who
became his business partner. They formed the
Hawk Group, the parent company of all
subsidiaries used to conduct business in the
U.S.
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Ezio Valentini, a dual citizen
of the U.S. and Italy, is a well-recognized international
businessman with a diverse career in several sectors with a
particular emphasis on real estate. As an investor,
developer, syndicator, broker, lender and project manager he
brought to many of his projects important innovations that
contributed to his reputation as a creative entrepreneur and
a marketing and sales specialist.
Ezio is a member of the
European Organization for the Internationalization of WIR
(EOIW) an organization that intends to develop a commercial
system using, as a working model, Switzerland’s WIR Bank
Cooperative. The objective is to bring the element of Trade
Credits to the 16 European countries that have the Euro as
their official currency. Bernard Lietaer, a world renowned
monetary expert, and other experts are part of EOIW.
Ezio, for several years, has
directed the research and development of a project designed
to bring to the American marketplace a system similar to the
one developed and perfected by Switzerland’s WIR Bank
Cooperative. It uses new and innovative methods to generate
business by the use of asset-backed trade credits which
provides a new source of credit and financing and a dynamic
method to monetize assets.
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Dimitri Hallerbach, President and COO
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Dimitri brings a wealth of
business experience and extensive analytical
skills to the American Trade Cooperative and
the International Real Estate Equity
Xchange. After receiving bachelors and
masters degrees in Civil Engineering from
Stanford University, Dimitri worked as an
engineer for Bechtel National in San Diego
for four years, where he led projects on a
$280 million Navy contract.
Realizing that
his interests lay more with business and
real estate than engineering, Dimitri left
Bechtel to attend Harvard Business School,
where he received an MBA. He focused on
technology marketing, general management and
entrepreneurial ventures.
Dimitri then
spent seven years at Intuit in Reno as a
Senior Product Manager, where he led the
product strategy and development for one of
Intuit’s business payroll services (annual
sales of ~$40 million).
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Dimitri joined
Thomas Clark Real Estate, one of Reno’s most
respected commercial real estate firms. He
managed the commercial brokerage office and
specialized in purchases, sales and leases of a
wide range of commercial properties.
As the President
and Chief Operating officer for American Trade
Cooperative (ATC) and the International Real
Estate Equity Xchange (IREEX), Dimitri is
responsible for
defining and
implementing ATC and IREEX's growth strategies.
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Rebecca Valentini, Co-Founder,
CFO
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Rebecca Valentini, a Utah native, in
1974 co-founded, with her husband and business partner Ezio
Valentini, the Hawk Group and has been involved in all business
activities of the company and its subsidiaries for the last 36
years.
In addition to her duties as a decision-making partner and in
charge of administration and finance duties, she is responsible
for the support operation and takes an active part in the sales
operation of the companies. Rebecca also works closely with
software analysts and developers to meet the company’s
technology needs
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Lee Hubler, Vice
President Sales
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Lee Hubler received his Business degree from Miami-Dade
Community College in Miami Florida and has had a successful
career in finance, real estate and sales and marketing fields.
His experiences in real estate lending included positions with
Citifinance Mortgage and AAmes Home Loan in Greensboro NC.
His management experience includes various positions with
Waterfront Properties in Charlotte NC, a real estate
master-planned communities developer and as a Sales Manager for
Embassy Suites Vacation Resort in South Lake Tahoe, California.
He is an experienced sales and marketing specialist with
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Jeanne Hubler,
Vice
President Sales
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Jeanne Hubler
was educated at Palomar Community College, San Marcos and Lake
Tahoe Community College. She has had an extensive career in real
estate, finance and sales and marketing.
Her
experience included extensive experience in real estate sales,
management as well as having successfully performed in various
management positions in the vacation ownership sector and resort
sales.
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