VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Sept. 12, 2005 (PRIMEZONE) -- Crescende International Inc. (Pink Sheets:CDIT) has created a Board of International Advisors and appointed its first members.
Crescende CEO and President Michella Frosch made the announcement today following confirmation that three prominent businessmen have accepted an invitation to join the committee and to provide business advice to the newly-trading company.
The three are Barrie Mowatt, Co-Founder of Buschlen Mowatt Galleries in Vancouver, Canada and Palm Desert, CA; Jim Rossi, Vice-President and Co-Owner of the Saratoga Polo Club, NY and partner in XPO Enterprises Inc.; and Sam Carter, International Curator, Designer and Educator.
Barrie Mowatt is the Owner and President of one of Canada's most prestigious private galleries, the Buschlen Mowatt Galleries, established in Vancouver more than eighteen years ago and in Palm Desert, CA in 2000. He is a member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada and in 1996, co-founded and supported the Vancouver International Sculpture Project - Open Spaces. This project has recently been transformed into the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale - OPEN SPACES PROJECT, the first Biennale of its kind in the world to showcase contemporary sculpture from leading international sculptors.
Mowatt has participated for over twenty-five years in international art fairs in Europe, Asia, S.E. Asia, the U.K., U.S.A. and Canada -- during this time establishing relationships with major galleries, curators, and international cultural attachees and artists, including Helen Frankenthaler, Tony Cragg, Antony Gormley, Lynn Chadwick, Tom Wesselman, and Robert Rauschenberg.
Additionally, he is a founding board member of Art Toronto, former board member of Art Miami and Art Palm Beach Art Fairs and current board member of the International Sculpture Centre, Princeton, N.J.
As a business leader, Barrie Mowatt has contributed to many charitable and community events, including founding the Celebration of Hope Foundation and Buschlen Mowatt Foundation; founding and creating the Buschlen Mowatt Gifted Teen Scholarship Program at Arts Umbrella in 1989, providing assistance to teens pursuing post secondary education in the arts; Co-Founder of Food Runners and the fundraiser Taste of Vancouver; corporate sponsor of more than 15 years to Arts Umbrella, Canada's leading visual and performing arts institute for youth ages 2-19 and supporter of Friends for Life and the Hope Cancer Centre.
Barrie Mowatt has received the Vancouver Business in Arts Award from the Vancouver Board of Trade; the Ethics in Action Award presented by Vancouver City Savings and the Provincial government's Work Ministry, and was twice nominated for Western Canada's Entrepreneur of the Year in the category of socially responsible businesses.
Jim Rossi is a business and marketing strategist. He has been a key player in several noteworthy new business launches and the repositioning and revitalization of a number of existing products and services in both consumer and business-to-business marketing. As a founder and partner of XPO Enterprises Group, and Rossi's association as co-owner of the Saratoga Polo Club project, Rossi is well-positioned in both national and international business.
Rossi, a graduate of Skidmore College, is actively involved in the local community. He serves on the boards of directors of Saratoga PLAN, Saratoga Springs Preservation and Skidmore Strategic Communications Advisory Board.
Rossi has demonstrated success in the design, development, implementation and management of national marketing programs for a number of institutions and venues, including: 1996 Olympic Games, American Express, AT&T, GE Financial Assurance, Hilton, Home Depot, IBM, MCI, SBS Communications, SeaWorld, Rayovac, WalMart, as well as several venture start-up companies.
Most recently, Rossi founded Space Marketing Mission (SMM) -- a unique partnership with NASA and Lockheed Martin to explore and develop space commercialization opportunities. Prior to founding SMM, Rossi served as chief marketing officer for the global launch of XPO Network, a global airport media company based in the United Kingdom. In 1987, he co-founded MarkNet Partners, a business strategy and marketing consultancy.
Sam Carter is an internationally known Designer, Curator and Educator with degrees in Fine Art, Landscape Architecture and Exhibition Design. He has been on the faculty of Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design in Vancouver for almost three decades. Early in his career, as Senior Designer for the Ontario Science Centre, he developed innovative interactive exhibitions for the Hall of Life. In 1972, he coordinated Canadian art and design students to create a thrilled Wildlife Event for the United Nations Conference on Human Environment in Stockholm. He was Creative Director for the Vancouver Papal Visit, Events, Parades and National Days for Expo 86. He designed the pavilion and exhibitions representing Canada for the Yokohama Expo 89 and has worked as a Creative Director for the Government of Canada on numerous events, including the Commonwealth Conference and APEC Conferences in Vancouver.
His designs include large public art commissions as well as installations of art and design work for galleries, museums, expositions and public cultural events. He curated the inaugural exhibition for the Canadian Craft Museum, A Treasury of Canadian Craft. He was a Founding Director of the Canadian Craft Museum, as well as the Vancouver Public Art Committee. He also serves as a Director of the Canadian Society for Asian Arts and other arts organizations.
Carter has Directed and Curated over thirty major multi-cultural and interdisciplinary arts events, exhibitions, and public festivals. Currently, he directs the Asia Pacific Applied Arts Forum creating a "virtual exhibition" and encyclopedia of Asia Pacific Applied Arts. He curated and produced the Canada-China Applied Arts Exhibition, which traveled across Canada celebrating Canada's Year of Asia and Pacific. The Canada Applied Arts Exhibition featured the work of thirty Canadian craft artists and designer and traveled to China, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Taiwan. His lectures on Canadian Applied Arts, Asia and Pacific Applied Arts, and design focus on issues concerned with applied arts traditions, new technologies, globalization, environment and trade.
He serves on regional, national and international boards and is a member of numerous organizations and societies concerned with art, design and craft. For many years he has worked with government and private sector organizations and agencies to develop policy and procedures for art, design and craft practices.
Mr. Carter has presented workshops on art and design in Beijing, Tapei, Indiia, Japan, Malaysia, Vietnam, Russia, Korea and Brunei with students from the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design. In Fall of 2005, Sam will present a Keynote Speech to the International Delphic Games and World Eco Fiber and Textile conference in Kuchin, Sarawak. Then, he will present lectures and select 30 examples of applied art to represent Australia and New Zealand on the Asia Pacific Applied Arts Forum. In Winter, 2005, as Visiting Professor to the Humanisitic Olympics Studies Centre at Renmin University, Carter will conduct workshops/courses of Olympic Art and Design: Opening Ceremonies.
Mowatt, Rossi and Carter will be available on an on-going basis to strategize with Crescende International Inc.'s management team.
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