Albert P. Hernandez-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Hernandez has over 40 years experience in mail and messenger delivery services, having been involved in over 60 messenger, courier and delivery company acquisitions.  By opening his first operation in Venezuela during 1972, Mr. Hernandez became a pioneer in developing the private courier and mail delivery business in Latin America.  During the mid sixties and seventies Mr. Hernandez held various executive positions at Choice Delivery Systems/Choice Logistics, a based local messenger service operating in 40 states.  Between 1978 and 1984 he started and ran Choice Air Courier, specializing in courier delivery in Latin America.  In 1985 he became President of Sky Courier International and in 1986 became Chief Operating Officer of Sky Courier Network, with 650 employees, which was sold to Airborne Express in 1988.  He then started SkyNet Worldwide Express, which he sold to Lanlogistics, a division of Lan Chile Airlines in 2001.  He founded SkyPostal in 2001 in partnership with Lanlogistics. In 2004, along with Holston Investments, he purchased SkyPostal from Lanlogistics. 

A.J. Hernandez-Chief Operating Officer and Director

Mr. Hernandez has been employed by SkyPostal since 2001 and is responsible for all international operations.  He has negotiated all service provider agreements in the LAC region.  Between 1993 and 2001 he developed SkyBox Services, Inc. in Latin America, a company providing a US address facility to enable upscale Latin American residents to receive mail, catalogues and Internet purchases via a mail warehouse facility in Miami, Florida.  He sold SkyBox to LanLogistics, a division of Lan Chile Airlines in 2001.  He was a co-founder of SkyPostal in partnership with Lan.  Along with Albert P. Hernandez, his father, he co-purchased SkyPostal from Lan in 2004.

John Nolan-Director

Former Deputy Postmaster General John Nolan has significant executive experience in both the government and private sectors. He is currently a board member for Mail Express and Cross Commerce Media. He serves as senior advisor to All Vision and Western Union.
John served as Deputy Postmaster General for just over five years ending in mid 2005, one of the most challenging yet successful periods for the U.S.P.S. He began his postal career as a management intern and quickly rose through the ranks to become Regional General Manager for Delivery, Regional Director for Customer Services, and Postmaster/General Manager of the world’s largest post office, New York City. From 1989 to 2000 he was recruited to run the operations of Tritech, a print/fulfillment/lettershop/proxy services company within Merrill Lynch. In addition to his corporate work, John serves on the board of several nonprofit organizations including the Smithsonian National Postal Museum, the Envelope Manufacturers Foundation, Washington & Lee University’s Shepherd Poverty Program and St. Columba Episcopal Church. He also offers pro bono consulting services to nonprofits in the Washington DC area for board improvement. He is married and has two grown children and one grandchild. John’s undergraduate degree is from
Washington & Lee University and he also attended Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development.

Michael Margolies-Director

Mr. Margolies has over 25 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Margolies was a Managing Director of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co., Inc. where he led the firm’s PIPE practice. Mr. Margolies founded and served as CEO of independent research provider, Avalon Research Group Inc., from 1995 through its sale in 2004. With over 100 hedge fund and mutual fund clients, Avalon was a top rated independent research firm and founding member of Investorside Research Association, a non-profit trade association of investment research providers not engaging in investment banking. Prior to founding Avalon, Mr. Margolies managed long/short discretionary accounts for M.A. Berman & Co., a boutique money management and brokerage firm with more than $500 million under management. In the eighties to early nineties, Mr. Margolies managed discretionary accounts as a Senior V.P. and Limited Partner at Oppenheimer and Company in New York. Mr. Margolies is currently Chief Executive Officer at Littlebanc, a boutique investment banking firm.

Menachem Kranz-Director

Mr. Kranz has worked for over a decade in the securities and finance industry, most recently as vice president in the PIPEs practice at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Prior to joining Ladenburg, Mr. Kranz leveraged his extensive contacts and relationships within the hedge and mutual fund communities in a variety of contexts, including as a hybrid trader with RBC Capital Markets and a senior vice president of institutional research sales at Avalon Research Group Inc. where he was instrumental in the rapid growth and development of the firm. Mr. Kranz’s educational background, Rabbinical College of America, laid the foundation for sound analytical minded process and affability.

E. Harold “Hal” Gassenheimer-Director

Mr. Gassenheimer brings over 30 years of financial and general management experience to the Company’s Board of Directors.  Mr. Gassenheimer obtained his MBA from the Harvard School of Business and began his career at ExxonMobil where he served 23 years in various executive positions developing expertise in international tax, legal and accounting matters.  Since ExxonMobil, Mr. Gassenheimer has participated as a partner with responsibility for finance in several large real estate development projects where he arranged debt financing and handled reporting requirements with banks.   He was the Treasurer of Cunard Line Limited and Seabourn Cruise Line, a division of Carnival Corporation for three years where he rebuilt the controls, systems and procedures for cash management.  Following that, Mr. Gassenheimer served as CFO for Avalon Research Group until its successful sale in 2005. Since then he has served as CFO of Reefbreak Management, Hedge Fund and COO of MAMC, Inc. a mortgage servicer.  Mr. Gassenheimer is currently the CFO of Littlebanc, an investment firm.