Executive Profiles
Larry Harmer – Chairman: The Summit Global Group
Mr. Harmer has extensive experience in consumer goods extending from factory floor to retail shelves throughout Asia, North America Latin America and Europe. He co-founded Polaroid Consumer Electronics, LLC (PCE) in 2003. Under his leadership, PCE grew from its licensee position with Polaroid Holding Company to a company with worldwide revenues of more than $1 billion. Prior to joining PCE, Mr. Harmer co-founded Lone Star Sourcing, LLC where he managed multi-national sourcing operations in China, Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, Vietnam and Thailand. Mr. Harmer’s previous experience includes Director of Business Strategy for PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP, co-founder of Wholonics Leadership Group, LLC, Director of Organizational Development for Nortel Netw orks, and Digital Group President of Flextronics Corporation. Mr. Harmer earned an MBA, MOB and a BA in Chinese & Asian Studies from Brigham Young University. He has taught Rapid Prototyping and Process Design at University of Michigan’s Executive MBA Program.
Giovanni Tomaselli – Managing Director: The Summit Global Group
Since the early 80’s, Mr. Tomaselli has worked across the Far East in manufacturing and trading experience from China to the United States, Australia and Europe. Mr. Tomaselli formed World Wide Licenses Ltd in 1993, which achieved distribution in over 50 countries. In 2002 WWL was awarded the exclusive right to use the Polaroid brand in the area of Digital Cameras on a worldwide basis, and within 3 years exceeded sales of 5 million units worldwide. Based in Hong Kong, he has had varying responsibilities working for WWL, Flextronics, and most recently as Managing Director of Global Industrial Services Ltd. a company he founded in 1995. He has managed multinational customers, including Sony, SanDisk, Microsoft and Polaroid.
Michael Pahuta – President: The Summit Global Group
Mr. Pahuta has served at the highest levels of several successful companies in the consumer electronics industry including heading up the operations for four Olivetti Group companies in the Northern Hemisphere in the 1980's and leading Gordy International (EXX Inc.) to a position as the number one growth stock on the American Stock Exchange in 1994. Mr. Pahuta formed Summit Technology in 2000 as a sales, distribution and post-sales service provider and has been working successfully with the Polaroid brand since 2002. Mr. Pahuta graduated with a double major in management and marketing from Lehigh University in 1977, and an MBA with concentration in finance from Lehigh in 1979.
Robert B. Lamb – Senior Vice President & General Counsel: The Summit Global Group
Mr. Lamb most recently served as an International and Corporate transactional lawyer (and Shareholder) for a prominent law firm in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to coming to Utah in 2008, Mr. Lamb worked for two large multi-national law firms in Phoenix and Atlanta with a practice focus on complex domestic corporate and cross border transactions. Mr. Lamb has extensive experience in establishing joint ventures in the Far East and other parts of the world and in negotiating consumer product manufacturing, licensing and distribution agreements. He is considered an expert in all legal matters relating to the supply chain of consumer products. Mr. Lamb has a B.A. degree from the University of Utah (History and Chinese) and a J.D. degree from Creighton University School of Law.
Nicholas Dederer – Chief Financial Officer: The Summit Global Group
Mr. Dederer is a seasoned finance professional with over thirty years of experience in high technology companies. The bulk of his career has been at Intel Corporation, where he has served as senior finance manager in business units and organizations as diverse as desktop management software, supercomputers, logic die production, memory products, and networking products. In an Operations role Mr. Dederer was instrumental in the growth of the LANDesk business within Intel, focusing on value-added channel development, customer support, and engineering process management. In 2000 he joined Trend Micro, Inc., the world’s third largest Anti-virus software vendor headquartered in Tokyo. At Trend Mr. Dederer worked as Chief Operating Officer and member of the Board of directors. His major accomplishment there was the installation of the global financial control system. Since his service at Trend, he has consulted with several organizations, including two green businesses. Mr. Dederer has an MBA with a finance emphasis from the University of California, Berkeley.