Mr. Hartley is a co-founder of Verus. Prior to founding Verus, he was an attorney with a national practice involving commercial, securities and consumer litigation. Mr. Hartley has represented a wide variety of clients including municipalities, corporations and businesses. He was lead counsel in the seminal Uniform Securities Act case of Connecticut National Bank v. Giacomi, as well as lead counsel in the matter of In re Colonial Realty Litigation Securities Fraud. Mr. Hartley has also worked with Attorneys Generals in various states prosecuting actions on behalf of businesses and citizens of those states.
Mr. Hartley is a 1972 graduate of Boston College. He received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1975 from Columbia University. Mr. Hartley is a member of the Connecticut bar, the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the United States Supreme Court.
Mr. Drubner is a former Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his almost ten years at the Bureau, Mr. Drubner investigated international organized crime, fraud and global money laundering, in addition to other financial crimes. During the investigation and prosecution of these cases, Mr. Drubner was responsible for reviewing voluminous bank, financial and corporate records, as well as conducting large scale audits of large repositories of said financial records. In addition to the above investigative duties, Mr. Drubner served as a certified FBI Legal Instructor and Advisor. He has lectured on money laundering at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia, Fordham University Law School, among other forums.
Mr. Drubner is a 1987 graduate of Emory University. He received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1990 from Boston College Law School (cum laude). Mr. Drubner is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.
Mr. Hellman is an attorney with over thirteen years experience representing clients in a variety of commercial business and litigation matters. Many of the cases Mr. Hellman has worked on have involved significant analysis and application of accounting and auditing principles as well as regulatory rules and procedures.
Mr. Hellman is a graduate of Bard College. He received his Juris Doctorate degree in 1996 from New York Law School (summa cum laude) and began his career as an associate at Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP.
Ms. Marshall is an attorney with over fifteen years of experience. She began her career as a prosecutor at the New York County District Attorney’s Office. Prior to joining Verus, she was litigating complex civil actions. In the course of her career, Ms. Marshall has represented a wide variety of clients, including state pension funds, and other institutional investors. She has extensive experience working closely with auditing experts and forensic accountants. Additionally, Ms Marshall has been responsible for overseeing teams of attorneys conducting detailed reviews of large volumes of corporate and financial records.
Ms Marshall is a 1988 graduate of Dartmouth College. She received her Juris Doctorate degree in 1992 from Fordham Law School.
Prior to joining Verus, Mr. DeAngelis served in senior financial executive capacities in a variety of organizations which design and deliver technical and financial solutions for leading edge technology driven businesses. Mr. DeAngelis was responsible for and/or assisted in $83+ million of financing, including private placements, IPO financing, Regulation D, hybrid debt/equity placements, equity credit lines, receivables and equipment financing facilities.
Mr. DeAngelis graduated American Graduate School of International Business Administration (Thunderbird) with honors.
Mr. Hall is an attorney with over five years experience and has been with Verus since the company’s inception. Mr. Hall began his career in complex litigation and at Verus has had extensive experience performing legal analysis of issues related to unclaimed property compliance, review of internal policies and procedures of holders under examination, and developing unclaimed property auditing procedures and processes. Additionally, Mr. Hall has been responsible for overseeing teams of examiners conducting detailed reviews of holder records.
Mr. Hall received his Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and a Bachelors of Arts in Criminology from the University of South Florida.
Mr. Haley has over fourteen years of experience in providing unclaimed property related services, including identification and quantification of unclaimed property liabilities, analysis of policies and procedures, resolution of unclaimed property liabilities, review of and implementation of best practices, audit defense, and preparation of unclaimed property reports.
Prior to joining Verus, Mr. Haley was a member of KPMG’s National Unclaimed Property Practice, where he advised clients on their unclaimed property procedures and reporting obligations. Mr. Haley was also a Senior Client Service Officer at ACS Unclaimed Property Clearinghouse, Inc. for approximately nine years.
Mr. Haley received a Bachelors of Science in Business Management/Finance from Salve Regina University.
Mr. Curnyn has over twenty five years of internal audit experience in the insurance industry. For sixteen of these years, Mr. Curnyn was with Internal Audit for two top twenty Life and Annuity insurers, through the officer level, where he provided internal audit management over teams within various corporate financial areas, including controller, accounts payable, treasury, investor relations, administrative units, stand alone insurance subsidiaries, life and annuity policy service centers, retirement, annuity, and investment products. While auditing these areas, Mr. Curnyn frequently identified abandoned property risks and evaluated applicable escheatment controls.
In addition to his tenure at the above referenced life insurers, for six years Mr. Curnyn provided internal audit and Sarbanes-Oxley regulatory compliance services to a number of other major insurance enterprises on a consulting basis as a Senior Manager with “Big 4” internal audit services practices. Mr. Curnyn is also a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist and has held prior registrations as a Certified Public Accountant and as a General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7) and a General Securities Principal (Series 24).
Mr. Marcelonis has over thirteen years of unclaimed property experience. While employed at the ACS Unclaimed Property Clearinghouse, Mr. Marcelonis was involved in day-to-day operation and audit workflow processes as well as acted as client liaison for state clients. Mr. Marcelonis developed and improved workflow efficiencies, ensured proper delivery of unclaimed property to clients, conducted webinars, provided internal training, reviewed potential audit candidates, and communicated regularly with clients on new developments, important unclaimed property issues and new initiatives. Mr. Marcelonis has conducted analyses of state Unclaimed Property Programs and conducted holder training seminars in conjunction with state Unclaimed Property Programs. He is a graduate of Boston College.
Richard Beattie is Chairman of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP where he specializes in counseling board of directors and non-management directors on governance issues, investigations and litigation involving corporate officers and other crisis situations. He also specializes in mergers and acquisitions and leveraged buyouts. He has participated in some of the larger and more complex financial transactions, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s $58 billion acquisition of Bank One Corporation, the merger of America Online and Time Warner and the merger of WellPoint Health Networks with Anthem Inc.
Mr. Beattie has a long record of public service. During the Carter Administration, he served as General Counsel of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, and in 1980, as Director of the Transition and Counsel to the Secretary of Education, he was in charge of organizing the U.S. Department of Education. During the 1980’s, Mr. Beattie served on the New York City Board of Education. He has served as a Special Advisor to the Secretary of State and during 1995-1997 was President Clinton’s Emissary for Cyprus.
Mr. Beattie is also Chairman of the Board and founder of New Visions for Public Schools, a not-for-profit organization that develops and implements programs to affect system-wide improvements in public education in New York City. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Harley-Davidson, Inc., Heidrick & Struggles, the Carnegie Corporation and the National Women’s Law Center, as well as a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Vice Chairman of the Board of Overseers and Managers of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and Chairman of the Board of Managers of Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases. Mr. Beattie is the recipient of a Bank Street College Honorary Doctorate of Education and the President’s Medal, The Legal Aid Society’s Servant of Justice Award and The Jewish Theological Seminary’s Judge Simon H. Rifkind Award.
Mr. Beattie joined Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in 1968 after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to law school, he served four years in the Marine Corps as a jet pilot after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1961.
Frank Zarb is a Managing Director of Hellman & Friedman. He has served as CEO of a number of financial service companies and has held a number of senior positions in the U.S. Government.