Laserscope

George has over 25 years' experience in the development and financing of emerging growth companies, primarily located in the northwestern United States. He is a founding general partner of OVP Venture Partners (Seattle), the leading institutional venture capital fund based in the northwestern United States with committed capital exceeding US$500 million. Prior experience includes corporate finance and corporate banking positions with The First National Bank of Chicago, Rainier National Bank and with a large equity hedge fund involved in a wide range of investments. George has been involved in the financing of over 200 companies. Historical company involvement includes the following: Advanced Technology Laboratories (acquired); @Mobile (acquired); Coinstar, Inc. (NASDAQ); Data I/O (NASDAQ); Delrina (NASDAQ); Lam Research (NASDAQ); Laserscope (NASDAQ); Logic Automation (acquired); and Xilinx (NASDAQ). George is a past director of numerous companies including Foundstone, Inc. and the Washington Software Alliance and is currently a director of Isothermal Systems Research, Inc. George received his AB and MBA from UCLA.

President of Guidant Foundation, Mr. Baumgardt has also been an investor in Suros Surgical Systems since 2001, and the company's non-executive Chairman. He provided leadership to Suros during its $12 million financing in 2004, which was led by Morgan Stanley Venture Partners.

Robert C. Pearson, joined RENN Group in April of 1997 and is Senior Vice President-Investments. He is also Vice-President of the Fund. Mr. Pearson brings more than thirty years of experience to RENN Group's corporate finance function. From May 1994 to May 1997, Mr. Pearson was an independent financial management consultant. From May 1990 to May 1994, he served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Thomas Group Inc. a management consulting firm, where he was instrumental in moving small privately held company from start-up to a public company with more than $40 million in revenues. Prior to 1990, Mr. Pearson was responsible for all administrative activities for the Super Conducting Super Collider Laboratory. In addition, from 1960 to 1985, Mr. Pearson served in a variety of positions at Texas Instruments in financial planning and analysis, holding a BS in Business from the University of Maryland and was a W.A. Paton Scholar with an MBA from the University of Michigan. He is director of eOriginal, Inc., Poore Brothers, Inc., Caminosoft Corp., Laserscope, Simtek Corporation, and Advanced Power Technologies, Inc.