Gary Winnick is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pacific Capital Group, founded by Mr. Winnick in 1985. Mr. Winnick has sourced in excess of $100 billion to fund corporate innovation and transformative new technologies and has provided capital and counsel to hundreds of companies in the global economy. Mr. Winnick and two companies he founded, Global Crossing and Asia Global Crossing, built the first integrated fiber optic network, a 130,000-mile global IP-based system connecting continents and countries around the world. The Global Crossing Network services 40 percent of the Fortune 500 and connects 700 cities in 70 countries. Before founding Pacific Capital Group, Mr. Winnick was Senior Vice President of Drexel Burnham Lambert in that firm’s high yield and convertible bond group, which transformed the face of corporate finance and Wall Street. Mr. Winnick is a member of the boards of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) and the Simon Wiesenthal Center, and he is a recipient of the Wiesenthal Center’s Humanitarian Laureate Award. In 2004, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Long Island University, his alma mater.
Jimmy Delshad is Vice Chairman of Pacific Capital Group. Mr. Delshad served on the Beverly Hills City Council from 2003 to 2011 and was twice elected Mayor of Beverly Hills. A graduate of California State University, Northridge, Mr. Delshad was founder and chief executive officer of a computer data storage company. Mr. Delshad is an internationally recognized authority on the use of advanced SMART technologies in city management and law enforcement.
Robert Hertzberg is Vice Chairman at Pacific Capital Group. He is a Senior Partner at Mayer Brown LLP, Co-Founder and a Director of G24 Innovations Limited, a solar technology company based in the U.K., and Chairman of the Los Angeles County Economic Development Corporation. Mr. Hertzberg served in the California Legislature from 1996 to 2002 and was twice elected unanimously Speaker of the California State Assembly. Mr. Hertzberg is a magna cum laude graduate of the University of Redlands with a Bachelor of Arts degree and was graduated from Hastings Law School with the degree of Juris Doctor.
Gregg Ritchie is Chief Financial Officer and a Managing Director of Pacific Capital Group. Mr. Ritchie joined the firm in 1998 following a 22-year career with an international accounting firm. Mr. Ritchie is a Certified Public Accountant and Personal Financial Specialist. Mr. Ritchie received his BS in Business Administration with honors from the University of Southern California, where he represented the university as the Arthur H. Carter Scholar.
Ms. Zalis is Senior Vice President of Pacific Capital Group and Executive Director of the Winnick Family Foundation. After working with three U.S. presidential campaigns, she served as Chief of Protocol for the State of California and as Senior Policy Advisor to the Office of the Governor. She founded and directed the California Trade Office in the Middle East. Ms. Zalis is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Goucher College with a BA degree and received a Master’s degree from the University of Maryland.
Josh Neumann is a Vice President of Pacific Capital Group. Josh Neumann joined Pacific Capital Group in 2006. Prior to PCG, he worked at HSBC Specialist Investments in London, where he focused on infrastructure and real estate private equity. Mr. Neumann began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in the management consulting group. Mr. Neumann received an MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a BS in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Josh Neumann is a CFA charterholder.