Joseph W. Bartlett Joseph W. Bartlett is Of Counsel in the New York City office of Fish & Richardson P.C. Mr. Bartlett focuses on alternative investments, including venture capital, particularly for high-technology companies. He has been profiled in trade publications as one of the leading practitioners in venture capital nationwide. For the past 43 years, Mr. Bartlett has practiced in the corporate securities/finance sector, focusing on emerging companies, initial public offerings, corporate restructurings, private equity finance and buyouts. His representations range from multi-billion dollar reorganizations (Tandem Computer into Compaq; DBL Liquidating Trust, disposing of Drexel assets) to the organization of startups and assisting in the see round. His published materials and teaching assignments focus on the journey from "embryo to IPO." Matt Cassin Matt Cassin was co-founder and President of Live Advice (InfoRocket.com), a company anonymously connecting consumers to independent professionals via a web and telephony system. In February 2003, LiveAdvice was sold to Keen, Inc (d/b/a Ingenio, Inc.) For five years Matt was a key figure on LiveAdvice's business, marketing and product development teams, a board member, and he served in several operational roles. He was sole fundraiser for Series A and B rounds raising $28.3 million for Live Advice (lead investors were Draper Fisher Jurvetson and The Carlyle Group respectively.) Prior to LiveAdvice, Matt attended Georgetown University, receiving a BA in 1998. Matt is currently studying at the Columbia School of Business. Jeffrey Hecktman Jeffrey B. Hecktman is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hilco Trading Co., Inc., one of the most active and successful asset repositioning firms in North America and Europe. Hilco Trading is a dynamically-integrated holding company for The Hilco Organization, which is comprised of ten subsidiaries, each providing specialized, asset-based services to retailers, wholesalers, distributors, manufacturers and their lenders. Mr. Hecktman is an active member of the National Retail Federation, the Commercial Finance Association, the Turnaround Management Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. Robert La Blanc Bob La Blanc is the former Vice Chairman of Continental Telecom Corporation and a former general partner of Salomon Brothers, Inc. Bob is President of Robert E. La Blanc Associates, Inc., an information technologies consulting and investment banking firm, and is active in the field of venture capital. He is also a director of Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing Ltd., Computer Associates, Salient 3 Communications, Inc., Storage Technology Corporation, The Titan Corporation, and a family of Prudential Mutual Funds. While at Salomon, Bob La Blanc was voted the leading Wall Street telecommunications industry analyst for each of the six years from 1973 to 1978. William Pappas Will Pappas is the Director of Sales for SNL Financial and serves on its board. Will has over 12 years of financial services, business and sales experience. Since 2002, Will has been with SNL Financial, the premier information specialist for the banking, insurance, financial services, real estate and energy sectors, together over 25% of the U.S. equity market. Will came to SNL via an acquisition: he started a financial analytics software company, Y-Merge, in 1999 and sold it to SNL in 2002. From 1996 to 1999, Will served in many sales and business development capacities at Multex, an aggregator of research and financial information, acquired by Reuters in 2003. Stuart Sindell Stuart Sindell is a Managing Director, and the General Counsel of D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P. an institutional money management firm based in New York City. In 2006, Stuart served as a Legal Advisor to the Coleman Research Group, Inc. Stuart brings 40 years of experience as a legal advisor to Wall Street. The firms he has advised in roles ranging from Compliance Attorney to General Counsel represent a roster of blue chip firms including D.B. Zwirn & Co., L.P., Dillon Read, Lehman Brothers, and Datek Online. Among his past professional activities are President of the Compliance and Legal Division of the Securities Industry Association, member of the NASD Business Conduct Committee (District 10) and member of the Legal Advisory Committee of the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. He is a graduate of the New York University School of Law and Brooklyn College.