Nov 24

Sam Foti graduated from the Wharton Business School in 1974. Then he went on to the University of Oxford, where he read law for one year. He received his Masters from the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, where he majored in Finance and Investments.

Samuel J. Foti is a businessman and venture capitalist. He has been acting President and Chief Operating Officer of MONY Group Inc. for the last one decade. Samuel Foti has also been acting President and Chief Operating Officer of MONY Life Insurance Company since February 1994. Apart from his career advancements, Foti has been very active on the Boards of different organizations, and he is chairman of the Board of Trustees of The American College, for which he has also served as Trustee. He has held this position from January 2000 to January 2002. He has also served as a Director of MONY Life Insurance Co. of America. Previously, he also served on the Board of Directors of the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA), where he worked as Chairman from October 1996 through October 1997. Collectively, all these exposures have resulted in a collation of knowledge and expertise perfectly suited to his role at The MONY Group, where he currently serves.

Nov 13

I’m a pretty cool boss, but it bothers me that with so many employees on the road we can’t even keep our pricelists synched, let alone collaborate on sales numbers or other data.

I’ve tried high end collaboration tools, but they’re expensive to deploy and often take so much training that it’s just not viable in  our company.  That’s until I tried WebPoint VPN by Vedivi.  I took the free trial and within 30 minutes I’d downloaded and set up the VPN for remote access.

It’s frankly amazing.  I’m not sure how exactly it connects, but it does and it allows secure access to keep all the prying eyes out.  Basically you install the software on one pc in the network and it’ll discover all the other machines and servers in your network.

You log on via the WebPoint website, which then creates a secure connection between your remote PC and the Network.
Best of all, it actually uses your Windows authentication on your remote pc to connect to the network, so you can control access to data and servers!
I took the enterprise free trial and it works really well.  Try it for yourself.