Willem Mesdag
Willem Mesdag is the Founder and Managing Partner of Red Mountain Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm based in Los Angeles, California. He was previously a partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs and Co. He began his career at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker in 1981 and became a general partner in 1990. Mr. Mesdag was responsible for corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions assignments in New York, London, Frankfurt and Los Angeles. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, he practiced law in Philadelphia at Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll. He received his J.D. from Cornell Law School and his BA from Northwestern University.

Mr. Mesdag currently serves on the Boards of Natures Sunshine Products Inc., 3i Group plc, and Encore Capital Group Inc. He previously served on the board of Cost Plus, Inc., and was Vice Chairman of the Board of Skandia Insurance Company Ltd. He has served on five public company boards and two private company boards and, in that context, four compensation committees, two audit committees and three nominating and governance committees.

Alfred Osborne, Jr. PH.D
Dr. Osborne is a Senior Associate Dean and a Professor of Global Economics and Management in The UCLA Anderson School of Management; and is a Founder and Faculty Director of The Harold & Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He has also served as an Assistant Dean, Director of the MBA Program, and Chairman of the Business Economics Faculty group at UCLA. Dr. Osborne serves as a Director of Kaiser Aluminum Corporation, Emmaus Holdings, Inc., and The Heckmann Corporation, and First Pacific Advisors. He was a director of EMAK WORLDWIDE, Inc., Nordstrom, K2, First Interstate Bank, Times Mirror Company, Greyhound Lines and United States Filter among others. Dr. Osborne is an advisor to InnoCal Ventures, Rustic Canyon Group, RBC Capital Partners, Vincente Capital Partner, and was formerly a Trustee of the WM Group of Funds, and an independent general partner of Technology Funding Venture Partners V.

Rockwell A. Schnabel
Rockwell A. Schnabel served as the U.S. Ambassador to the European Union from 2001 to 2005. He previously served in the US Department of Commerce as Deputy Secretary and then as Acting Secretary in the administration of George H. W. Bush, and as US Ambassador to Finland in the administration of Ronald Reagan. One of the founding partners of Trident Capital, a California based venture capital firm, Schnabel was formerly President of the brokerage firm Bateman Eichler, Hill Richards, Inc. (now Wells Fargo Bank). He has authored The Next Superpower? The Rise of Europe and its Challenge to the United States, an insider’s view of the relationship between the European Union and United States. Ambassador Schnabel was born in the Netherlands where he attended Trinity College, and holds an Honorary Doctorate of Law from Pepperdine University. His current corporate board memberships include Lhoist Group (Belgium), and he is a member of the Board of Councilors of the USC Annenberg School for Communication as well as the Pacific Council on International Policy (USA). He is a Life Member of The Council on Foreign Relations, and is a Member of The Council of American Ambassadors.

Edward Wedbush
Edward Wedbush is Founder and President of Wedbush Securities, and is the Founder and Chairman of WEDBUSH, Inc. He currently holds membership positions on the Regional Firms Committee of SIFMA and Board of Trustees for University of Cincinnati Foundation. In 2004, Mr. Wedbush was recipient of the Lifetime Achievement in Entrepreneurship Award from the University of Cincinnati, and in 2006, was awarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year for Greater Los Angeles. He has held Membership positions on the SIFMA (formerly SIA) Board of Directors, Nominating Committee of National Securities Clearing Corporation, and was Chairman of the NYSE Regional Firms Advisory Committee, as well as the Board of Directors of The Pacific Stock Exchange. Mr. Wedbush holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati, and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Bertram Zweig
Mr. Zweig is counsel at Kaye Scholer. Previously, he was a partner in the Los Angeles Office of Jones Day Reavis & Pogue, where he is the Administrative Partner. He graduated from University of Pennsylvania (A.B. 1956) and Columbia Law School (J.D. 1962). Mr. Zweig's law practice is concentrated in the Technology Issues Practice and business and securities laws. Mr. Zweig is an adjunct Professor at Pepperdine Law School.