Experience

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  Manhattan 2 Group, Inc.

  • Cambridge MA

  • Founder & CEO

    • Dec 2018 - Present
    • Cambridge MA

    Manhattan 2 will spawn industries that build a low carbon society. Manhattan 2 is a non-profit company. Our articles, software, designs, inventions, and mechanical plans are free on a gnu basis. Our company engineers systems to help launch forward-thinking entrepreneurs, business leaders and po...

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  Perceptive Network Technologies, Inc.

  • A virtual company.

  • Founder, President & Financier

    • Jan 2001 - Present
    • A virtual company.

    Created to invent and patent machine-human interfaces, PNTI received two US patents, one for using a combination face recognition, sound and voice presence and computer / mobile device containing stored data & contacts to automatically arrange multi-party communication events and conference ...

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  Facia Reco, Inc., Managing General Partner of F...

  • Newton, Massachusetts

  • Founder & President; Managing General Partner; Financier

    • Mar 1992 - Present
    • Newton, Massachusetts

    Face Recognition Biometrics did not exist in 1992 until Facia Reco Associates, (Colantonio & Pentland), made it an operational reality. Colantonio funded Facia Reco out-of-pocket. Facia Reco pioneered biometrics, created, built and commercialized a face recognition system, Sherlock, from ker...

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  John M. Barry Boys & Girls Club of Newton, ...

  • 675 Watertown Street. Newton MA 02460

  • Former Director, Board VP, Board President, retired 2018; former "Club K...

    • Sep 2000 - Sep 2018
    • 675 Watertown Street. Newton MA 02460

    Director 11 years, Board VP 6 years; Board President & Chief Volunteer Officer 3 years. Five-time unrestricted giving, Jeremiah Milbank Society Member. "Great futures begin here" ... as a "Newton Club Kid", I'm proof of that.The Boys & Girls Club of Newton had i...

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  Synergy Acquisition Corp., FusionStorm Global

  • Woburn, Massachusetts

  • Advisor, Consiglieri; Equity Beneficiary in the Sponsor Group

    • Nov 2009 - Feb 2013
    • Woburn, Massachusetts

    Created FusionStorm Global, a powerful new IT brand for national turnkey technology solutions for enterprise, SMB and government customers purchasing IT infrastructure, data center migration, cloud computing, mobility, virtualization, systems security and managed services. Synergy structured an ...

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  Africa Maven Group

  • Baltimore, MD

  • Advisor

    • Jun 2011 - Jun 2012
    • Baltimore, MD

    Provided pro bono advisory services to launch Africa Maven Group formed to address technology and entrepreneurship in East Africa.

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  NorthEast Optic Networks, Inc, a.k.a NEON

  • Westborough, MA

  • NASDAQ Company Founder, President, Vice Chairman & Initial Financier

    • May 1989 - Sep 2001
    • Westborough, MA

    A $135K home equity loan launched a $254M IPO. NEON was a pioneer builder & owner of America's Fiber Optic Super Highway. NEON enabled high-speed voice, data and video communications throughout the Boston-Washington corridor. Mr, Colantonio bought communications rights over electric u...

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  FiveCom, Inc.

  • Northeast United States

  • Founder & CEO, Principle Financier

    • 1993 - 1997
    • Northeast United States

    A pioneering 'Competitive Access Provider' in MA, CT and RI providing fiber bandwidth as the alternative local loop into the incumbent Bell Operating Company POPs. FiveCom was sold to Brooks Fiber Properties’ who entered the national CAP business. Brooks completed an IPO and subsequentl...

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  International Communications & Services Com...

  • Founder & President

    • 1989 - 1993

    Very early entrant in the turnkey (engineering, furnishing, installing) deployment of fiber optic telecommunications systems to the Bell Operating Companies (BOCs), InterExchange Carriers (IXCs) and provisioning of virtual private networks (VPN) for enterprise accounts; also provided outside plan...

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  Bay Cable Affiliates

  • Massachusetts

  • Founding General Partner & Franchise Director

    • Jan 1978 - Dec 1984
    • Massachusetts

    Sought & won CATV franchises in Weymouth, Attleboro, Dedham & Hanover to add to franchises in Marion, Mattapoisett, Wareham, Provincetown, Eastham, Tuoro, Wellfleet, Orleans & Brewster. Bay Cable was built-out and managed as a MSO until sold into the IPO of American CableSystems whic...

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  Brewster Green Associates

  • Brewster, Ma

  • Founding General Partner

    • Jan 1975 - Dec 1979
    • Brewster, Ma

    1600 unit planned unit development with golf course & retail space. Now Ocean Edge. Principle land planner.

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  Design-Science International

  • Cambridge, Ma

  • Land Use Planner

    • Jan 1972 - Jan 1975
    • Cambridge, Ma