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Nick Liuzza - President

Nick Liuzza is a co-founder of Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. and serves as the company's President and Chief Executive Officer. He is an innovator and a driving force behind the company's proprietary Linear Systems®. In his current capacity as President of the company, he is responsible for all facets of the business and activities, supervision of operations, and all activities related to the organization and structure of title solutions sponsored by the company.

In 2001, Mr. Liuzza founded New Age Staffing, Inc., a healthcare staffing company based in Nashville, Tennessee. As the company's Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Liuzza rapidly grew New Age Staffing into a quality focused national provider of Healthcare personnel with multiple offices in Tennessee, Louisiana, Alabama, Colorado, and Rhode Island. The company was sold in 2003 to publicly traded Crdentia (CRDE) where it became the platform of a reverse merger. After the merger, Mr. Liuzza remained as Senior Vice President of Marketing and International Operations for Crdentia. In that capacity, Mr. Liuzza was responsible for structuring marketing policies as they related to organic growth and the integration of policies from future acquisitions performed by Crdentia. He was also responsible for the recruitment of overseas personnel and managed an overseas staff based in Manila, Philippines.

From 1996 to 2001, Mr. Liuzza was instrumental in the development of Acymtech, a software development firm that he co-founded. Additionally, he served as Marketing Director for AMICUS where Mr. Liuzza was responsible for growth of the company and the start up and development of new offices. Both companies won numerous quality awards and were named Future Fifty Companies in middle Tennessee for several consecutive years. AMICUS grew to become the largest privately held Legal Staffing firm in the United States. It made the Inc. 500 list at number 99 and was eventually sold to publicly traded Modis (MPS).

Mr. Liuzza's strengths are in the startup and maturation of mid-range companies with a view toward developing them into mature, profitable businesses with a national foot print. He is a quality focused leader that recruits and partners with talented industry professionals.

Nick Liuzza received a Bachelor in Marketing from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.

Rusty Solomon - Managing Director

Rusty Solomon's primary responsibility at Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. is nationwide operations. Mr. Solomon is also responsible for shaping the company's vision as it relates to marketing as well as oversight of Linear’s strategic partners. In 2007, he is charged with the management of the Rhode Island processing center which is projected to close loans in over forty states. Mr. Solomon also oversees the company’s commercial title solutions.  Mr. Solomon is general adviser to Linear's Board of Directors on matters pertaining to operations, marketing, commercial transaction management, and strategic partnering.

Prior to joining Linear Title, Mr. Solomon served as President of AdvantEdge Real Estate Systems, a real estate services firm that specialized in after-hours closings and expeditive abstracting. At AdvantEdge, he was responsible for day-to-day operations of title services for its lender clients averaging approximately $20,000,000 in closings per month. At AdvantEdge, the average turnaround time for an abstract was .65 days.

Prior to joining AdvantEdge, Mr. Solomon was an analyst at the Lightstone Group in New York City where he reported to Lightstone Principals regarding the $638 million acquisition of Prime Retail, Inc. (NASDAQ: PMRE), a publicly traded REIT with 37 outlet centers throughout the United States, and over 10.4 million sq. ft. of GLA, the largest real estate transaction in Lightstone Group history.

Prior to joining Lightstone, Mr. Solomon was in the private practice of law where he received accolades as a well prepared and experienced litigator and tactician. During this time, he also served as an ad-hoc professor at Tulane Law School for ten (10) years.

Rusty Solomon is a graduate of Boston University School of Management with honors and received his J.D. from Tulane Law School. He has served on numerous boards including the Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League.

Mark B. Bardorf, Esq. - General Counsel

Mark B. Bardorf is a co-founder of Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. and serves on the company's board of directors. As General Counsel, Mr. Bardorf is involved in all legal aspects of Linear Title's operations, including corporate structure, compliance, litigation, company contracts and complicated title issues. Mr. Bardorf has specialized in various aspects of real estate law since being licensed to practice law in New York in 1991. His firm, Bardorf & Bardorf, has been servicing Rhode Island since 1998 in the area of complex real estate transactions and estate planning. Prior to this, he was an associate at the prestigious New York City firm of Willkie, Farr & Gallagher.

Mr. Bardorf is also the founder and President of Wilbur Films Multimedia, Inc. where he developed award winning electronic titles, which won Best CD-ROM of the Year (1993), won CES Best of Show Award and was nominated for two Digital Hollywood Awards. Titles were ranked in the top ten of Baker & Taylor's Best Sellers List and were named among the top 50 CD-ROMs named by New Media Magazine and among the Top 100 named by PC Magazine. The CD-ROMs were distributed by Macmillan Digital USA, a Simon & Schuster Company. Macmillan Digital USA bought the assets of the company in 1997. Also in this vein, Mr. Bardorf co-produced the independent feature film, "The Blessing", which premiered at the 1994 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Best Screen Play.

Theresa M. Giannavola, Esq. - Corporate Counsel / Compliance Officer 

Theresa M. Giannavola joined Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. as Corporate Counsel and is charged with the review and oversight of all attorneys across the United States; the day-to-day operations including the coordination of commercial transactions, reviewing of title abstracts, recording of documents, drafting of various legal documents, issuing of title insurance policies; and all legal issues that arise either for Linear Title and Closing, Ltd., its clients or the borrowers as well as the implementation of corporate policy for Linear Title & Closing, Ltd.  In addition, as Compliance Officer she is charged with the management of licensing documents and corporate documents required for Linear Title and Closing, Ltd., the review of state statutes and regulations for compliance and the implementation and management of procedure of each department to ensure compliance in each of the states that Linear Title does business in.  She works closely with the General Counsel on all legal matters pertaining to Linear Title and Closing’s operations in each of these states.

Prior to joining Linear Title & Closing, Ltd., Ms. Giannavola was an associate with Seegel, Lipshutz and Wilchins, P.C. in Wellesley, Massachusetts where her practice concentrated in corporate, business, real estate, estate and tax planning matters. Prior to this, Ms. Giannavola was an associate with Salter McGowan Sylvia & Leonard, Inc. in Providence, Rhode Island where her practice concentrated in corporate, business, Medicaid planning, estate and tax planning matters. 

Theresa M. Giannavola is a graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo and received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science.  She received her Juris Doctorate from Golden Gate University School of Law, where she attended the evening division while working as a full time, corporate paralegal for Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.  She then received her Master of Laws in Taxation from Boston University School of Law.  Ms. Giannavola is licensed to practice in Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.   

Nathan Chandler – Director of Marketing 

Nathan Chandler’s primary responsibility at Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. is nationwide marketing. As such Mr. Chandler is responsible for planning, development and implementation of all of the organization’s marketing strategies, marketing communications, and public relations activities, both external and internal.  Mr. Chandler  directs the efforts of the marketing, communications and public relations staff and

coordinates at the strategic and tactical levels with the other functions of the organization.  In addition, Mr. Chandler is charged with the day to day management of the Atlanta, GA office. 

Prior to joining Linear Title, Mr. Chandler was a Branch Manager and Bank Officer at SunTrust Bank in Atlanta, GA.  As a Branch Manager at SunTrust, Mr. Chandler was responsible for day to day operations, sales and growth of the banking center.  Mr. Chandler brings both commercial and residential real estate lending experience to Linear Title.  While at SunTrust he originated more than $51 million in commercial and residential real estate loans.      

Mr. Chandler received his bachelor’s in finance from Auburn University in Auburn, AL.

Cynthia Waterman - Director of National Sales 

Cynthia Waterman comes to Linear from one of the top national underwriters in the U.S., consulting independent agencies on expansion of coverage areas and product lines. Prior to her work with Fidelity National Agency Solutions, Mrs. Waterman consulted her national lender clients, prescribing for them customized title and closing solutions specific to addressing their challenges. She has managed national title operations as well as developed skills designing and implementing customer specific process flows and service solutions. Cynthia defines her position as atypical of how most sales people are perceived.

 “The success of any new relationship is wholly dependent on the ability of a sales person to listen first. Only in defining the needs of a client can we truly offer a solution that benefits our customers, and create lasting, symbiotic relationships.”  

Cynthia goes on to state that the role of any consultant/sales person does not end with the introduction of services. It is merely the beginning.  

“Both the customer and the service team must define their new relationship as that of a committed team, adjusting for the changes and challenges that inevitably come in our business. It is not the occurrence of issues, but the how those issues are addressed that define a good service provider in this industry. The sales consultant is key to managing those processes and directing those adjustments.” 

Waterman has been in the title insurance industry since 1994, beginning her career selling title insurance to local realtors for a local Fidelity operation taking their lowest producing office within the division to a more respectable ranking. From here she moved on to building business and market share for an independent agent, tripling the net profits for their lowest production office, before beginning her national consulting and sales career expanding national title agencies.  She has managed national accounts with some of the most well know and respected banks and lenders in the U.S. 

Joshua Dorsey – Processing Center Operations Manager 

As the Operations Manager for the Rhode Island Processing Center, Mr. Dorsey is charged with the daily oversight, management as well as the future development of operational protocol at Linear Title & Closing, Ltd.  His duties include training of new employees and oversight/coordination of all departments.  He has been instrumental in the design and growth of the Northeast Processing Center from its inception making it one of the top producing centers of its kind.  Mr. Dorsey has an operational background in the areas of title policies and recordation and expertise that extends to loan closing and funding.  He works closely with all departments to create comprehensive strategies to create uniform responsiveness to clients. 

Joshua Dorsey earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, graduating Magna cum laude.  Carrying duel majors in History and Political Science, he achieved Dean’s Honor Roll recognition all semesters.  During his studies Mr. Dorsey gained recognition for his proficiency in research and analysis as well as his ability to manage a high workload. 

Lisa S. Cory – Department Head, Title  

Lisa joined Linear Title & Closing in January 2007 and is currently our Title Department Manager, overseeing our File Entry, Abstract, Title and Curative Teams. 

Lisa has been working in the Real Estate Industry for the last 13 years.  In 1994 she started working for a major bank in Rhode Island, in which her main responsibility was to research, prepare and release liens (discharges) on titles in 48 states. For the last 10 years she has been working in the real estate title industry. She started as a post closer, reviewing closing packages for accuracy.  Over the years as she became more experienced and was able to adapt and grow with her position, she was promoted to Post Closing Manager, and later became a Title Officer, where she acquired extensive knowledge in reviewing titles, preparing commitments, clearing issues and preparing policies for properties in all 50 states for the largest title company in New England.   

She has a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Southeastern Massachusetts University NKA U-Mass Dartmouth. She also holds a Certificate in Paralegal Studies from Stonehill College, an Associates and Bachelors Degree in Paralegal Studies from Johnson & Wales in which she graduated Suma Cum Laude. 

Kristen P. Arsenault, Esq -In House Counsel,Florida 

Kristen P. Arsenault joined Linear Title & Closing, Ltd. in April 2006 as Title Counsel and was charged with the day-to-day operation and interface with insurance underwriters, state licensing, reviewing title, title compliance and the implementation of title policy for Linear Title & Closing, Ltd.  She has since moved to Southern Florida to continue her work for Linear.  

In her current role, she is responsible for the new south Florida operations office and directing on-going operational issues, as well as identifying and implementing innovative ways to streamline the national licensing process for Linear’s joint venture partners.

Kristen P. Arsenault is a graduate of the Northeastern University where she received her Bachelors of Science.  She received her Juris Doctor from Suffolk University.

Kristen was born and educated in New England and currently resides in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida with her husband and children.   

Jessica P. Digilio – Network Administration 

Jessica P. Digilio has been with Linear Title & Closing since its inception. Her IT creativity has been the focal point in shaping the information technology infrastructure of Linear Title.  As the network administrator, Ms. Digilio has been instrumental in working with our software partner in the design, development and deployment of Linear Systems, which is Linear’s software platform for processing its core businesses including the administration of our web based marketplace for subcontractors.   Her department is also responsible for the design and implementation of Linear’s Wide Area Network and providing network support to all office locations, subcontractors and clients.   

Prior to joining Linear Title, Ms. Digilio worked at Ocean State Jobbers, Inc. located in Quonset Point, Rhode Island and was responsible for managing the information technology department. Her duties included software development, network support of all seventy stores in the New England area, as well as the maintenance of all in house servers.  

Prior to Ocean State Jobbers, Inc., Ms. Digilio managed her own information technology company which provided support for a variety of businesses in the New England area. 

Ms. Digilio graduated from the Computer Education Institute in Lincoln, Rhode Island with a 3.98 grade point average and continues to further her academia by studying Advanced Networking in a variety of venues.