Bill Lang Bill Lang is the founder and CEO of Bill Lang International. Prior to founding Bill Lang International in 2002, Bill worked as a senior Strategic Marketing and Management Consultant with KPMG,AXA, Macquarie Bank and Mckinsey & Company. He co-founded the internet technology company Sharinga Network Inc, in Silicon Valley, in a multi million joint venture with AT&T and British Telecom.

Adam Fiedor , M. B. A., Board Member : Adam Fiedor is an Associate with St. Charles Capital, LLC , a Denver-based Investment Bank focused on advising middle-market companies. Prior to joining St. Charles Capital, he worked as an Associate Director in the Financial Sponsors and Leverage Finance Group at UBS Investment Bank . Adam earned an MBA at Harvard Business School and a B.S.B.A. in Economics and Finance from the University of Denver .

Peter Ogden Peter founded Computacenter with Philip Hulme in 1981 and was Chairman of the Company until 1998, when he became a Non-Executive Director. He is Chairman of Dealogic (Holdings) plc and a Non- Executive Director of Psion plc. Prior to joining Computacenter he was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley and Co.

Stephen Pierce Head of Equity Capital Markets for the Americas Goldman, Sachs & Co. New York Stephen joined Goldman Sachs in Corporate Finance Department New York in 1984 as a financial analyst, he was a generalist with broad experience in equity and debt financings, mergers and financial advisory assignments. He returned to Global Finance New York in 1988 as an Associate. He then joined Equity Capital Markets in 1991 and was elected Vice President in 1992.

Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur with a passion for studying and serving the creative professional community. Scott is the founder of Behance , an effort to promote productivity in the creative community. Prior to leading Behance, Scott was an Associate at Goldman Sachs working in the Pine Street Group - a small global team focused on leadership development, business strategy, and strengthening key client relationships.

Katie first joined Teach For America as a special projects intern while earning her M.B.A. at Harvard Business School. Upon graduating, Katie joined the staff as the director of special projects, working directly with Teach For America's president and chief operating officer on special high-impact initiatives.

Louis Parker was born in Pittsburgh, PA on November 2, 1954. He is a 1977 graduate of University of Pennsylvania where he earned a BA degree in Political Science. He completed his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1990. Before joining GE, Louis worked at IBM for 11 years in Sales and Marketing. After completing his MBA, he worked for Morgan Stanley in Corporate Finance.

Todd E. Benson Senior Partner Mr. Benson is the Senior Partner of CPE. Prior to joining CPE in 2000, Mr. Benson served as a Managing Director in Salomon Smith Barney's Investment Banking Division where he managed a number of Citi's relationships with companies in the media and communications industry as well as several of Citi's private equity fund clients. He has completed numerous strategic and leveraged financing transactions on behalf of Citi's clients over his career.

Hugh Karseras began his career at Deutsche Bank where he rose from analyst to associate after two years. He completed an MBA at Harvard Business School where he was awarded first year honours and a prize in Finance. Following this, Hugh worked for McKinsey and Company in London and he is now a director in a leading investment bank.

Stuart M. Bryan Stuart M. Bryan Principal Stuart Bryan is an expert in mid-market manufacturing firms experiencing significant operating problems. He has led turnaround initiatives that resulted in dramatic improvements in a range of operating areas, increased enterprise values and improved positions in their respective marketplaces. He has extensive experience in such operations improvement techniques as Theory of Constraints, ‘Lean’ manufacturing, ‘5S’ and Six Sigma.

Alfred J. Shuman , age 67, was born in New Hampshire and was raised in Massachusetts. He graduated from Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts, earned his BA at Harvard College in 1961, and his MBA at Harvard Business School in 1963. He has been employed in the investment industry for 44 years. In 1990, Mr. Shuman founded The Archstone Partnerships of which he is the Managing Member.

JEFFREY D. CHURCH served as the co-chair of the Country Day Fund from 2003 to 2005, is a member of the Country Day development committee, and has had prior experience on the boards of numerous businesses and organizations. Mr. Church is the founder and chief executive officer of Autus Capital, a $25-million private equity firm that focuses on acquisitions of middle market manufacturing and distribution businesses.

P.J. Deschenes is a Founder and Partner of BlueWave Strategies. He has consulted to numerous start-up environmental and energy technology companies seeking to launch new technologies or to enter new markets. His work includes the development and execution of marketing strategies for environmentally preferable product and service companies and the assessment of environmentally performance products.

Alexander Savin Mr. Alexander Savin serves as Managing Director of Investment Company A1 where he is responsible for overall strategic business development. From 1992 until 2001, Mr. Savin worked at Bain & Company in Moscow, Boston and London. While at Bain he was focusing on consulting for private equity businesses in sectors as well as on development of strategy for leading multinational corporations.

John Willinge attended Curtin University on a Western Australian School of Mines scholarship and graduated with a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Engineering. He later attended the University of Western Australia and graduated with a Bachelor of Commerce degree. John then went on to complete his MBA at Harvard Business School, where he graduated with honours. John Willinge is the founder and CEO of Alverstoke Capital Group, a New York-based investment and advisory firm.

Kevin J. Bozic , MD After finishing his residency in orthopaedic surgery at Harvard Medical School, Kevin J. Bozic , MD , realized that he knew little about the business of medicine, that is, how business and medicine fit into the overall economy. So he did something few doctors do: he took off two years from medicine to pursue an MBA at Harvard Business School. He believes that his business education has helped him be a better physician.

Jenny Abramson is originally from, and currently lives in, Washington, DC, where she works for Teach For America as their Director of Program Strategy and Development. Jenny graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Political Science and a MA in Sociology. After graduation, Jenny was a Fulbright Scholar at the London School of Economics where she focused on the political and ethical implications of the Human Genome Project.

Darrell is President and owner of Ravenhurst Development in Seattle, WA. He is a commercial developer and has worked for the past twenty years with virtually every major design firm in Seattle and with numerous well known architects in New York, Los Angeles and around the country. His work has often focused on transit-oriented and urban mixed-use development projects. He previously served for four years on the Downtown Neighborhood Design Review Board.

Newton Maia Senior Associate São Paulo Newton Maia joined Advent in 2007. Before joining Advent, Newton was founder and CEO of Oceano, a shrimp producer and exporter company in Brazil, which was sold to a regional seafood retailer. Previously, he worked as a Summer Associate at Allen & Company in New York. He also worked for two years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Co. in São Paulo.

Jake Eberts Jake Eberts began his business career as a start-up engineer for L'Air Liquide in Spain and Italy. After working on Wall Street and Oppenheimer & Co. in London, Eberts founded Goldcrest Films in London, one of the most successful independent producers of motion pictures. Goldcrest financed development and/or production of a roster of successful films, including Watership Down, Chariots of Fire, Gandhi and The Killing Fields.

Dana Hamerschlag graduated from the Commerce School in 1998, with concentrations in finance and international business and a minor in Russian studies. She spent five years as a consultant, then as a project leader with the Boston Consulting Group, where she built experience leading clients through transformational change efforts in a variety of industries, including consumer goods and retail, global building materials, and pharmaceuticals.

Todd is currently pursuing an MBA at Harvard Business School. Combining this with his experience as a manager for PricewaterhouseCoopersâ technology-security consulting practice, he is assisting corporations with the integration of secure systems into their daily operations and e-business systems. At PwC, he was responsible for delivering Windows NT/2000 services including security assessment, penetration, as well as strategy development and implementation.