Brown Gibbons Lang & Company LP

In addition to serving as Brown Gibbons Lang & Company's CFO, Tom West is responsible for coordinating the firm's management information systems. Before joining BGL, Tom served in various finance positions with Cleveland Twist Drill Corporation (a subsidiary of Acme Cleveland Corporation). His duties included management of financial operations for five domestic manufacturing facilities and two foreign subsidiaries.

Conrad J. Morgenstern focuses on corporate restructurings and new business development. Prior to joining BGL, Conrad practiced law specializing in civil litigation, and corporate reorganization and restructuring, representing debtors in bankruptcy. Conrad was a founder, director and general legal counsel for Midwestern National Life Insurance Company prior to his appointment as the United States Trustee for Ohio and Michigan.

Cameron Miele focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private placements with experience in chemicals, energy, automotive supply and industrial manufacturing. Prior to joining BGL, Cameron served as an associate in McDonald Investments' Energy Investment Banking Group. Since he began his career in 1998, Cameron has participated in more than 35 merger and acquisition and capital raising transactions, with an aggregate value of more than $3 billion.

Chuck Fultz focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private placements with experience in the branded consumer products, distribution and business services sectors. Chuck originally joined BGL in 1998 and departed in 2003 to earn his masters degree in business. Upon graduation, and after gaining additional middle market merger and acquisition experience with investment banking firm Barrington Associates, Chuck re-joined Brown Gibbons Lang & Company in 2005.

Joyce Murphy brings over twenty years of professional service experience in office operations, budgeting, human resources, facility management and technology to her position at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company. Before joining the BGL team, Joyce was the office administrator for the national law firm of Arter & Hadden, LLP in Cleveland, Ohio, and as such was an active member in the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA).

Michael Shaffer focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private placements with experience in transportation, logistics, construction materials and building products. Prior to joining BGL, Michael was an associate at DiamondCluster International, a premier global management consulting firm. Before working at DiamondCluster, Michael was a senior analyst at William Blair & Company LLC, and an analyst at the investment banking firm of Green Manning & Bunch, Ltd.

Sean Sullivan focuses on mergers and acquisitions and private capital-raising transactions. He has deal experience in the healthcare, business services, and industrial manufacturing sectors. Prior to joining BGL, Sean was a manager in the Corporate Development department at Andrx Corporation, a leading publicly-traded specialty pharmaceutical company, and an investment banker in the healthcare group at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. in New York.

Focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private placements, Andrew Petryk works with a broad range of clients. He has significant transaction experience with corporate divestitures and in the sale and restructuring of companies in the automotive and general industrial industries, as well as business services. Prior to joining BGL, Andrew held positions in private equity, corporate finance and institutional sales. In addition, he worked in the structured finance and loan administration departments of a large Midwestern bank. He started his career in public accounting and is a non-practicing C.P.A.

Chip Wahle has more than 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. He has completed a range of financial advisory assignments including leveraged buyouts, divestitures and public equity transactions on behalf of both private equity firms and for public and private company clients. Prior to joining BGL, Wahle held investment banking positions at Barrington Associates in Los Angeles, Harris Williams & Co. in Boston and Tucker Anthony Sutro (now RBC Capital Markets) in Boston as well as corporate finance positions at ABN AMRO in both Boston and Chicago.

Focusing on mergers and acquisitions and private placements, Glen Clarke leads the firm's Food & Beverage practice. Before joining BGL he was a managing director and head of the Diversified Food Group within Harris Nesbitt, the U.S. investment banking group of the Bank of Montreal. Prior to his involvement in the food and agribusiness sector, Glen worked in Harris Bank's Capital Markets Group where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions, valuation assignments and general corporate finance transactions. In addition, he spent three years with Wells Fargo Bank in their Leverage Finance Group in both the Chicago and San Francisco offices.

John Tilson handles mergers and acquisitions, as well as restructuring transactions, for private equity clients and entrepreneurs, focusing mostly in the consumer products, manufacturing and business services industries. Prior to joining BGL, John was a managing director in the Investment Banking Group at Duff & Phelps LLC. He also was a director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Banc One Capital Markets in Chicago and a managing director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at First Chicago Capital Markets, founding the Detroit office for the firm in 1996. John began his investment banking career in 1990 with American National Bank & Trust Company, a subsidiary of First National Bank of Chicago.

Michael Gibbons is the founder of Brown Gibbons Lang & Company. He is also the chairman of Global M&A, the world's leading partnership of mid-market advisory firms. Immediately prior to forming BGL, Michael was president and CEO of Underwood, Neuhaus & Company, a leading regional securities and investment banking firm in Houston, Texas. While with this firm, he also held positions as executive vice president, head of capital markets and manager of corporate finance. Before joining Underwood, Michael was a senior vice president and served on the Operating Management Committee of McDonald & Company Securities, Inc., in Cleveland, Ohio. With the firm for 10 years, he was one of McDonald's youngest general partners.

Mark Metz supports Brown Gibbons Lang & Company's management information systems. Mark has over fifteen years of information technology experience. Prior to joining BGL, Mark was manager, IT Operations with Oglebay Norton Company; IT manager and network engineer with Avery Dennison Corporate I.T.&S.; IT specialist, Avery Dennison Industrial Products Division and IT/sales manager at Alloy Fabricators, Inc.

Elizabeth Rozsypal is responsible for developing and implementing marketing communications and public relations strategies at Brown Gibbons Lang & Company. Elizabeth is also involved in organizing the Global M&A Cross-Border Conferences previously hosted in Chicago, Venice and Boston.

Joe Boleski's responsibilities include providing financial analysis, valuation, industry research, due diligence, and preparation of client presentation materials. Joe joined Brown Gibbons Lang & Company as an analyst in 2004 and has worked on a number of sell-side and buy-side advisory, as well as capital raising assignments, across a variety of industries including business services, consumer products, food and beverage, automotive, and industrial products.

Responsible for providing financial analysis, valuation, industry research, and due diligence, Lawrence Vincek supports Brown Gibbons Lang & Company in business development and transaction management. Before joining BGL, Lawrence was the director of finance & operations for Conlon & Company in Chicago.

Wayne Twardokus' responsibilities include providing financial analysis, valuation, industry research, due diligence and preparation of client presentation materials. Prior to joining BGL, Wayne spent three years at a boutique investment bank where he assisted with mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring assignments.