Cynthia Artin

Cynthia Artin has been helping companies and non-profit
organizations grow through sound strategy, investment and market positioning
for over thirty years. Ms. Artin is President of Artin Arts, a strategic
marketing, branding and communications company headquartered in New York. Ms.
Artin and her team work with private equity groups, hedge funds, and venture
capital firms, supporting their portfolio companies with growth strategies and
market positioning, with an emphasis on transaction communications associated
with M&A, public offerings, and the sale of businesses.

Prior to starting Artin Arts in 2003, Ms. Artin successfully
positioned ITXC Corporation, based in Princeton, NJ, as the global leader of
VoIP international and long distance services. Before joining ITXC, Ms. Artin
served as Vice President of Corporate Communications for Global Crossing,
headquartered in Madison, New Jersey, where she was responsible for global
media and industry analyst relations and managed a team of professionals
interacting with business, financial and trade press and industry analyst firms.
At Global Crossing, she also lead a brand repositioning effort in her role as
VP of Global Marketing Communications, and supported a number of mergers and
acquisitions during the company's rapid period of growth.

Ms. Artin has marketing experience across a number of
industries including fashion retail and wholesale, commercial banking, traded
markets and trading technology, and is an expert in telecommunications and
technology. She is a graduate of Arizona State University, with a BA in
English, and several years experience teaching at the college level as a
graduate student. She writes actively on "connecting goodness" for The
Stewardship Report and sits on the boards of a number of non-profit
organizations.

Specialties

Transaction strategy and communications management

Growth positioning

Corporate and marketing communications across the spectrum

Philanthropy and non-profit development