Jeffrey D. Rubenstein is an accomplished technology executive, entrepreneur, attorney and public safety officer. Mr. Rubenstein is the President and CEO of Advanced Public Safety, Inc., and an auxiliary law enforcement officer with the Delray Beach Police Department.

Prior to founding Advanced Public Safety, Mr. Rubenstein was Chief Operating Officer of Cenetec L.L.C., a technology accelerator company in South Florida. He directed the company’s new business and sales programs, launched its strategic partners program with companies such as IBM, Great Plains, and Foundry Networks, and played a key role in raising capital for the company and its accelerator clients.

Previously, Mr. Rubenstein was President and Chief Operating Officer of both CyberGate & ValueWeb, after serving as the Vice President of Business Development and General Counsel of both companies since 1996. Mr. Rubenstein served as chief negotiator during the companies’ acquisitions by e.spire Communications, a publicly-traded CLEC (NASDAQ: ESPI), in 1997, and later became Senior Vice President of e.spire in 1999. Mr. Rubenstein is credited with developing CyberGate & ValueWeb from a $2.4 million Internet Service Provider with 11,000 customers regionally into a $300 million international enterprise with over 100,000 Internet and Web hosting accounts in 136 countries. The South Florida Business Journal recognized this rapid success by naming the company one of the fastest-growing high-tech companies in Florida.

In 1996, Mr. Rubenstein founded the Federation of Internet Solution Providers of the Americas (FISPA), which today serves as the "voice of the Internet industry" by providing a forum to collectively lobby, exchange ideas and explore partnership opportunities.

Before focusing on the technology field, Mr. Rubenstein practiced law, primarily in the Southern District of the United States, specializing in civil and criminal trial work. Before beginning his legal practice, Mr. Rubenstein was a founding partner of Equitrust Financial Corp., a real estate investment company.

Mr. Rubenstein is a graduate of the University of Florida, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 1995 and a Bachelor's of Science in Business Administration in 1992. While attending the University of Florida, Mr. Rubenstein also served his community as Assistant Chief for the Alachua County Fire Rescue and is presently an auxiliary law enforcement officer for the State of Florida. A Florida native, he grew up in Hollywood and has resided in Boca Raton since 1996.

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