Dion Friedland - Chairman

Dion Friedland became a major investor in Radical Waters in early 2004 and has since acquired majority control. He now controls the holding company Radical Waters International Ltd. His extensive global contacts will be leveraged to facilitate the marketing and utilization of Radical Waters ECA devices throughout the world.

Dion Friedland was born in Pretoria, South Africa, in 1943. His father was a lawyer. While attending university at the age of 18, he started selling clothing to other students and soon had 20 part-time salespeople working for him. While at law school, at the age of 19, he worked as a part-time sales representative. He opened his first discount store, Rave, at the age of 20. Rave Discount Stores prospered and became a public company via a reverse merger in 1968. He sold the company in 1969 to the 2nd largest retail company in South Africa and started Dion Discount Stores in 1970. Dion Stores became the largest hard goods retailer in South Africa before he sold the company in 1985. During the mid 1970's he left South Africa and was the Executive Vice President for a subsidiary of the Dayton Hudson Corporation (now Target Stores) in Boston, USA.

In January, 1981, at the suggestion of the Government of Anguilla, he bought the lease on the Cap Juluca site and entered into a new lease with the Government of Anguilla. Friedland owned 100% of Cap Juluca Hotel, which under his guidance became one of the top resort hotels in the Caribbean and the world www.capjuluca.com. He sold Cap Juluca in April, 2008. 

In 1978, he founded Mandev International, which under his stewardship became the world's largest retail sales and management training consulting company, with offices in the US, Canada, Holland, the UK, Australia and South Africa. His clients included Southern Pacific Hotel Corporation, Southern Sun Hotels, Macys, Bloomingdales, Ford Motor Company, Toyota, Volvo, John Deere and hundreds of leading retailers worldwide. His training programs using behavior modeling were available in seven languages and became the benchmark for training programs still in use today. In 1980 he co-authored a book, People Productivity in Retailing.

In 1994, Friedland founded the Magnum Group of funds, www.magnum.com, that allocate assets to hedge funds and other investment vehicles. He was the founding president of the Hedge Fund Association, www.thehfa.org, which he headed for seven years until January 2004 when he stepped down. Mr. Friedland has been a frequent speaker at hedge fund and financial conferences and has been interviewed on CNN, CNBC (Big Interview of the Day) and on national television in Japan.

His other business interests include ten motor dealerships around London, www.smc-cars.com and an art distribution business which supplies fine art to art dealers www.friedlandart.com. 

Carla Fiford joined the board of Radical Waters in August 2010 with responsibility for Marketing and Sales, and was appointed Managing Director in January 2011. One of Carla's main areas of focus will be to establish relationships in North America with key players that will be able to take advantage of the benefits of converting to ECA technology.

Previously, Carla headed up a number of businesses and amongst which was, the CEO of Magnum Global Funds - South Africa, an American based listed Hedge fund Company, on the JSE. She was also previous Chairman of the Hedge Fund Association. In her role, Carla presented a number of papers internationally on Hedge Funds. Additionally she has worked in Executive positions at a number of Blue Chip companies, including American Express and Investec.

Carla attended the University of Natal and UNISA, towards a Bachelor of Commerce degree in Economics. She also attended a number of Economics and Investment courses at numerous International Colleges.


David R. Friedland - Director

David R. Friedland is President of Magnum U.S. Investments, Inc., which serves as a consultant to a number of funds and hedge funds, as well as a number of banks and institutions. Magnum tracks, evaluates and combines hedge funds into a variety of funds of hedge funds to meet specific risk/return criteria for high net worth individuals and institutional clients. Magnum has also sponsored several single manager hedge funds covering a range of different strategies. David is the president of the general partner of the Magnum funds of hedge funds, and Magnum-sponsored single manager hedge funds available to U.S. taxable investors. Magnum has been managing funds of hedge funds since 1994.

David is head of new business development, and the legal department at Magnum, and is a frequent speaker at financial and hedge fund conferences around the world. He has authored several articles on hedge funds, made several appearances on CNBC, and is the President of the Hedge Fund Association.

David received a BBA in Finance cum laude and a JD (law degree) magna cum laude from the University of Miami, and is a member of the Florida Bar. He also holds his Series 7 brokerage license.


Anthony Kessler - Director

Anthony Kessler qualified as a Chartered Accountant in England in 1978. He spent 13 years with the Stonehage Group becoming their Group Finance Director. Anthony has been Director of Ark Professional Services Ltd since 1999 providing accounting, admin and other services to individuals, Companies and Trusts. He is also on the Boards of 3 other UK companies.


Clifford Rostowsky - Director

Cliff Rostowsky studied at the University of Cape Town and qualified with a B.Bus.Sci. (Finance) (Hons) in 1985.

Following his articles with Arthur Andersen and completion of the Board exam, he qualified as a CA (SA) in 1989. He spent a year overseas working in London and then joined Datakor Limited thereafter in its corporate finance division.

In 1993 he joined a family business, Businessland, the leading computer retail business in South Africa at the time, as a director and shareholder.

In 1995 the shareholders sold Businessland to Waltons Stationery Company Limited. In 1997 Waltons Stationery Company Limited was acquired by The Bidvest Group Limited.

Bidvest is an international services, trading and distribution company, listed on the JSE, South Africa and operating on four continents. It is the largest industrial company in South Africa by revenue. It is ranked in the Forbes Global 2000 list of the world's largest and most influential companies.

Following this acquisition, Cliff was appointed as Financial Director of Bidoffice (the office products division of Bidvest consisting of 13 companies operating within the stationery, furniture, printing and office automation industries). Following a restructure in 2006, Cliff was made responsible for all the companies operating within the stationery and furniture industry within the Group.

Cliff is a director of numerous of The Bidvest Group subsidiary companies.