Tom Lennon

Current

• Chairman at The PEO Network
• Chairman at MSera, LLC - Private Advantage
• Managing Partner at Watermark Capital Corporation

• Director at BeyondZ Interactive Media

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Past

• Interim EVP & CFO at Darkstrand, Inc.
• Co-founder at SCT International, LLC
• Co-founder & Director at eSubcontractor.com

• Co-founder & Director at MedAscend, Inc. / DotMD, LLC
• Director at Chamber Edit, LLC
• Chairman & CEO at The Lennon Companies

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Education

• The University of Georgia

Recommended

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Connections

260 connections

Industry

Venture Capital & Private Equity

Websites

• Watermark Capital Corporation
• Darkstrand, Inc.
• Entrepreneurial Thinking

Tom Lennon’s Summary

Thomas Lennon is the Managing Partner of Watermark Capital Corporation, a private investment and strategic advisory firm providing investment and corporate development services in the areas of product & organization development, business planning and modeling, strategic partnerships, capital acquisition, corporate restructuring and M&A. During his 21 year corporate and entrepreneurial career, Mr. Lennon has developed an extensive network of vc/investment firms, traditional mezzanine and non-traditional lenders as well as c-suite executives across multiple industries. In addition to working with companies in various development and operating stages, he has founded several startups in a variety of industries including real estate development, construction, technology, etc. He remains a shareholder, consultant and advisor to several different companies in high security printing, consumer products, next-generation technology platform solutions, branded entertainment, interactive and alternative outdoor advertising, integrated marketing and distribution, CRM, telecommunications, optical networks, optical media, internet marketing, online video creation/aggregation/distribution, healthcare, travel and investment banking. He attended the University of Georgia where he received his B.S. in genetics and biochemistry.

Tom Lennon’s Specialties:

Debt and equity investment banking, mergers & acquisitions (corporate consolidations, restructurings & divestitures), strategic planning, business & financial modeling, intellectual property strategy & planning, new technology development, sales & marketing strategy, c-suite corporate and strategic partnership development, new product and brand development, new media strategy, organization development and recruiting, extensive commercial/residential real estate development & construction.

Tom Lennon’s Experience

• Chairman

  The PEO Network

  (Consumer Services industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  The PEO Network platform provides value added products and services to the PEO (Professional Employer Organizations) industry, the PEO’s client companies and each of their worksite employees. These products and services include commercial and personal lines insurance, extensive branded rewards programs, exclusive discounts from over 250,000 retail and other establishments, credit card and other financial services, internet banking and payroll debit cards through a series of privately branded interactive web portals.

• Chairman

  MSera, LLC - Private Advantage

  (Consumer Goods industry)

  November 2007 — Present (2 years 1 month)

  MSera, LLC was established in 2007. Today MSera is doing business under the name Private Advantage. The Company provides value added HR related services to corporations and their employees. Private Advantage has built a direct to consumer platform designed to flatten the supply chain through direct manufacturer relationships for the purchase their products under a model that is discounted to normal wholesale pricing on many brands.

• Managing Partner

  Watermark Capital Corporation

  (Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  Watermark Capital Corporation is a hybrid investment and strategic advisory firm providing venture capital, private equity and debt investment to a number of companies in various stages and industry sectors. Watermark also provides professional corporate development services in the areas of product & organization development, business planning and modeling, strategic partnerships, capital acquisition, corporate restructuring and M&A.

• Director

  BeyondZ Interactive Media

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2000 — Present (9 years 9 months)

  BeyondZ specializes in advanced user interface design/implementation, information architecture, and application development across multiple platforms with emphasis in several areas including ad serving, consumer behavioral tracking, CRM and gaming interactions. Beyond Z received the first Primetime Emmy awarded for technical excellence in Interactive Television for its work on the enhanced television production of Band of Brothers with HBO. BeyondZ has taken its vision for next generation media and is developing branded entertainment strategies that leverage consumer trends in connected media devices. The Company has worked with many blue-chip television, sports, advertising and technology brands including The Washington Redskins, Real Networks, Turner/CNN, HBO, The Scripps Networks, BellSouth, AT&T, Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable, The Weather Channel, PBS, Starcom, Ogilvy One, and many more.

• Interim EVP & CFO

  Darkstrand, Inc.

  (Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2009 — October 2009 (7 months)

  Tom was brought in to augment the management team and was responsible for corporate finance, corporate development and strategic planning on an interim basis at Darkstrand. During that time his firm Watermark Capital Partners worked on the Company's first Series A financing which ultimately led to an offer to buy the Company. Darkstrand was formed to commercialize the 15,000-mile next generation hyper-speed, supercomputing optical network known as the National LambdaRail (“NLR” - www.nlr.net). NLR was formed by a consortium of U.S. universities, scientific organizations and regional operating networks (RONs) that deployed this infrastructure to advance networking research and, in the process, enable next-generation applications in science, engineering and medicine. This network now facilitates project work for NASA, the U.S. Department of Defense and the worldwide scientific community. NLR and Darkstrand Share a new vision that Tom helped to create of being 100% focused on commercial collaborations which transcend traditional telecommunication models to advanced unified communications integrated with business, information and scientific platforms, workflows, processes and analytics. This next-gen optical network - the only one of its kind on earth through its direct connection to approximately 280 national labs and academic research institutions. The NLR is not theoretical; it is fully operational and in high demand by Fortune and Global 1000 companies in major industries.

• Co-founder

  SCT International, LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Printing industry)

  2004 — 2007 (3 years )

  SCT International, LLC is a US based security printing and brand protection holding company operating internationally with business divisions and technologies that service the brand protection and product security industry. SCT was formed through Verification Security International, LLC (VSI, LLC) with the acquisitions of Northern Bank Note Company and Sekuworks, LLC. SCT operates its business under the name Sekuworks, LLC and services its Global 1000 customers offering a variety of services and multi-layered high security technologies/products for brand protection, anti-counterfeiting, product authentication including track and trace, personal ID’s, passports, visas, vital records, and other secure documents. SCT’s mission is to re-define the product security and brand protection industry through innovation in overt/covert security technologies, manufacturing and security program methodologies for its customers.

• Co-founder & Director

  eSubcontractor.com

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  1998 — 2003 (5 years )

  Tom co-founded eSubcontractor in 1999 as a Web 2.0 platform with its mission to create a global community of construction professionals, with the subcontractor at the center of a community hub providing the gravity to draw all other construction-oriented portals, professionals and others that interact with the construction industry including consumers. Through internally developed hosted applications as well as co-branded and private labeled ASP services from its affiliate partners, the company provided professionally enhanced corporate template drive websites, member company intranets with permission based social networking, collaboration, project management, online bidding, material procurement, equipment rental, employee tracking and much more. The main focus of the portal was to provide a one-stop shop for construction based business-to-business e-commerce and construction management.

• Co-founder & Director

  MedAscend, Inc. / DotMD, LLC

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  1995 — 2003 (8 years )

  MedAscend, Inc. was founded in 1995 to provide interactive healthcare information and training systems, continuing medical education and telemedicine platforms to healthcare providers. MedAscend concepted and created the first interactive training tutorials for minimally invasive surgical procedures on CDROM for CME as well as other healthcare information products (Therapeutic Online, etc.). This physician-centric company acquired DotMD, LLC which controlled the rights for the ccTLD ".md". Through Park Avenue Capital, LLC., a successor venture formed by the founding principals of MedAscend/DotMD with three former NY investment bankers, MAX.md (www.max.md) DotMD's efforts to create an application platform and internet domain for the healthcare industry continue.

• Director

  Chamber Edit, LLC

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  2000 — 2002 (2 years )

  Founded in early 2001, the Company developed a proprietary system (Chamber Economic Development Internet Technologies or “Chamber EDIT”) that addressed a significant number of problems encountered by as well as providing several enhanced revenue programs to Chambers of Commerce businesses and their executives. By providing customized hosted solutions and a call center, the Company helped Chambers of Commerce drive new membership, membership retention, membership management and the management and implementation of non-dues revenue programs. The Chamber “EDIT” system was deployed in several Chamber areas across the Southeastern U.S. before being sold in 2002.

• Chairman & CEO

  The Lennon Companies

  (Real Estate industry)

  1986 — 2000 (14 years )

  Tom started his career in the real estate development and construction industry by starting Lennon Construction Co., Inc. in 1986. LCCI was the first of several companies that would be under the umbrella of The Lennon Companies. Other companies under the umbrella were Lennon Development Group, Inc., Lennon Properties, Inc., LenCor Corporation and Riverside Senior Living, LLC. Through these varies entities Tom Lennon developed residential subdivisions, completed high end custom homes and renovations, built commercial buildings, condominiums, restaurants and retain centers and built assisted living centers. Proceeds from these ventures allowed Tom to build an active investing platform which is now Watermark Capital Partners, LLC.

Tom Lennon’s Education

• The University of Georgia

  BS , Biochemsitry & Genetics , 1980 — 1985

Additional Information

Tom Lennon’s Websites:

• Watermark Capital Corporation
• Darkstrand, Inc.
• Entrepreneurial Thinking

Tom Lennon’s Groups:

The Diplomats, The Benedicts, Document Security Alliance, High Tech Ministries, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Indian Hills Country Club

•    Executive Suite
•    LinkedSEO
•    University of Georgia Alumni Group
•    CXO (CEO, COO, CKO, CFO, CMO, CAO, CVO, CDO, CRO, CLO, CSO & CTO) Community
•    Mergers & Acquisitions
•    High Tech Ministries
•    Optical Networking Group
•    Atlanta Diplomats
•    Riverwood Parents and Alumni Network
•    Venture Atlanta 2009
•    Deal Flow Source
•    Finance Club
•    The Chairmen and Chairwomen of the Board
•    COMPANIES FOR SALE (Buy or sell a business worldwide)
•    The Global Golf Leaders
•    The Global Diversity Leaders
•    The Global Innovation Leaders

Tom Lennon’s Honors:

Various awards including 6 Gold and 9 Silver OBIE Professionalism Awards given by the Atlanta Chapter of the National Home Builder Association as well as 3 Contractor of the Year (COTY) Awards given by the NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry).

Tom Lennon’s Contact Settings

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• new ventures
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
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