Evercore Partners Inc.

Gail Block Harris, director, has served as President of the Board of Directors of New York Cares, the leading non-profit organization providing volunteer services in New York City since 2001. Since 1998, Ms. Harris has been Of Counsel to Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP, where she was a partner from 1984 to 1998 specializing in corporate and securities law with a special emphasis on entertainment and media companies as well as joint ventures. Ms. Harris is a director of CIGNA Life Insurance Company of New York and is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council of Stanford Law School and the Executive Committee of the Stanford Law School Board of Visitors. Ms. Harris has an A.B. with distinction from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Timothy LaLonde is a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Mr. LaLonde has seventeen years of advisory experience and, prior to joining Evercore, he was an Executive Director at UBS Warburg (and was at Dillon Read, a predecessor firm), where much of his work focused on mergers and acquisitions. Prior to business school, Mr. LaLonde worked as a Vice President at a merger and acquisition advisory boutique firm. Since joining Evercore, Mr. LaLonde has advised on General Motors’ sale of a 51%interest in GMAC, AT&T’s acquisition of BellSouth, NTL’s acquisition of Telewest, SBC’s acquisition of AT&T, EDS’ sale of UGS PLM, the sale of PanAmSat to an investor group and Cingular’s acquisition of AT&T Wireless. In addition, Mr. LaLonde has been involved in numerous transactions in the energy, building and construction, and general industrial sectors. Mr. LaLonde received his B.S.B. with high distinction from the University of Minnesota, his M.Sc. from the London School of Economics and his M.B.A. with high distinction from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Andrew Rondepierre is a Vice President of the firm’s Marketing and Business Development group. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Rondepierre was Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Credit Suisse Asset Management, where he was responsible for producing retail marketing and institutional client servicing material. Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Rondepierre worked for nine years at Sanford C. Bernstein and Co., Inc. (and subsequently AllianceBernstein) as a Vice President in institutional sales/marketing and operational management roles. Mr. Rondepierre received a B.S. in Journalism from the University of Maryland.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Mendelow was Vice President of Corporate Development at FirstMark Communications Europe, a European CLEC with operations in France, Germany, Spain and Switzerland, that constructed a pan-European fiber optic backbone and wireless local loop and DSL access networks. Prior to joining FirstMark, Mr. Mendelow was an analyst at BT Wolfensohn (Deutsche Bank). While at Evercore, Mr. Mendelow has focused on telecom and technology clients. Recent deals on which he has participated include AT&T's acquisition of BellSouth, SBC's acquisition of AT&T, Cingular's acquisition of AT&T Wireless, Commonwealth Telephone's sale to Citizens, Time Warner Telecom's acquisition of Xspedius and EDS' sale of UGS PLM Solutions. Mr. Mendelow graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in economics.

Dan Ross is a Managing Director of the firm’s investment activities and private equity business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Ross was an Associate at Texas Pacific Group, where he was involved with investments in Burger King and Endurance Specialty Insurance. He also worked as an Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York and Los Angeles. Since joining Evercore, Mr. Ross has been involved with Evercore's investments in alliantgroup, American Media, Balkrishna Industries, Fidelity National Information Services, Michigan Electric Transmission Company, and Sedgwick CMS. Mr. Ross serves on the Board of Directors of American Media. He received a B.S., magna cum laude, in economics with a dual concentration in finance and legal studies from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a B.A., magna cum laude, in International Studies.

Gayle K. Turk is a Managing Director of the firm’s corporate Advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Ms. Turk was Vice President of Finance and Strategy for The Wall Street Journal where she directed finance, pricing, and strategic planning for the advertising sales department of the newspaper. Before joining The Journal, Ms. Turk was an Associate Principal at McKinsey & Company, Inc. in New York. There she worked primarily in the Firm's consumer practice with a focus on strategy, marketing and operations for retail companies. In recent transactions at Evercore, Ms. Turk has advised Creditex on its $625 million sale to IntercontinentalExchange, the Board of General Motors on its $7.9 billion sale of a 51% interest in GMAC, IntercontinentalExchange on its $1.1 billion acquisition of New York Board of Trade, and Realogy on its $9.0 billion sale to Apollo. Ms. Turk also advised Cendant on its $17 billion split-up, including the $4.3 billion sale of Travelport to Blackstone. Ms. Turk received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University, and an M.B.A. with honors from Harvard Business School.

Jason Sobol is a Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Sobol was Vice President of Acquisitions for the Davis Companies, the holding company for Marvin Davis-controlled entities, focusing on private equity and leveraged buyout opportunities primarily in media and entertainment. Mr. Sobol was also a Principal of the Davis family’s venture fund, Stone Canyon Venture Partners. Prior to Davis Companies, Mr. Sobol was Senior Director of Business Development for LAUNCH.com, which was acquired by Yahoo!, and prior to that, a member of the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Goldman Sachs & Co. Recent notable sell-side transactions include the sale of Dice.com to a private equity consortium, Ziff Davis Enterprise to Insight Venture Partners, J.D. Power and Associates to McGraw-Hill, Publishing Group of America to a venture capital consortium, Jobing.com to Great Hill Partners, the Los Angeles and Midwest newspaper divisions of The Copley Press to MediaNews Group and GateHouse Media, respectively, Medical World Communications to Ascend Media, Bright Horizons Family Solutions to Bain Capital and PanAmSat Corporation to a private equity consortium. Buyside transactions include the acquisition of Thomson Learning by Apax Partners, Houghton Mifflin Higher Education business by Cengage Learning, Factiva by Dow Jones & Company, BrownCo and Harrisdirect by E*TRADE FINANCIAL and Simon & Schuster by Pearson plc. Mr. Sobol has also advised on a broad range of transactions including IPOs, spin-offs and recapitalizations. Mr. Sobol received a B.A. in Economics, with honors, from Harvard University.

While at Evercore, Mr. Reisenberg has been involved in advising First Data in its sale to KKR, Interpool in its sale to Fortress, CVS in its merger with Caremark, its acquisition of Albertson’s standalone drugstores, and its acquisition of Eckerd Drugstores, AT&T in its acquisition of BellSouth, in SBC’s acquisition of AT&T, and in Cingular’s acquisition of AT&T Wireless, Storage Technology Corp. in its sale to Sun Microsystems, Hearst in its acquisition of a 20% stake in Fitch, VNU in its sale to a private equity consortium, General Mills in the redemption of its interest in Snack Ventures Europe, Robert Mondavi Corp. in its sale to Constellation brands and its proposed dual-class equity recapitalization, Kaman Corporation in its dual-class equity recapitalization, Louis Dreyfus Natural Gas in its sale to Dominion Resources and Accenture in its initial public offering. Mr. Reisenberg graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Huntsman Program in International Studies & Business, where he received a BS from the Wharton School, concentrating in Finance, and a BA from the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in International Studies and French.

Mr. Saglio is a Vice President of the firm’s corporate advisory business and restructuring practice. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Saglio spent five years at Lazard advising companies in a variety of industries including media, consumer, transportation, natural resources and utilities. Prior to Lazard Mr. Saglio worked at Morgan Stanley as a financial analyst in the Natural Resources group. Representative transactions include Silver Lake’s sale of Instinet to Nomura, TI Automotive’s sale of its industrial businesses to Sun Capital, E*TRADES’s acquisition of BrownCo from JPMorgan, Cerberus Capital’s investment in Air Canada, Schneider Electric’s acquisition of Power Measurement, HotJobs’ sale to Yahoo!, Austin Quality Food’s sale to Keebler, Infogrames’ acquisition of GT Interactive and Hasbro Interactive, and Molson’s acquisition of Molson USA from Miller. Mr. Saglio received a B.S. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A., with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Brofka was an investment banking associate in the Global Energy practice of Citigroup’s corporate and investment bank, focusing primarily on exploration and production clients, as well as working with integrated majors, oil service companies and midstream MLP clients. Previously, Mr. Brofka spent four years in the oil and gas industry with BP Exploration in various upstream engineering roles in both Alaska and Algeria. While with Evercore, notable transactions Mr. Brofka has been involved with include the successful tender defense and recapitalization of Energy Partners, Ltd., the announced acquisition of Stone Energy by Energy Partners, Ltd., the sale of MPower Communications, the restructuring and separation of Tyco International into three separate businesses, the pending sale of Aquila Inc. to Great Plains Energy, and the divestiture of select gas distribution and electric utility assets by Aquila Inc. Mr. Brofka received a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from UCLA’s Anderson School of Management.

Naveen Nataraj is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. At Evercore, Mr. Nataraj has advised technology, telecom and media clients in transactions totaling over $200 billion in value, including advising AT&T in its acquisition of Bellsouth, EDS in its sale to HP, First Data in its sale to KKR, TWCable in its spin-off from Time Warner, Scientific Atlanta in its sale to Cisco Systems, Intellisync in its sale to Nokia, NTL in its acquisition of Telewest, Avaya in its acquisition of Tenovis, Flarion Technologies in its sale to QUALCOMM, Insight Communications in its sale to the Carlyle Group, among others. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Nataraj was a founding Partner at Saturn Venture Partners, a $280 million venture capital fund focused on the communications and enterprise networking and software sectors formed in conjunction with Telecom Italia. Prior to Saturn, Mr. Nataraj was a Vice President at Sandler Capital, a $2.5 billion communications focused investment management firm where he was responsible for principal investing in public securities, private equity and venture capital opportunities. Previously, Mr. Nataraj was a Financial Analyst at Bear, Stearns and Co. Inc. He received a BA from the University of Rochester.

Rafael Polanco is a Vice President of the firm’s Corporate Advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Polanco worked in the technology investment banking group at Credit Suisse First Boston focusing on mergers and acquisitions. In recent transactions at Evercore, Mr. Polanco has been involved in the sale of a minority ownership stake of Silver Lake to CalPERS, the notes offering and ABS portfolio sale by E*TRADE to Citadel Investment Group, the sale of Realogy to Apollo Management, Cendant's sale of Travelport to The Blackstone Group, the spin-offs by Cendant of Realogy and Wyndham Worldwide, Credit Suisse Group's sale of Winterthur Group to AXA, Swiss Re's acquisition of General Electric's reinsurance assets and Dow Jones' acquisition of MarketWatch. Mr. Polanco has also advised companies such as CA (formerly Computer Associates), General Motors, Mobile Satellite Ventures, Providence Equity, Reuters and RiskMetrics. Mr. Polanco serves on the Advisory Board of the College of Arts and Science at New York University. He received a B.S. in Biology and a B.E. in Environmental Engineering from the Dual Degree Program in Science and Engineering at New York University.

Scott Patrick is a Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Patrick spent over 12 years at Morgan Stanley, most recently as the firm’s lead equity research analyst covering the Financial Technology industry. Mr. Patrick was also a member of the Asset Management & Brokerage research team ranked No. 1 by Institutional Investor for four consecutive years (2000-2003). Before joining Morgan Stanley’s equity research department in 1999, Mr. Patrick held roles in both M&A and investment management at the company. During his tenure in equity research, Mr. Patrick performed due diligence, valuation, and investor education functions in connection with the IPOs of Chicago Mercantile Exchange, International Securities Exchange, Primus Guaranty, Neuberger Berman and Goldman Sachs, as well as Nasdaq’s secondary offering. Since joining Evercore, Mr. Patrick has advised the International Securities Exchange on its sale to Eurex; IntercontinentalExchange on its acquisition of the New York Board of Trade; Reuters on the formation of FXMarketSpace, its joint venture with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; TA Associates on its acquisition of eSecLending; and Hotspot FX on its sale to Knight. Mr. Patrick received a B.A. in Economics, Summa Cum Laude, from Williams College.

Prior to joining Evercore, from 2003 until 2006, Mr. Frankel was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Genesee & Wyoming Inc., where he established the company's in-house legal department, and was also responsible for matters related to human resources and government affairs. Prior to Genesee & Wyoming, he worked from 1999 until 2003 as a corporate and transactions attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at Ford Motor Company. From 1995 until 1999, Mr. Frankel was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in London and New York. Mr. Frankel is currently a member of the Board of Directors at Picis, Inc., a privately held company that creates automated software for resource-intensive hospital departments, where he serves on the audit and compensation committees. He received a B.A. in economics from Brown University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School. Mr. Frankel was an editor of the Stanford Law Review and of the Stanford Law and Policy Review.

Previously, Ms. Burnham was a founding partner of Five Mile Capital Partners, a hedge fund management company and an equity research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc., and she spent six years in consulting, most recently at McKinsey & Co., Inc. Additionally, Ms. Burnham played a leading role in the formation of Evercore Asset Management, L.LC. Ms. Burnham previously served on the Boards of Directors of Davis Petroleum Corp.,TestEquity, LLC., Vertis, Inc., Specialty Products & Insulation Co., and Resources Connection Inc. Ms. Burnham received an A.B., cum laude, from Princeton University and an M.B.A., with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, where she was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow and received the Beta Gamma Sigma award for the highest academic achievement in the graduating class.

David Ying is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business and is co-head of the firm’s restructuring practice. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Ying has had extensive experience leading successful restructuring advisory groups. Most recently, he was for two years a Managing Director of Miller Buckfire Ying & Co., LLC, a boutique restructuring advisory firm. Before that he spent six years as a Senior Managing Director of JLL Partners, a private equity investment firm that invests in turnaround situations. Prior to that, he led restructuring groups at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Smith Barney and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Restructurings with which Mr. Ying was associated include Aurora Foods, Interstate Bakeries Corporation, Oakwood Homes, Pegasus Satellite Communications, Mirant Corporation, Morrison Knudsen, Grand Union and Advantica. Mr. Ying has a B.S. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Gail Landis is the Head of Sales & Marketing, and a co-founder of Evercore Asset Management. Prior to forming EAM, Ms. Landis was a Managing Director and Head of Americas Distribution at Credit Suisse Asset Management. Before joining CSAM, Ms. Landis spent 21 years at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. where most recently she was a Managing Director leading the firm’s global institutional marketing and consultant development activities. Ms. Landis initially joined Sanford Bernstein in 1981 as a sell-side equity analyst covering Electrical Equipment. She subsequently had a number of buy-side investment roles, including as a small-cap and large-cap portfolio manager working with Greg Sawers and Andrew Moloff. Ms. Landis earned a B.A. in East Asian Studies from Boston University and an M.B.A. from New York University.

Mr. Ha joins Evercore from Rohatyn Associates where he was a Managing Director. Prior to working at Rohatyn, he was a Managing Director and Co-head of Deutsche Bank's Telecommunications Group for the Americas and a Managing Director of Lazard in New York.Over the last decade, Mr. Ha has been a leading investment banker to companies in the telecommunications, media and technology industry (TMT) and has advised on some of the largest and seminal transactions in the TMT sector.Mr. Ha, 42, began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers. Previously, he was a consultant at Accenture. He holds an M.B.A and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University and a B.S. in Physics from Allegheny College.

Jane Sadowsky is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Ms. Sadowsky was a Managing Director in Citigroup’s Investment Banking division where she focused on Power and Utility companies and was the Co-Head of Citigroup’s North America Power Investment Banking group. Ms. Sadowsky started her investment banking career at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, where she spent 11 years, and left as a Senior Vice President in the Utilities Group. Ms. Sadowsky holds a B.A. degree from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2004, Ms. Sadowsky was awarded the Wharton Women in Business Award for her work in mentoring and career development for women on Wall Street.

Jane Gladstone-Wheeler is the Senior Managing Director leading Evercore’s financial services corporate advisory business with over 17 years of investment banking experience. For the past three years, Ms. Gladstone-Wheeler has been named one of the Top 30 rainmakers on Wall Street by Dealmaker magazine. Since joining Evercore, Ms. Gladstone-Wheeler has advised International Securities Exchange on the merger of ISE Stock Exchange with Direct Edge. She also advised Rockefeller Financial Services on its sale of a 37% stake to Société Générale; Creditex on its $625 million sale to IntercontinentalExchange; Silver Lake Partners on its sale of a minority ownership stake to CalPERS; Gerson Lehrman Group on its $300 million capital raise from Silver Lake Partners; E*TRADE FINANCIAL in its $1.75 billion capital raise, as well as its acquisitions of Harrisdirect from Bank of Montreal ($700 million) and BrownCo from JP Morgan ($1.6 billion); First Data on its $29 billion sale to KKR; ISE on its $2.8 billion sale to Eurex; Silver Lake Partners on its sale of Instinet to Nomura Holdings; IntercontinentalExchange on its $1.1 billion acquisition of the New York Board of Trade; The Bank of New York in its $629 million formation of BNY ConvergEx, through combination of BNY Securities Group’s trade execution business with Eze Castle Software and an investment by GTCR Golder Rauner; Reuters in the creation of FX MarketSpace, its joint venture with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange; and Hotspot FX in its $78 million sale to Knight; and TA Associates on its acquisition of eSeclending. Prior to joining Evercore in July 2005, Ms. Gladstone-Wheeler was the Managing Director, heading the securities industry and financial technology investment banking business at Morgan Stanley, where she worked for over twelve years. Ms. Gladstone-Wheeler graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Virginia.

John Honts is a Managing Director of the firm’s Corporate Advisory business. Mr. Honts was involved in advising CVS on its acquisition of Caremark, Cendant on its restructuring into four companies, Tyco on its restructuring into three companies, and CBS on its merger with Viacom. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Honts was a Financial Analyst at Merrill Lynch, and a Summer Associate at Questor Partners. Mr. Honts received a B.A. in finance from the Honors Business Program at the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Jonathan Knee is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Knee was a Managing Director and Co-head of Morgan Stanley's Media Group. He was previously Publishing Sector Head in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group at Goldman Sachs. Prior to becoming an investment banker, Mr. Knee was Director of International Affairs at United Airlines and served as Adjunct Professor of Law at Northwestern University. In recent notable transactions, Mr. Knee was involved in The Hearst Corporation’s investment in FitchRatings, the recapitalization of Freedom Communications, the purchase of CBS MarketWatch by Dow Jones, NTL’s acquisition of Telewest, the purchase of Sprint's directories by R.H. Donnelley, the stock merger of Instinet with Island, the purchase by Thomson of Primark, the purchase of Harcourt General by Reed Elsevier as well as the sale of VNU to the private equity consortia, J.D. Power and Associates to The McGraw-Hill Companies, Times Mirror to Tribune, Nielsen Media Research to VNU, World Color Press to Quebecor and Simon & Schuster to Pearson. Other transactions include the initial sale, subsequent IPO and two subsequent resales of Petersen Publishing and the IPO of BSkyB. Mr. Knee is currently an Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business where he teaches Media Mergers and Acquisitions and Media Strategy and serves as the Director of the Media Program. Mr. Knee currently serves on the Board of Directors of Art Connection, Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York, National Women’s Law Center, New Alternatives for Children and the Yale Law School Fund. Mr. Knee received a J.D. from Yale University, an M.B.A. from Stanford University, an M.Sc. from Trinity College Dublin and a B.A. from Boston University.

Kathleen Reiland is a Senior Managing Director and the Chief Operating Officer of the firm’s investment management business. Prior to joining the firm, she was a Principal and buy-side equity research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc. where she was responsible for investments in both Small Capitalization and Hedge Fund portfolios. Ms. Reiland was previously a consultant at Bain & Co., Inc. Before attending business school, she was an associate at Bankers Trust Company in both New York and London. Ms. Reiland was involved in advising CBS Corporation on its merger with Viacom Inc., and serves on the boards of Bollinger, Inc., Causeway Capital Management LLC and Diagnostic Imaging Group, LLC. Ms. Reiland received an A.B. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.

Michael Price is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to Evercore, Mr. Price spent eleven years at Lazard where he was a Managing Director and founded and led the firm’s global Telecom and Technology Group. In 1998, he co-founded FirstMark Communications Europe, a 60 city IP backbone across Europe with access businesses in Spain and France. Mr. Price has advised on a number of the largest transactions in the telecom industry, including SBC’s acquisition of AT&T, Cingular’s acquisition of AT&T Wireless, SBC’s acquisition of Pactel, McCaw Cellular’s sale to AT&T and the breakup of US West. Mr. Price also created Lazard Technology Partners, a venture capital group, and was responsible for some of Lazard’s most successful investments, including Amdocs, a leveraged recapitalization led by Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe which has resulted in over $2 billion of gain for WCAS, on approximately $200 million of investment. Mr. Price serves on the Board of Overseers of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the board of the Rockefeller University Council. He previously sat on the boards of SpectraSite, Amdocs and People PC. Mr. Price received a B.S. in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.

Neeraj Mital is a Senior Managing Director and Co-Head of the private equity business. Mr. Mital has eighteen years of experience in principal investing and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Mital was a Managing Director at The Blackstone Group. From 1989 through 1991, Mr. Mital was with Salomon Brothers Inc. Prior to joining Salomon Brothers, he was with Price Waterhouse. Mr. Mital serves on the Board of Directors of Mr. Bult’s Inc., alliantgroup, LP and Diagnostic Imaging Group. Mr. Mital received a B.S. in economics with honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Billyard is a Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Mr. Billyard has fourteen years of experience in the investment banking business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Billyard worked at Lehman Brothers for eleven years in the New York and London offices covering both Industrial and Consumer clients from an M&A perspective. Prior to Lehman, Mr. Billyard worked in Nikko Securities’ London office for two years. Mr. Billyard advised on the sale of Cole National Corporation to Luxottica, several divestitures for Chiquita Brands International and the merger of Miller Brewing Company with South African Breweries by Philip Morris to form SABMiller. Other notable transactions include the split-off of EDS from General Motors, Purolator Products Company’s sale to Mark IV Industries, acquisition of Applied Automation from ABB by Siemens, acquisition of Chase Brass by Olin Corporation, acquisition of Medusa by Southdown and its subsequent sale to Cemex, acquisition of Sema by Schlumberger, acquisition of DSC Communications and Xylan for Alcatel, acquisition by Ameritech of a stake in Belgacom, sale of Illinois Central to CN Railways, sale of Raytheon’s Marine electronics business to Merrill Lynch Private Equity and the acquisition of the Widia cutting tools business of Milacron for Kennametal. Mr. Billyard received a first class Bachelor of Science degree with Honors in applied chemistry from Nottingham’s Trent University and a Doctor of Philosphy in metallurgy from Oxford University where he was sponsored by British Petroleum plc.

Mr. Aspe founded Protego in 1996, and serves as Protego's Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Aspe has been since 1995 a professor at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México located in Mexico City. Mr. Aspe has held a number of positions with the Mexican government and was most recently the Minister of Finance and Public Credit of Mexico from 1988 through 1994. Mr. Aspe is a Principal member of the Investment Committee and Chairman of the Advisory Board of Discovery Americas I L.P. Mr. Aspe serves as a director of a number of public companies, including Televisa and the McGraw Hill Companies. Mr. Aspeis a member of the Board of the Carnegie Foundation, the Advisory Board of Stanford University's Institute of International Studies and the Visiting Committee of the Department of Economics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mr. Aspe also currently serves as a member of the Advisory Board of Marvin & Palmer and of MG Capital, in Monterrey, Mexico. Mr. Aspe received a B.A. in Economics from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM) and a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sangam Pant is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s investment management business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Pant held various senior management positions with companies such as AT&T, DEC, Lycos and Ziff-Davis. Mr. Pant is a board member at StrongMail and Alliant Group. His other investments include Jamdat Mobile (NASDAQ:JMDT subsequently sold to Electronic Arts NASDAQ:ERTS, former board member), Sierra Design (sold to NASDAQ:MENT, former board member), Business.com (sold to RH Donnelley NYSE:RHD, former board member), StorePerform Technologies (sold to Red Prairie, former board member), Atheros (NASDAQ:ATHR), LowerMyBills (Sold to Experian) and Balkrishna Industries (BSE: BKB.I). Mr. Pant received his BS in Electronics Engineering from Maharaja Sayajirao University in Baroda, India, his MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds four patents and has published numerous research papers and articles.

Saul Goodman is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Goodman was a Vice President in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers, where he focused on media and telecommunications clients. Mr. Goodman started his career at Ark Asset Management, where he worked as an Assistant Portfolio Manager. Mr. Goodman was involved in advising CBS Corporation on its merger with Viacom Inc., Time Warner Cable in its separation from Time Warner, SpectraSite on its merger with American Tower Corporation, ACNielsen Corporation on its sale to VNU N.V. and the sale of VNU N.V. to a financial consortium. Other notable transactions include advising SBC Communications on its purchase of AT&T Wireless, the sale of J.D. Power and Associates to The McGraw-Hill Companies, Dow Jones purchase of MarketWatch, the dual-class restructuring of Robert Mondavi and merger with Constellation Brands and the minority investments by Hearst Corp. in Fitch Ratings, and CalPERS in SilverLake Partners. Mr. Goodman graduated summa cum laude from the University of Florida with a B.S. in finance and received his M.B.A., with honors, from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

William Shutzer is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Shutzer was a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers, where he did both advisory work and was a principal in Lehman’s Merchant Banking Group from 2000-2003. From 1994-2000, he was at Furman Selz and ING Baring Furman Selz where he was President and Executive Vice President. Before Furman Selz, Mr. Shutzer spent 22 years at Lehman Brothers, where he was a Managing Director, Head of Corporate Finance and a member of the Management Committee. Mr. Shutzer is a senior advisor to Hallmark Cards, Inc., Levi Strauss & Co., Tiffany & Co., TAMKO Building Products, and KB Homes and has represented all of the above companies in recent transactions. Mr. Shutzer also helped found Evercore Wealth Management LLC and is a member of its Board of Managers. Mr. Shutzer is a director of Test Equity, LLC., Tiffany & Co., and JupiterMedia Corp., and was a director of CSK Auto, E&J Gallo Winery, American Financial, RSI Holding Co. and Turbochef Technologies, Inc. He is a trustee of Prep for Prep and the Paul Taylor Dance Company. Mr. Shutzer is also a member of Harvard’s Graduate School Resource Committee. Mr. Shutzer received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Harvard College, both in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

William Hiltz is a Senior Managing Director of the corporate advisory business and is a member of Evercore Partners' Management Committee. In addition, Mr. Hiltz has management responsibility for all of the firm's investment management businesses. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Hiltz was Head of the Global Energy Group at UBS Warburg and, prior to UBS’ acquisition of Dillon Read & Co. Inc., Head of the Energy Group at Dillon Read since 1995. From 1982-1995, Mr. Hiltz was a Managing Director at Smith Barney where at various times he headed the Energy Group, the High Yield and Merchant Banking Group, the Transportation Group and the General Industrial Group. Mr. Hiltz has 32 years of experience in the investment banking business, beginning in 1976 when he first joined Dillon Read. Since joining Evercore, Mr. Hiltz has advised General Mills on its acquisition of Pillsbury, the divestiture of its interest in Ice Cream Partners and the divestiture of its interest in SVE to PepsiCo. He has advised CVS on its acquisition of Eckerd, its acquisition of Albertson’s free standing drugstores and its recently completed $28 billion merger with Caremark. He has also advised EDS on the sale of UGS PLM and on its $14 billion sale to Hewlett-Packard, Swiss Re on its acquisition of GE’s reinsurance business, Tyco on its split-up into three separately traded companies, Credit Suisse on its sale of Winterthur, Novelis on its sale to Hindalco and Aquila on its sale to Great Plains. Mr. Hiltz serves on the Board of Directors of Davis Petroleum Corp. and is a former Director of Energy Partners, Ltd. He is a former Trustee of the Salisbury School and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Lenox Hill Hospital. He received a B.A. in History and Government from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

William Repko is a Senior Managing Director of the firm’s corporate advisory business and is co-head of the firm’s restructuring practice. Prior to joining Evercore, Mr. Repko served as chairman and head of The Restructuring Group at J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he focused on providing comprehensive solutions to clients’ liquidity and reorganization challenges. Mr. Repko entered the workout banking world in 1973 at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, which after a series of mergers became part of J.P. Morgan Chase. During his 25 year banking career, Mr. Repko was associated with the restructurings of such companies as United Airlines, Enron, WorldCom, Chrysler Corporation, International Business Machines, Waste Management, Goodyear, El Paso, Kmart, Texaco, Federal Mogul, Southern California Edison, Lucent Technologies, LTV, Global Crossing, International Harvester, Xerox and Rockefeller Center Properties. Mr. Repko has a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University.

Roger C. Altman, Chairman of Evercore, co-founded the company in 1996. He began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers and became a general partner of that firm in 1974. Beginning in 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for four years. He then returned to Lehman Brothers, later becoming Co-Head of overall investment banking, a member of the firm's Management Committee and its board of directors. He remained in those positions until the firm was sold to Shearson/American Express. In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as Vice Chairman, Head of the Firm's merger and acquisition advisory business and a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Altman also had primary responsibility for Blackstone's international business. Beginning in January 1993, Mr. Altman returned to Washington to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for two years.

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Curtis Hessler, director, has been a Lecturer at the UCLA School of Law since 2003. Mr. Hessler has held various CEO and board-level leadership positions in media and IT companies. In 1998, Mr. Hessler founded 101 Communications LLC, an IT media company, as CEO and served as the company's Chairman until its sale in 2006. From 1985 to 1991, he was Vice-Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of Unisys Corporation; from 1991 to 1995, he was Executive Vice President of Times Mirror Company; he was Chairman of I-net. Inc. during 1996; and he was President of Quarterdeck Corporation in 1997-1998. From 1981 to 1983, Mr. Hessler practiced law as a partner at Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison. From 1976 to 1981, Mr. Hessler served as the U.S. Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy, Executive Director of President's Economic Group, and Associate Director of OMB. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals in D.C. from 1973 to 1974 and then clerked for Justice Potter Stewart of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1974 to 1975. Mr. Hessler is currently a Director of Learning Tree International, Inc. Mr. Hessler received a B.A. from Harvard College, a J.D. from Yale Law School and an M.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. He was also a Rhodes Scholar of Balliol College at Oxford.

Francois de St. Phalle, director, has been a private equity investor, financial advisor and investment banker for more than thirty-five years. He was a consultant for Evercore from 2000 to 2002. From 1989 to 2000 he was Chief Operating Officer and Vice Chairman of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. before it was merged into UBS. In this capacity he was responsible for managing some 700 employees and for the oversight of the firm's capital commitments in debt and equity markets. Previously, Mr. de St. Phalle worked for twenty-one years at Lehman Brothers. He was named a general partner of the firm in 1976 and at various points he managed the Corporate Syndicate Department, the Equity Division and co-headed the Corporate Finance Department. From 1985 to 1989 he served as Chairman of Lehman International, with a primary responsibility for developing a coordinated international finance strategy with American Express which had acquired Lehman in 1984. He was named to Lehman's Operating and Compensation Committees in 1980. Mr. de St. Phalle is a member of the Board of Visitors of Columbia College. He received his B.A. from Columbia College.