Marc H. Bell

Mr. Bell is a Managing Director of Marc Bell Capital Partners, a private equity firm based in Boca Raton , Florida founded by Mr. Bell in 2003. Marc Bell Capital Partners invests in entertainment ventures, publishing, internet, and real estate related assets.

In addition to Marc Bell Capital Partners, Mr. Bell is currently Chairman of the Board for Enterprise Acquisition Corporation, a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company. Mr. Bell is also the Chief Executive Officer for FriendFinder Networks - the world's largest social networking company with over 250 million members worldwide. Previously Mr. Bell served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Globix Corporation, a web-hosting company which owned 20,000 miles of fiber and over 1m sq ft of internet data center space globally. Mr. Bell founded the predecessor company for Globix, NAFT International Ltd as a provider of desktop publishing systems in 1989 and added several complementary businesses including print brokerage, hosting, network and application services. This company, then called Bell Technology Group, completed an IPO and was listed on the NASDAQ in 1996. Under Mr. Bell's leadership and oversight, Bell Technology Group grew rapidly into Globix, a leading provider of sophisticated corporate Internet solutions, with over 1,000 employees worldwide.

Mr. Bell has founded numerous companies in his career and has been a seed investor in several start-up entities including iFilm, Vault.com, NetSat Express, Edgar Online, Earnings.com and SpamEx. He has also overseen several large scale real estate development projects in New York , London , Santa Clara , and South Florida .

As a producer of several successful Broadway musicals (Jersey Boys, The Wedding Singer, August: Osage County , A Catered Affair) Mr. Bell has been a winner of the American Theatre Wing's Tony Award ("2006 Best Musical" for Jersey Boys ) and a winner of the National Society of Recording Arts and Sciences Grammy Award (“Best Musical Show Album – 2006” for Jersey Boys ).

Mr. Bell is a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and New York University School of Medicine. He was an adjunct professor at the Global Entrepreneurship Center of Florida International University, where he taught graduate courses in Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Bell and his wife Ruti founded The Marc and Ruti Bell Foundation in 2001 to foster education and advance medical research. Since its inception the foundation has organized significant personal and outside donations to schools, hospitals and educational institutions. Some of the foundation's notable programs include The Bell Scholarship, which encourages undergraduates to choose careers in public service by relieving them of their debt upon graduation.