Company Information

Blake E. Janover

Founder, CEO, President, Chairman of the Board

With over 15 years of entrepreneurial experience, Blake E. Janover is the Founder, CEO, President, and Chairman of Janover Inc. His expertise spans multifamily and commercial property finance, business financing, real estate, technology, consulting, and management and marketing services. He is an Official Member of the Forbes Real Estate Council, an On Deck Proptech and Scale Fellow, and is currently enrolled in Harvard Business School’s Owner/President Management Program (OPM) 60 cohort.

Bruce Rosenbloom, CPA

Chief Financial Officer

CFO & Treasury, PetMed Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: PETS) 2001-2022
Interim CEO, PetMed Express, Inc. (Nasdaq: PETS) 2022
Executed Financial strategies that resulted in:
- Annual Revenue increases from $10 MM in FY 2001 to $273 MM in FY 2022, reaching a peak of $309 MM in FY 2021.
- Profitability increasing from a net loss of $3 MM to net income of $21 MM during the same period, peaking at $31 MM in FY 2021.
- Stock Price Appreciation from a low of $.25 per share in 2001 to an all-time high of $57 per share in 2021 representing a 22,700% return representing a 31% CAGR for 20 years.
- Shareholder Return of approximately $320 MM back to shareholders in the form of a quarterly dividend and share buyback plan
- Former Senior Audit Accountant at Deloitte

Marcelo Lemos

Mr. Lemos has an extensive background in information technology, manufacturing, and engineering. Mr. Lemos is the Founder and President of Innovar Consulting Corporation, a consulting firm, founded in 2012, that provides executive coaching, advising, and mission-critical consulting. Also, since August 2018, Mr. Lemos has been Group Chair for Vistage Florida leading a Chief Executive peer group in the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area. Mr. Lemos has held positions such as senior executive, and member of the board of directors in a broad range of companies, from Fortune 500 entities (Dassault Systemes, PA: DSY), to smaller technology start-ups. Mr. Lemos’s early career started in the field of solid propellant rocket engines, and he eventually became President and board member of Dassault Systemes Americas, leading a team of over 1,000 engineers. Mr. Lemos holds a Bachelor of Science in Aeronautical Engineering and a Master of Business Administration, and has completed UCLA’s Anderson School of Management Executive Advanced Management Program on International Business. We believe Mr. Lemos to be an excellent candidate because of his extensive experience in building and scaling engineering teams across the Americas. Mr. Lemos’ experience in interfacing with government agencies and operating large technology teams will be invaluable to the Company as we continue to execute on our technology roadmap.

William Caragol

Mr. Caragol is the Chief Financial Officer of Mainz Biomed, N.V. (NASDAQ: MYNZ) since July of 2021. From 2018 to the present, Mr. Caragol has also been Managing Director of Quidem LLC, a corporate advisory firm. Since 2015, Mr. Caragol has been Chairman of the Board of Thermomedics, Inc., a medical diagnostic equipment company. Mr. Caragol, since July 2021, is also on the Board of Directors of Worksport Ltd. (Nasdaq: WKSP), an emerging company in the electric vehicle and alternative energy sector. From 2012 to 2018, Mr. Caragol was Chairman and CEO of PositiveID, a holding company that was publicly traded that had a portfolio of products in the fields of bio-detection systems, molecular diagnostics, and diabetes management products. Mr. Caragol earned a B.S. in business administration and accounting from Washington and Lee University and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Samuel Haskell

Mr. Haskell has been a Managing Member of Colarion LLC since 2016, an investment advisory and fund manager focused on the financial sector based in Birmingham, Alabama. He is also Chief Investment Officer of JHH Wealth, an SEC-registered investment advisory in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sam began following the financial sector within Morgan Stanley’s equity research group in 2001. He helped found the Financial Institutions Capital Markets Group at Sterne Agee, a regional broker, focusing on community bank equities, from 2002 – 2014. In addition to Colarion, he is a board member at the $500 million-asset CommerceOne Bank of Birmingham, AL. He has an established due diligence network within the banking and fintech community nationwide. Sam is a CFA charter holder and graduate of Princeton University.

Ambassador Ned L. Siegel

Ambassador Siegel is the President of The Siegel Group, a multi-disciplined international business management advisory firm he founded in 1997 in Boca Raton, Florida, specializing in real estate, energy, utilities, infrastructure, financial services, oil and gas and cyber and secure technology. Ambassador Siegel has served since 2013 as Of Counsel to the law firm of Wildes & Weinberg, P.C. From October 2007 until January 2009, he served as the United States Ambassador to the Commonwealth of The Bahamas. Prior to his Ambassadorship, in 2006, he served with Ambassador John R. Bolton at the United Nations in New York, as the Senior Advisor to the U.S. Mission and as the United States Representative to the 61st Session of the United Nations General Assembly. From 2003 to 2007, Ambassador Siegel served on the Board of Directors of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (“OPIC”), which was established to help U.S. businesses invest overseas, fostering economic development in new and emerging markets, complementing the private sector in managing the risk associated with foreign direct investment and supporting U.S. foreign policy. Appointed by Governor Jeb Bush, Ambassador Siegel served as a Member of the Board of Directors of Enterprise Florida, Inc. (“EFI”) from 1999-2004. EFI is the State of Florida’s primary organization promoting statewide economic development through its public-private partnership. Ambassador Siegel presently serves on the Board of Directors of Worksport, Ltd. (Nasdaq: WKSP) and Bannix Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: BNIX). He also presently serves on the following Advisory Boards: U.S. Medical Glove Company, Captis Intelligence, Inc. and Maridose, LLC.
Mr. Siegel received a B.A. from the University of Connecticut in 1973 and J.D. from the Dickinson School of Law in 1976. In December 2014, he received an honorary degree of Doctor of Business Administration from the University of South Carolina.