Meet Our Team

Thomas Weber is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of diverse experience and also a co-founder of ARS.  Weber has served as Executive Vice President for Ocwen Financial Corporation (NYSE: OCN), one of the largest mortgage companies in America.  At Ocwen, he was responsible for designing computer models and negotiating transactions of more than $1.5 Billion.  Later, Weber was a founding principal at Aquila Property Company, Inc., which owned and managed commercial properties.

Currently, Weber serves as the President of the Venture X division of  United Franchise Group.  On the community side, Weber has served in a leadership capacity on multiple business and economic development boards. He is currently a board member, appointed by the Governor of Florida, of the Children Services Council of Palm Beach County.

Randy Wood is an icon in the technology sector. In 1989, he co-founded Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS), a global software company that has grown into a multi-billion dollar Fortune 500 publicly-traded company. Citrix was originally created with the goal of developing software that enabled smaller computers to run programs that were previously only available to large mainframe systems. Citrix brought programs that were only available to a select few large companies to the masses. Similarly, ARS is making dispute resolution available to everyone.

For the past 15 years, Wood has been a full-time investor, involved in the financing and oversight of numerous real estate and technology companies.

Perry Cronin is a CPA with over 30 years of diversified accounting, auditing, tax and consulting experience. Perry has extensive experience in start-up companies as well as publically held companies. Perry’s previous experience includes senior manager roles with Coopers & Lybrand, now PriceWaterhouseCoopers, and Ernst & Young, LLP serving a diverse public and private client base. His public accounting experience includes not only financial statement audits and litigation support, but also initial public and follow-on offerings, due diligence engagements, demutualization consulting and captive creation. After his public accounting career, Perry went on to become a partner in a boutique consulting firm in Chicago. The firm was acquired by a client and Perry became the Chief Financial Officer for a NYSE insurance holding company.
Perry has a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from Lewis University. He is a licensed CPA in the State Alabama and has been active over the years in civic and charitable organizations.

Scott Crutcher contributes more than 20 years of technology expertise to many companies, leveraging his deep experience in a variety of SaaS, consumer web and e-commerce technologies and development methodologies.

Mr. Crutcher most recently lead the planning and development of three unique technologies: 1) an online dispute resolution platform that enables settlement of financial disputes online using a patented double-blind bid algorithm, 2) a platform that assists companies in solving complex innovation gaps, used by Fortune 500 companies in verticals such as: healthcare, global water, transportation and space, and 3) a HIPAA compliant, proprietary platform that facilities virtual inpatient care between hospitals and remote physicians. Mr. Crutcher also holds a technology patent for his collaborative work with NudgeRx, a Seattle, WA based healthcare technology company he helped found in 2009.

David Berkowitz is founder and president of Summa Capital, Inc., a value add reseller of b2b electronics, and a serial entrepreneur at heart. An early adopter in online ecommerce and multi-channel platforms since 1999, David has been a selling member of eBay since 1999 and was part of the team within PayPal that launched the PayPal Here mobile credit card reader in 2012. Other projects David has worked on include creating EDGARIZEIT, an online platform for the EDGARization of SEC documents, Fetchly an SMS platform for lead generation and currently working on disruptive technology in the FinTech space.

Kevin Pike has established a career in the Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) field of 30 years including a variety positions with the American Arbitration Association, JAMS and Arbitration Forums.  He currently is with Claims Resource Services in Arbitration, Client Services.

He regularly speaks at industry Conferences; conducts national Webinars; writes ADR articles for business publications and websites and produces a weekly Blog on intercompany arbitration disseminated throughout the insurance industry.  As a course developer, he has taught negotiation, mediation and arbitration skill sets to literally thousands of insurance professionals and Attorneys across the country.  His diverse background in ADR maintains a core focus on assisting advocates in the successful use of both arbitration and mediation.

Rosemary A. Townley has been an independent, self-employed ADR professional in the metropolitan New York region for over 30 years and has presided over 2000+ arbitration and mediation proceedings.  She is a panel member of various associations, including the AAA (Commercial, Large, Complex Cases, Executive Contracts, Class Actions, Employment and Labor); ICPR (Distinguished Fellow in Sports Law); FINRA (Public Arbitrator); and the London Court of Arbitration, among others.  She is also a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators (UK).  Ms. Townley served for eight years as a solo arbitrator of player-club disputes for the National Football League and the NFL Players Association under their collective bargaining agreement.