The Team
Mike Grabham
CEOMr. Mike Grabham is the CEO of Package Guard LLC. Mr. Grabham is a serial entrepreneur with extensive business operational experience. He invented and patented the Package Guard and launched a successful Kickstarter campaign to get Package Guard into the market. He launched ThePackageguard.com and grew it to one of the top three websites related to package theft. Mr. Grabham’s professional career started at age 28, when he and a partner bought a struggling publication, for the travel industry. Four years later, after growing revenues by 7X and introducing a disrupting product, he sold the company to a larger industry leader. In 2004, before the smartphone, with a team of three engineers, Mr. Grabham launched a software company called Executive Wireless that provided real estate agents access to maps, pictures, and MLS info on their phones. This was the first company to do this in both Canada and the US on a single wireless device. As the CEO he raised $2M in Angel investment and then sold it to a company in the real estate industry. As the CEO of The Finish Company, he and his partner grew revenues from $750k to $7M in three years. Mr. Grabham has experience in implementing cutting-edge software management tools and hiring practices to go from 5 employees to 75. He has successfully managed cash flow, hiring, and all customer onboarding for fast-growing companies. He and his wife started a nonprofit organization called Survive the Streets that continues today to grow and help and resettle more and more people who live in shelters. He has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Mesa State College and earned an MBA from Seattle University.
Benjamin Blumenthal
CFO, ChairmanMr. Benjamin Blumenthal is the Founder of Package Guard LLC and serves as the Chairman of the Board and acting Chief Financial Officer of the Company. Mr. Blumenthal is an executive with more than 20 years of operational experience and was formerly the CEO of Sun To Water Technologies, a company developing an atmospheric water generation device capable of extracting drinking water from the air. Prior to his leadership of Sun To Water, Mr. Blumenthal was the CEO of Global Water Supply, a company dedicated to the development of Desalination Ships, a large-scale desalination plant onboard a mobile marine vessel, capable of servicing a country’s steady-state demand (i.e., Dubai, Oman) and respond to emergency needs (i.e., Haiti, Japan). Mr. Blumenthal presented business solutions to, and received support from, the White House, Pentagon, U.S. State Department, U.S. Department of Defense, and NATO, as well as from the governments of Thailand, Singapore, Israel, Egypt, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, and Oman. Prior to founding Global Water Supply, Mr. Blumenthal served as the Vice President of Bristol Investment Group in New York where he led the firm’s investment in and raised start-up capital for Energy Brands Vitamin-Water, which was subsequently sold to Coca-Cola in 2007 for $4.1 billion. Mr. Blumenthal is a certified mediator, specialized in cross-cultural conflict resolution. He studied at Oxford, has a Bachelor of Arts from Emory University, and a Master in Business Administration from Emory’s Goizueta Business School.