Bay Area Folk Singer and Her Group to Perform Interactive Children’s Concert on June 22, in Palo Alto

Folk musician Kathy Sherman and her band Hey Mom! will perform a free, family-friendly interactive concert Friday, June 22, at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto.

Los Altos, CA, April 30, 2018 - Folk musician Kathy Sherman and her band Hey Mom! will perform a free, family-friendly interactive concert Friday, June 22, at Mitchell Park in Palo Alto.

Part of the Friday night summer concert series at the Magical Bridge Playground, located at Mitchell Park, 3700 Middlefield Road in Palo Alto, Sherman and Hey Mom! will perform from 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Sherman has been a professional folk musician for 44 years and a music teacher for nine. She performs in three different folk bands and has released six recordings.

Her latest release is an 18-song children’s singalong album, “Let’s Sing!” which features such all-time favorite sing-alongs such as “The Hokey Pokey,” “She’ll Be Comin’ ’Round the Mountain,” “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” “How Much is That Doggie in the Window,” and “Teddy Bear’s Picnic.”

The album also has an accompanying “Let’s Sing!” songbook, which includes all of the songs on “Let’s Sing!,” as well as selected songs from Hey Mom!’s “Listen to Your Mama” and “Singing on a Star.”

Sherman recently won a Parents' Choice Recommended award for “Let’s Sing,” as well as a glowing review:

“Singer and multi-instrumentalist Kathy Sherman welcomes little ears with her renditions of folk and children's songs, inviting listeners to play and sing along. These 18 tracks include fresh offerings of such traditional fare as ‘I Had a Rooster,’ ‘I've Been Working on the Railroad,’ and ‘She'll Be Comin' 'Round the Mountain,’ as well as Dale Marxon's ‘Waltzing with Bears,’ Peter Alsop's ‘I Am a Pizza,’ Tom Paxton's ‘The Marvelous Toy,’ Tom Chapin and John Forster's ‘Bedtime Round,’ and more. Sherman's happy mix of tunes is made even happier with the voices of her Good Folk Kids singers.”

In addition to Hey Mom!, Sherman is also member of the Good Folk Collective, the Greek folk duo The Plaka Band. She has recorded and released six albums with the three groups.

About Kathy Sherman
Kathy Sherman started her professional music career at age 15, playing Greek music in clubs, restaurants, festivals , and concerts. She put down her bouzouki, the mandolin-like instrument central to modern Greek music, long enough to earn a BMus in classical guitar performance from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music. She was a member of the Electric Guitar Quartet, a classical / comedy group that opened for such guitar luminaries as Leo Kottke, Jorma Kaukonen, John Hartford, The Great Guitars (Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd, and Herb Ellis) and Free Flight.

Kathy’s current music experiences include Greek folk music with long-time friend and fellow musician, Notis Contoplianos in their group, The Plaka Band. Notis and Kathy have two extraordinary CDs, New Songs of Old Athens (selected for Grammy consideration for best World Music Album), and A Time to Sing, A Time to Dance, a rollicking collection of favorite Greek dance music. For more information about The Plaka Band, please check out their website, ThePlakaBand.com. Kathy also plays classical mandolin for orchestras who have the occasional need for one.

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Contact:
Marci Bracco Cain
Chatterbox PR
Salinas, CA 93901
(831) 747-7455
http://www.goodfolksongs.com

Bay Area Investment Manager With 18 Years of Experience Launches A Global High-Quality Growth Fund, Corvara Capital LLC

The timing was right for investment manager Dave Geisler to strike out on his own after 15 years of working for private and public investment managers.

San Francisco, CA, August 30, 2017 — The timing was right for investment manager Dave Geisler to strike out on his own after 15 years of working for private and public investment managers.

Geisler founded and launched Corvara Capital LLC in March of this year, managing a global, high-quality growth, focused portfolio of 20-30 stocks offered through separately managed accounts (SMAs).

“This is something I've explored for a number of years and the timing was right,” says Geisler. “The firm was approved as a Registered Investment Adviser at the end of June, the infrastructure for the firm is now in place, and the fund has just recently launched.”

Geisler started his career in venture capital, working for Piper Jaffray Ventures, investing in early stage healthcare companies. He spent three years on the sell side covering the Internet sector for Cowen and Company, then spent the last 10 years working for a global equity manager and a domestic concentrated manager as a co-portfolio manager for Artisan Partners Global Equity and Lateef Investment Management, respectively.

Geisler believes his experience working for small companies like Lateef (20 employees) as well as larger firms such as Artisan (200 employees), give him the well-rounded experience and expertise to launch his own company.

“I've been on the buy-side for over 10 years, so I understand what clients are looking for in a global manager,” he says. “I have the experience and knowledge to run an asset management firm.”

Geisler has received a lot of support for his new venture, especially from those he has worked with, both fellow employees and clients.

“This business is about trust and relationships,” he says. “Former colleagues and friends have been very supportive, offering their help, opening accounts at Corvara and introducing me to new clients.”

He believes there are at least two things that make Corvara stand out from other similar firms: the fund is unique in that it is solely focused on quality, growth companies across the world and the product’s low-cost structure and transparency.

“Having a consistent investment philosophy is very important, individual and institutional investors look for this when they hire a portfolio manager,” he says. Dave is currently the largest client at Corvara and has invested his own capital to launch and support the firm.

Born in Belgium, where French was his first language, Geisler spent his school years, ages 7-17, on the Monterey Peninsula, graduating from York School. His parents, brother and sister, in fact, still live on the Peninsula. Geisler has also lived in Madrid, Spain and Minneapolis, Minnesota, but has spent the last 18 years in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Geisler graduated from University of California, San Diego with a bachelor's degree in economics, with highest distinction, and a master's degree in business administration from University of California, Berkeley with certificates in management of technology and entrepreneurship.

According to Corvara's website, Corvara is focused on preserving and growing its clients’ assets by applying its investment criteria and using a disciplined investment process. Corvara focuses on “highly liquid global companies that meet our high-quality criteria: high or improving ROIC (return on invest capital), a quality balance sheet supported by consistent free cash flow, high barriers to entry, sustainable competitive advantages, operating in markets with stable growth, value creating capital allocation, proven management, and valuation that support-long term capital appreciation.”

Geisler believes Corvara's “low-cost strategy for investors” and “full transparency” will serve its clients well in the long run.

Corvara Capital Investment Approach
Corvara believes that consistently applying growth and high-quality investment criteria, using a disciplined investment process, and building high active share portfolios can provide long term excess return above relevant benchmarks.

Corvara’s investment strategy rests on a limited number of core beliefs:

Quality
Corvara believes that high quality companies outperform in down markets and outperform the broad market over time. The highest quality companies have high returns on capital, attractive business models supported by higher barriers to entry, and sustainable competitive advantages addressing end markets characterized by stable growth.

Growth
Corvara identifies undervalued global companies expected to generate greater than average earnings growth. Quality companies with sustainable earnings growth outperform over time.

High Active Share
Corvara focuses on high conviction ideas and thus limits its portfolio holdings to 20 to 30 global, liquid, mid-to-large cap companies. High active share managers have outperformed diversified managers over the last 15 years.

Contact:
Marci Bracco Cain
Chatterbox PR
Salinas, CA 93901
(831) 747-7455
http://corvaracapital.com/

Netkiller is partnering with RingCentral for clients in the Bay Area

Netkiller, the company at the forefront of cloud services including cloud integration, data security, and document management, has recently announced its partnership with RingCentral for customers in the Bay Area.

San Jose, CA, July 16, 2017 - Netkiller, the company at the forefront of cloud services including cloud integration, data security, and document management, has recently announced its partnership with RingCentral for customers in the Bay Area. RingCentral, on the other hand, is an award-winning global provider of cloud unified communications and collaboration solutions.

With the two companies’ collaboration, Netkiller will become the largest Bay Area based Google and RingCentral channel partner to serve customers for cloud-based phone systems as well as PBX. With Netkiller’s over ten thousand clients, RingCentral aims to deepen its reach within the Bay Area market, where it was founded and has been headquartered since 1999.

While RingCentral’s channel continues to expand, its clients only get better quality service in return.

For example, G Suite customers can gain many benefits from integrating RingCentral with their business applications; one of the many includes the convenient phone system that RingCentral provides. Now you can integrate your business phone system into the cloud business applications you’re already using every day. RingCentral for Google provides advanced business communications capabilities that operate seamlessly across Google G Suite applications. Because G Suite users heavily rely on core services such as Gmail and Google Drive, RingCentral’s ability to integrate with a user’s Google account provides RingCentral an important edge that differentiates itself from others. Thanks to its high security, reliability, and quality of integrations with the Google Cloud ecosystem, RingCentral for Google is a trusted solution recommended for G Suite by Google Cloud.

Harry Jung, sales director of Netkiller said “Netkiller has been offering G suite from 2009 and is the preferred partner in the bay area. This partnership will synergize as I believe that RingCentral’s rich communication features will further enhance the G Suite user experience.

Due to its ability to integrate with Google, RingCentral enables users to call anyone directly within Gmail and see contacts within Gmail.This dramatically improves one’s work experience as it helps users save time and makes the calling process easier than ever.

Furthermore, not only can users make and receive calls but they can also administrate the entire phone system from anywhere, on any device. . Other benefits that RingCentral provides include how it can manage the users’ SMS conversations, allow users to listen to voicemail directly from Gmail, and view their complete communication history, including calls, texts, faxes, and voicemail. All of these great advantages can increase a G Suite user’s productivity by handling all tasks without leaving Google.

Leveraging Netkiller’s expertise in IT consulting and RingCentral’s market leading communications platform, the partnership between the two will bring value to customers seeking to improve the way they communicate, collaborate, and connect.

About Netkiller:
Netkiller is a Cloud Integration and Aggregator company providing SaaS applications on Cloud Platform and advisory services for world leading businesses. It provides services such as SSO, an easy-to-use cloud security, a business collaboration platform and barcode scanner that greatly increases workflow as well as cloud integrations. Additionally, it is a reseller of Google products such as G Suite, Chromebooks, and Chromebox for Meetings. With Netkiller, businesses are bound to be more accessible and simple, which in turn drives productivity and workflow.

Media contact:
Harry Jung
Netkiller Inc.
San Jose, CA 95129, USA
(408) 560-0556
info@netkiller.com
http://www.netkiller.com