SPEAKING OPPORTUNITIES

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The Speakers

Justin Abelow, Managing Director, Houlihan Lokey

Justin Abelow is a Managing Director of the Financial Sponsors Coverage Group in the New York office. He focuses on private equity coverage in the United States and Europe.

Mr. Abelow joined the firm in 2002. From 2007 through early 2009, when he rejoined Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Abelow left the Firm to serve as a managing director in the financial sponsors group of Deutsche Bank Securities, where he was responsible for providing advice to leading private equity firms on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance, equity issuance and other aspects of corporate finance.

Before Deutsche Bank and Houlihan Lokey, Mr. Abelow served as an investment banker at firms including J.P. Morgan Securities and The First Boston Corporation and as a corporate attorney at the firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. Over the course of his career, Mr. Abelow has worked on over 300 closed transactions involving over 40 discrete private equity firms. He has been named one of the top young bankers on Wall Street by periodicals including Investment Dealers� Digest, Dealmaker, and The New York Times.

Mr. Abelow is a magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa; and a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law, where he was named a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He serves or has served on the board of directors of a number of philanthropic and civic organizations, including the New York Landmarks Conservancy, the New York chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth, and the Down Town Association. He moonlights as a volunteer tour guide in New York�s Central Park.

Christian Albert, Managing Partner, Bowside Capital

Christian Albert is the founder and managing partner of Bowside Capital, a private investment firm that specializes in the private equity, small capitalization market. Bowside Capital invests in, and co-invests with, U.S. private equity funds with targeted capital commitments of $100 million or less.

Mr. Albert manages the firm and its investment activities, and serves on numerous investment related committees. He was most recently the founder of The Albert Group, LLC, and was previously a regional director at Targus Group International. Mr. Albert earned a M.St. from the University of Oxford and an A.B. from Brown University. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brown University Sports Foundation.

Colin G. Ambrose, Chief Investment Officer, UJA-Federation of New York

Colin Ambrose is Chief Investment Officer for UJA-Federation of New York where he is responsible for the day-to-day management and oversight of the institution�s endowment and retirement plans. Previously, Mr. Ambrose started the investment office at The Juilliard School as the school�s first Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Ambrose was also a partner at two boutique investment management firms that advised and managed assets on behalf of institutional and high net worth clients.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Ambrose was responsible for alternative investments at Wesleyan University. Previously, he held positions with UBS PaineWebber�s PRIME Asset Consulting Group, Aeltus Investment Management, and Advest, Inc.

Mr. Ambrose serves as an Investment Committee member for the Westport Public Library in CT where he resides with his wife and children. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University and an M.B.A. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Mr. Ambrose holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the CFA Institute.

Jerome Antenen, CFA, Managing Director, Carleon Capital Partners LLC

Biography to come....

Lawrence Aragon, Editor In Chief, Venture Capital Journal

Lawrence Aragon is Editor-in-Chief of Venture Capital Journal and Private Equity Week, which are published by Thomson Reuters. Aragon has been a business journalist and editor for more than 19 years, and has covered venture capital and technology startups since the early 1990s. Before joining Thomson Reuters, he was VC Editor for Red Herring magazine. Prior to that, Aragon was a writer for VAR Business, PC Week and the San Jose Business Journal. His work has won awards from American Business Media, the Computer Press Association and CMP Media.

George Arnold, Managing Principal, Knightsbridge Advisers

George Arnold became known to Knightsbridge as a fellow investor in a number of leading venture partnerships to which he was exceptionally successful in gaining access. He began his tenure at Knightsbridge in May of 2007. From 2004 until he joined Knightsbridge, Mr. Arnold was Director and Head of Venture/Growth Equity fund investments for Citigroup Private Equity. In this capacity, he was responsible for over 100 fund relationships with commitments of $1.3 billion, sat on a dozen advisory boards and brought Citigroup into 29 new venture and growth equity funds, many of which are considered difficult to access by most investors. From 1998 to 2003, he invested directly in private technology companies alongside venture investors on behalf of Citigroup, serving as a director or observer on many of their boards including Insurance.com, ConvergeNet (acquired by Dell), Guardent (acquired by VeriSign), Mobile365 (acquired by Sybase), and Openwave (aka Unwired Planet and Phone.com). Mr. Arnold spent his first year at Citigroup working in the Business Strategy Development and M & A Group where he worked on a majority stake acquisition of a European bank.

As an investor in companies and funds, Mr. Arnold draws on his broad technology background. He spent five years as an engineer and project manager with a Silicon Valley technology company that produces test and measurement solutions. Mr. Arnold holds a patent in the area of metallic access subscriber line testing. A Swiss national, former Swiss Army officer and a graduate of the Swiss Institute of Technology (Dipl.El.-Ing.ETH), Mr. Arnold came to the U.S. in 1992 to earn an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, followed by an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University. George's interests include spending time with his family outdoors, hiking, biking, camping, skiing, scuba diving and gardening. He also enjoys the challenge of a difficult Sudoku puzzle.

Maggie Arvedlund, Managing Director, Fortress Partners Fund

Maggie Arvedlund is a Managing Director at the Fortress Partners Fund in New York where she is responsible for originating, executing and overseeing a portfolio of direct debt and equity, private equity and real assets fund investments. Fortress Partners Fund is an endowment-style fund focused on alternative investment strategies which manages capital on behalf of the founders of Fortress and other institutional investors. Prior to joining Fortress, Ms. Arvedlund worked at Hall Capital Partners where she was responsible for executing investments in private equity funds and in fund management companies. Maggie received a BS with Honors from Vanderbilt University in Economics and an MBA in Finance from NYU's Stern School of Business. Ms. Arvedlund serves on several non-profit boards and is a founding member of the NYU Stern Private Equity Advisory Board.

Quint Barker, Managing Principal, New York Life Capital Partners

Mr. Barker joined NYLCAP in 2000 and is involved in all of its investment activities, with a concentration on equity co-investments. Prior to NYLCAP, Mr. Barker was a Vice President in PaineWebber's Principal Transactions Group, covering a $1 billion portfolio of buyout, venture capital, real estate, and hedge fund investments for the firm and its top executives. Prior to PaineWebber, Mr. Barker worked in the Private Finance Group of New York Life, where he managed a portfolio of private equity, mezzanine, and non-investment grade debt investments. Mr. Barker earned a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an MBA from Duke University. Mr. Barker is a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Claudia A. Baron, Partner, PPM America Capital Partners

Claudia Baron originally joined PPM in 1993 where she was responsible for all investment systems for PPM as well as coordinating information sharing and reporting with the parent company in London. In 1995, Ms. Baron began working for the leveraged finance group and later the private equity group underwriting both debt and equity investments. In 1999, Ms. Baron left PPM to pursue operational roles including CFO of a technology company and CEO/GM of a winery in Northern California. In 2008, Ms. Baron rejoined PPM America Capital Partners as a Partner in PPM�s Private Equity asset class, focusing on the Private Equity Fund of Funds portfolio. In 2012 she was promoted to head the Fund of Funds team. Ms. Baron has numerous Fund Advisory Board seats.

Ms. Baron received her MBA, Finance/MIS, from the University of Illinois in 1989, and graduated with a BA, Political Science and Economics, from the University of Michigan in 1987.

Red Barrett, President & Chief Executive Officer, Permal Capital Management

Red Barrett is President and Chief Executive Officer of Permal Capital Management and has been active in the firm�s private equity business since 1989. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Barrett was a Managing Director of Gemini Investors, a private equity partnership, during which time he continuously served as a Director of PCM and as a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Barrett has held board or board observer roles in a number of public and private companies. Prior to 1989, Mr. Barrett served as an equity analyst for Fidelity Management and Research and held various positions with Keefe, Bruyette and Woods, Inc., an investment-banking firm. Mr. Barrett graduated from Princeton University and has an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Luisa Beltran, Senior Private Equity Writer, peHUB.com

Luisa Beltran has been covering Wall Street for a dozen years. Before peHUB, she covered the private equity industry and middle market M&a for four years as a senior writer for The Deal. Prior to this, she was the Wall Street correspondent for CBS MarketWatch, where she broke many scoops on the mutual fund and the investment banker research scandals under then New York attorney General Eliot Spitzer. Ms. Beltran also covered M&a/IPOs for CNN/Money. Ms. Beltran, a Chicago native, is a graduate of Northwestern University.

Jay Bernstein, Partner, KPS Funds

Biography to come....

Kenneth F. Bernstein, President and Chief Executive Officer, Acadia

Kenneth F. Bernstein is President and Chief Executive Officer of Acadia. Mr. Bernstein is responsible for strategic planning as well as overseeing the day-to-day activities of Acadia including operations, acquisitions and capital markets.

Mr. Bernstein served as the Chief Operating Officer of RD Capital, Inc. from 1990 until the creation of Acadia Realty Trust through the merger of RD Capital with Mark Centers Trust in August of 1998. Prior to joining RD capital, Mr. Bernstein was an associate with the New York law firm of Battle Fowler, LLP, from 1986 to 1990.

Mr. Bernstein received his Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Vermont and his Juris Doctorate from Boston University School of Law. Mr. Bernstein also serves on the Board of Directors for BRT Realty Trust. He is an active member of the International Council of Shopping Centers (ICSC), National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT), Urban Land Institute (ULI), National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD), and the Real Estate Roundtable. Mr. Bernstein is also a member of the Young President�s Organization (YPO), where he is the chairman of the Real Estate Network. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of BRT Realty (NYSE:BRT).

Karl Bienkampen, CFA, CIO, Wilshire Private Markets

Karl Beinkampen, CFA is the Chief Investment Officer of WPM and serves on WPM�s Business Committee and as chair of its Investment Committee. He is also responsible for sourcing, performing due diligence and monitoring investments across private equity sectors within the U.S. and Canada, as well as oversight of WPM investment process. He has been a participant in the private markets for 17 years and has served on numerous partnership boards. Prior to joining WPM, Mr. Beinkampen spent 15 years with Morgan Stanley, where he was most recently a managing director of the firm's Alternative Investment Partners division and served on its Private Markets Business and Investment Committees. He began working with LBO sponsors in 1995, leading equity, fixed income and acquisition finance transactions, and joined Morgan Stanley�s private equity fund of funds business shortly after its inception in 2000. Earlier in his career, he worked in mergers and acquisitions with Scully Brothers & Foss, as well as Kidder Peabody & Co. A cum laude graduate of Princeton University with a degree in Economics, he received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School with a dual degree in Finance and Operations Management. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder. He joined Wilshire in 2010.

Nicholas Bienstock, Co-Managing Partner, Savanna Investment Management

Nicholas Bienstock is a Managing Partner of Savanna. At Savanna, Mr. Bienstock has developed relationships with institutional lenders and third-party capital partners, as well as identified acquisitions and structured transactions. Mr. Bienstock has worked on the acquisition, financing, restructuring and sale of over $4 billion of real estate throughout the United States. Mr. Bienstock sits on the Investment Committee and supervises the ongoing marketing and leasing of Savanna�s investments. Prior to joining Savanna in 1999, Mr. Bienstock worked at Capital Trust, Inc. in New York where he worked on a wide variety of real estate principal investment and advisory transactions, including the purchase of equity interests in various properties, the negotiation and structuring of mezzanine loans, single asset and portfolio sales, asset management, debt and equity private placements and REIT IPO advisory work. Prior to Capital Trust, Mr. Bienstock worked for Chemical Bank�s Real Estate Investment Banking Group. Mr. Bienstock received an MBA from the Columbia Business School, an MS in Real Estate Development from the Columbia School of Architecture and a BA from Harvard College where he graduated cum laude. Mr. Bienstock is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at Columbia University where he teaches a seminar in Real Estate Finance to graduate students in the Columbia Architecture School�s Real Estate Master�s Degree Program.

Steve Bills, Senior Editor, Buyouts Magazine

Steve Bills is a senior editor at Reuters Buyouts, with responsibility for covering the financial services industry, technology and leveraged finance.

Before joining Buyouts Magazine in January 2010, Mr. Bills spent eight years as a deputy editor at the daily newspaper American Banker, where he wrote about financial technology, corporate cash management, international trade and payment systems, including the transformation of the check-clearing system, among other areas of responsibility.

From 1998 to 2001, Mr. Bills was a news producer at CNN�s financial Web site in New York, covering markets, the economy, corporate news and small business. He began his career at the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph and News, where he served as business editor and covered a variety of other beats, including the courts, education and neighborhoods. As a Knight-Ridder "loaner" working on the staff of the Grand Forks Herald after North Dakota's historic 1997 flood, he shared in the Pulitzer Prize for community service in 1998.

A native of Chattanooga, Mr. Bills is a graduate of the Henry W. Grady School of Journalism and Mass Communications at the University of Georgia.

Adam Blumenthal, Managing Partner, Blue Wolf Capital Partners

Adam Blumenthal is Co-founder and Managing Partner of Blue Wolf Capital Partners LLC, a private equity firm, and Blue Wolf Capital Fund II, L.P., a private equity fund, which specialize in control investments in middle-market companies in which managing relationships with government or labor, or resolving financial or operational distress, are critical to building value.

Mr. Blumenthal serves on the board of directors of Blue Wolf�s portfolio companies: American Builders Supply Inc., Finch Paper Holdings LLC, Gloucester Engineering Co., Inc., and Pharmaceutical Strategies Group LLC. Mr. Blumenthal is also a member of Blue Wolf�s investment committee.

From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Blumenthal served as First Deputy Comptroller and Chief Financial Officer for New York City Comptroller William C. Thompson, Jr. In this capacity, he oversaw the capital markets' activities of the Comptroller's office, including management of the assets of the New York City Retirement Systems; issuance of budget, financial, and economic analyses; and oversight of the City's debt issuance. During his tenure, the City's pension assets increased from $65 billion to $85 billion primarily as a result of strong investment gains. Adam also led a restructuring of the Funds' operations and investment strategies, including the establishment of multi-billion dollar allocations to private equity, real estate, and inflation-linked securities; the creation of a risk management unit; and securing, for the first time, funding from the pension funds to hire professional investment staff.

From 1989 to 2002, Mr. Blumenthal built and managed American Capital Ltd., a publicly-traded buyout and mezzanine fund (NASDAQ: ACAS), which is now a member of the S&P 500. When Mr. Blumenthal joined ACAS in 1989, it had one other employee and had not yet raised institutional capital. In the subsequent years, he played a central role in building it into a publicly-traded buyout and mezzanine fund with a portfolio of over $1 billion invested in sixty-three middle-market companies by the time he left in 2002.

From American Capital's 1997 initial public offering until 2002, when he left American Capital to become First Deputy Comptroller of the City of New York, Mr. Blumenthal served continuously on ACAS's board of directors, was a founding member of its investment committee, and held positions including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, President and Vice Chairman. Over this time, American Capital produced a 22% IRR to investors in its initial public offering.

Mr. Blumenthal received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Harvard College, and an M.B.A. from the Yale School of Management. He is currently a Donaldson Fellow at the Yale School of Management. From 2004 to 2007, he served on the Yale SOM's Board of Advisors. He is Chairman of the investment committees of the Nathan Cummings Foundation (managing an endowment of over $400 million) and of the Community Service Society of New York.

Mark Boslet, Senior Editor, Venture Capital Journal

Mark is a long time technology and financial journalist, and currently a senior editor at Thomson Reuters� Venture Capital Journal and peHUB. His work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, the San Jose Mercury News, The Industry Standard, Greentech Media and newspapers nationwide. Before joining Thomson Reuters, he was a bureau chief and senior writer at Dow Jones. He has received several awards for his industry coverage, including a Society of American Business Editors and Writers 2008 Best in Business award. Prior to covering technology, he served as a business and general-news reporter at newspapers including The Times Union of Jacksonville Florida and The Waterbury (CT) Republican-American.

Kristine Brandt, Director, Invesco Private Capital

Kristine Brandt, Director, is involved in the quantitative and qualitative analysis of prospective partnership fund investments and has 10 years of private equity experience.

Prior to joining Invesco Private Capital (through Sovereign Financial Services) in 2000, Ms. Brandt was the Director of Operations for AddHealth, Inc. a private health care management firm located in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. She was involved with all phases of the company from start-up through to an eventual sale to a large preferred provider organization. Ms. Brandt also served as an equities analyst for Briefing.com, an on-line provider of financial analysis and commentary. While working at Briefing, she was responsible for research, analysis and dissemination of real-time market information.

Ms. Brandt currently serves on several partnership advisory boards, including Catterton, Eureka, Lovell Minnick, Pfingsten, .406 Ventures, Riverwood, Spire Capital, Valor Equity Partners and White Deer. Kristine is often invited to speak at prominent industry events and her speaking engagements include: NASP (National Association of Securities Professionals); The Pension Bridge; Southeast Venture Conference; The Capital RoundTable Masterclass; Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst Conference; and SuperReturn U.S.

Ms. Brandt received her M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the University of Denver and earned a B.S. in Psychology from St. Lawrence University in 1992. Ms. Brandt is a member of the Financial Management Association National Honor Society and PsiChi, the Psychology National Honor Society.

Rod Brooks, Professor Emeritus, MIT; Founder, iRobot; Founder and CEO, Heartland Robotics

Biography to come....

Tripp Brower, Partner, Capstone Partners

Prior to founding Capstone, Tripp Brower was Executive Vice President of OffRoad Inc., and co-managed OffRoad�s Private Capital Group, which encompassed investment banking, institutional placement and product development. Prior to joining OffRoad in December 2000, Mr. Brower was Co-Head of the Private Fund Group at Investment banking firm Stephens, Inc. At Stephens, he was responsible for raising capital from institutional investors in the United States. Mr. Brower was a Partner and Board Member of Stonebridge Partners LLC, a private placement firm that merged with Stephens in February 1998. Prior to Stonebridge, Mr. Brower was a Vice President specializing in corporate finance in J.P. Morgan & Company.

Mr. Brower currently serves on the Governing Board for Executives in Action.

Mr. Brower received a B.A. degree in Economics from Washington and Lee University, and completed the J.P. Morgan Finance Program.

Mike Brown Jr., Founder & Partner, AOL Ventures

Mike Brown Jr. is a Founder and Partner at AOL Ventures, the venture capital arm of AOL. At AOL Ventures he focuses on investing in the consumer internet space and works closely with portfolio companies�betaworks, 20x200, bit.ly, Movie Pass, gdgt, Soundtracking, Sailthru, Metamarkets, Impermium, Spree Commerce and Solve Media. In addition to his activities at AOL Ventures, Mr. Brown is an angel investor in a variety of seed stage companies including Qwiki, Voxy, Codecademy, Social Amp and Moat. In a prior life, Mr. Brown worked for the investment arm and incubator of Richard Branson�s Virgin Group and helped create new Virgin businesses and invest capital in early stage startups on behalf of the British entrepreneur. Earlier he co-founded the largest healthy vending company in the US (www.healthyvending.com) and began his career at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Brown serves on the boards of the National Forest Foundation and the Conflux Festival and graduated with a B.A. in International Relations from Columbia University.

Scott D. Brown, CFA, Managing Director, CBRE Global Multi Manager

Biography to come....

Robert Buderi, Founder and Editor in Chief, Xconomy

Robert Buderi is Founder and Editor in Chief of Xconomy, an online news organization covering the business of technology in key innovation clusters. Before launching Xconomy in mid-2007, Mr. Buderi was a research fellow in MIT's Security Studies Program. He previously served as Editor in Chief of Technology Review magazine and was BusinessWeek's technology editor, where he shared in the 1992 National Magazine Award for "The Quality Imperative."

Mr. Buderi is the author of three previous books about technology and innovation, the most recent being Guanxi (Simon and Schuster 2006), which looks at Microsoft's Beijing research lab as a metaphor for global competitiveness. His acclaimed first book, The Invention That Changed the World (Simon and Schuster 1996), examined radar's impact on World War II and post-war science and technology and was part of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Technology Series. Engines of Tomorrow (Simon and Schuster 2000) is an account of the evolution and modern practice of corporate research. Mr. Buderi served on the Council on Competitiveness�sponsored National Innovation Initiative and as an advisor to the Draper Prize Nominating Committee.

Jeffrey J. Bussgang, General Partner, Flybridge Capital Partners

Jeff Bussgang is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners whose investment interests and entrepreneurial experience are in consumer, Internet commerce, marketing services, software and mobile start-ups. Mr. Bussgang currently represents the firm on the boards of Cartera Commerce, ClickSquared, Convoke Systems, DataXu, i4cp, SavingStar, SimpleTuition, and is a board observer at ZestCash. Mr. Bussgang was previously a director at Brontes Technologies (acquired by 3M), BzzAgent (acquired by Tesco), go2Media, oneforty (acquired by HubSpot), PanGo Networks (merged with InnerWireless), Ready Financial (merged with AccountNow), Transpera (acquired by Tremor Video).

Mr. Bussgang's book on venture capital and entrepreneurship, Mastering the VC Game, is an insider's guide for entrepreneurs on financing and company-building and his popular blog on helping demystify the venture business for entrepreneurs, "Seeing Both Sides", can be found at www.seeingbothsides.com.

Mr. Bussgang serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Harvard Business School�s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and has co-authored three HBS cases that are taught in �Founder�s Dilemma� and is the co-author of "Ruling The Net", a 1996 Harvard Business Review article on the Internet�s potential for commerce. He is also on the board of MITX, the Massachusetts Innovation and Technology Exchange and is a Founding Executive Committee Member of FirstGrowth Venture Network, a network of venture and angel investors supporting first and second time entrepreneurs building exciting companies in the New York area.

Prior to joining Flybridge, Mr. Bussgang co-founded Upromise (acquired by Sallie Mae) and was an executive at Open Market, an Internet commerce software leader that went public in 1996 and grew to nearly $100 million in revenues. Prior to Open Market, Mr. Bussgang was with the strategy consulting firm, The Boston Consulting Group.

Mr. Bussgang holds a BA in Computer Science from Harvard University where he graduated magna cum laude and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar and a Ford Scholar.

Phil Canfield, Principal, GTCR

Phil Canfield joined GTCR in 1992 and became a Principal in 1997. Mr. Canfield previously worked in the corporate finance department of Kidder, Peabody and Company. He holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BBA in Finance with high honors from the Honors Business Program at the University of Texas.

Mr. Canfield is co-head of the Information Services & Technology Group at GTCR and has been focused on building this area for GTCR since 1996. Mr. Canfield is currently a director of Sorenson Communications, IQNavigator, Global Traffic Network and Cannondale Investments. With the resourcefulness that defines GTCR, Mr. Canfield has played a key leadership role in a number of past successful investments including AppNet, Transaction Network Services, DigitalNet, Cellnet and Solera.

Believing education is an important way of giving back, Mr. Canfield is an active volunteer and sponsor for the Chicago Foundation for Education, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the educational experience of Chicago�s public school children. In addition, Mr. Canfield is a member of the Council on the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and a member of the Board of Trustees at the Latin School of Chicago.

Edward M. Casal, Chief Investment Officer, Global Real Estate Multi-Manager Group, Aviva Investors

Edward M. Casal serves as Chief Investment Officer of the Aviva Investors Global Real Estate Multi-Manager Group, which manages capital in excess of $8 billion on behalf of institutional investors worldwide. As such he chairs the group�s Global Investment Committee, and has overall responsibility for the investment process, ensuring depth of analysis and consistency of approach across regions.

Mr. Casal has over 30 years of experience in real estate and capital markets. Prior to joining Aviva Investors in 2008, he was a co-founder of Madison Harbor Capital, a real estate multi-manager firm based in New York. Previously, he was a real estate investment banker at UBS, and its predecessor firm Dillon, Read & Co.; and a financial analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co.

Mr. Casal is a graduate of Tulane University and the Harvard Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Global Exchange Counsel of the Urban Land Institute, the Pension Real Estate Association, and a member of the Executive Board of AFIRE. Mr. Casal is also Chairman and CEO of Madison Harbor Balanced Strategies, Inc., and a Board Member of Parkway Properties, Inc.

Gregory W. Cashman, Senior Managing Director, Golub Capital

Gregory W. Cashman is a senior managing director at Golub Capital. Mr. Cashman co-heads Golub Capital�s direct lending group, overseeing underwriting, deal execution and portfolio management and is a member of the firm�s investment and watch list committees.

Prior to joining Golub Capital in 1996, Mr. Cashman worked in various finance positions at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. from 1993 to 1996, and was named Manager of Business Development for the venture capital arm of Bristol-Myers Squibb�s Consumer Medicines Division. In that position, he was responsible for analyzing and negotiating investment and acquisition opportunities. Previously, Mr. Cashman spent four years as a senior accountant with Arthur Andersen & Co., serving emerging growth companies. He is a director or advisory director of a number of Golub Capital�s portfolio companies.

Mr. Cashman graduated from the McIntire School of University of Virginia with a BS in Commerce and received an MBA from the Darden School of Business.

Narayan Chowdhury, Co-Founder & Managing Director, Franklin Park

Narayan Chowdhury is Co-Founder of Franklin Park. At Franklin Park, Mr. Chowdhury is responsible for the analysis and evaluation of private equity investment opportunities, monitoring clients' portfolios and conducting industry research. He is also involved in the development and implementation of Franklin Park's technology platform, and regularly interacts with clients on investment and portfolio matters. Prior to Franklin Park, Mr. Chowdhury worked with Hamilton Lane and Public Financial Management. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. Mr. Chowdhury received a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Bucknell University.

Andrew Christensen, CFA, Director of Private Markets, Carleton College

Andy Christensen joined Carleton College in 2008 where he is Director of Private Markets, investing the college's endowment with primary responsibility for investments in private equity, real estate and natural resources. Prior to Carleton, Mr. Christensen spent nine years as Portfolio Manager of private market investments with the Minnesota State Board of Investment. Prior to the Minnesota State Board of Investment, Mr. Christensen spent five years with American Express Asset Management as an Investment Analyst.

Mr. Christensen holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Minnesota and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota and holds the CFA designation.

Joe Chung, Managing Director and Co-Founder, Redstar Ventures

Joe Chung is Managing Director at Redstar Ventures, a company that creates companies, taking them from the earliest stages of ideation and growing them through their first institutional funding rounds and beyond. Prior to Redstar he was co-founder and Chairman of Allurent and co-founder, Chairman and CTO of Art Technology Group (NASDAQ:ARTG). Along with co-founder Jeet Singh, he led the growth of ATG from a two-person consultancy to a publicly traded enterprise software company with over 1,200 employees and annual revenues exceeding $160 million. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from MIT and conducted his graduate work at the MIT Media Lab.

John S. Clark, Managing Director, Performance Equity Management

Biography to come....

Steven Costabile, CFA, Managing Director, Global Head of Private Funds Group, PineBridge Investments

Steven Costabile joined AIG Investments in 2000 (now known as PineBridge Investments as of October 2009) and is the Managing Director of the Private Equity Funds Group. Mr. Costabile brings his in-depth knowledge of private equity funds to PineBridge and has played a significant role in the successful growth of three product lines, Pinestreet LLC, PineStar (secondaries) and the PEP program. Mr. Costabile serves on the Developed Markets Fund Investment Committee, APEN Investment Committee and Asia Private Equity Investment Committee. His current responsibilities include overseeing all private equity funds investments in the developed markets, as well as sourcing, due diligence, monitoring product development, and marketing. Mr. Costabile�s private equity investing and valuation experience dates back to 1990. Previously, from 1997 to 2000, Mr. Costabile was a Vice President at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in the Private Funds Group, with a focus on investments on behalf of CSFB and third party investors. Prior to that, he was the Senior Investment Officer of Alternative Investments for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Assistant Director of Venture Capital for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. In both positions, Mr. Costabile focused on private equity fund investments. He received both a BSBA and an MBA from Duquesne University. He is also a CFA charterholder and holds a Series 7 license.

Patrick M. Cunningham, Managing Director, Macquarie Infrastructure & Real Assets

Patrick M. Cunningham is a Managing Director at Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) where he focuses on private fund investments across the MIRA platform. MIRA manages over $35 billion of client commitments to infrastructure representing 88 infrastructure assets that are used by over 100 million people every day.

Prior to joining Macquarie, Mr. Cunningham was a Managing Director at Capital Dynamics, the global private equity investor where he was a member of the Business Development and Investment Management teams. He has also held senior positions in the private equity and investment banking fields at firms including Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan, and Marsh & McLennan.

Mr. Cunningham earned his undergraduate degree at the College of the Holy Cross, and he holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Duran S. Curis, CFA, Partner and Founder, Ocean Avenue Capital Partners

Prior to co-founding Ocean Avenue Capital, Duran Curis was a Managing Director of Drum Capital Management focusing exclusively on special situations investments. Previously, Mr. Curis launched and managed the HRJ Special Opportunities Funds, a series of multi-manager funds focused exclusively on distressed debt, turnaround and restructuring investments on a global basis. Prior to HRJ Capital, he was Head of the U.S. office of LGT Capital Partners, one of the largest European-based private equity fund-of-funds managers. Before founding LGT�s U.S. office, Mr. Curis was based in LGT�s main office in Zurich, Switzerland. Mr. Curis began his private equity investment career at Pacific Corporate Group. Mr. Curis has served on numerous fund advisory boards and is a frequent invited speaker at industry conferences. Mr. Curis received his M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and his B.S. from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. He is a CFA Charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute.

Thomas P. Danis, Jr., Managing Principal, RCP Advisors

Thomas P. Danis, Jr. is a Managing Principal and co-founder of RCP. He leads the manager research and investment sourcing function of the Firm including the ongoing relationship management of private equity fund managers. Mr. Danis is also responsible for the evaluation and monitoring of investments. In addition, Mr. Danis is a member of the Investment Committee and active as an Advisory Board member of various underlying funds, including Littlejohn Fund IV. Mr. Danis has been involved in the private equity industry for over 15 years.

Prior to founding RCP, Mr. Danis was a Director of Aon�s Financial Sponsors Practice, where he was responsible for advising companies on financial, legal and risk management issues surrounding due diligence, structuring and valuation transactions primarily from a liability perspective.

Mr. Danis earned his BS in business administration from the University of Colorado. Mr. Danis serves on the board of the Children�s Memorial Hospital Foundation and is a director of the Evans Scholars Foundation. He is also an active member of The Economics Club of Chicago, Young Presidents Organization, Association for Corporate Growth, Chicago Area Private Equity Executives (CAPEX), and The Commonwealth Club of Chicago.

Ronald M. Dickerman, President and Founder, Madison International Realty

Ronald M. Dickerman is the President and Founder of Madison International Realty with primary responsibility for investment strategy, capital formation and risk management. Mr. Dickerman has raised over $1.3 billion in capital and invested over $2.5 billion in commercial real estate over his career. Mr. Dickerman has significant experience providing joint venture and preferred equity to commercial real estate owners and investors within all major asset classes who are looking to recapitalize investments, restructure balance sheets, provide existing partners with an exit strategy or redeploy capital for new investments.

Mr. Dickerman has over 25 years of experience focused on the analysis, acquisition, financing, management and disposition of income-producing assets such as real estate, mortgage products, healthcare properties, leased equipment, media properties, oil & gas, as well as other specialty assets. Prior to founding Madison in 1996, Mr. Dickerman was President and Founder of First Equity Realty, LLC, a real estate investment firm specializing in the acquisition of under-performing real estate assets from financial institutions. During the period from 1987 to 1991, Mr. Dickerman was an investment banker in the Real Estate / Partnership Finance Group at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co., Inc., where he was responsible for the origination, analysis, structuring, acquisition, asset management, disposition and marketing of real estate and other limited partnerships.

Mr. Dickerman is an active member of the Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) and a frequent speaker on the topic of secondary investments and liquidity at real estate conferences throughout the country. Mr. Dickerman earned an MBA degree from Columbia University�s Graduate School of Business and a BA degree from Tufts University.

Chris Douvos, Managing Director, Venture Investment Associates

Chris Douvos joined Venture Investment Associates (VIA) in 2011 as a Managing Director. He is a member of the Firm�s Investment Committee and has responsibility across all facets of the firm, including the management of relationships with the funds' managers and its limited partners, as well as, the identification and development of new relationships for the firm.

He previously spent seven years co-heading the private equity program at The Investment Fund For Foundations (TIFF). In this role, he was responsible for over $1 billion in new capital commitments and stewarded a program that was ranked in the top 5% of its peers. Mr. Douvos represented TIFF on over a dozen VC and LBO partnership advisory boards.

Prior to joining TIFF, Mr. Douvos worked on Princeton University's endowment team, where his duties included selection and evaluation of external managers, risk analysis, and asset allocation modeling. Previously, he was a strategy consultant at Monitor Company working with clients in the financial services, healthcare, and telecom sectors and as an analyst for Monitor�s principal investing activities.

Mr. Douvos authors an acclaimed blog, www.SuperLP.com, that explores topics in investing and human nature. He has been profiled in Venture Capital Journal and Private Equity Analyst and regularly speaks at industry conferences and business schools. Mr. Douvos earned his BA with Distinction in history from Yale College in 1994 and an MBA from Yale School of Management in 2001. He was awarded the CFA Charter in 2004. He currently serves on the Board of the Palo Alto Community Fund and sits on the investment committee of the Castilleja School.

Timothy C. Draper, Co-Founder, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

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Maxime Durivage CFA, MBA, Investment Manager, R�gime de rentes du Mouvement Desjardins

Maxime Durivage is the manager of the Private Equity and Infrastructure Portfolios at Desjardins Group Pension Plan, Canada�s 9th largest corporate pension fund with $5.8 B in assets. Beforehand, he spent several years in the Private Equity Group at Caisse de d�p�t et placement du Qu�bec. Mr. Durivage serves on multiple boards of directors and fund valuation committees. Mr. Durivage graduated with an MBA from the McGill University and a BBA from Bishop's University. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Jamie Ebersole, Senior Investment Director, SL Capital Partners

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Alex Eidlin, Managing Director, Institutional Real Estate, Inc.

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Grier Eliasek, President and COO, Prospect Capital Corporation

Mr. Eliasek is President and Chief Operating Officer of Prospect Capital Corporation and a Managing Director of Prospect Capital Management and Prospect Administration. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Prospect Capital Corporation.

At Prospect Capital, Mr. Eliasek is responsible for leading the Prospect team of professionals in the origination and assessment of investments. Mr. Eliasek serves on the Board of Directors of Gas Solutions Holdings, Inc., a gas gathering and processing company in East Texas, and he is actively involved in the Prospect Capital portfolio. Prior to Prospect Capital, Mr. Eliasek served as a Managing Director with Prospect Street Ventures, an investment management firm which, together with its predecessors, has invested in excess of $1.5 billion in senior loan, mezzanine, bridge loan, private equity, and venture capital structures through publicly traded closed-end funds and private limited partnerships.

Prior to joining Prospect, Mr. Eliasek served as a consultant with Bain & Company, a global strategy consulting firm, where he managed engagements for companies in several different industries. At Bain, Mr. Eliasek analyzed new lines of businesses, developed market strategies, revamped sales organizations, and improved operational performance.

Mr. Eliasek received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Eliasek received his Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering with Highest Distinction from the University of Virginia, where he was a Jefferson Scholar and a Rodman Scholar.

Michael Elio, Managing Director, LP Capital Advisors

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Bruce R. Evans, Managing Director, Summit Partners

Bruce R. Evans is a Managing Director with Summit Partners, a growth equity firm that invests in rapidly growing companies across many industry sectors.

Mr. Evans joined Summit Partners in 1986 and is based in its Boston office. Prior to Summit, he worked in Louisville, Kentucky as a marketing representative for the Data Processing and National Accounts Divisions of IBM Corporation.

During his 25 years with Summit Partners, Mr. Evans has served as a director of 26 companies including 12 public companies. He is currently a director of Casa Systems, FleetCor Technologies (NYSE: FLT), Krishidhan Seeds Limited, and Multifonds (IGEFI Group). His previous directorships include Hittite Microwave (NASDAQ: HITT), Hyperion Software (NASDAQ: HYSL, later acquired by Oracle), Jamba! AG (acquired by VeriSign), OPNET Technologies (NASDAQ: OPNT), and optionsXpress Holdings (NASDAQ: OXPS, later acquired by Charles Schwab) Pediatrix Medical Group (NYSE: PDX; later renamed MEDNAX, NYSE: MD) and Renal Treatment Centers (NASDAQ: RXTC).

Mr. Evans received a BE in mechanical engineering and economics, magna cum laude, from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a current director of the National Venture Capital Association.

Kirk Falconer, Director of Research, Private Equity, Thomson Reuters

Kirk Falconer is Director of Research, Private Equity, at Thomson Reuters (Canada), headquartered in Toronto, Ontario.

Mr. Falconer manages Thomson Reuters� customized research and advisory services pertaining to private equity market activity, with a particular focus on Canada. He has authored numerous published and unpublished reports for market practitioners, market agents and observers, and public policymakers. Mr. Falconer also advises and supports Thomson Reuters� personnel on related survey work, data methodology, and quality control systems.

Mr. Falconer also performs other key duties for Thomson Reuters, including networking with senior general partners, limited partners, and service providers active in North American and global private equity markets, speaking engagements and presentations, participation in government and industry panels, and media liasion and commentary.

David I. Fann, President and CEO, TorreyCove Capital Partners

David I. Fann manages the day-to-day business activities of TorreyCove Capital Partners, is a member of TorreyCove�s Board of Directors, and Executive and Investment Committees. With 26 years of experience in the private equity industry, Mr. Fann has invested in over 25 leveraged buyout, private equity, and venture capital investments as a lead investor or co-investor, of which ten became publicly traded through successful initial public offerings and a number were acquired by Fortune 500 companies. In addition, he has managed organizations that invested over $15 billion in private equity, distressed debt and venture capital funds, and direct and co-investments. Prior to founding TorreyCove, Mr. Fann was the President and CEO of PCG Asset Management, LLC. Before that he was the Founder and General Partner of Inflection Equity Partners, a buyout firm focused on technology companies. He was a Managing Director at the United States Trust Company (U.S. Trust of New York), and Founder and Co-Head of their Private Equity Division. He was also the President and Co-CEO of three affiliated business development companies. Mr. Fann served on U.S. Trust�s Strategy Review, Special Fiduciary, and Portfolio Policy Committees, which directed firm-wide investment strategy, policy and asset allocation. Earlier in his career, Mr. Fann was a Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital Ltd. (and various affiliated entities including Citibank/Citicorp NA, Court Square Capital Ltd., and Citibank/Citicorp Investments Inc.). Mr. Fann has served on the board of directors of eleven companies, as a board observer for seven, as Chairman of the Board of Directors for two companies, and currently serves on the board of directors for the Robert H. Toigo Foundation. He holds dual Bachelor�s degrees in Industrial Engineering and Economics from Stanford University.

Daniel E. Feder, Senior Investment Manager, Private Equity and Venture Capital, Covariance Capital Management

Daniel E. Feder is the Senior Investment Manager � Private Equity & Venture Capital at Covariance Capital Management. Mr. Feder has worked in the private securities industry for 24 years as an attorney and as an investor. Most recently, Mr. Feder was the Managing Director of Private Markets for the Sequoia Capital Heritage Fund where he helped develop an endowment style (multi-asset class) investment management service sponsored by Sequoia Capital. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Mr. Feder was the Managing Director of private equity and venture capital with the Princeton University Investment Company (�Princo�) � the investment office for Princeton University�s endowment. At Princo, Mr. Feder led the development of a $4.0 billion global private equity and venture capital portfolio, including 168 fund commitments in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Australia. Mr. Feder has served on the Advisory Boards of over 60 private equity and venture capital funds. Mr. Feder began his career as an attorney in the area of corporate finance (private placements, buyouts, project financings, securitizations, bankruptcies, and corporate reorganizations). After serving as in-house counsel at CIGNA Investment Management, Mr. Feder joined the investment team at CIGNA as a Vice-President, where he completed a broad range of transactions, including control buyouts of middle market manufacturing and service companies. Prior to joining Princo, Mr. Feder was a Portfolio Manager in the private equity area at CalPERS. Mr. Feder holds a B.A. cum laude in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, a J.D. cum laude from the Boston University School of Law, and an M.A. in Economics from Trinity College. He is a Fellow in the American College of Investment Counsel and has earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Peter Fenton, General Partner, Benchmark Capital

Peter Fenton joined Benchmark Capital in 2006 after spending seven years as a partner with Accel Partners.

Current Investments: DotCloud, EngineYard, Hortonworks, Lithium, New Relic, Pentaho, Polyvore, Terracotta, Twitter, Yelp, Zendesk and Zuora.

Previous Investments: Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), FriendFeed (acquired by Facebook), JBoss (acquired by RedHat), Reactivity (acquired by Cisco), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare), Wily Technology (acquired by CA), Xensource (acquired by Citrix), and Zimbra (acquired by Yahoo!).

Education: MBA from Stanford Business School; BA from Stanford University.

Craig Ferguson, Managing Director, Manulife Capital

Craig Ferguson is responsible for transaction origination, execution and portfolio management of private equity and mezzanine investments, including direct investments and fund investments. Mr. Ferguson is currently and has been on the Board of Directors/Advisors of several companies and investment funds in Canada and the U.S.

In 2011 Mr. Ferguson joined Manulife Capital and has over 15 years of experience including 10 years originating, structuring and managing private equity and mezzanine investments with McKenna Gale Capital and 4 years of lending experience with GE Capital and CIT Group. Mr. Ferguson is also an alumnus of KPMG.

Mr. Ferguson holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Wilfrid Laurier University, is a Chartered Accountant and a CFA charterholder.

Spencer Fleischer, President, Friedman, Fleischer & Lowe

Before co-founding FFL in 1997, Spencer Fleischer spent nineteen years with Morgan Stanley & Company as an investment banker and manager. He was a member of the worldwide Investment Banking Operating Committee and was responsible for substantial business units within the Investment Banking Division. He served as Head of Investment Banking in Asia, Head of Corporate Finance for Europe, Head of UK Corporate Finance, Head of Investment Banking in Los Angeles, and Head of Corporate Finance in San Francisco.

He is a Director of SKBHC Holdings LLC, JonesTrading Institutional Services LLC and Wilton Re Holdings Limited, and was previously a Director of Korn/Ferry International, Milestone AV Technologies, BearingPoint, Inc. and Advanced Career Technologies, Inc. He is an advisor to the Investment Committee of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. He is also a member of the Fellowship Campaign Executive Committee for Lincoln College, Oxford. He earned a M. Phil. in Management Studies at Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a B.A. (Hons) degree in Economics.

Tony Florence, Partner, NEA

Tony Florence joined NEA in June 2008. He is focused on a broad range of information technology investments and co-leads NEA's venture growth equity practice. Mr. Florence is a director of Care.com, Cvent, Moda Operandi, and EverFi, and is involved in a number of NEA's venture growth equity portfolio companies, including Gilt Groupe and Lot18. He led the firm's investment in Quidsi (Diapers.com), acquired by Amazon in 2010. Prior to joining NEA, he was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and was Head of Technology Banking in New York, and was a member of the North American Management Committee for investment banking. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Florence worked with a number of NEA's companies, including the IPOs for Tele Atlas, InnerWorkings, Echo Global Logistics, Neutral Tandem and SourceFire. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1992 and subsequently rejoined the firm in 1997 from business school. Mr. Florence was focused on technology investment banking for over a decade at Morgan Stanley, where he was responsible for advisory and financing transactions for a broad range of public and private technology clients. During his 14 years at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Florence advised clients on over $50 billion of strategic transactions and helped raise over $100 billion in equity and debt capital for clients. Mr. Florence received an MBA and an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College.

Diana Frazier, Founding Partner, FLAG Capital Management

Diana H. Frazier is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of FLAG Capital Management, a fund-of-funds for individuals, families, foundations and educational endowments investingonly in top-tier venture capital, private equity, international, and real assets funds with $4.4 billion under management. She is a Board member of the National Venture Capital Association, a Charter Member of the Business Leadership Council of Wellesley College, member of the MIT Sloan School of Management Dean�s Advisory Council and recipient of the FWA 2005 Distinguished Entrepreneur Award. Ms. Frazier has also been Managing Director of Kapor Enterprises, Inc., an executive at BancBoston Ventures, becoming president in 1988, Director of NASBIC, and a Founding Advisor to the Institute for Private Investors.

B. Graeme Frazier, IV, President, Private Capital Research LLC

Graeme Frazier is the President of Private Capital Research LLC, a consulting firm he founded ten years ago that sources, originates, and invests in buyout and recapitalization transactions for middle-market private equity firms and corporate clients (www.pcrllc.com); and he is also an original partner in GF Data Resources LLC, a subscription-based database company that publishes quarterly reports and hosts a searchable online utility that features proprietary transaction (valuation, leverage and key deal term) data on private equity-sponsored M&A transactions with $10 to $250 million in total enterprise value (www.gfdataresources.com). Mr. Frazier is also a non-executive founder of Private Equity Co-Investment (PECO) fund group (http://www.rbprice.com/PECO.html).

Prior to PCR, Mr. Frazier was Director of Research for the Private Capital Group of Berwind Financial Group LP, (a subsidiary of the Berwind Corporation) where he was responsible for industry research and company research relating to the Private Capital activities at Berwind. Prior to Berwind, he was a founding shareholder in an investment company that specialized in acquiring underperforming middle market manufacturing companies and turnaround situations. Mr. Frazier also worked for Donaldson, Lufkin and Jenrette Securities Corporation as a regional institutional account representative.

Mr. Frazier has a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT, and an M.B.A. from Temple University (Executive Program), where he received the Dean�s Certificate of Excellence and was elected to the Beta Gamma Sigma honor society.

Brian Gallagher, Partner, Twin Bridge Capital Partners

Brian Gallagher co-founded Twin Bridge Capital Partners and has extensive experience in the middle-market buyout industry. He shares responsibility for all aspects of the Firm's investment and fundraising activities. Based in Chicago, Twin Bridge Capital Partners focuses on investing in buyout funds and co-investments throughout North America, with a particular emphasis on middle-market buyouts. Twin Bridge manages over $1 billion in customized separate accounts for large, institutional investors. Mr. Gallagher serves on the Investment Committee of Twin Bridge Capital Partners.

Before co-founding Twin Bridge, Mr. Gallagher worked for UIB Capital, where he was responsible for leading private equity investments in the United States. Mr. Gallagher was also a Partner at PPM America Capital Partners, where he led investments in private equity funds and co-investments. Mr. Gallagher began his career at Arthur Andersen.

Mr. Gallagher is a board member of Renew Life and the Grosvenor Registered Multi-Strategy Master Fund. He also holds numerous board observer seats. Mr. Gallagher earned his MBA at Northwestern University and a BA in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Gallagher is a member of the CFA Institute, the AICPA and the Association for Corporate Growth.

Felicity Gates, Global Co-Head & Partner, Citi Infrastructure Investors

Felicity Gates is a Global Co-Head & Partner of Citi Infrastructure Investors (CII). CII manages Citi Infrastructure Partners, L.P. (CIP), a $3.4 billion infrastructure fund that pursues controlling investment opportunities in infrastructure assets such as mature transportation and utilities. CIP��s current portfolio consists of: Kelda, owner of Yorkshire Water, a regulated UK water and sewer company serving 4.7 million people; It��nere Infraestructuras S.A., the concessionaire for five mature toll roads in Spain totalling 609 km; DP World Australia, a container terminal business serving the five key state capital cities in Australia with annual volumes of approximately 2.3 million TEU (twenty�\foot equivalent units); and YVR Airport Services Ltd., a leading global airport investment, management and development company with airports in six countries including Canada and the United Kingdom.

Since joining CII as founding Co�\Head in 2007, Ms. Gates has shared the leadership of the group, including fundraising for CIP and the acquisition and management of CIP��s investments. Ms. Gates has been involved in infrastructure investing and financing since the late 1980s. She began direct investing in infrastructure in 1994 when she joined NSW State Super (a large Australian pension fund) to set up their infrastructure portfolio. State Super��s management team subsequently became part of Deutsche Asset Management (RREEF Infrastructure). Ms. Gates managed State Super��s involvement in several landmark transactions in Australia, including the privatization and subsequent IPO of United Energy (electricity distributor) and the privatization of Melbourne airport. She also built the Australian based infrastructure funds management business and launched the European and North American businesses of RREEF Infrastructure.

Ms. Gates has held several directorship positions on infrastructure companies and industry bodies. She currently represents CIP on the boards of It��nere, YVR Airport Services and DP World Australia. Ms. Gates holds a B.Sc. with First Class Honours in Mathematics from the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.

Bruce Gibney, Partner, Founders Fund

Bruce Gibney is a partner at Founders Fund, with a focus on growth-stage investing. Mr. Gibney made his first venture investment in Confinity, which became PayPal, and worked with partners Peter Thiel and Ken Howery on the first outside investment in Facebook in 2004. After trading public equities and managing operations at a hedge fund, Mr. Gibney returned to private equity as a partner at Founders Fund and recently led the raise of the firm�s fourth fund, its largest at $625 million. Founders Fund has been an early backer of companies including Facebook, Palantir Technologies, Spotify, SpaceX, ZocDoc, and Practice Fusion. Mr. Gibney holds a BS in STS/IE from Stanford University and a JD from the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was a managing editor of the Law Review. Bruce is also author of the firm�s manifesto on venture capital, which can be found at www.foundersfund.com/the-future.

Joanna Glasner, Senior Editor, peHUB.com

Joanna Glasner is a senior writer at Reuters, where she is a regular contributor to Venture Capital Journal and peHub.com. Her areas of focus include venture capital and private equity fundraising, startup investment trends, M&A and the IPO market. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Ms. Glasner has been covering business and technology news for more than a decade, previously at Wired as well as numerous online and print publishers. Ms. Glasner received a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor's degree with a concentration in literature from New College of Florida.

David Glickman, Managing Director, Pension Consulting Alliance

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Jason Goldberg, Founder and CEO, Fab.com

Jason Goldberg is a serial entrepreneur who is passionate about designing products that enrich millions of people�s lives. Prior to leading Fab.com, Mr. Goldberg founded fabulis, socialmedian (sold to XING AG), and Jobster. Mr. Goldberg also served as Chief Product Officer at XING in Hamburg, Germany in 2009. The first start-up Mr. Goldberg worked at was Bill Clinton�s first presidential campaign in 1991 and 1992, which led to a 6 1⁄2 year stint working in the White House. Mr. Goldberg resides in New York City with his partner Christian and their dog Rupey, aptly named after the Indian currency as Mr. Goldberg has traveled to India more than 30 times the past 5 years to work alongside the best web development team on the planet. Mr. Goldberg holds an MBA from Stanford University and writes about entrepreneurship on his blog, http://betashop.com.

Alastair Goldfisher, Acting Editor In Chief, Venture Capital Journal

Alastair Goldfisher heads up Venture Capital Journal, a Thomson Reuters publication that covers the VC industry. He also contributes to peHUB.com as a blogger and as an editor. Alastair primarily reports on venture capital and startups, touching upon such topics as fundraising, investments trends, personnel moves and other news related to the VC industry.

Alastair has worked in business journalism as an editor and a reporter since 1994. In addition to writing about the venture capital community, he also has covered marketing, cleantech, transportation and the business of sports. He has been at Thomson Reuters since 2003. Before joining Thomson Reuters, he was the founding editor of California CEO and before that he was a reporter with the San Jose Business Journal. You can reach him on Twitter, as well as on Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn and numerous other social networking sites. He now has a growing interest in social media as a means to communicate and interact with readers and sources.

Bennett J. Goodman, Senior Managing Director, The Blackstone Group, Founder of GSO Capital Partners

Bennett J. Goodman is a Founder of GSO Capital Partners (�GSO�), Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group and a Member of the Blackstone Group Management Committee.

Since joining Blackstone in 2008, Mr. Goodman focuses on the management of GSO which is Blackstone�s credit investment platform with over $47 billion of alternative assets under management (�AUM�) ranging from hedge funds, mezzanine vehicles, distressed funds and other investment strategies. Before founding GSO Capital Partners in 2005, Mr. Goodman was Chairman, Founder and Managing Partner of the Alternative Capital Division of Credit Suisse overseeing $33 billion of AUM. Mr. Goodman was a member of the Executive Board and the Management Council of CSFB.

Mr. Goodman joined CSFB in November 2000 when CSFB merged with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette ("DLJ") where he was Global Head of Leveraged Finance. Mr. Goodman joined DLJ in February of 1988 as the founder of the High Yield Capital Markets Group. In 1993, DLJ became the #1 global issuer of high yield bonds and Mr. Goodman's team retained that coveted market position for the next 11 consecutive years. Prior to joining DLJ, Mr. Goodman worked in the high yield business at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1984 to 1988.

Mr. Goodman is on the Board of Directors of the Film Society of Lincoln Center, the Cancer Research Institute and the American Jewish Committee. He also serves on the investment committee of the Lafayette College endowment. Mr. Goodman received the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from Euromoney Magazine for his career achievements in the global capital markets. He graduated from Lafayette College and the Harvard Business School.

Jeffrey M. Goodrich, Co-Founder, High Road Capital Partners

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Sally Gordon, Managing Director, BlackRock

Sally Gordon currently is a Managing Director in the Risk and Quantitative Analysis Group (RQA) at BlackRock. She has responsibility for monitoring and managing commercial real estate risks across a variety of investment vehicles, in both debt and equity segments.

Outside of BlackRock, Dr. Gordon currently serves on a Real Estate Finance Advisory Council for the Federal Reserve. She is also a member of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute.

She has frequently been invited to speak or guest lecture at universities, including MIT, Cornell, and Wharton, as well as at professional conferences. She has received several awards, including the Founder�s Award from the Commercial Mortgage Securities Association (CMSA), the principal trade group for the CMBS market (that group has been renamed the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, or CREFC).

She has served on the Board of Governors of CMSA, as well as working on the Research Committee and chairing the Education Committee for that organization. In the latter role, she developed and presented a series of educational programs on CMBS (CMBS 101 and CMBS 201). She has also been on the Board of Directors for the Real Estate Research Institute (RERI), a non-profit organization committed to the integration of academic research and practical financial investment and chaired the Research Award Review Committee of that group. She has also previously served on the Board of the Commercial Real Estate Division of the Mortgage Bankers Association (COMBOG) and chaired the Research Committee for that organization.

Dr. Gordon has previously performed research on commercial real estate property and capital markets for over 20 years, including for Moody�s Investors Service, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Citicorp, focusing on commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) for the last several years.

Her undergraduate degree is in Anthropology, and her M.S. and Ph.D. are in International Policy Studies, all from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Michael D. Granoff, Chief Executive Officer, Pomona Capital

Michael D. Granoff is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Pomona Capital, an international private equity investment company with approximately $7 billion under management. Based in New York, London, Hong Kong, and Sydney Pomona is a leading global purchaser of secondary and primary interests in private equity funds and co-investor in buyout backed companies.

Prior to his business career, Granoff served on the staff of the U.S. House of Representatives Appropriations Subcommittee on Foreign Operations. He was a member of the 1992 Presidential Transition Team for the Department of the Treasury.

Granoff has been a Guest Lecturer at the Harvard Business School and the Wharton School of Business. He received a JD from Georgetown University and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania.

Thaddeus Gray, Chief Investment Officer, Abbott Capital Management

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Dayna Grayson, Principal, North Bridge Venture Partners

Dayna Grayson, Principal at North Bridge Venture Partners, specializes in Digital Media.

Ms. Grayson actively invests in companies seeking to change the way the Internet is used to deliver and monetize consumer services. She has led investments in several seed investments and in growing companies such as Awareness, and Viximo, she served as the CEO during 2009.

Before joining North Bridge in 2006, Ms. Grayson led new product development efforts at Blackbaud [NASDAQ: BLKB], the leading global provider of software to nonprofit organizations. She managed products throughout their life cycle as the company grew to over $130 million in revenue and completed a successful public offering. Previously, Ms. Grayson was a consultant at Cap Gemini Ernst and Young.

Ms. Grayson is active in the start-up communities in Boston and New York, and mentors entrepreneurs through various organizations. She is also on the board of the Independent Film Festival Boston.

Dayna has a BS from the University of Virginia in Systems Engineering and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Alexander Greene, Managing Partner, Brookfield Asset Management

Alex Greene is a Managing Partner of Brookfield Asset Management, a global alternative asset manager focused on property, renewable power and infrastructure assets with approximately $150 billion of assets under management. Mr. Greene leads Brookfield�s turnaround investing and financing activities in the United States and was a principal member of the team that led Brookfield�s investment in General Growth Properties.

Mr. Greene has more than 25 years of experience investing in and restructuring financially troubled companies. He joined Brookfield in December 2005 from The Carlyle Group, where he was co-head of the firm�s financial restructuring activities. Prior to Carlyle, he was a senior restructuring partner at Gleacher Partners and Wasserstein Perella & Co., and a managing director and partner at Whitman Heffernan Rhein & Co., Inc. and its affiliate M.J. Whitman & Co. He began his career at Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. Mr. Greene has a BBA in finance from The George Washington University.

Mr. Greene is on the Board of Directors of Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging and CWC Well Services Corp. He is on the finance committee and was formerly a member of the board of directors of the Tourette Syndrome Association; is a member of the Armonk New York Fire Department; and serves on the Budget and Finance Advisory Task Force for the Town of North Castle, New York.

Leslie E. Greis, Founder, Perennial Capital Advisors

Leslie E. Greis is the founder of Perennial Capital Advisors, LLC, a private real estate fund of funds management firm where she has oversight of the firm and its investment portfolios. She previously served as Acting Director of Investments at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. In addition, she previously was a consultant with Cambridge Associates, an investment advisory firm to institutional investors, where she evaluated managers, structured portfolios and directed clients to investment opportunities across all asset classes including marketable and non-marketable alternative assets. Prior to Cambridge Associates, she held the position of Executive Vice President of publicly-held Peoples Bancorp of Worcester, Inc. (previously NASDAQ: PEBW), where she was responsible for its major operating divisions, including residential lending, deposit services, risk management and all supporting staff functions.

Ms. Greis is on the Executive Committee of the Boston Museum of Science and is Chair of its Investment Committee. Ms. Greis completed a five year gubernatorial appointment to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts� Asset Management Board which assists state agencies with the management of its real estate assets. She previously served two terms on Harvard�s Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility providing guidance on proxy voting and shareholder resolutions. Ms. Greis holds an A.B. in Economics from Harvard University and was awarded the Harvard Alumni Association Award for her alumni service.

Sanjay Gupta, Vice President, Adveq

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Glenn A. Gurtcheff, Managing Director, Harris Williams

Glenn Gurtcheff joined Harris Williams & Co. and founded the firm's Minneapolis office in 2006. He is currently head of the firm�s Consumer practice, encompassing the Food & Beverage, Restaurant & Retail, Consumer Product and Consumer Services industry segments. Mr. Gurtcheff has over 20 years of M&A and related transaction experience encompassing a wide range of industries. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Gurtcheff was co-head of Piper Jaffray's Middle Market Mergers and Acquisitions practice, a group of investment banking professionals focused exclusively on mergers and acquisitions for a broad array of private equity and corporate clients. Prior to being named group head, Mr. Gurtcheff directed Piper Jaffray's food and beverage investment banking practice in addition to his responsibilities as a generalist M&A professional.

Mr. Gurtcheff's previous experience also includes mergers and acquisitions with Dain Rauscher Inc. (now RBC Dain Rauscher), corporate strategy at Northwest Airlines Corp., and work with Coopers & Lybrand's Valuation Services practice. Before attending business school, Mr. Gurtcheff was a product design engineer with General Motors Corp.

Mr. Gurtcheff earned an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota, and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He and his wife live in Minneapolis and have two college-aged children.

Joan C. Heidorn, CFA, Director, Spur Capital Partners

Joan C. Heidorn is Managing Director and Co-founder of Spur Capital Partners. Spur Capital, formed in 2001, organizes and manages venture-capital focused funds-of funds. In 1994, Ms. Heidorn began her involvement in fund-of funds where she served as COO and Principal Knightsbridge Advisers, where she was a member of the Investment Committee and other key decision-making bodies in addition to recruiting the team and developing internal systems.

Her experience in venture capital began when Ms. Heidorn was recruited to a group of venture capital backed medical device start-up companies.

After growing up in New England, Ms. Heidorn completed undergraduate and graduate studies in accounting and taxation, receiving an MA from Florida Atlantic University. She is a Certified Public Accountant and a CFA charter holder.

Ms. Heidorn resides in Oklahoma with her husband and two children. In her free time, she enjoys cooking and entertaining, fitness, reading and travel.

Leo A. Helmers, CFA, Managing Director, Carlyle Mezzanine Partners

Leo A. Helmers is a Managing Director and Head of Carlyle Mezzanine Partners. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Carlyle in August 2003, Mr. Helmers was a Senior Vice President with TCW/Crescent Mezzanine Partners and Trust Company of the West, where he was responsible for investing and managing a portfolio of mezzanine capital across three private limited partnerships. Prior to joining TCW, Mr. Helmers was a Managing Director of Hamilton Lane Advisors, Inc. Mr. Helmers has over 17 years of experience in the private debt and equity markets. Mr. Helmers is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Shari�s Management Corporation, Targus Group International, Inc. and Taylor-Wharton International, Inc. and a Board Observer of Hawkeye Concrete Products Company. He also serves on the Committee on Financial Policy for Lafayette College and The Shipley School Board of Trustees. Mr. Helmers received his M.B.A. from Temple University and a B.S. from Lafayette College. He is a CFA charterholder.

Darren Herman, Chief Digital Media Officer, Kirshenbaum Bond Senecal + Partners

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Kenneth A. Hersh, Co-Founder and CEO, NGP Energy Capital Management

Kenneth A. Hersh, is a Co-Founder and the Chief Executive Officer of NGP Energy Capital Management, a premier investment franchise in the natural resources industry. Mr. Hersh is responsible for directing the strategic and investment activities of the firm.

Founded in 1988, NGP manages over $9.5 billion of committed capital. Under his leadership, NGP has made over 200 investments in natural resources companies throughout North America and has achieved a 23-year gross IRR in excess of 30% making it one of the nation�s top investment firms.

Mr. Hersh currently serves as a director of numerous public and private companies. He also serves on the Dean�s Council of the Harvard Kennedy School and on the Advisory Councils of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and The Bendheim Center for Finance at Princeton University. Mr. Hersh is a member of the World Economic Forum where he has been a featured speaker at its annual meeting held in Davos, Switzerland and serves on the International Business Council�s G20 CEO Task Force on Commodities in conjunction with the International Chamber of Commerce.

Prior to co-founding NGP in 1988, Mr. Hersh was employed by the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley & Co. where he was a member of the firm�s energy group specializing in oil and gas financing and merger and acquisition transactions.

Mr. Hersh is a 1985 magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University. In 1989, he received his M.B.A. from Stanford University�s Graduate School of Business where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Terri Herubin, Principal, Portfolio Manager, Townsend Group

Terri Herubin joined the Townsend Group in 2009 in the Implemented Solutions group, where she leads the investment of US-based mandates on behalf of discretionary clients. Ms. Herubin has 20 years of experience in real estate law, development, acquisitions and portfolio management. She was with the New York State Teachers� Retirement System for more than 14 years, where she rose to the position of Head of Acquisitions and Portfolio Manager of the $9 billion real estate portfolio. Ms. Herubin received a B.A. in Urban Planning from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and graduated magna cum laude from Brooklyn Law School. She is licensed to practice law in New York and Washington, D.C.

Scott Higbee, Partner, Partners Group (USA) Inc.

Scott Higbee is a Partner, head of the investment solutions Americas team and head of the New York office with responsibilities in investment origination and client relations in the Americas. He is also a member of the private equity North America investment committee and has been materially involved in the firm's direct, secondary and partnership investment activities and is a primary relationship manager for several leading partnerships in the US. Prior to joining Partners Group, he worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers as senior associate in the firm�s capital markets practice in New York where he served several broker/dealer and private equity clients. He holds an MBA from the Marriott School of Management at Brigham Young University.

Eric Hippeau, Partner, Lerer Ventures

Eric Hippeau is a partner at Lerer Ventures. He is the former Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post. He is also a Special Partner at Softbank Capital, a U.S. based venture capital firm, making investments in early stage technology and digital media companies. Softbank Capital is an early investor in the The Huffington Post and Mr. Hippeau began serving on the board in August, 2006. Prior to joining Softbank Capital, Mr. Hippeau was Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis. He serves on the boards of several public and private companies, including Yahoo!, Starwood Hotels, The Huffington Post, Thumbplay and Buddy Media.

Erik Hirsch, CIO, Hamilton Lane

Erik Hirsch is the Chief Investment Officer of Hamilton Lane, an independent provider of discretionary and non-discretionary private asset management services to institutional investors worldwide. At Hamilton Lane, Mr. Hirsch is responsible for managing all of the firm�s investment and research activities, as well as chairing the firm's Investment Committee.

Mr. Hirsch is a frequently quoted expert on the private equity industry, both in the print and broadcast media. He also serves on the advisory boards of several leading fund managers on behalf of Hamilton Lane and its clients.

Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Mr. Hirsch was a corporate investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions department of Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. He began his career as a municipal financial consultant with Public Financial Management (PFM). At PFM, Mr. Hirsch specialized in asset securitization, strategic consulting and sport stadium financings.

Mr. Hirsch currently serves on the board of Philadelphia's Mural Arts Program.

David R. Hodes, Managing Partner, Hodes Weill & Associates

David R. Hodes is a founder and Managing Partner of Hodes Weill & Associates (HW&A). HW&A is a New York-based, advisory and principal investment business providing advice and solutions for a wide range of challenges impacting a rapidly changing industry. The company leverages the principals' global network of investor and fund manager relationships, and knowledge of the real estate private equity and private funds market.

From 2000 through 2009, Mr. Hodes was a Managing Director of Credit Suisse, based in New York, where he co-founded Credit Suisse�s Real Estate Private Fund Group (REPFG). In 2008, Mr. Hodes assumed responsibility for co-managing Credit Suisse�s Real Estate Investments Group (REIG). REIG had over 250 professionals and approximately $37 billion of assets under management in a range of core, opportunistic and securities (long and hedged) funds and separate accounts.

Previously, Mr. Hodes was a Principal at Morgan Stanley, and the Director of Private Real Estate Capital Markets. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Hodes was a Principal of The Yarmouth Group from 1985 through 1996, where he was also a Member of the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Mr. Hodes received a BA in Urban Studies from Brandeis University. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of the International Business School at Brandeis University, and a past Board member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA).

Robert (Mac) Hofeditz, Partner, Probitas Partners

Robert (Mac) Hofeditz has more than twenty years of industry experience and is responsible for Probitas Partners' primary fundraising project management activities and leads its sourcing effort for new fundraising projects. Prior to joining Probitas Partners in 2001, Mr. Hofeditz was with AdvisorTech Corporation, a venture-backed financial services firm. Previously, he was an investment consultant with Strategic Investment Solutions, Inc. (�SIS�), a leading adviser to sophisticated institutional investors. Mr. Hofeditz earned a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Holly Holtz, Senior Director, Private Equity, High Yield and Distressed Investments, TIAA-CREF

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Craig Jarchow, Managing Director, Pine Brook Partners

Craig Jarchow joined Pine Brook in September 2007 and is a member of the team responsible for managing the firm's energy investing activities. He is currently a director of Comet Ridge Resources, LLC, Phoenix Exploration Company, LP, Source Energy Partners and Stonegate Production Company, LLC.

Mr. Jarchow has over 19 years of experience in the energy business, with 13 years of experience in senior operations roles. He most recently served as a director at First Reserve Corporation, a $12 billion private equity firm that focuses on investments in energy businesses. At First Reserve, he was responsible for sourcing and structuring oil and gas transactions and monitoring various portfolio companies. Prior to joining First Reserve, Mr. Jarchow was an executive at Apache Corporation (NYSE: APA), where he served as an advisor to the president and CEO, exploration manager for the Gulf Coast and Gulf of Mexico, and director of international exploration and business development. Earlier in his career, Mr. Jarchow was employed by Amoco Corporation, an integrated major oil company.

Mr. Jarchow holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Geophysics from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT. He is a fellow of the Geological Society of America and serves on the Petroleum Investments Committee at the Stanford School of Earth Sciences.

Ilaina Jonas, Correspondent, Thomson Reuters

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David Jones, Jr., Chairman and Managing Director, Chrysalis Ventures

David Jones, Jr. is one of the leading venture capitalists in mid-America and a well-respected voice in healthcare business and innovation. He founded Chrysalis Ventures in 1993, after realizing that the absence of resident venture capital managers in Mid-America represented an opportunity to find and partner with promising growth companies in the region. He currently focuses primarily on healthcare investing and chairs the management company and funds� investment committees.

At Chrysalis, Mr. Jones has worked over the years with some of the most exciting growth companies in the Midwest and South, including Appriss (sold to Bain Capital), Advanced Academics (sold to Devry), Tritel (merged with Telecorp and sold to AT&T Wireless), Regent Communications (sold to Jacor Communications which was sold to Clear Channel Communications), ActaMed (merged with Healtheon and then with WebMD), Tech Republic (sold to Gartner Group) and High Speed Access Corp (IPO and later sold to Charter Communications).

In addition, Mr. Jones has served on the Board of Directors of Humana Inc. (NYSE: HUM) since 1993, serving as Vice Chairman from 1996 to 2005 and as Chairman from 2005 to 2010.

Mr. Jones brings a strong and well-rounded background in business, law and banking to his work at Chrysalis Ventures. Prior to Chrysalis, Mr. Jones�s law practice included both domestic and international work, the latter with the U.S. Department of State Legal Adviser�s (general counsel�s) office in Washington (1988-1992). Before law school, he worked as a commercial banker for Bank of Boston in Hong Kong, New York and Boston. Mr. Jones has a BA from Yale University and a JD from Yale University Law School.

Mr. Jones is active in civic and charitable affairs on both national and local levels. Recognizing the critical role education plays in catalyzing American innovation and competitiveness, Mr. Jones chairs the board of Business Leaders for Education and serves on the Executive Committee of the Business-Higher Education Foundation. He is a member of the invitation-only Healthcare Executive Network, which collectively examines the strategies necessary to create and sustain a world-class healthcare delivery system.

In addition, Mr. Jones is a director of the Humana Foundation, Inc. and is active on the grants committee of a private foundation. He is also a Board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Mr. Jones is a faculty member at the Venture Capital Institute and lectures frequently in Chrysalis� region on topics related to venture capital and the changing healthcare industry.

Jay Jordan, Chairman and Managing Principal, The Jordan Company

John W. �Jay� Jordan, II, was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and attended the University of Notre Dame graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Business Administration in 1969. He then attended Columbia�s MBA program and went to Wall Street to work at Carl Marks & Co., Inc. (�CM�) in 1972. In the early 1970's while at Carl Marks, Mr. Jordan became a pioneer in the private equity business. The CM acquisition activities encompassed purchasing companies for the CM partnership account. Over the course of nine years at Carl Marks, the partnership amassed a portfolio of approximately twenty-five companies doing in excess of $2.5 billion in sales volume.

In 1982, Mr. Jordan left Carl Marks to form The Jordan Company (�TJC�), a private investment firm whose principal activity is acquiring companies for the partnership account. Since its formation, TJC has acquired approximately 100 platform companies and an additional 400 add on acquisitions with aggregate sales volume in excess of $10 billion. Today, the TJC portfolio numbers over twenty companies with approximately $4.5 billion in aggregate sales. Mr. Jordan currently serves as Managing Partner of The Jordan Company.

In 1988, TJC expanded its activities to include money management through its affiliate, the Mountbatten Management Corporation (�MMC�). MMC owned and managed the William Penn family of mutual funds until sold to Federated Insurance in 1995. Additionally, TJC owns and manages a British-based closed-end institutional mezzanine fund with assets of approximately $600 million through its affiliate JZ Advisers, Inc.

In 2002, TJC initiated and closed The Resolute Fund, which is a $1.5 billion private equity fund, focused on acquiring U.S. domestic companies in the middle market. In December 2007 TJC closed Resolute II with $3.6 billion of capital focused as well on middle market buyouts. TJC has approximately $6.00 billion of assets under management.

Mr. Jordan is active in a number of community/philanthropic activities. He has been a Trustee of the University of Notre Dame since February 1993, and currently serves as Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Board which oversees the $6.0 billion endowment. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and on the Board of Trustees of The Art Institute of Chicago and sits on the Executive Committee. Mr. Jordan sits on over 40 public, private and philanthropic boards.

Ronald Kahn, Managing Director, Lincoln International LLC

Ronald Kahn is co-head of Lincoln International�s Debt Advisory Group, where he leads capital raising and financial advisory deal teams and manages key client relationships. Mr. Kahn�s primary area of expertise is advising corporate and private equity clients on the structuring and arranging of financing for acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, refinancings and dividend recapitalization. He maintains strong relationships with a wide network of financing sources, enabling him to provide issuers with financing solutions tailored to their specific needs. Mr. Kahn also co-heads Lincoln International�s Valuations and Opinions Group where he is active in providing valuations and fairness opinions to a variety of clients including business development corporations (BDCs), hedge funds and insurance companies.

Throughout his career, Mr. Kahn has worked with manufacturing, distribution and service companies in a variety of industries. Mr. Kahn currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Parksite Group and Osterman & Company. Mr. Kahn�s expertise in junior capital has been nationally recognized and, for the past eighteen years, he has chaired the leading national conference on mezzanine finance. In addition, he is a regular contributor to PE Hub, has authored numerous articles and frequently speaks about raising junior capital.

Prior to joining Lincoln International, Mr. Kahn spent over fifteen years executing corporate finance transactions at Duff & Phelps and Mesirow Financial. Prior to entering the investment banking field, Mr. Kahn was the Chief Financial Officer of several public companies including Farm House Foods. He started his career in public accounting as an auditor for KPMG LLP. Mr. Kahn earned a Bachelor of Arts degree at the University of Cincinnati.

Sonny Kalsi, Founder and Partner, GreenOak Real Estate Advisors

Sonny Kalsi is Founder and Partner of GreenOak Real Estate. Sonny was, until early 2009, the Global Head of Morgan Stanley Real Estate Investing (MSREI) and President of the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds (MSREF). Prior to that, he was the Global Co-Head of MSREI. At its peak, MSREI had approximately $100Bn of AUM in 33 countries and 25 offices around the world with over 800 full time staff. The largest concentrations of asset holdings were in the US, UK, Germany, Japan and China. Prior to managing MSREI globally, Sonny helped to build its Asian business, spending nine years in Hong Kong and Tokyo. During his tenure, the team grew to over 300 professionals, with an operation that included Japan, China, India, South Korea, Australia and a number of other countries.

Kevin Kester, Managing Director, Siguler Guff

Kevin Kester is a Managing Director at Siguler Guff. Mr. Kester is a senior member of Siguler Guff's investment staff and oversees the Firm's Small Buyout Opportunities Funds, where he has responsibility for designing and implementing fund strategy, screening and selecting investment managers, negotiating terms and conditions, identifying and executing direct investments and co-investments, and monitoring investment portfolios. He has over 14 years of experience investing and managing institutional portfolios in alternative investments.

Previously, Mr. Kester spent eight years in the investment division of Colorado Public Employees' Retirement Association (Colorado PERA), a $30 billion public pension fund. Mr. Kester held various positions at Colorado PERA, including Director of Alternative Investments where he had overall management responsibility for a $4.5 billion global portfolio of private equity, venture capital, distressed debt, mezzanine, energy and timber investments. During his tenure at Colorado PERA, Kevin served as a founding member of the Board of the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA), an industry leading group established to bring greater standards of transparency and integrity to the private equity marketplace.

Mr. Kester holds a B.A. in Government from Hamilton College and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Michael Kim, Managing Partner, Cendana Capital

Michael Kim is the founder and Managing Partner of Cendana Capital, a next generation fund-of-funds investing in private equity. Mr. Kim is a member of the LP Advisory Boards of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital and Freestyle Capital. Prior to the founding of Cendana Capital, Mr. Kim was one of the original partners of Rustic Canyon Partners, a venture capital firm with approximately $1 billion under management. Mr. Kim currently serves as a Senior Advisor to Rustic Canyon.

In March 2004, Mr. Kim was appointed by the Mayor of San Francisco to a 5 year term as a Trustee of the San Francisco Employee Retirement System, a $15 billion pension fund, and served as the President of the board and the Chairman of the Investment Committee.

Formerly an investment banker, Mr. Kim was with Morgan Stanley's Technology Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Menlo Park. Mr. Kim was directly involved with 27 announced transactions worth over $77 billion for such clients as Hewlett-Packard, Ciena, Seagate, Bay Networks, Netscape and Texas Instruments. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Kim was an associate at The Chase Manhattan Bank in NYC and also worked at IBM.

He is an honors graduate of Cornell University, where he presently serves on the Cornell Council, has an MS from the School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University, and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business.

Mr. Kim formerly served on the boards of Lead21, an organization that enables entrepreneurs to advocate free market public policy, and the Pacific Research Institute, a San Francisco-based think tank that champions freedom, opportunity, and personal responsibility for all individuals by advancing free market policy solutions. He is a Trustee of the Asian Art Museum Foundation, where he serves on the Investment Committee, and the former Chairman of the Advisory Board of the Symphonix League of the San Francisco Symphony.

Steven B. Klinsky, Managing Director, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, New Mountain Capital

Steve Klinsky, is the founder and chief executive officer of New Mountain Capital, LLC., a firm formed in January 2000 to achieve long-term capital appreciation through private equity and equity related investments. New Mountain currently manages over $9.0 billion of private equity, public equity and debt fund commitments, with a strategy that emphasizes intensive fundamental research, proactive pursuit of the most attractive �defensive growth� sectors, and a proven ability to add value and build businesses post-investment. New Mountain was voted �North American Midmarket Buyout Firm of the Year� in 2004 and 2007 according to Private Equity International, and one of five finalist for �Buyout Firm of the Year� in 2007, 2008 and 2009 according to Buyouts Magazine.

Prior to founding New Mountain, Mr. Klinsky was co-founder of Goldman Sachs & Co.�s Leveraged Buyout Group (1981-1984) and he was a partner of Forstmann Little & Co. from 1984 until leaving to found New Mountain in June 1999.

Steve Klinsky was raised in Michigan, and earned his B.A. with high honors from the University of Michigan in 1976, his MBA from Harvard Business School (class of 1979) and his J.D., with honors, from Harvard Law School (class of 1981). He has served as chairman or director of numerous public and private companies and is active in a range of charitable and educational causes. He is married with four children and lives in New York City.

Stewart A. Kohl, Co-CEO, The Riverside Company

Stewart A. Kohl is Co-Chief Executive Officer of The Riverside Company, a private equity firm founded in 1988 to invest in premier companies at the smaller end of the middle market. Throughout its history, Riverside has maintained a core philosophy of investing in smaller market-leading companies, enabling it to acquire more than 275 companies and to build more than $3 billion of capital under management in North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region. The firm has generated consistently superior returns for its investors, which include leading pension funds, endowments, funds-of-funds, insurance companies and banks.

Under the guidance of Mr. Kohl and Co-CEO B�la Szigethy, Riverside has grown to employ more than 200 people in 20 offices: The co-headquarters in Cleveland and New York; Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and San Francisco in North America; Brussels, Budapest, London, Luxembourg, Madrid, Munich, Prague, Stockholm and Warsaw in Europe; Hong Kong, Melbourne, Seoul and Tokyo in the Asia-Pacific region.

Mr. Kohl joined Riverside in 1993. Prior to that, he was a vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd., the private equity arm of Citibank.

In addition to his work with Riverside, Mr. Kohl serves on the following boards of directors: Oberlin College, the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, and the Cleveland Clinic Wellness Institute Leadership Board. Mr. Kohl was inducted into the Ohio Foundation of Independent Colleges Hall of Excellence in 2009. He previously served as Co-Chair of the Building for Hope Capital Campaign of the Center for Families and Children. For the past 13 years, he has been a �Heavy Hitter� participant in the Pan-Mass Challenge bicycle fundraiser for the Jimmy Fund of the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Mr. Kohl holds a BA from Oberlin College (1977) and resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio with his wife, Donna, where they enjoy spending time with their daughter and three grandchildren.

Alan Kosan, Managing Director, Rogerscasey

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Paul S. Kramer, CPA, Partner, Alternative Investments, Strategic Investment Group

Paul Kramer directs the firm�s activities in real estate and private equity. Prior to joining Strategic, he was a Managing Director at CB Richard Ellis and a Manager at Kenneth Leventhal& Company. Mr. Kramer started his career with Arthur Andersen as a Tax Professional in their Washington, D.C. office. He holds a B.S. and M.S. in Accounting from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. Mr. Kramer has completed the Series 65 securities examination.

Henry Kravis, Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, KKR

Henry Kravis co-founded KKR in 1976 and is Co-Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer. He is actively involved in managing the Firm and serves on each of the regional Private Equity Investment and Portfolio Management Committees. Mr. Kravis currently serves on the board of First Data Corporation and China International Capital Corporation Limited. He also serves as a director, chairman emeritus or trustee of several cultural, professional, and educational institutions, including The Business Council, Claremont McKenna College, Columbia Business School, the Council on Foreign Relations, Mount Sinai Hospital, the New York City Investment Fund, Partnership for New York City, Rockefeller University, and Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management. He earned a B.A. from Claremont McKenna College in 1967 and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School in 1969. Mr. Kravis has more than four decades of experience financing, analyzing, and investing in public and private companies, as well as serving on the boards of a number of KKR portfolio companies.

Scott Kupor, Partner and COO, Andreessen Horowitz

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Andrew Kwee, Managing Director, LGT Capital Partners (USA) Inc.

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David Landau, Vice President - Alternative Investments, YMCA Retirement Fund

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Janna Laudato, CFA, Managing Director, Hauser Capital Markets

Janna Laudato, CFA is a Managing Director at Hauser Capital Markets. She has 11 years of private equity investment experience in a wide range of strategies including venture, buyout, mezzanine, and distressed. Hauser focuses on US lower and middle market buyout funds raising between $100 million and $500 million. Ms. Laudato formulated Hauser�s investment strategy and leads sourcing, due diligence, and investment decisions. Previously, Ms. Laudato managed a portfolio of private equity funds with more than $2 billion in Small Business Administration commitments. She also has 14 years of international consulting and marketing experience, most recently for Booz Allen, in emerging markets. Ms. Laudato is active in several LP groups. As a member of ILPA from 2003 to 2007, she led and participated in research projects on Targeted Investment Programs and Tracking of Capital Accounts. She is currently a member of the Baltimore Limited Partner Association (BALPA) and the Ohio Roundtable. As a former Board Member and Member of the CFA Society of Washington, DC, she organizes programs related to private equity.

Chris Lawrence, Managing Director, Auda Alternative Investments

Chris Lawrence joined Auda in 2008 with responsibility for secondary investing. Mr. Lawrence focuses on the entire spectrum of secondary investment activities and is a member of Auda�s management team. He has 18 years of financial services and private equity related work experience, including as an intermediary, direct investor, and in various executive roles at underlying portfolio companies. Most recently, Mr. Lawrence was an operating principal for a portfolio of angel-backed companies in the healthcare, software/services, and manufacturing sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Lawrence served as COO and CFO for Elematics, Inc., a Warburg Pincus portfolio company. Previously, he was Senior Vice President and deal leader for a venture capital affiliate of GSC Partners. Mr. Lawrence began his financial services career at Arthur Andersen as a Manager in the Corporate Finance Services division providing advisory services to public and privately held clients. Mr. Lawrence earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Accounting from Southern Methodist University.

Richard F. Lawson, Jr., Co-Founder & Managing Director, Huntsman Gay Global Capital

Richard F. Lawson, Jr. is a Managing Director and Co-founder of Huntsman Gay Global Capital. He is also a member of Huntsman Gay's Policy and Investment Committee.

Prior to the inception of Huntsman Gay, Mr. Lawson was a co-founder, Managing Director and member of the original four-person board of directors of the general partner of Sorenson Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity fund which focused on middle market leveraged buyouts in the Western United States. While at Sorenson Capital, Mr. Lawson was involved in all phases of the firm's development since its founding and had responsibility for originating, structuring and managing investments across a number of industries in middle market companies.

Mr. Lawson completed his remaining Sorenson Capital board obligations in 2010 as a result of the sale of Provo Craft to the private equity arm of Bank of America Corporation (BAML Capital Partners) and the previous sale of both Vitron Manufacturing and Atlas Aerospace to Graham Partners as well as Amp Resources' cross-border sale to Italy's largest power company Enel SpA.

Mr. Lawson also serves as a director on the boards of Wasatch Adaptive Sports as well as the Forever Young Foundation, an organization that is a primary benefactor of a portion of Huntsman Gay's carried interest proceeds used to support extensive philanthropic work in children's causes around the world. Prior to co-founding Sorenson Capital, Mr. Lawson served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Found, Inc., a Bain Capital portfolio company that provided inventory management solutions to major retailers and manufacturers. Mr. Lawson began his investment career in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley and worked in the New York and Tokyo, Japan offices as a member of the Corporate Finance and Mergers, Acquisitions & Restructuring Departments. Mr. Lawson received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from Amherst College.

Marc Leder, Co-CEO, Sun Capital Partners

Marc J. Leder is the Co-CEO of Sun Capital Partners, a leading global private investment firm he co-founded in 1995 with his partner Rodger Krouse. Sun Capital focuses on leveraged buyouts, equity, debt and other investments and targets underperforming companies, turnarounds and special situations, primarily involving small to mid-sized companies across a variety of industries. Sun Capital affiliates have invested in and managed more than 280 companies worldwide since the firm�s inception, with combined sales in excess of $40 billion and more than 200,000 employees. Sun Capital supports its portfolio companies through an operations-intensive, hands-on approach which is backed by an exceptionally high ratio of in-house operating professionals to portfolio companies. The firm has approximately $8 billion of equity capital under management.

Mr. Leder has more than 25 years of hands-on experience in leveraged buyouts, investment banking, and business operations. Working from Sun Capital�s Boca Raton headquarters, Mr. Leder co-directs all of the firm�s global investment activities, approves all capital commitments, and oversees the firm�s operations jointly with Rodger Krouse.

Prior to co-founding Sun Capital Partners, Mr. Leder was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in New York. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and serves as a member of the University of Pennsylvania Huntsman Program Advisory Board. Mr. Leder is also a co-owner and serves on the Board of the Philadelphia 76ers basketball team.

Warren Lee, General Partner, Canaan Partners

Warren Lee is a leading digital media and Internet investor. A recognized thought leader on the future of online advertising and the rapid evolution of the media landscape, Mr. Lee joined Canaan Partners� East Coast office in 2005 and manages its New York City office. Mr. Lee led Canaan�s investments in Associated Content, the Web�s leading open content publishing platform; blip.tv, the best place to discover the best in original Web series; Peer39, the leading online semantic advertising company; Tremor Video, the world�s largest online video technology and media company; and Vivox, the leading provider of voice services for online games and virtual worlds. Mr. Lee is also the creator and host of Startup@Work Founders Speakers Series, an ongoing event series in which he interviews successful entrepreneurs and angel investors from across the country. He also co-organizes the NYC Turing Fellows Program, which matches outstanding computer science and engineering students from across the U.S. and Canada to paid summer internships with leading technology startups in NYC. Mr. Lee previously worked at Comcast Interactive Capital, where he led their investments in several leading technology startups, including Arbor Networks (acquired by Tektronix for $220 million), Arroyo Video Solutions (acquired by Cisco for $92 million), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola for $186 million), CommunityConnect (acquired by Radio One), Counterpane Internet Security (acquired by British Telecom for $70 million), ReefEdge (acquired by Symantec), and Tripwire (acquired by Bravo Thomson for $180 million). Before joining the venture industry, Mr. Lee worked as an engineer and project manager at Solectron Corp., a business development director at Sun Microsystems, a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group, and an investment banker in Alex Brown�s technology group. Mr. Lee holds a BS in computer science and BA in economics with honors from Stanford University and an MBA from The Wharton School. He currently sits on the boards of blip.tv, Peer39, Tremor Video, and Vivox.

Ken Lehman, Managing Director, Kendall Investments

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Eduard Lemle, Vice President, Swiss Re

Eduard Lemle oversees the private equity fund investment activities in the Americas at Swiss Re. Prior to joining Swiss Re, he was an Investment Manager with Allianz Capital Partners in New York and Munich. Mr. Lemle holds an MBA degree from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Through its global fund investment platform Swiss Re Private Equity Partners, Swiss Re manages a portfolio of roughly USD 7.5 billion of commitments to private markets funds.

Josh Lerner, Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, Harvard Business School

Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, with a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial Management Areas. He graduated from Yale College with a Special Divisional Major that combined physics with the history of technology. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy, at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on Capitol Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department.

Much of his research focuses on the structure and role of venture capital and private equity organizations. (This research is collected in three books, The Venture Capital Cycle, The Money of Invention, and Boulevard of Broken Dreams.) He also examines policies towards intellectual property protection, and how they impact firm strategies in high-technology industries. (The research is discussed in the books Innovation and Its Discontents, The Comingled Code, and the forthcoming Architecture of Innovation.) He co-directs the National Bureau of Economic Research�s Productivity, Research, and Innovation Program and serves as co-editor of their publication, Innovation Policy and the Economy. He founded and runs the Private Capital Research Institute, a non-profit devoted to encouraging data access to and research about venture capital and private equity.

In the 1993-94 academic year, he introduced an elective course for second-year MBAs on private equity finance. In recent years, �Venture Capital and Private Equity� has consistently been one of the largest elective courses at Harvard Business School. (The course materials are collected in Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook, now in its fourth edition, and the forthcoming textbook Private Equity, Venture Capital, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship.) He also teaches a doctoral course on entrepreneurship and in the Owners-Presidents-Managers Program, and organizes an annual executive course on private equity in Boston and Beijing. He has led an international team of scholars in a multi-year study of the economic impact of private equity for the World Economic Forum. He is the winner of the Swedish government�s 2010 Global Entrepreneurship Research Award.

Christopher J. Leslie, Senior Managing Director, Chief Executive Officer, Macquarie Infrastructure Partners Inc.

Chris Leslie is a Senior Managing Director with the Macquarie Group in New York and has been with Macquarie for 19 years. He is the Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Infrastructure Partners I & II, unlisted funds which have $5.5 billion invested or committed to invest in US and Canadian infrastructure projects. Mr. Leslie moved to New York in 1999 to expand Macquarie�s infrastructure advisory business in the United States and has been particularly active in the utilities and telecommunications infrastructure sectors including the acquisition of Global Tower Partners, the largest private cell tower owner in the United States in 2007 ($1.5 billion) and the $7bn take-private of Puget Energy in 2009. Mr. Leslie also has direct experience in the development and/or acquisition of gas pipelines, gas distribution systems, toll roads, airports, heliports, fixed base operations, water and wastewater systems, airport car parks and power generation assets.

Mr. Leslie holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honors from the University of Melbourne and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia.

Paul S. Levy, Founder & Managing Partner, JLL Partners

Paul Levy founded JLL, a leading middle market private equity firm, in 1988. Prior to that, he was a Managing Director at Drexel Burnham Lambert, responsible for the firm�s restructuring and exchange offer business in New York. Previously, Mr. Levy was Chief Executive Officer of Yves Saint Laurent, Inc., New York; Vice President of Administration and General Counsel of Quality Care, Inc., a leader in the home healthcare business; and an attorney with Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.

Peter Lewis, Senior Consultant, Towers Watson

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Marc Lipschultz, Global Head of Energy and Infrastructure, KKR

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David Lobel, Founder & Managing Partner, Sentinel Capital Partners

David Lobel is the founder of Sentinel Capital Partners and its Managing Partner. Before establishing Sentinel, Mr. Lobel spent 15 years at First Century Partners, Smith Barney's middle market private equity and venture capital affiliate, where he served as a general partner. He also was a Managing Director of Smith Barney. Before joining Smith Barney, Mr. Lobel was a consultant at Bain & Company. Mr. Lobel received an MBA and an MS with distinction from Stanford University. He currently serves on the Management Board of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and also served in the South African Navy.

Linda Lynch, Managing Director, Fisher Lynch

Linda Lynch is a co-founder and Managing Director of Fisher Lynch Capital, an independent private equity firm specializing in venture capital and buyout investing. Fisher Lynch Capital manages $2 billion in private equity assets, and invests on behalf of numerous endowments and foundations, as well as other institutional investors.

Prior to founding Fisher Lynch Capital, Ms. Lynch was Director of Private Equity and Vice President of Lucent Asset Management, created to manage the pension assets of Lucent Technologies, Inc. Ms. Lynch established and led the multi-billion dollar private equity program, and helped lead the asset management organization.

Before joining Lucent, Ms. Lynch was a Managing Director of Cambridge Associates, an investment consulting and research firm. Ms. Lynch�s clients included a wide range of institutional investors, for whom she provided alternative assets consulting, as well as broader advisory services. Ms. Lynch�s prior experience included finance and economic development posts for the City of New York.

Ms. Lynch earned her M.B.A. at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and her B.A. in English at Yale University.

She currently serves on advisory boards for the Inner City Scholarship Fund, the Catholic Schools Foundation, Stand For Children, the Charles Snowden Program for Excellence in Journalism, and Noble and Greenough School.

Tom Lynch, Managing Director, Cliffwater LLC

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Louis Marinaccio, Managing Director, North Castle Partners

Louis ("Lou") Marinaccio is a Managing Director with 20 years of experience investing in, advising, and operating consumer and middle-market companies, including over 12 years at North Castle. Lou has led over a dozen food & beverage brand investments. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Flatout, and previously served on the Board of Directors of Atkins/Bora-Bora Organic Foods and Naked Juice. Mr. Marinaccio was integral to North Castle's prior portfolio company Naked Juice where he served as COO and a member of the senior management team responsible for dramatically improving performance, culminating in a sale to PepsiCo. Mr. Marinaccio also helps lead North Castle's beauty and personal care investments and sits on the Board of Directors of gloProfesional and Mineral Fusion. He served as interim CEO of DDF, a prior North Castle portfolio company, delivering sales and earnings growth leading to a sale to Procter & Gamble.

Prior to North Castle, Mr. Marinaccio was an Engagement Manager at McKinsey & Company, advising consumer, life sciences, retail, and healthcare clients on strategy, business development, and operational improvement issues. He began his career in middle market corporate finance at ABN-AMRO. Mr. Marinaccio received a B.B.A. in Finance from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Jonathan Marino, Editor, peHUB.com

Jonathan Marino joined Thomson Reuters to edit peHUB in 2010. Prior to coming to peHUB, he worked as a writer and editor with the M&A Journal, covering private equity and investment banking. He has also written for publications including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New York Post, Washington Examiner and mergermarket.

James Mawson, Founder and Editor, Global Corporate Venturing

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James McCandless, Managing Director, Head of Global Real Estate, Farmland, UBS AgriVest LLC

Jim McCandless specializes in agricultural real estate investment management for institutional investors. Mr. McCandless was one of the six founders of AgriVest, the firm�s predecessor organization, in 1983. Prior to that, he spent four years as the Chief Investment Officer of an agricultural investment company in the Midwest.

From 1973 to 1979, Mr. McCandless was an Agricultural Investment Officer with Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company. He was a Commercial Agricultural Loan Officer with Bank of America in California from 1968 to 1973. Mr. McCandless has 43 years of investment industry experience.

Mr. McCandless is a member of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers, the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA) and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries (NCREIF). He earned a B.S. degree from Oklahoma State University (US).

Richard (Rick) Miller, Partner, Managing Director, Regiment Capital Advisors, Inc.

Richard T. Miller is a Partner at Regiment Capital Advisors. He is in charge of the firm�s direct lending effort. Regiment�s direct lending business has raised over $3.5 billion of capital since its inception and is currently investing its fifth fund. Mr. Miller has over 20 years of experience in the capital markets and before joining Regiment was ranked on the Institutional Investor �All American High Yield Research Team� for six consecutive years, focusing primarily on the high yield metals and mining sectors. Prior to his involvement in high yield research, Mr. Miller was at Chase Manhattan Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He then moved on to become a Managing Director with the High Yield Group. Subsequently, he became the head of High Yield Research at BankBoston Securities. In 1999, Mr. Miller joined UBS as a Managing Director and head of the Global High Yield Research Group.

Mr. Miller received his undergraduate degree from Syracuse University and his MBA from the University of Rochester.

David B. Miller, Managing Partner and Co-Founder, EnCap Investments

David B. Miller is a Managing Partner and co-founder of EnCap Investments L.P. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. Miller served as President of PMC Reserve Acquisition Company, a partnership jointly-owned by EnCap and Pitts Energy Group. Prior to the establishment of EnCap, he served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of MAZE Exploration Inc., a Denver-based oil and gas company he co-founded in 1981. Mr. Miller began his professional career with Republic National Bank of Dallas, ultimately serving as Vice President and Manager of the bank�s wholly-owned subsidiary, Republic Energy Finance Corporation.

Mr. Miller currently serves on the board of directors of several EnCap portfolio companies, including Cordillera Energy Partners III, Eagle Oil & Gas Partners, Cornerstone Natural Resources, Talon Oil & Gas and Unconventional Resources.

In 2004, Mr. Miller was appointed to the National Petroleum Council, an advisory body to the Secretary of Energy, and he is a member of the Board of Advisors of the Maguire Energy Institute. Additionally, he is a member of the Independent Petroleum Association of America, the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, the Western Energy Alliance and the Dallas Wildcat Committee.

Mr. Miller is a graduate of Southern Methodist University, having received Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Business Administration in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He serves on the Board of Trustees at SMU and also is a member of the Executive Board of the Edwin L. Cox School of Business. Mr. Miller is a recipient of the Distinguished Alumnus Awards from both Southern Methodist University and the Cox School.

Todd Milligan, Director, Private Advisors

Todd A. Milligan is responsible for private equity strategy and industry research, manager sourcing and due diligence, manager selection and portfolio construction, and monitoring of small company buyout partnerships. Prior to joining Private Advisors, Mr. Milligan was an Associate with Ewing Bemiss & Co. where he participated in the execution of mergers and acquisitions, private placements of debt and equity, and strategic advisory services. He was responsible for financial valuation and strategic industry analyses. He also worked closely with senior management of client companies and communicated directly with prospective purchasers, both strategic and financial, regarding potential acquisition opportunities. Mr. Milligan received a B.S. in Business Administration, Summa Cum Laude, with a major in Economics from the University of Richmond.

Stuart Milstein, Senior Vice President, Beacon Capital Partners

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Kate Mitchell, Co-Founder and Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners

Kate Mitchell is a co-founder of Scale Venture Partners, a venture capital fund with over $900 million under management located in Silicon Valley, California. She leads investments in software bringing more than 25 years' experience in technology, finance and management to her portfolio. Ms. Mitchell has actively worked with portfolio companies such as Hubspan, Jaspersoft, mBlox, Wayport, & Tonic Software as they grow to become successful enterprises. She is active on policy issues that impact the venture industry and was the 2010-2011 Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). She remains active in policy matters that impact start-ups and is currently chairing a Small Company IPO Task Force that came out of a conference on that topic sponsored by the the Treasury Department. In addition, Ms. Mitchell is a member of the SVB Financial Group Board of Directors (NASDAQ: SIVB).

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Ms. Mitchell held various corporate development and technology management positions at Bank of America and was responsible, among other things, for the launch of the bank�s initial online banking presence in the mid 1990�s. Ms. Mitchell holds a BA from Stanford University and an MBA from the Executive Program at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. She also attended the Harvard Executive Program. Ms. Mitchell is active as a Charter Member of Environmental Entrepreneurs (Silicon Valley).

Greg Mondre, Managing Partner, Silver Lake

Greg Mondre is a Managing Partner of Silver Lake based in New York. Mr. Mondre joined Silver Lake in 1999 and has served as a Managing Director and member of the firm�s Investment Committee since 2005. He serves as a director of Avaya, Inc.; Go Daddy Group, Inc.; IPC Systems, Inc.; Sabre Holdings, Vantage Data Centers, and is on the Operating Committee of SunGard Capital Corp. Previously he was a director of UGS Corporation. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Mondre was a Principal at Texas Pacific Group. Earlier in his career, Mr. Mondre worked as an investment banker at Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Mondre graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.

Ralph Money, Managing Director, Commonfund

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Jeffery F. Moy, Head of Private Equity, Rockefeller Financial

Jeffery Moy, CFA, CMT, CAIA, is the Head of Private Equity at Rockefeller Financial. Mr. Moy is responsible for oversight of Rockefeller Financial�fs private equity and venture capital program, including the selection and review of third�]party managers, the review of client private equity portfolios and new business development. Mr. Moy was most recently a Senior Managing Director of Liberty Mutual Investment Advisors, LLC. During his 15-year career at Liberty Mutual, he had responsibilities for sourcing, evaluating, recommending, and monitoring a portfolio of funds in early and late stage venture capital, growth capital, and leveraged buyout partnerships, emerging market funds, secondaries and co-investments. Prior to Liberty Mutual, Mr. Moy served as a Marketing Manager and Joint Venture Project Coordinator at Staples Inc., an International Equity Analyst at Keystone Custodian Funds and an Associate at Matuschka Venture Partners. He received a Master of Science degree in Management from Sloan School of Management, M.I.T. and a B.S. in Business Administration from Boston University.

Terrence Mullen, Managing Partner, Arsenal Capital Partners

Terrence M. Mullen is Co-Founder and Partner of Arsenal Capital Partners, a leading private equity firm that invests in specialty industrial, healthcare, and financial services sectors where it has deep expertise. The firm is comprised of a team of 35 professionals with extensive investment, transaction, industry, and operating capabilities. This diverse team enables companies to accelerate growth and compound profitability. Arsenal Capital Partners operates out of offices in New York City and Shanghai and currently has $800 million of equity capital under management.

In 2000, Mr. Mullen co-founded Arsenal Capital Partners with Jeffrey B. Kovach, a colleague at Thomas H. Lee Partners (currently known as THL Partners), a $20 billion private equity firm in Boston, Massachusetts. At THL Partners, Mr. Mullen was a Principal and invested in manufacturing, services and media companies. While at THL Partners, Mr. Mullen had a leading role in growth buyout investments with a total equity value of $700 million, enterprise values of over $1.8 billion. Mr. Mullen also worked in the Investment Banking Division of Morgan Stanley & Co. and received a B.B.A. in Finance and Economics from the University of Notre Dame and a M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Mullen currently serves on the boards of DG3 Holdings, LLC, KGS-Alpha Capital Markets, LP, and Source Refrigeration & HVAC, Inc. He previously served on the boards of additional Arsenal portfolio companies IDQ Holdings, Inc., Priority Solutions Inc., Renaissance Mark Holdings Corp., Sermatech International Holdings Corp., and TallyGenicom Holdings, LLP.

Brian P. Murphy, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors

Brian P. Murphy is a Managing Director of Portfolio Advisors, LLC. He is a member of Portfolio Advisors� Management Committee, Investment Committee, and co-heads the Advisory Services practice. Portfolio Advisors is a Registered Investment Advisor and Qualified Professional Asset Manager (QPAM) that specializes in delivering customized, private equity solutions to its clients. Clients include the Los Angeles Fire and Police Pensions (�LAFPP�), the City and County of San Francisco Retirement System (�SFERS�), The State of Pennsylvania (�PSERS�), Utah Retirement Systems (�URS�), UPS, Verizon, IBM, General Reinsurance, The Pension Fund of the Christian Church, UBS Warburg, University of Illinois Foundation, and the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. On behalf of its clients, Portfolio Advisors manages over $30 billion and administers over $60 billion of private equity investments through its Advisory, Funds Management, and Administration Services. Mr. Murphy has served, or is serving as a director of nine client portfolio companies and as an Advisory Board member of eighteen private equity partnerships. He earned a BA from Brigham Young University, an MBA from Columbia University as well as a CFA.

Stephen Murray, President and Chief Executive Officer, CCMP Capital

Stephen Murray is President and Chief Executive Officer of CCMP Capital and a member of the firm's Investment Committee. Mr. Murray focuses on investments in consumer, retail and services and healthcare sectors. Prior to joining CCMP in 1989, Mr. Murray was a Vice President with the Middle-Market Lending Division of Manufacturers Hanover. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of AMC Entertainment, ARAMARK Corporation, Crestcom, Generac Power Systems, Hanley Wood, Infogroup, Jetro Holdings, LHP Hospital Group, Medpace, Noble Environmental Power, Octagon Credit Investors, Square Trade, Inc., Strongwood Insurance and Warner Chilcott. Mr. Murray holds a B.A. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Jonathan Nelson, CEO, Providence Equity

Jonathan Nelson founded Providence, the leading global private equity firm specializing in equity investments in media, communications, education, and information companies around the world. Providence has over $23 billion of equity capital under management. The firm�s sixth fund, Providence Equity Partners VI, closed on $12 billion in 2007. Mr. Nelson serves on the board of directors of Hulu, Television Broadcasts Limited (�TVB�), Univision Communications and Yankees Entertainment & Sports Network. Prior to Providence, he was a Managing Director of Narragansett Capital Inc., where he specialized in private equity investments in the cable television, broadcasting and publishing sectors. Mr. Nelson received a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University. Mr. Nelson is a trustee of Brown University and serves on the board of Newport Festivals Foundation.

Dr. Olaf Neubert, Managing Partner, Hedges Capital Inc.

Dr. Olaf Neubert is the Managing Partner of Hedges Capital, an Alternative Asset investment firm specialized in Private Equity Secondaries, Distressed Debt and Restructurings and Capital Introductions. Hedges Capital is the leading buy side agent for Private Equity Secondaries working as agent and advisor with the principal Secondaries investors as well as nontraditional institutional and private investors in Secondaries. On the Primary side Hedges Capital is expanding its Alternative Asset placement business with our partners in Europe, highly specialized and focused on institutional quality managers, spin-outs and growth funds of excellent management teams. We introduce select top flight Private Equity, Venture and HedgeFunds from the U.S., Canada and Latin America to European investors, with a focus on Family Offices, Private Banks, Insurance Co.'s and other institutional investors.

Prior to founding Hedges Capital in 1999, Dr. Neubert was a Managing Director with Citibank in international postings. He served in executive positions in New York, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Dublin, as Chairman of Citibank AG in Austria, and as Managing Director of Citibank Germany in Frankfurt. Dr. Neubert is a German and US citizen. He graduated from the University of Hamburg, Germany, with undergraduate degrees in business administration and economics and a Masters in Business Administration. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Christian Albrechts University of Kiel.

Michael D. Nugent, Co-Founder, BISON, Inc.

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Crevan O�Grady, Partner�Growth Capital, 3i

Crevan O�Grady joined 3i in 1997. He began his 3i career in Leeds and, following a year working in Amsterdam, was based in London for 8 years. Mr. O�Grady led 3i�s TMT team globally and, most recently, was responsible for running the firm�s consumer sector team. He joined New York�s team on September 1, 2010.

Prior to joining 3i, Mr. O�Grady worked for KPMG, Leeds. Mr. O�Grady has a degree in Business and Accounting from Dundee University and also qualified as a Chartered Accountant while working for KPMG.

During his time with 3i in Europe, Mr. O�Grady led, amongst others, the buyouts of Malmberg Educational Information Group, De Telefoongids, Mediatel, YBR, Sparrowhawk Media and VNU Media. Mr. O�Grady currently sits on the board of Touchtunes.

W. Dexter Paine III, Founding Partner, Paine + Partners

W. Dexter Paine, III is a founding Partner of Paine & Partners. Mr. Paine is a graduate of Williams College (B.A., Economics). He began his professional career at Bankers Trust Company in Los Angeles. In 1987, Mr. Paine joined Robertson Stephens & Company to establish a leveraged buyout group for the firm. In 1994, Mr. Paine joined Kohlberg & Company to establish and head the firm's West Coast office. In 1997, he co-founded the Predecessor Firm, Fox Paine & Company, where he served as president from its inception until 2008. Mr. Paine serves as a member of the Boards of Directors of WireCo World Group, Cevian Capital and SM Group and as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association. Mr. Paine is a former member of the International Board of Directors of Right to Play and past Chairman of the Board and Emeritus Trustee of Holderness School and the Nueva School.

C. Jason Payne, Managing Partner, Mainsail Partners

C. Jason Payne is a founder of Mainsail Partners. In addition to co-managing the firm, Mr. Payne is an active advisor to Mainsail CEOs through his role as a board member for Mainsail�s portfolio companies. Mr. Payne�s background as an entrepreneur and senior executive provides valuable experience, which he shares with management teams making the transition from bootstrapping to investing for growth.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Payne co-founded WiredCapital, a venture-backed technology company now part of HCL Technologies, and held a variety of roles with American Dental Partners (NASDAQ: ADPI), a dental practice management company. During his tenure with ADPI, Mr. Payne helped grow the business from start-up to over $130 million in revenues and over 1,500 employees through a combination of acquisitions and organic growth. Mr. Payne began his career with Summit Partners, a leading global private equity and venture firm. Mr. Payne received an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University.

In 2010, Mr. Payne teamed with Gavin Turner and John Griscavage (CEO of Professional Healthcare) to start the Madrone Foundation, a private foundation with the goal of assisting the financially challenged to pay for healthcare and education expenses.

Mr. Payne also sits on the advisory board of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), a division of the Smithsonian Institute, and enjoys spending time with his wife, two daughters, and their yellow lab.

Jeff Pentland, Managing Director, Northleaf Capital Partners

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Jeff Pippin, CIO, Pepperdine University

Jeff Pippin is the senior vice president and chief investment officer for Pepperdine University. He is responsible for the management of the University�s endowment, general reserves, treasury, trust and annuities, and real estate. He is a member of the president�s cabinet and is a liaison to the Board of Regents� Investment Committee. He also serves as president of the University�s three affiliated management and holding entities.

Mr. Pippin earned his degree from Abilene Christian University and an MBA from Pepperdine. He is a CPA and began his career at Arthur Andersen before joining Pepperdine in 1981. Mr. Pippin is a board member of the Commonfund, a nonprofit registered investment advisor, and has served on the California State Treasurer�s Advisory Committee as well as the Investment Committee for the West Coast Athletic Conference.

Edwin Poston, General Partner, Co-Founder, TrueBridge Capital Partners

Edwin Poston has over 20 years of experience investing in the private markets and is a founding general partner of TrueBridge Capital Partners. TrueBridge is an alternative investment firm managing over $750 million in institutional assets across a platform of venture capital and growth equity funds-of-funds. TrueBridge has a unique and exclusive relationship with the Kauffman Fellows Program, a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit that has a 15-year history of identifying, educating, mentoring and networking the future leaders of the venture industry.

Prior to co-founding TrueBridge Mr. Poston was one of two Managing Directors at The Rockefeller Foundation, where he was head of private equity. While he worked across the Foundation�s portfolio, he was particularly focused on private assets, including building and managing the Foundation�s venture capital and buyout portfolio, both domestically and internationally.

Mr. Poston came to The Rockefeller Foundation from Brandywine Trust, a New York and Delaware-based private trust company that manages over $5 billion in assets for high net worth individuals and foundations, where he was the Senior Investment Officer. While at Brandywine he had responsibilities for all asset classes, but spent the majority of his time on buyouts, venture capital, hedge funds, international equities, small cap equities, and concentrated portfolios. Mr. Poston began investing in private assets as an opportunistic real estate investor in the Washington, DC area post-college.

He began his post-graduate school career an investment banker with NationsBanc Montgomery Securities (Bank of America). Mr. Poston received a JD/MBA from Emory University and a B.A. from The University of North Carolina. He is a licensed as an attorney and was formerly licensed as a securities dealer (Series 7 and 63).

Geoffrey Prentice, Partner, Atomico

Geoffrey Prentice is a Partner at Atomico, and is primarily focused on sourcing new investments and working with portfolio companies on global business development and expansion initiatives. Prior to helping launch Atomico, he was the first employee at Skype where he was Chief Strategy Officer and worked with Niklas to build a leading global telecommunications platform company. He oversaw the expansion of Skype into Asia and Latin America and was responsible for developing the company�s initial business plan and for fundraising activities.

Prior to Skype, Mr. Prentice was director of investments at Target Investments AB, Stockholm, a publicly-traded investment company focused on new media and telecommunications. Earlier in his career, Mr. Prentice oversaw the North American operations for a venture-backed competitive intelligence company based in Amsterdam, and started his career at Robertson Stephens, the boutique investment bank, working with a wide range of public and private companies. Mr. Prentice received his Bachelors degree from the University of Michigan.

Siobhan Quinn, Chief Product Officer, Foursquare

Siobhan Quinn is the Engagement Product Manager at foursquare, where she works with designers and engineers to develop and drive feature development for the mobile application.

Before joining foursquare, Ms. Quinn was Product Manager of Blogger at Google, the web's largest blogging platform and the 7th most visited website worldwide (Alexa). There she focused on the product vision and strategy for Blogger's presentation platform (The Blogger Template Designer), and worked closely with engineers to oversee the execution of that vision through the entire product life cycle.

In addition, Ms. Quinn led Google's effort to bring Typography to the web and launched the Google Font API & Directory.

Christian Raaby Br�nden, Vice President, ATP Private Equity Partners

Christian Raaby Br�nden is vice president at ATP PEP. Based in New York, he serves on the advisory boards of a number of European and US buyout funds. Prior to joining the Copenhagen office of ATP PEP in 2006, he has experience from PwC Corporate Finance. With �7 bn under management, ATP PEP is one of Europe�s largest investors in private equity funds. ATP PEP invests in buyout funds, venture funds, secondary interests in funds, distressed related funds and makes co-investments.

Jesse Reyes, Managing Director, Reyes Analytics

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Roland Reynolds, Managing Director, Industry Ventures

Roland Reynolds is responsible for sourcing and evaluating primary commitments and early secondary and is also actively involved in fundraising and maintaining limited partner relationships. He is on the investment committee for the Industry Ventures Partnership Holdings funds. Mr. Reynolds has eighteen years of experience, including eleven years in venture capital. Previously, he was the founder and managing partner of Little Hawk Capital Management LLC which was acquired by Industry Ventures. He also spent five years as a Principal with Columbia Capital, a leading communications and information technology venture capital firm with $2.0 billion under management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Reynolds was an investment banker for four years with JP Morgan & Co. in New York.

Mr. Reynolds represents Industry Ventures on the Advisory Board of Kearny Venture Partners and is an observer on the Limited Partner Advisory Board of IA Ventures. He graduated from Princeton University with high honors and received his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Steve Robinson, Managing Director, GE Antares Capital

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Brian Rodde, Principal, Makena Capital

Mr. Rodde is a Principal in Makena Capital�s private equity group, where he is responsible for new manager selection and oversight of the existing private equity portfolio. Prior to joining Makena, Mr. Rodde was with SVB Capital where he was a member of the team that evaluated private equity fund investment opportunities. Mr. Rodde earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BA in Economics from Stanford University.

David Rogers, Founder, Caledon Capital Management

Since June 2006 David Rogers has been advising institutional investors and government on various venture capital and private equity issues through his company Caledon Capital Partners. Prior to that Mr. Rogers was the team leader (SVP) of the OMERS Capital Partners (2001- May 2006) private equity group. Mr. Rogers and his team were responsible for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating private equity investments primarily in Canada and for building and managing a diversified portfolio of private equity and venture capital fund and co-investments, which he initiated in his previous position as Senior Portfolio Manager, Funds.

Prior to OMERS, Mr. Rogers was a Vice-President Investments with Working Ventures Canadian Fund Inc. (�WV�) a Venture investment fund and prior to that, Vice-President Finance and C.F.O. of FirstService Corporation, a TSE and NASDAQ-listed public company.

Gregory Roth, Senior Editor, Buyouts Magazine

Gregory Roth is a senior editor and correspondent for Reuters, Buyouts and peHUB.com, where he writes about �fresh capital� and the pension funds, sovereign funds and endowments that invest in private equity. Prior to joining Reuters, Mr. Roth was a senior producer for The Wall Street Journal, where he was responsible for the News Hub, a twice-daily live business video program that appears on WSJ.com. Prior to that, he was a Web editor and business producer for NYTimes.com. He has also worked for CNBC and the Financial Times. Mr. Roth has an MBa from Columbia Business School, a Masters from Columbia�s Journalism School and a Ba from Duke.

Gregory Roumeliotis, Private Equity Correspondent, Reuters

Greg Roumeliotis has been a journalist for Thomson Reuters since 2007. He is currently based in New York covering the private equity industry. His previous assignments included postings in Amsterdam and London as well as stints in Athens reporting on Greece�s debt crisis. Before joining the company, Mr. Roumeliotis edited healthcare business magazines and websites in Britain. He has a BSc in Chemistry from Glasgow University and an MLitt in Journalism from Strathclyde University.

Jane Rowe, Senior Vice President, Teachers' Private Capital

Teachers�f Private Capital (TPC) is the private investment department of Ontario Teachers�f Pension Plan, Canada�fs largest single�]profession pension plan with $107.5 billion in net assets as of December 31, 2010. Since being created in 1991, TPC has developed an innovative investment program, a successful track record of investment performance and a diversified, world-class private equity portfolio valued at $12.0 billion. In addition to direct equity investments in private companies, TPC invests in leading private equity funds and co-invests with selected partners.

As Senior Vice-President of Teachers' Private Capital, Jane Rowe is responsible for strategic portfolio growth and deal stewardship. Her strong background in credit and equity investing was developed during a more than 20-year career at the Scotiabank Group of companies where she held a number of senior roles. Ms. Rowe received an MBA from York University�fs Schulich School of Business, a B.Comm (Hons) from Memorial University, and also has ICD.D certification from the Institute of Corporate Directors. She is a Director of Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment, an Independent Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Sierra Wireless Corporation, an Advisory Board Member of Memorial University�fs School of Business, and an International Advisory Board Member of York University�fs Schulich School of Business, as well as a member of the board of the YWCA of Toronto.

Elliot Royce, Managing Partner, AlpInvest Partners

Elliot Royce co-leads AlpInvest Partners� Fund Investments team and focuses on the US and Latin American markets. He is a member of the new Operating Committee. Mr. Royce joined the firm in 2007 from Allianz Private Equity Partners, where he led US investment activities and was a member of the global investment and management committees. Previously, he worked at GE Equity, McKinsey, Dillon Read, CSFB and Aberdeen, Inc. Mr. Royce received an AB in Government, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA, with distinction, from INSEAD. He represents AlpInvest Partners on various Advisory Boards.

Mr. Royce received an AB in Government magna cum laude from Harvard College and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD.

Federico Schiffrin, Senior Vice President and Investment Director, Private Equity, Unigestion

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Randy Schwimmer, Managing Director, The Carlyle Group

Durant D. Schwimmer (�Randy�) is a Managing Director with The Carlyle Group. Widely credited with developing loan syndications for middle market companies, he has over 30 years of experience in middle market finance, having spent the majority of his career in loan syndications and distribution building and developing relationships with middle market lenders and investors in middle market loans.

In his current position at Carlyle, Mr. Schwimmer, is responsible for all middle market loan capital markets activities, including loan structuring, syndications and distribution within the Churchill Financial team. Mr. Schwimmer also has primary responsibility for managing the team's indirect origination platform, sourcing new business by tapping relationships with other mid cap participants. These include lenders � commercial finance companies, business development companies, mezzanine, hedge funds, and more traditional investors in middle markets loans and mezzanine securities � and financial intermediaries such as investment banks.

Churchill Financial LLC, headquartered in New York, is a leading provider of senior loans and other debt financing to middle market companies that are backed by leading private equity firms and other investors. Churchill Financial is part of The Carlyle Group's Global Market Strategies business and operates as the firm's middle market debt investment team, offering middle market companies access to flexible debt financing solutions and institutional investors the opportunity to invest in the middle market loan asset class.

Prior to joining Churchill in 2006 as its Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Markets, Mr. Schwimmer was a Managing Director and Head of Leveraged Finance Syndication for BNP Paribas where he structured and syndicated leveraged transactions for the bank�s private equity clients. Before that, he spent 15 years at JP Morgan Chase in Corporate Banking and Loan Syndications in various capacities where he was responsible for originating, structuring and syndicating leveraged loans, including cash flow and asset-based loans along with junior debt such as mezzanine and high yield securities.

Mr. Schwimmer is editor/publisher of �On The Left� (http://www.churchillfinco.com/), Churchill�s weekly newsletter which reviews deals and trends in the capital markets. This publication has a unique focus on the mid market space and is read by thousands of influential industry participants.

Mr. Schwimmer is a graduate of Trinity College (BA) cum laude and received his MA from the University of Chicago.

Patrick Severson, Managing Director, Warburg Pincus

Patrick Severson joined Warburg Pincus in 2001 and focuses on technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) investments in software and healthcare technology. He holds a B.S. in computer science from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Severson was a consultant with Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Price Waterhouse, focused on media and technology industries. Mr. Severson is a director of iParadigms, Spigit and Telcordia. Mr. Severson serves as an advisor to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Kunal Shah, Principal, Meketa Investment Group

Mr. Shah is in his sixth year at Meketa Investment Group. A Principal of the firm, Mr. Shah works in the Private Markets Group focusing on private equity, private debt, and natural resources investments. He focuses on performing due diligence for private market funds, maintaining and establishing new relationships with private market firms, and reporting on private market funds. Mr. Shah serves as coordinator of the private equity team, and is responsible for managing the private equity deal flow and due diligence processes. He also serves as coordinator for the sourcing and analyzing of private market secondary transactions. He serves on the advisory board of select private market partnerships, representing several of the firm�s clients. Mr. Shah is also a member of the private markets operations team and is responsible for various operations projects.

Prior to joining Meketa Investment Group, he was an analyst for The Vanguard Group. Prior to that, he worked in the private equity and research group of Hirtle, Callaghan & Co. Mr. Shah received a bachelor�s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from Drexel University.

Sanjiv K. Shah, Managing Director, BAML Capital Access Funds

Sanjiv K. Shah is a Managing Director of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Capital Access Funds (�CAF�) unit, where he focuses on the origination and structuring of new investment opportunities, as well as administrative matters, including overseeing CAF�s junior associates. He joined Bank of America (�BAC�) in 1994 and is based in Chicago. In 1997, Mr. Shah co-founded the CAF group, and he has been instrumental in growing BAC�s portfolio of community development equity-related investments, including the formation of CAF�s current fund-of-funds investment vehicles. Mr. Shah was one of the youngest associates to be promoted to the Managing Director level within BAC�s legacy Principal Investing division.

CAF is an experienced market-based, returns-driven private equity fund-of-funds manager and advisor focused on meeting the targeted mandates of large public pension funds, endowments and other institutional investors. CAF has managed and advised on over $1.1 billion of capital for institutional investors across multiple mandates since 2002.

Mr. Shah has been active in his community and has held volunteer leadership positions in several local South Asian focused community organizations. In 2002, Mr. Shah was profiled in the India Tribune as a successful, young professional from the Indian-American community.

Mr. Shah holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. He is also a graduate of the Venture Capital Institute. Mr. Shah serves on the limited partner advisory board of several private equity funds in which CAF has invested, and he is a frequent speaker at industry and trade association conferences. Mr. Shah has led CAF�s relationship as a Trustee Member of The Association of Asian American Investment Managers (�AAAIM�) and has spearheaded the planning and organization of an annual conference and networking forum in Chicago in collaboration with AAAIM and other organizations which are focused on highlighting the talent and potential residing within the U.S. emerging domestic market. He is a Registered Certified Public Accountant in the state of Illinois.

Joel Shapiro, Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer, Timbervest, LLC

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Sunil Sharma, Global Practice Lead, Venture Capital and Private Equity, Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

Sunil Sharma is a Foreign Service Diplomat with Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade currently serving as the Global Practice Lead of Venture Capital and Private Equity based in the MaRS Innovation Centre in Toronto's Discovery District.

Mr. Sharma is currently on a special assignment with Canada's Venture Capital and Private Equity Association (CVCA) as the Director of International Relations where his mandate is to build strategic relationships with venture capital and private equity funds and institutional investors across the world.

In addition to this mandate representing both the CVCA and the Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr. Sharma serves on the Board of Directors or founding committees of many Canadian and international organizations which focus on the innovation ecosystem. These organizations include the Canadian Innovation Exchange (CIX), the Banff Venture Forum, Start-Up Weekend Toronto, the France-Canada Venture Forum, the MaRS Innovation Summit, Global CONNECT, the VerdeXchange, and the Milken Institute Global Conference. Mr. Sharma is also a TiE Charter Member and an organizer of the TiEQuest Venture Competition.

Mr. Sharma regularly serves as a speaker at many Canadian and international conferences on topics pertaining to early-stage venture capital attraction, private equity investment, innovation capacity-building and global trends in investment and innovation.

Since 2008 Mr. Sharma has been a Director of the Quebec City Conference - an invitation-only gathering of over 500 of the world's leading venture capital, private equity and institutional investors which takes place each year in Quebec City, Canada and which attracts the who's who of international private equity, institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds.

Mr. Sharma's last diplomatic assignment was as Consul and Trade Commissioner (Head of Consulate) in San Diego, California. The Canadian Consulate in San Diego, which Mr. Sharma was responsible for establishing, is a diplomatic mission with a focus on pursuing trade, investment and technology partnerships, as well as general and political relations between Canada and Southern California.

Previously, Mr. Sharma was on assignment with the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) and served as Canada's representative to the United Nations World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) General Assemblies in Geneva and was elected Vice-Chair of a Key Technical Committee.

Prior to his work at CIPO, Mr. Sharma served as a Senior Investment Analyst for Technology Partnerships Canada where he completed several investment deals involving emerging Canadian high technology companies.

Mr. Sharma possesses a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of Victoria and a Master's of Industrial Relations Degree from the University of Toronto.

Kate Sidebottom Simpson, Director, Parish Capital Advisors, LLP

Ms. Simpson has over 10 years of experience as a limited partner in private equity funds. She has served on numerous fund advisory boards and is a member of the Private Equity Women Investor Network.

Ms. Simpson was most recently a Director with Parish Capital Advisors, LLP, a niche fund-of-funds provider that managed over $2 billion for institutional investors. Parish Capital made private equity investments primarily in small and emerging venture capital and buyout funds, as well as opportunistic investments including co-investments and the purchase of secondary interests. Ms. Simpson was responsible for reviewing investment opportunities, leading due diligence on potential investments and monitoring those investments and their underlying companies.

Prior to joining Parish Capital, Ms. Simpson worked as an Investment Associate with the UNC Management Company, an investment management firm which provides services to The University of North Carolina. In this role, she helped to manage several alternative investment portfolios, including private equity, real estate, energy/natural resources and enhanced fixed income. She worked on all aspects of endowment management including asset allocation, portfolio construction, risk management, manager selection, performance evaluation, and reporting to the Investment Fund Board.

Ms. Simpson received a BA in History with Distinction and with Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she was a member of the NCAA Championship Women�s Field Hockey team.

Wayne D. Smith, CFA, Senior Vice President, Pathway Capital Management

Wayne D. Smith, CFA joined Pathway in 2011 and is a senior vice president in the Rhode Island office. Mr. Smith is responsible for investment analysis, due diligence, investment monitoring, performance analysis, client reporting, and client servicing.

Prior to joining Pathway, Mr. Smith managed the private equity program for the $50 billion Pension Reserves Investment Management Board (PRIM) in Massachusetts, where he had worked since 2000. In this capacity, he performed due diligence, recommended investments, and had oversight responsibility for a portfolio of more than 200 limited partnerships and $15 billion in committed capital. Before joining PRIM, Mr. Smith had worked on private equity investments for Liberty Mutual Group since 1996. He received a BA in management from Assumption College and an MBA from Babson College. Mr. Smith is a CFA charterholder.

Joshua Sobeck, Partner, 747 Capital

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Stephen J. Socolof, Managing Partner, New Venture Partners

Stephen Socolof is a Managing Partner of New Venture Partners LLC (�NVP�). NVP was established in 2001 as a venture capital firm focused on corporate spinout venturing. Specifically, NVP seeks technology-based business innovations within large corporations and their laboratories that the corporation decides are better commercialized externally. NVP works closely with those corporations to manage the development and launch of these opportunities as spinout ventures. NVP itself is a spinout of Lucent Technologies, where it had been one of the most recognized and successful internal venture incubators working to spin technologies out of Bell Laboratories. Mr. Socolof joined Lucent in 1996 as the founding member of the team with the charter to employ a venture-capital model as an alternative commercialization approach for bringing Bell Labs technology to market quickly. In total, the team launched 28 ventures from Bell Labs, raised $400 million of external venture capital, and produced great returns for Lucent.

With offices on both the east and west coasts of the US as well as in the UK and The Netherlands, and with over $700M under management, NVP has become the largest global venture capital firm dedicated to working with corporations on commercialization through spinout of communications and information technologies as well as energy and materials and consumer products and services. In addition to Mr. Socolof�s firm management responsibilities, he leads deals in semiconductors, software, storage, and wireless technologies. He is currently a director of EverSpin Technologies, GainSpan Corporation, Own Products, and a board observer of Alverix. He was recently a director of Sychip, Inc. (sold to Murata) and an observer of Flarion Technologies, Inc. (sold to Qualcomm), and Silicon Hive (sold to Intel).

Mr. Socolof has spent his career focusing on corporate innovation. Before joining Lucent, Steve spent eight years with the management-consulting firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton Inc., where he was a leader of the practice focused on enhancing corporate innovation and increasing the productivity of the R&D organization. At Booz, Allen, he worked with many global technology corporations to improve the return on their R&D investments by enabling them to identify and bring new products and businesses to market more quickly and successfully.

Mr. Socolof received an M.B.A. degree from The Amos Tuck School at Dartmouth College where he was a Tuck Scholar. He is currently on the board of the Center for the Study of Private Equity at the Tuck School. He received a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in mathematical sciences from Stanford University.

Adam D. Sokoloff, Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Sponsors Group, Jefferies & Company

Adam Sokoloff is a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division of Jefferies & Company, Inc. where his primary role is as Global Head of the Financial Sponsors Group. At Jefferies, the FSG is responsible for coordinating the firm�s relationships, both in terms of origination and distribution, with a variety of private equity sources, including traditional financial sponsors and leveraged buyout firms, hedge funds, alternative investment funds and financial entrepreneurs. As a senior member of the firm, Mr. Sokoloff serves on a variety of committees at Jefferies, including the Investment Banking Operating Committee, the Mergers & Acquisitions Review Committee, the MD Year-End Review Committee and the Financial Analyst Year-End Review Committee (Co-Chair).

Prior to joining Jefferies in May 2002, Mr. Sokoloff was a Managing Director for seven years at Bear, Stearns & Co., where he was a member of the Financial Sponsors Group and the Retail & Consumer Group. Mr. Sokoloff began his career in 1984 as a Financial Analyst at Kidder, Peabody and subsequently served as an Associate and then a Vice President in the Corporate Finance Department at Drexel Burnham Lambert. During his 25-year career, Mr. Sokoloff has completed more than 300 transactions totaling in excess of $100 billion, including public and private equity financings, leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations, high yield, bank and mezzanine debt financings, buyside and sellside advisory assignments, restructurings, stock and bond buybacks and block sales of equity and debt. Mr. Sokoloff received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Chris Solomon, Director of Capital Markets, Welsh Carson

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Glenn Solomon, Partner, GGV Capital

Glenn Solomon joined GGV Capital as a Partner in the Menlo Park office in 2006. Mr. Solomon has led GGV�s investments in Pandora, Successfactors, Isilon, Quinstreet, Square, Conviva and Focus, helping the first four through the initial public offering process. He is also actively involved with GGV�s investments in Appirio, BlueKai, Buddy Media and China Talent Group (CTG) as well as new investments in software-as-a-service (Saas) and cloud infrastructure, online marketing and advertising, and human resources technologies. Prior to GGV, Mr. Solomon was a General Partner with Partech International. As head of the Software and Internet Group, he led successful investments in Broadbase Software (acquired by Kana), Datacenter Technologies (acquired by Veritas/Symantec), Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless), Pentasafe (acquired by NetIQ) and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). Earlier in his career, Mr. Solomon worked with Goldman Sachs and also with SPO Partners, a San Francisco-based private investment partnership. Mr. Solomon received a B.A. from Stanford University, where he started on three NCAA championship tennis teams, and an M.B.A from Stanford where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He co-founded and remains active with The Spotlight Foundation, a non-profit organization that, for the past 14 years, has been dedicated to funding social entrepreneurs addressing the educational needs of at-risk youth.

Peter B. Spasov, Partner, Marlin Equity Partners

Peter Spasov is a Partner of Marlin Equity Partners, an operations-focused private equity firm with over $1 billion of capital under management. Marlin invests in businesses that are experiencing varying degrees of operational, financial or market-driven change, across a wide range of industries. Prior to joining Marlin in 2005, Mr. Spasov was a Senior Investments Specialist at Northrop Grumman Corporation where he primarily focused on private equity and real estate fund investing and served as a voting member for the approval of new investments. He earned a B.A. in Economics-Accounting from the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Matthew L. Sperling, Managing Director, Head of North American Equity Advisory, Rothschild

Matthew L. Sperling is a Managing Director and Head of North American Equity Advisory for Rothschild. Mr. Sperling has 16 years of capital markets and investment banking experience during which he has lead-managed over $25 billion of equity and equity-linked transactions.

Prior to joining Rothschild in 2011, Mr. Sperling was at Jefferies since 2006, where he was a Managing Director in the Equity Capital Markets group directing the firm�s efforts in raising equity capital for leading industrial, basic materials, energy, transportation and clean technology companies. Before joining Jefferies, he was at UBS in New York in the Equity Capital Markets group, where he played a major role in leading that firm�s industrials equity practice to the top-ranked position for 2004 � 2005. Prior to UBS, Mr. Sperling was in the Equity Capital Markets group and the Global Corporate Finance group at Credit Suisse in New York, where he focused on cross border transactions in particular. He began his career as a lawyer at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York in the securities practice, after clerking on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

Mr. Sperling holds a B.A. (magna cum laude) from Harvard College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Russell Steenberg, Managing Director, BlackRock

Russell Steenberg has more than 28 years of private equity investment experience. Mr. Steenberg is the global head of Private Equity Partners, having joined the Adviser in July 1999 as founder and head of Private Equity Partners. Mr. Steenberg is also a member of BlackRock�s Leadership Committee.

Prior to joining the Adviser, he was a co-founder and Managing Director of Fenway Partners, a middle-market buyout group with $1.4 billion of capital under management at the time of his departure. From 1983 until joining Fenway in 1995, Mr. Steenberg was employed by AT&T Investment Management Company, where he was co-head of the AT&T Pension Fund�s $3.6 billion private equity investment portfolio. In that capacity, he participated in sourcing, structuring, executing and monitoring the investments of the AT&T Master Pension Trust in non-publicly traded debt and equity securities and private equity partnerships. While at AT&T and Fenway Partners, Mr. Steenberg made over 100 private equity investments with 36 general partners, committing or investing an aggregate of over $3.6 billion of capital ($337 million to venture capital fund investments, $2.5 billion to other private equity fund investments and $795 million to direct investments).

Mr. Steenberg currently serves on the advisory boards of the following funds or GPs: SKM Equity Fund III, Quadrangle Capital Partners, Lindsay Goldberg & Bessemer, Partech International, Clayton Dubilier & Rice VII, Parallel Investment Partners and THLee VI, and is on the Board of Advisors for the Tuck Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Steenberg received an MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, an MPA from American University and a BA from St. Lawrence University.

Robert M. Stern, Managing Partner, Castle Hill Investors, LLC

Robert Stern is the Founder and Managing Partner of Castle Hill Investors, LLC, a private investment platform for equity investments in real estate assets, and the purchase of REO, discounted notes and sub/non-performing real estate debt. Castle Hill focuses on investment opportunities which are overlooked by institutional investors, as a result of investment size, geography, asset type or other factors. The firm highly values a current income stream and looks to generate meaningful cash flow as a key component of its investment approach. He is also a Founder and Managing Partner of Castle Hill Housing Partners, an affiliate focused on affordable and subsidized multifamily investments.

Previously, Mr. Stern was a Managing Partner of Perry Capital, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. At Perry, he was co-founder and Managing Partner of Perry Real Estate Partners, a global real estate private equity vehicle designed to make equity investments in real estate assets, portfolios and operating companies, purchase discounted notes and sub/non-performing debt and securities, and provide mezzanine and bridge financing. Prior to that, Mr. Stern served as a Managing Director of Blackacre Capital Management, the real estate arm of Cerberus Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar private investment management firm. Earlier, he was Director of Asset Services at BDG, Ltd., a privately held, Long Island based commercial real estate firm, where he was responsible for the Asset Management division. Before that, he was associated with Kemper Corporation where he served as a Director and Senior Asset Manager in Chicago, and Barcelona, Spain, with responsibility for the financing, management, administration and disposition of real estate investments, as well as a real estate development business unit. Over his career, Mr. Stern has invested in and financed several billion dollars of real estate assets and companies globally.

Mr. Stern has been a member of the Board of Directors for several privately held real estate companies. He currently serves on the Management Committee of GH Capital, one of the largest affordable housing companies in the U.S, and on the Advisory Board and Investment Committee of Peninsula Investments Group, a Latin America investment fund focused on workforce and middle class housing development. He is a full member of the Urban Land Institute, a founding member of Columbia University's Business School Real Estate Circle, and a frequent speaker at national and international conferences. Mr. Stern holds a BA from Connecticut College and an MBA from Columbia University.

Reed Sturtevant, Managing Director, Project 11

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Christopher S. Sugden, Managing Partner, Edison Ventures

Christopher S. Sugden joined Edison in 2002. He was named Managing Partner in January 2009. He is a successful entrepreneur, experienced in finance, business strategy, product management, sales, marketing and capital formation. His financial and operating perspective from start-up to growth stage make him a valuable asset to portfolio company management.

Mr. Sugden is Chairman of the firm's investment committee. He leads Edison's largest industry segment in financial technology and services. He is a thought leader in financial technology investing. Chris has deep domain and investment expertise in payments, capital markets and wealth management segments. He currently serves as a Director of eight Edison portfolio companies.

At Edison, Mr. Sugden has led 27 financings including 16 new investments and has served as a Director of 16 companies.

Mr. Sugden is a certified public accountant and a member of the Advisory Board for the Center for Venture Capital, Private Equity and Entrepreneurial Finance at Michigan State.

Previously, Mr. Sugden was an Executive Vice President with Princeton eCom; Chief Executive Officer of the electronic billing division. Earlier holding the role of Chief Financial Officer, he raised multiple rounds of venture capital and completed an acquisition. During his tenure, the company revenue grew in excess of 500%. Earlier, he was Director of Finance and Operations for two New York City-based magazine start-ups and internet businesses. Mr. Sugden began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he was a Supervisor in the entrepreneurial services group in Boston.

Joji Takeuchi, CEO and Cofounder, Brightrust PE Japan

Joji Takeuchi co-founded Brightrust in March 2007. Previously, he was a Partner at Konomi Inc., Japan, and Managing Director and Global Co-head of Trading at General Re Financial Products. Past engagements include funds research (private equity, listed equity and hedge funds), M&A advisory, derivatives trading, financial structuring and risk management, with an extensive network in Japanese GPs and LPs. Mr. Takeuchi earned a BA from Tokyo University, and an MA from Sydney University.

Carsten Thoma, Co-Founder, President & COO, Hybris Software

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David Toll, Editor in Charge, Buyouts Magazine

David Toll is the Editor of Buyouts Magazine, a bi-weekly published since 1988 by Thomson Reuters. From 1997 to 2005 he reported and wrote on the private equity markets for a Dow Jones�s The Private Equity analyst; for much of the past year he was a special writer at Dow Jones, where he wrote a bi-weekly column on the bankruptcy and restructuring markets for Daily Bankruptcy Review. While an editor at The Private Equity analyst, Mr. Toll helped launch a number of guides, reports and directories, including The Private Equity analyst-Holt Compensation Study, Private Equity Partnership Terms and Conditions, the Directory of Private Equity Service Providers, and the Guide To Private Equity attorneys, and the Guide to The Secondary Market. In the mid-1990s, Mr. Toll covered the paging and two-way radio markets for a Phillips Business Information (now called access Intelligence) newsletter called Land Mobile Radio News. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College.

Suzanne Troy Cole, Partner, Troy Investment Associates, Inc.

Suzanne Troy Cole has been a Partner of Troy Investment Associates since 1988 and has 24 years of experience in the Institutional Fundraising business. Suzanne is a recognized leader in the industry participating regularly on panel discussions with Dow Jones Private Equity Analyst, Thomson Reuters, IBF and other industry conferences. She has built and maintained an extensive network of contacts through her ability to focus on the investment objectives of busy Institutional decision makers. TIA has raised private equity partnerships for firms who wish to ensure and expedite the successful fundraising of their offerings to the institutional marketplace. Representative TIA clients include private equity firms such as Level Equity Growth Partners, GGV Capital, Vestar Capital Partners, Spark Capital Partners, Vantage Point Venture Partners, Lighthouse Capital Partners and Gemini Israel Funds.

Prior to joining TIA she was a Marketing Consulting Executive with a Fortune 500 company focused on the Business Services sector. She is a graduate of Boston College where she remains involved in several university initiatives. Suzanne is a founding member of the CWBC and actively involved with Programming and the Reunion Gift committees. Suzanne remains very actively with the MMRF, Multiple Myeloma Cancer Research Foundation, since its founding 15 years ago. She is a Registered Representative, Principal and Supervisor of Troy Investment Associates, Inc. member FINRA.

David C. Turner, Managing Director, Head of Private Equity, The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America

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Hendrik Vroege, Partner, EBF & Associates

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Christopher J. Walker, Principal, HarbourVest Partners, LLC

Christopher J. Walker joined the Firm in 1998 as an associate in the secondary partnership group. In 1999, he joined the primary partnership group and has focused most of his efforts on U.S. venture capital and buyout investments. He became a vice president during 2003 and a principal in 2007. Mr. Walker also has extensive experience working on the healthcare sector, as well as primary partnerships in Canada. He currently serves on the advisory committees for partnerships managed by Caltius Capital Management, Camden Partners, Columbia Capital, Enterprise Partners, Essex Woodlands Health Ventures, Galen Associates, Mission Ventures, Sanderling Ventures, Valhalla Partners, Vector Capital, and The Wicks Group. Prior to graduate school, Mr. Walker served as a pilot in the United States Navy for 11 years, flying the P-3 Orion aircraft, and achieved the rank of Lieutenant Commander. He received a BS in Finance from Providence College in 1986 and an MS in Finance from the Carroll School of Management Program at Boston College in 1998.

Gus Weber, Entrepreneur in Residence, Polaris Venture Partners

Gus Weber is an Entrepreneur in Residence who brought over 10 years of experience in technology and management to Polaris Venture Partners in 2011. At Polaris, Mr. Weber oversees @Dogpatchlabs labs Boston and Palo Alto, which is Polaris� community and workspace for entrepreneurs. @Dogpatchlsbs, he focuses his work on seed and early stage companies across internet based technology, social and consumer markets.

Prior to Polaris, Mr. Weber held senior leadership roles in the office of the Chief Software Architect at Microsoft (MSFT). As a core member of the leadership team, he oversaw business development and community relations for the Microsoft New England Research and Development (NERD) Center, in Boston MA, working to grow the site to over 800 engineers, representing all major lines of Business for Microsoft and transforming the image of Microsoft amongst key stake holders in the New England Market.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Weber held various staff and management roles at the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), where he is also an alumnus. Mr. Weber currently serves on the Boards of StreetWise Media, MITX, Governor of MA IT Collaborative, University of Pittsburgh, School of Information Science Dean�s Advisory Council, The Capital Network, and the City University of New York, City College Computer Science Advisory Board. Gus resides just outside of Boston, MA with his wife and son.

Timothy P. Wegener, Managing Director � Private Investments, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans

Tim Wegener is a managing director in the private investment group for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. Based in Minneapolis, he co-heads the group that invests in private equity funds, provides mezzanine debt financing to middle-market companies and makes equity co-investments. The group manages a private equity fund portfolio with $1.5 billion in commitments and a mezzanine and co-invest equity portfolio of $500 million.

Mr. Wegener started his career in 1994 with Strong Capital Management and in 1997 he joined Northwestern Mutual in their private investment group, focusing on mezzanine and equity co-investments. In 2006 he moved to his current position with Thrivent.

Mr. Wegener is a board member of MBI Energy Services, London Broadcasting, SNI Companies and Dixie Electric. He also holds numerous board observer seats. Tim earned his B.A. in economics and international business from Carthage College and his MS in Finance, Accounting and Banking from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Mark Weisdorf, Managing Director, CEO, J.P. Morgan Asset Management Infrastructure Investments Group

Mark Weisdorf is Managing Director and CEO Infrastructure Investments at J.P. Morgan Asset Management � Global Real Assets, managing approximately $4 billion in client capital. He brings over 30 years of investment experience to the firm. Prior to joining JPMAM in 2005, Mr. Weisdorf was head of Private Market Investments at the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, responsible for Private Equity, Real Estate and Infrastructure investment strategies. He also held senior investment banking and equity capital markets positions with CIBC World Markets and HSBC Securities (Canada) where he was Deputy CEO. Mr. Weisdorf is a CA, CFA and CBV (Chartered Business Valuator). He has a B.Comm. degree from the University of Toronto.

Andy Weissman, Partner, Union Square Ventures

Andy Weissman is a partner at Union Square Ventures. Andy began his career in the Internet at AOL in the mid-90s, then managed a series of venture funds with Dawntreader Ventures. In 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services. Andy was born in New York City and has a BA from Wesleyan University and a JD from Georgetown.

Brian K. Welker, Investment Director, Allianz Capital Partners, Inc.

Brian Welker leads the Americas investing activities of Allianz Capital Partners, Inc., the private equity fund investing division of Allianz Group, a leading insurer headquartered in Munich, Germany. The ACP portfolio comprises �6bn in committed assets to managers (primarily growth equity and buyout) investing throughout Europe, Asia and the Americas. The ACP team executes their strategy from offices in Munich, Singapore and New York. Mr. Welker has been employed by ACP since 1998. He has experience in primary, secondary and co-investment transactions and currently serves on several Advisory Boards. Mr. Welker earned a B.S. in Accounting from York College of Pennsylvania and an M.S. in Finance from Loyola College in Maryland. He serves on the Board of Trustees of York College of Pennsylania and Greens Farms Congregational Church. He resides in Westport, CT with his wife and young son.

Patrick Weston, Managing Partner, Azalea Capital

R. Patrick Weston, CFA is a Managing Partner of Azalea Capital, a private equity firm, headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, which seeks to provide strategic equity capital to privately owned, lower middle-market firms in the Southeastern United States to facilitate management buyouts, business recapitalizations, and growth plans. Mr. Weston joined Azalea Capital in 1999 and he is actively involved with all of the firm�s investing activities thru its three partnerships. Mr. Weston has worked extensively in recent years originating, structuring, and managing lower, middle market investment transactions. He currently serves on the board of directors of a number of Azalea portfolio companies.

Prior to Azalea, Mr. Weston served as vice president of Transamerica Mezzanine Financing and as a portfolio manager with Liberty Capital Advisors. He received a BA in Finance from the University of South Carolina and he received a Masters of Business Administration from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Gordon J. Whiting, Managing Director and Portfolio Manager, Angelo, Gordon

Gordon J. Whiting joined Angelo, Gordon in 2004 and is the founder and Senior Portfolio Manager of the firm�s net lease real estate strategy. Mr. Whiting has over 18 years experience in this industry and previously was an Executive Director of W. P. Carey & Co. LLC. He was also the President and Portfolio Manager of Corporate Property Associates 14, Incorporated, one of W. P. Carey�s publicly-held, non-traded real estate investment trusts (with over $1.2 billion in assets) that invest in net leased commercial and industrial properties. From 2002 to 2010, Mr. Whiting was a member of the five-person Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board (the �FRTIB�), a position to which he was nominated by President George W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. The FRTIB oversees the over $290 billion of 401(k) type retirement accounts (the Thrift Savings Plan) for most Federal employees and military personnel. Mr. Whiting received a B.S. degree from Cornell University and an M.B.A. degree from Columbia University.

Howard Widra, CEO, MidCap Financial

Howard Widra is a co-founder of MidCap Financial and its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to MidCap, Mr. Widra was the founder and President of Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance. Mr. Widra and the senior team at MidCap grew Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance into an industry leader in all of the product areas on which MidCap focuses today. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Widra was President of GE Capital Healthcare Commercial Finance and held senior roles in its predecessor entities including President of Heller Healthcare Finance, and COO of Healthcare Financial Partners.

Mr. Widra holds a J.D., Cum Laude, from the Harvard Law School and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan.

Kelly M. Williams, Global Head, Customized Fund Investment Group, Credit Suisse

Kelly is a Managing Director and Global Head of the Customized Fund Investment Group. CFIG manages over $27 billion of client commitments to private equity and venture capital funds, and specializes in designing tailored portfolios for investors. In addition, CFIG provides portfolio management services for over $90 billion of client commitments to private equity, including customized reporting and back office solutions. Ms. Williams was an Executive Director with Prudential's private equity group where she co-founded CFIG in 1999. At Prudential, Ms. Williams was responsible for the management of the fund investment group as well as investing in private equity funds on behalf of Prudential and its clients. Ms. Williams was primarily responsible for product and business development, as well as legal support for the Private Equity Group from 1996 to 1999 during which time she was responsible for the development of eight global private equity funds. Ms. Williams joined Prudential in 1993 as counsel for a Prudential unit that specialized in providing private debt and equity for global infrastructure projects. Prior to joining Prudential, Ms. Williams was an associate with Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy, where she specialized in global project finance.

Ms. Williams graduated magna cum laude from Union College in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science and Mathematics and received her Juris Doctor degree from New York University School of Law in 1989. Kelly has served as a mentor to fellows of the Robert Toigo Foundation since 2006; and was elected to the Board of the Toigo Foundation. Kelly was elected to the YWCA Academy of Women Leaders in 2007. She is a member of the Metro Chapter of the Young Presidents Organization and serves on the Board of Trustees for Union College. She is the founding board chair of the Private Equity Women Investor Network. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Council of Urban Professionals and the advisory board of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers. She is also the chair of the LP Advisory Board to the Sponsors for Educational Opportunity. She is a member of the advisory board of EX-IM Bank. Kelly was recognized in 2011 by American Banker magazine as one of the 25 Most Powerful Women in Finance.

William G. Winterer, Partner, Capital Markets, Parthenon Capital Partners

William G. Winterer has over fifteen years of corporate finance, investment banking and investment experience with middle market companies. At Parthenon, Mr. Winterer is responsible for the firm�s capital market efforts which include raising capital and performing corporate finance advisory services for new investments and portfolio companies. In addition, he develops and manages relationships with deal intermediaries, investment banks and financing sources. Prior to joining Parthenon in 2003, Mr. Winterer was a senior member of FleetBoston�s (now Banc of America Securities) leverage finance practice and involved in all aspects of the business including sponsor coverage, private placements, mezzanine finance, high yield capital markets and loan syndications. In his tenure at FleetBoston, he structured and raised over $3 billion of non-investment grade senior and junior debt capital for middle market clients in the public and private markets via both loan and bond executions. In this capacity he developed relationships with numerous companies, investors and other capital market participants in addition to working with internal credit, underwriting and market-risk committees. He also has extensive experience in the secondary debt markets and has advised on and executed numerous amendments, tender offers and restructurings on behalf of both corporate issuers and lenders/investors. Mr. Winterer began his career at KPMG in New York City where he held multiple positions. After starting in the audit practice, he moved into the M&A advisory group where he worked on sell-side and buy-side investment banking assignments and performed various strategic alternative analyses. His last position at KPMG was an assignment with SPP Capital, a middle market investment bank, where he led teams in originating, structuring and arranging equity, mezzanine and senior debt financings. Mr. Winterer has a B.A. from Williams College, an M.B.A. from New York University, and was qualified as a Certified Public Accountant.

Kenneth Wisdom, Managing Director, Portfolio Advisors

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Chris Yang, Managing Partner, Grove Street Advisors

Chris Yang is a Managing Partner of Grove Street Advisors and a member of the firm's Investment Committee. He is an active investor in micro and mid-market buyouts with a particular interest in distressed opportunities, as well as technology-oriented growth and venture funds. Mr. Yang takes leadership responsibility for GSA's strategy and portfolio development in Asia. He also leads GSA's secondary fund investing activities with principal responsibility for both execution and management of intermediary relationships.

Prior to joining Grove Street in 2001, Mr. Yang was a consultant with Integral, Inc. and Alliance Consulting Group where he worked on strategy development for a number of large technology companies across the software and telecommunications industries. In addition, he has held various operating positions with Internet companies such as HomeGrocer, SchoolStop and Rotten Tomatoes. Mr. Yang was an Associate with Seed Capital, SOFTBANK's early stage venture affiliate in Boston. Mr. Yang worked at Bain & Company on its eVolution joint venture with Texas Pacific Group and Kleiner Perkins, as well as the law firm of Bingham McCutchen.

Mr. Yang holds an S.B. from MIT, a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association.

Jay A. Yoder, CFA, Partner, Head Of Real Assets, Altius Associates

Jay Yoder is Partner and Head of Real Assets at Altius Associates, a global private equity advisory firm with over $22 billion in assets under management or advice (www.altius-associates.com). His expertise and area of focus is energy, timber, mining, and infrastructure investing where he has committed over $800 million to more than 30 funds during his career.

Previously he worked at a start-up asset management firm, where his primary responsibility was managing a real assets fund-of-funds. From 1994 through 2004, Mr. Yoder successfully managed endowments at Smith and Vassar Colleges. During his tenure at both colleges, their endowments earned first quartile returns and exceeded the colleges� composite benchmarks. Mr. Yoder also spent seven years with an investment consulting firm.

Mr. Yoder has served on investment committees at various non-profits for over 12 years. He currently chairs the investment committee of Albright College, which earned top quartile returns for the five years ending June 30, 2011. He also advises the investment committee of the Winston-Salem Foundation.

Mr. Yoder authored a book entitled Endowment Management: A Practical Guide and a booklet entitled The Investment Committee. Both were published by AGB and are available at www.agb.org. He has also written numerous articles for, and been quoted in, publications such as Pensions & Investments, Fortune, Business Officer, and Global Investment.

Mr. Yoder holds an M.B.A. from Vanderbilt University and a B.A. from Albright College. He earned his Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation in 1992.

David York, Managing Director, Top Tier Capital Partners

David York is Managing Director of Top Tier Capital Partners. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the firm, and the development and growth of its funds of funds and co-investment offerings. Mr. York currently serves on fifteen venture capital fund advisory committees. Prior to the formation of Top Tier, Mr. York was a Managing Director with Paul Capital, overseeing the firm�s venture capital fund of funds offerings. Before joining Paul Capital, Mr. York was Managing Director of Equity Capital Markets Trading Services at Chase H&Q, which provided exit strategies to the worldwide private equity community. Prior to H&Q, he managed Volpe Welty & Company�s Corporate and Venture Services Group, and founded the Specialty Equity Transaction group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. York began his career as an Executive Consultant at Paine Webber. He received his B.S.E. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.

Mark W. Yusko, CEO & Chief Investment Officer, Morgan Creek Capital Management

Mark Yusko is the Founder, CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Morgan Creek Capital Management. Prior to forming Morgan Creek, Mr. Yusko was President, Chief Investment Officer and Founder of UNC Management Company, the Endowment investment office for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, from 1998 to 2004. Throughout his tenure, he directly oversaw strategic and tactical asset allocation recommendations to the Investment Fund Board, investment manager selection, manager performance evaluation, spending policy management and performance reporting. Total assets under management were $1.5 billion ($1.2 billion in endowment assets and $300 million in working capital). Until 1998, Mr. Yusko was the Senior Investment Director for the University of Notre Dame Investment Office where he joined as the Assistant Investment Officer in October of 1993. He worked with the Chief Investment Officer in all aspects of Endowment Management. Mr. Yusko received his Bachelor of Science Degree, with Honors, in Biology and Chemistry from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters of Business Administration in Accounting and Finance from the University of Chicago. He is an Advisory Board member of a number of private capital partnerships and alternative investment programs and has served as a consultant on alternative investments to a select group of institutions. Mr. Yusko is currently a Board member of the MCNC Endowment and The Weaver Foundation.

Eric Zoller, Co-Founder and Partner, Sixpoint Partners

Sixpoint Partners� Co-Founder and Partner Eric Zoller helps set the firm�s strategic direction and helps lead all aspects of the firm�s operating, distribution, origination and new business initiatives. He also leads the firm�s secondary advisory business. In addition to managing key general partner relationships, Mr. Zoller plays an important role in distribution covering select insurance companies, public pension plans, foundations, endowments, registered investment advisors, fund-of-funds and sovereign wealth funds globally.

Mr. Zoller began his career in the M&A department at White & Case following which he joined Merrill Lynch & Co. in New York on the money market underwriting and trading desk, where he ran the firm�s short-term debt origination efforts nationally. Mr. Zoller later joined the Public Finance Group and later the Public Infrastructure Finance Group at Merrill, where he had senior relationship management and origination responsibilities. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and The University of Pennsylvania Law School.

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