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Hal Berger
Hal Berger is an American entrepreneur and financial dealmaker. During his career his clients have included several of the largest U.S. & international publicly traded & privately owned corporations. Among his clients; Bloomberg News, Citibank, Disney, Epson Computers, First Interstate Bank, First American Title, Fox, Hitachi USA, Mattel Toys, Nestles, Pioneer Electronics, Seiko Instruments, Rubbermaid, Microtek computers, Rainbird, Warner Brothers, and Universal Studios.

Born in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania the son of a publisher whose father was a European immigrant from Austria.

In 1990, Hal left the corporate world to start a series of start up companies. IMAGE design and entertainment developed the “Power Glove” the first interactive virtual reality video game controller based upon NASA space technology for Mattel Toys,. Image also developed hi tech electronic concepts for the film Robo Cop2.

Hal was co creator and executive producer for the two time EMMY nominated Masters of the Maze TV show from August 29, 1994 to September 22, 1996.

Hal Berger’s financial dealmaking career started as a result of selling two of his successful startup ventures to public companies. (CSG) Creative Solutions Group, Inc. was sold to Avista Corporation and was subsequently sold to Heritage Partners (Fund II) a fund with $1.4 billion in capital under management. GK toys & media, LTD was sold to a public company listed on the Hang Seng Exchange in Hong Kong China in 2002.

In 2003, Mr. Berger was a founding partner of Vision Venture Partners a strategic consulting and middle market investment banking group. In 2006, Vision Venture Partners assisted their client Fruit Patch the largest provider of consumer fruits for retail grocery stores in the U.S.with a buyout opportunity. The transaction was the largest wall street backed buyout of a farm based consumer distributor in the central valley of California

Prior to founding Vision Venture Partners, Mr. Berger was Director of Strategic Consulting at Pac Star Partners, a spin-off firm of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s Corporate Finance Group. The firm focused on capital raising ,consulting, mergers & acquisitions, syndicated financing and strategic advisory services.

International Hague Convention on child abduction- In 1995 Hal Berger’s son Liam only fifteen months old was a victim of the first of two international parental child kidnapping cases. In the first case of its kind in Hague’s history Hal’s case involved his innocent small son, two international kidnappings to South Africa by the child’s mother Linda Volschenk -Von Tonder, three false passports, four years of litigation under the International Hague Convention on child abduction and fighting at least 15 court actions - between two continents. Hal successfully recovered his son Liam from South Africa from both kidnappings.

Hal Berger has committed to a life time of helping other parents victimized by parental abduction through his nonprofit organization, Global Missing Children Fund. www.globalmissingchildren.orghttp://vimeo.com/14528167

Upon graduating from the Smeal School of Business at Penn State University, Hal moved to Los Angeles for corporate positions with companies like 3M Lanier, Inforex Datapoint and Recongnition Equipment Systems. In 2003, Hal attended the private equity program at the Harvard Business School.

Design News December 4, 1989 written by Dana L. Gardner, Associate Editor
Pittsburgh Press December 4, 1990 ==== Americancapital.com Produce News Jauary 11, 2008