Financial Services >> CEO Interviews >> August 11, 2003
GREGORY J. HALPERN is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Circle
Group Holdings, Inc. Since starting Circle Group in 1994, Mr. Halpern
has served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. From May 1994
until March 1999, Mr. Halpern also served as Circle Group's President.
Mr. Halpern has over 20 years of experience in computer programming and
pioneering emerging technologies. In 1983, Mr. Halpern developed a
computer-animated imaging application to stimulate the immune system for
treatment of chronic illness and founded Health Imaging Corporation to
distribute the application to the healthcare delivery market. In 1984,
he developed and patented a technique for using electronic stimulation
to stop pain and founded Pain Prevention, Inc., to market the technology
as an electronic anesthesia for the dental healthcare community. Mr.
Halpern has served as an Officer and Director of PPI Capital since its
inception in 1984. Mr. Halpern also served as an Officer and Director of
PPI Capital Group, Inc., a Utah corporation of which he was a principal
shareholder from 1989 to May 1998. Mr. Halpern developed Circle Group's
funding program during CRGQ's own online funding process. CRGQ raised
$2.5 million in a Regulation A Offering entirely over the Internet. CRGQ
became the first company to complete an end-to-end stock offering on the
Internet without the assistance of any participants from the traditional
investment community. A lifelong entrepreneur and a master of self-
directed education, he started making a name for himself at an early
age. Mr. Halpern's first entrepreneurial venture was a self-help book,
entitled I Care About You, which he wrote when he was 19. The book
gained national media attention. Mr. Halpern has also been featured in
over 100 news articles, radio shows and TV shows, including 'The Oprah
Winfrey Show.' Profile
Mr. Halpern: We started in 1994. The idea of this company was to assist
breakthrough technologies or companies with the
