ASSOCIATES • Haig Brown • Robert Finn • Ryan Newman • Brian McCormick • Kevin Quinn • Juan Vega • Haig Brown has been an investment banker since 1978 when he joined Kidder, Peabody’s corporate finance department in its New York office. Since 1987, Haig has operated a highly successful advisory practice focusing on middle market investment banking. He has handled innumerable merger and acquisitions assignments, most recently on behalf of Apogent Technologies, a New York Stock Exchange listed health care company, for whom he completed 70 acquisitions from 1995-2004. Haig received his MBA from The Wharton School and his BA from Harvard University. • Robert Finn is a senior finance executive who ensures the viability of company operations, identifies performance gaps and implements corrective actions to improve cash flow. He has worked extensively to develop business plans that blueprint the implementation of business strategy. Industry experience in entrepreneurial to Fortune 500 companies includes telecommunications, healthcare, technology, financial services, real estate and energy. International experience includes C-level management positions in England and Switzerland with operations throughout Western and Eastern Europe. Fluent in French. • Brian McCormick • Kevin Quinn is a graduate of the University of Maryland Business School (MBA), the University of Maryland Law School and Loyola College (BA). He has over 25 years of public, corporate and real estate finance experience. From 1979 to 1982, Mr. Quinn was an attorney at Miles & Stockbridge in Baltimore. From 1982 to 1994, Mr. Quinn was employed as an investment banker at Alex. Brown & Sons where he progressed from the positions of Associate to Managing Director, and served during his last four years there as head of the firm’s Public Finance Department. In 1994, Mr. Quinn became Managing Director and head of Investment Banking for H.C. Wainwright & Co. in Boston. During his tenure at Alex. Brown and Wainwright, Mr. Quinn also served as lead banker or advisor on over 200 engagements comprising public and private offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, and divestitures. In 1999, Mr. Quinn left Wainwright to launch Wye River Group and focus on providing financial advisory, capital financing and investment advisory services to businesses, governments and non profit organizations. In addition to his activities at Wye River Group, Mr. Quinn serves on the board of directors of CareFirst, Inc., Old Mutual (US) Trust Company and Maryland Therapeutic Riding, Inc. • A. Ryan Newman has over 15 years of investment banking experience originating, structuring, negotiating and documenting real estate and corporate transactions. Ryan started her career on Wall Street at Prudential Securities as a financial analyst. During Ryan’s tenure at Prudential Securities, she worked on a number of public offerings of securities. Initially her responsibilities included performing due diligence, compiling information for the registration statement and financial modeling. Subsequently she went on to work with the firm’s institutional clients to ensure the appropriate placement and pricing of new issues of securities. Following business school, Ryan went to BT Securities Corporation, the investment banking arm of Bankers Trust, where she spent nine years the first four of which were spent on corporate transactions with a real estate focus. During the last five years at Bankers Trust, Ryan was one of a four member team that directed the investment efforts of Residential Real Estate Advisors, a real estate investment fund whose investors included the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (“CalPERS”). In that capacity, she evaluated and recommended investment opportunities, oversaw management of investor reporting and managed a $50 million multi-bank credit facility. Commitments in the fund exceeded $250 million. Most recently, Ryan has been working with small companies helping them access capital. Her work has included raising financing through venture capitalists, private individuals and strategic partners. She has also helped some of her clients with M&A advisory work. Ryan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College where she was a mathematics major and economics minor. She completed her MBA with an emphasis in finance and accounting at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. • Juan Vega is a senior executive with years of multinational corporate experience, Juan has worked either as a consultant or directly for a diverse set of companies ranging from consumer products (pharmaceutical, personal care, and food and beverages) to high technology (aircraft manufacturing, plastics packaging, injection molding, and Internet B2B start-ups). Juan has served in any number of positions including chief operating officer, chief financial officer, treasurer, and as a member of the board of directors and has lived in a number of Western Hemisphere countries (fluent in Spanish). Through his years, Juan has developed a strong background with respect to SEC compliance issues and legal and tax matters impacting both domestic and foreign operations. Juan has and continues to serve in a variety of teaching assignments as lecturer both on the undergraduate and graduate levels.