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Norman J. Singer
Executive Vice President
Norman J. Singer brings to Sage Canyon more than thirty years as a
successful entrepreneur, attorney and senior business executive. As
Chairman of Pexco Holdings, Inc., the U.S. arm of a multi billion dollar
international conglomerate, Mr. Singer has been active as a hands on
executive and investment banker in both the natural resources industry
and the sports and entertainment industry.
After graduating from a combined program at the London School of
Economics and Colgate University and Colombia University School of Law,
Mr. Singer chose a career path in international law and business unlike
most of his fellow classmates. His first exposure to international
business was as a legal and economic advisor to the Ministry of Finance
in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. After completing a two year contract, he
returned to Boston where he obtained a Master’s Degree in International
Economics at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. During this time,
he collaborated with Professor Robert Meagher on a book on Law and
Development. After a brief stay at the U.S. Department of State in
Washington, D.C., he joined Oceanic Exploration Company in Denver,
Colorado as International Counsel. While rising to General Counsel and a
Director of the company, he led the management team which achieved
Oceanic’s first NASDAQ public listing. Other highlights of his career in
the international oil and gas business include negotiating almost thirty
separate oil and gas exploration licenses throughout Europe, Africa,
southeast Asia and South America. He also led the team which arranged
over $250 million in bank and supplier finance for the development of
Oceanic’s high sulfur Prinous Oil Field in the Aegean Sea.
After almost ten years at Oceanic, Mr. Singer was recruited by the Pexco
Group of Companies, based in Southeast Asia, to establish a new
exploration division in the United States. Pexco is the natural
resources division of the Usaha Tegas Group, a multi billion dollar
conglomerate with holdings in telecommunications, broadcasting,
satellite technology and real property. As Chairman of Pexco’s U.S.
operations, Mr. Singer’s accomplishments included the establishment of
two E & P companies in Texas and Oklahoma for which he was responsible
for raising from private investors and industry partners more than $130
million for drilling and development; the merger of the combined entity
with a larger pipeline and gas marketing company; and the establishment
of Worldwide Sports & Entertainment, Inc., which in addition to becoming
the holding company for four outdoor sports and recreation companies was
also the producer of the uniquely successful Live Aid Concert. The
outdoor sports group included Bushnell Sports Optics which was acquired
from Bausch and Lomb and later sold in part to Wind Point Partners. The
combined revenue of the sports group today is in excess of $500 million.
As an entrepreneur, Mr. Singer was a founding partner of Inter American
Rail Corporation, which was one of two finalists chosen to bid on
Argentina’s railroad privatization, and a founding partner of Israel
Technology Partners, a private limited partnership which raised more
than $15 million from both individual American investors and Israeli
corporate partners. Israel Technology Partners’ investments included
eleven high tech and bio medical companies. Successful exits have been
made in several of these companies whose products are now in the U.S.
marketplace.
Mr. Singer serves on the board of Expedition Partners, LLC, a Colorado
based oil and gas group, and Lafayette Partners, LLC, a Colorado based
real estate investment group. He is also currently an advisor to an
independent oil and gas producer based in New York. He is a member of
the Colorado, New York
And American Bar Associations and holds membership in the New York
Chapter of the Asia Society, the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Explorers
Club, the Denver Council for Foreign Relations, the Association of
International Petroleum Negotiators, and is on the Board of Directors of
the Colorado Chapter of the American Jewish Committee. Mr. Singer holds
a Series 7 securities license.
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