Management Team

Consulting Team

Management Team

Victor Webb
President

Victor Webb is a renowned pioneer in International Investor Relations. A journalist by training, he has worked for and contributed to several international newspapers.

Mr. Webb is a former executive for Dow Jones in the United Kingdom and Managing Director of Dow Jones International Marketing Services, and International Director of Dow Jones & Co., Inc.

Later named Vice President of the Dow Jones International Group, Mr. Webb was responsible for worldwide advertising and marketing activities for Dow Jones Publications, including The Wall Street Journal and Barron’s. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Asian and European Editions of the Wall Street Journal.

After leaving Dow Jones, Mr. Webb was again successful in developing Marston Webb International into a premier IR agency. The agency enjoys an impressive list of clients consisting of mining, biotech, alternative energy, manufacturers and government agencies.

Marston Webb has represented numerous foreign government agencies such as Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Korea, South Africa, Denmark, Germany, Austria, Spain, Portugal, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda and the London Stock Exchange. With such a strong association with foreign governments and expertise in financial exchanges, the agency has established itself as a leader in media and financial markets overseas as well as in the U.S.

In addition, the Agency has been associated with the gold market having represented a number of gold mining companies and associations including the World Gold Council, for whom the agency has provided media relations consultancy in the area of the public sector and institutional investment over the past ten years. As such, the Agency has maintained day-to-day contact with gold writers, business and financial journalists and editors focusing attention on individual mining sectors and the gold market as a whole.

Mr. Webb is a frequent speaker at international media and marketing events and is a member of various overseas press clubs, trade and professional associations.


Consulting Team


Martin Gitlin
Investor Relations Consultant

Martin Gitlin is a public relations and media executive with more than 30 years of diversified financial/investor, business-to-business and consumer product experience. He has been affiliated with a number of major public relations agencies, including appointment as Vice President and National Media Relations Executive at The Financial Relations Board and BSMG Worldwide. He was Senior Media Executive with Howard Rubenstein & Associates and Richard Weiner, Inc.

His experience includes developing successful media and financial/investor relations programs for a broad range of organizations, including technology, aerospace, energy, industrial and consumer product companies, real estate organizations, law firms, asset management firms, trade associations and financial institutions.

He created marketing support and new product media programs for Pulsar, the first solid state watch, for the fiber nickel-cadmium battery for aerospace, coordinated nationwide media programs for trade association, news bureau for an insurance sponsored senior citizen group, and grass roots and media support for a major public sector development as well as scores of effective media programs for companies and organizations across the country.

He has been a media consultant to a national restaurant chain, land use law firm, architectural and design firms, management consultants and technology service firm.

In recent years he has developed important coverage for clients in a wide range of media including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, Associated Press, Dow Jones Newswire, Reuters, Bloomberg News, American Banker, Barron’s, Industry Week, as well as regional publications such as the Boston Globe, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Denver Post, Crain’s New York Business and Philadelphia Inquirer and CNN, CNBC and Bloomberg Radio and TV.


George Haddad
Graphics Arts, Data Processing, and Internet Consultant

George Haddad, CEO and President of Inet Graphics Associates, is a graphic arts, data processing and internet executive with more than 40 years of diversified financial, data processing, graphics arts experience. He has been Chairman and CEO of a public company, Electronic Publishing Technology, which was a pioneer in in its industry.He was also a senior markwting executive with IBM. Before that was managing partner of a certified public accounting firm..

As CEO of a public company, he was responsible for the preparation and filing of various government and SEC forms (eg - 10-K, etc.) as well as the general management of the corporation. As an IBM marketing executive, he was involved in the marketing of computers and related systems.

During the past 20 years he has peimarily been involved in graphic arts and internet pursuits. He developed the Company's web site and has dsigned and published a number of publications for Marston Webb including Investment Australia, Finance Bermuda, Gold & Silver Notes and Quotes, as well as numerous other publications and newsletters.

In addition to the above, Mr. Haddad is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.


Hanna Kurasz
International Linguistic Specialist and Media Consultant

Hanna Kurasz was Born and educated in Warsaw Poland. She speaks fluent Polish and Russian and can communicate in all Slavic languages including Czech, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian and Bulgarian.

She has extensive knowledge of international media and has been providing worldwide advertising and media buying services since 1999 with a keen sense of diligence.

With 15 years experience and in depth knowledge of the International marketplace, Ms. Kurasz has worked with and is familiar with all forms of advertising including print, outdoor, radio, TV and online.

Paul C. Homsy
Consultant For Legal And International Finance

Mr. Homsy has 30 years of experience in the Middle East and practiced law in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia for 4 years as the managing partner of Sidley & Austin’s former office there.

Mr. Homsy has significant experience in the development, structuring and financing of several billion dollars of transactions in a wide range of conventional and Islamic financial products, including private equity funds, trade finance funds, real estate funds, factoring agreements, and many Shari’ah compliant structures.

Mr. Homsy has helped arrange financing for both direct investments and alternative investment vehicles from the Arabian Gulf.

Mr. Homsy has a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania as well as a J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law. He speaks both Spanish and conversational Arabic. Mr. Homsy has served on the Board of Advisors of the Harvard University Institute for Social and Economic Policy in the Middle East, John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he participated in the Arab Israeli Peace Negotiations, and as Chairman of the Middle East Law Committee of the American Bar Association.

Mr. Homsy served six years on the Board of Directors of the Arab Bankers Association of North America and also served on its Executive Committee. He is admitted to practice law in the State of New York.

Mr. Homsy is recognized as a leading authority on the Middle East. He has appeared on National Public Radio’s Marketplace program, and Bloomberg Television and has been quoted in a number of leading publications including "The Banker" magazine and "The Journal of Commerce".

Mr. Homsy’s publications on the Middle East have appeared in "The International Lawyer", "The Northwestern Journal of International Law", and "The International Legal Encyclopedia" of The University of Virginia Law School. He has lectured widely on Middle East topics at such forums as Harvard University and The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Homsy is a Special Advisor to and founding shareholder of Integration Capital & Trade and a founding partner of the law firm Guibord Homsy LP, with offices in New York, Chicago, and associated offices in Washington, DC,Riyadh, Dubai, and Beirut.

: (917) 553-4277
: phomsy@crescentassetmgt.com


The principals of the agency have worked in the international arena for over 30 years.