Joseph Weilgus

Chief Executive Officer

E-mail: jweilgus@newlegacy.com

Joseph Weilgus, CPA, was formerly the President of Geller Holdings, LLC and Managing Director, Client Relations at Geller & Co. In this role he was responsible for advising on numerous investments and the structuring of financial transactions as well as the growth of the company.

Prior to joining Geller, he was Director of Client Relations at American Express Tax and Business Services Inc. ("TBS") and was responsible for the Venture Services Group as well as the Government Services Group along with his role of developing new business. He has helped companies and governments improve their businesses and operations by advising and introducing senior management to financing and funding sources, strategy, mergers and acquisitions and debt-offerings. Mr. Weilgus has been the driving force of financing transactions in excess of $500 million in 2004 and 2005 and has launched numerous initiatives within TBS. Before joining American Express he was a Senior Associate with PricewaterhouseCoopers in the audit practice where he earned his CPA.

Mr. Weilgus was selected by the Harvard Business School Club of New York as the Not-for-Profit Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002 for his outstanding work as founder and chairman of Project Sunshine, a multi-national children's non-profit organization. He also has been named "New Yorker of the Week" and, in 2004, he was awarded the 8th Annual Business Leadership Award from Yeshiva University, making him the youngest person to ever receive this award. In 2006 he received an honorarium in ringing the closing bell at the NASDAQ exchange in honor of the declaration of Project Sunshine Week in New York City.

Mr. Weilgus earned a B.S. in Accounting from Yeshiva University in 1999 and has participated in executive education programs at Harvard Business School. He was an undefeated NCAA tennis player and Editor-in-Chief of the business newspaper at Yeshiva. He is the Chairman of the Board of Project Sunshine, an active member of the Young Presidents Organization, is a board member and a member of the executive committee of the JTA Global News Service and a board member of the American Hebrew Academy in Greensboro, North Carolina.