Thomas E Aucamp

Bio

Prior to co-founding New River, Mr. Aucamp was Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Planning for Blockbuster Entertainment Group. In this capacity, Mr. Aucamp was responsible for leveraging the company's core assets, membership base, brand strength, and operations capabilities; most of these initiatives involved developing close working partnership with third parties, including FirstData, Lycos, AOL, MCI, Sprint, DirecTV and others. Mr. Aucamp spearheaded the creation of a loyalty marketing team, developed the "Membership Card Strategy", including the Blockbuster Gift Certificate Card®, and helped lead Blockbuster's partnering efforts in interactive and new media. Prior to joining Blockbuster in January 1995, Mr. Aucamp was in the mergers and acquisitions department of W.R. Grace & Co., Inc., a diversified Fortune 100 company with interests in healthcare, packaging, construction products and specialty chemicals. Mr. Aucamp has additional transaction and development experience from his tenure at Ryder System and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Aucamp was the 2002 Chairperson of the Florida Venture Forum. Mr. Aucamp has an MBA from Duke's Fuqua School of Business and an undergraduate degree from Harvard University.