Category: Board Members

Salvatore J. Cassano Joins Zito Partners’ Board of Advisors

NEW YORK, NY (September 18, 2014) – Salvatore J. Cassano, the 32nd Fire Commissioner of the New York City Fire Department (FDNY), has joined the Board of Advisors of Zito Partners, the company announced today. Commissioner Cassano led the United States’ largest fire department with more than 16,000 fire, EMS and civilian members, and an […]

Joe Grano of Premier Alliance: Know Your Attackers

As a network of companies that drives the world’s greatest economic and innovation engine, and as a nation, we simply are not prepared for cyber-attacks. Understanding the methodology, motivation, and techniques sophisticated hackers use to infiltrate organizations is paramount to effective network defense. Read more here.

Dick Grasso joins Premier Alliance Advisory Board

root9B, a Premier Alliance Company, Names Dick Grasso to Advisory Board Former NYSE Chairman and CEO Joins cybersecurity panel NEW YORK, June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ — root9B, a Premier Alliance Group Company (OTCQB: PIMO), announced today that former NYSE chairman and chief executive officer Richard A. Grasso will join its Advisory Board, effective immediately. Read […]

Two great Americans. So respectful of our relationship with Col. Jacobs

There are people in my life who give me…and our team…great guidance and inspiration. Our Board of Advisors is a group of people who do just that. I encourage you to watch this piece. An amazing hero — and friend — introduces us to another hero…and reminds us what’s great about this country. Posted by […]

Joe Grano leads PIMO

root9B Enlists Key Advisors to Help Build its Growing Cybersecurity Business Former Director of the CIA and FBI, Judge William Webster, National Security Council alum Michele Malvesti and former Director of the Secret Service Lewis Merletti named to root9B panel with CEO Joe Grano root9B, a Premier Alliance Group Company (OTCQB: PIMO), announced recently the […]

Premier Alliance Group Chairman Joseph Grano Named Company CEO

Premier Alliance Group Chairman Joseph Grano Named Company CEO Cyber Security to be key focus for company; “Know your attackers,” says Grano NEW YORK, May 20, 2014 — Joseph Grano, one of the financial service industry’s leading executives for more than 30 years, has been named Chief Executive Officer of Premier Alliance Group, Inc. (OTCQB: […]

Col. Jacobs takes control

Watch A Medal Of Honor Recipient Smack Down A Pro-Gun Researcher’s “Foolish” Plan To Arm Troops On Bases MSNBC military analyst and retired colonel Jack Jacobs pushed back against the conservative claim that all soldiers should be armed on U.S. military bases in a contentious head-to-head interview alongside pro-gun researcher John Lott. Read the rest […]

Col. Jacobs on President Obama's State of the Union speech

Afghanistan is not an afterthought By Col. Jack Jacobs President Obama’s State of the Union address comes at a crucial moment. With the world in political, diplomatic and economic turmoil, there is plenty that he could say, but there’s one thing on which he should spend some time and effort: Afghanistan. Read more here.

Former NYSE CEO Grasso Responds to NSA-Thwarted Bomb Plot

In his first national television interview since the NYSE terrorist plot was revealed, former New York Stock Exchange Chairman and CEO Richard “Dick” Grasso congratulated authorities while expressing reservations. Read more: http://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/2013/06/19/former-nyse-ceo-grasso-responds-to-nsa-thwarted-bomb-plot

Premier Alliance to Acquire Ecological, LLC

Premier Alliance Group, Inc. (OTCQB: PIMO) (“Premier Alliance” or “the Company”) today announced that it has reached a definitive agreement to acquire Ecological, LLC, a New York-based environmental sustainability company, in a cash and stock transaction. The acquisition enables Premier Alliance, which offers clients strategic advisory, services, and solutions, to strengthen and expand their footprint within […]

Di Ionno: From war to Wall Street to Broadway, N.J. man has lived the American dream

HARDING — Joe Grano is at that point in life where, in his words, he doesn’t have to put up with any …… Well, we can’t print his words. But that’s Joe Grano. Straight. Blunt. Forceful. Usually right. Like the time, against most advice, he backed a Broadway play about a nearly forgotten singing group […]

Col. Jacobs voices in on Pakistan.

Empty Warnings Despite our paying Pakistan an enormous amount of money over the years, our uneasy relationship with Islamabad is now genuinely on the rocks. As in most cases of American cash given to foreign entities, the money has been an unsophisticated form of bribery, a tactic which is never effective over the long term. In the end, usually both sides become dissatisfied with the arrangement, each convinced […]

Leading from the Trenches: An Interview with Jack Jacobs

View the original interview found in the High-Stakes Leadership: Business Insights from Pcubed Jack Jacobs is, by any standard, a modern-day all-American hero. His notions about leadership have been forged by a long history of action and achievement in multiple fields – the military, business, television, and publishing. Jacobs served two tours in Vietnam with […]

Col. Jack Jacobs Joins Pcubed as Advisory Board Member

View the original post here. Col. Jacobs Adds “In the Trenches” Strategic Planning to the Pcubed Brand NEW YORK, NY — 02/08/12 — Col. Jack Jacobs, analyst for MSNBC on security and defense issues and a recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, has joined the Pcubed Board, the company announced today. During his multiple […]

Insightful piece by our Board member, Col. Jack Jacobs, on Pakistan and Afghanistan

By Col. Jack Jacobs Already badly frayed, the relations between the United States and Pakistan were not improved by the report that two dozen Pakistani soldiers were killed by a NATO airstrike. In reaction Pakistan ordered that NATO vacate the airbase at Shamsi—which has been used to launch drones—and closed the border to the vital […]

NY and NJ's Hottest Chefs Come Together to Raise Awareness Around Sudden Infant Death at the CJ Foundations's Taste of the Holidays Benefit

NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY’S HOTTEST CHEFS COME TOGETHER TO RAISE AWARENESS AROUND SUDDEN INFANT DEATH AT THE CJ FOUNDATION’S TASTE OF THE HOLIDAYS BENEFIT Event to Include a Silent Auction Hackensack, NJ – The CJ Foundation for SIDS will host Taste of the Holidays, a culinary, wine and spirits tasting event featuring some of […]