Founded in 2002 as
Nexus Capital, The Nexus Group serves as a strategic consulting and investment company with the purpose
of serving as the nexus or connection for both public and private companies seeking guidance to growing their businesses through strategic services.
Nexus focuses its investments and strategic consultancy services in the following areas:
• Online Marketing & Advertising
• New Media
• Online/Offline Publisher Solutions
• Distribution Platforms
Collectively the Nexus
Team has raised approximately $100M for affiliated companies and
has lead over $250M in M&A transactions around the world. Additionally
the team has lead companies through the “going public”
process accessing both the capital markets as well as private and less traditional markets. Nexus has also lead and assisted other companies via the RPO or Reverse Merge process - bringing vast experience to its portfolio of companies.
While capable of providing a vast array of services, Nexus' core strength is its ability to provide Boards and Senior Executive teams solutions to make material changes within their businesses in an effort to grow through new domestic or international relationships.
Craig A. Pisaris-Henderson - Founding and Managing Member
Prior to Nexus Capital, Pisaris-Henderson served as Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of MIVA, Inc. (NASDAQ: MIVA) until April
2006. Having founded the company in 1996, he guided the company—a global leader in developing
and providing performance-based marketing and commerce enabling
services—through one of the most competitive environments
in the online industry. Throughout the course of this tenure, he
also held the positions of President and Chief Technology Officer
at various points in the history of FindWhat.com - MIVA's predecessor
company.
Significant highlights and achievements included:
- Growing a team and company with annual run rate revenues exceeding $200MM
- Effectively
leading a public company after the dot-com bubble burst commanding
the respect of Wall Street with a market capitalization approaching $900 million
- Recognized in multiple years as leading one of the top 10 fastest growing companies in the US (Deloitte Technology Fast 500) with 16,000% growth over a 5 year period with significant net margins
- Guiding Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and financial best practices (domestic and international divisions).
- Building
and fostering a global team with over 500 team members
- Identifying and directing national and international merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions valued at over $250M, successfully
integrating the operations of many different companies under one functional corporate umbrella.
- Negotiating
multi-million dollar agreements with several of the largest companies
in the world—Mitsui [Japan], Yahoo! [US and EU], Google
[US and EU], Terra Networks (Lycos) [US and EU], Verizon [US],
Yellow Pages Group [Canada] and countless others.
- Being honored as the 2003 Ernst and Young Florida Entrepreneur of the Year Award, as well as many industry and regional
distinctions .
Pisaris-Henderson has also been highlighted at prestigious events—Goldman
Sachs Internet Conferences, Deutsch Bank Technology Conferences,
Search Engine Strategies forums, OMD Europe and other industry gatherings.
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