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NATHANIEL BAKER
Senior Editor
The Deal

Nathaniel E. Baker leads The Deal LLC's coverage of middle market transactions.

Before joining The Deal, Baker was managing editor at Institutional Investor's Alternative Investment News, where he reported on hedge funds and private equity. While at Institutional Investor, Baker was also a contributor to Alpha Magazine and covered compliance and investment management for the Compliance Reporter newsletter. He began his career in journalism freelancing at several general business publications.

Baker earned a bachelors degree in international studies and French at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland

Jay T. Duke, is a partner and a member of the board of directors of BDO Seidman, LLP, one of the nation's leading accounting firms. In addition to his board duties, Mr. Duke serves as a regional business line leader for assurance services and as the office business line leader for BDO Seidman's Dallas practice. Mr. Duke is one of the leaders of the firm's IPO Task Force. He has a wealth of SEC experience and advises numerous publicly traded clients in the distribution, manufacturing, financial, retail, franchising and real estate industries. A graduate of the University of Illinois, Mr. Duke has served as an active member in numerous professional organizations including the American Institute of CPAs and the state CPA societies of Texas and Louisiana.

BDO Seidman, LLP is a national professional services firm providing assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. Guided by core values including, competence, honesty and integrity, professionalism, dedication, responsibility and accountability for almost 100 years, we have provided quality service and leadership through the active involvement of our most experienced and committed professionals.

BDO Seidman serves clients through 37 offices and more than 400 independent alliance firm locations nationwide. As a Member Firm of BDO International, BDO Seidman, LLP serves multi-national clients by leveraging a global network of 1,095 offices in 110 countries. BDO International is a worldwide network of public accounting firms, called BDO Member Firms. Each BDO Member Firm is an independent legal entity in its own country. The network is coordinated by BDO Global Coordination B.V., incorporated in The Netherlands, with its statutory seat in Eindhoven (trade register registration number 33205251) and with an office at Boulevard de la Woluwe 60, 1200 Brussels, Belgium, where the International Executive Office is located.

JULIE H. JONES
Partner
Ropes & Gray LLP

Julie Jones is a partner in the Corporate Department at Ropes & Gray LLP and head of the firm's Federal Securities & Public Companies practice. Julie focuses on representing public companies, investment banks and private equity funds in mergers and acquisitions, public offerings and 144A financings. She also counsels clients on a wide range of securities law compliance and governance issues. Her clients include Bain Capital, Goldman & Sachs & Co., Hanover Insurance Group, Hasbro, Kohlberg & Co., LPL Holdings, Silver Lake Partners, SunGard Data Systems and Wellesley College. She is a member of the Committee on Federal Regulation of Securities of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association and a frequent speaker on securities law matters for the Practising Law Institute, Massachusetts Continuing Law Education and various other professional organizations.

She is a graduate of Wellesley College and the Cornell Law School.

KEVIN SENDLENSKI
Vice President
Trenwith Securities (an affiliate of BDO Seidman)

Mr. Sendlenski is a Vice President in the Boston office of Trenwith Securities, LLC. Mr. Sendlenski has more than a decade of investment banking experience with a particular focus on advising corporations on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged recapitalizations and ESOP transactions as well as raising debt and equity capital for growth-related institutions. In addition to maintaining relationships with hundreds of middle-market private equity firms, Mr. Sendlenski has been invited to participate on leveraged recapitalization panels to discuss financing, the deal process, negotiating employment agreements and how entrepreneurs can effectively work with private equity firms.

Prior to joining Trenwith Securities, Mr. Sendlenski worked in the technology investment banking group of Alex. Brown and Deutsche Bank Securities. During his time at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Sendlenski worked on public and private capital raises and merger and acquisition transactions for clients such as Accenture, Lucent, NEC and Adtran.

In 2006, Mr. Sendlenski was selected as one of the Top 40 Investment Bankers Under Age 40 by Investment Dealers Digest. Mr. Sendlenski holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College where he was an economics major. He is qualified as a General Securities Representative.

ROBERT H. MCCOOEY, JR.
Senior Vice President of New Listings and Capital Markets
The NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc.

Robert H. McCooey, Jr. is the Senior Vice President of New Listings and the Capital Markets Group. In this role, Mr. McCooey manages NASDAQ's listings efforts both domestically and in the Americas and Asia Pacific region as well as leads the Capital Markets Group. Formed in 2006, the Capital Markets Group is primarily responsible for private equity, investment bank and other Wall Street constituent outreach and works to further NASDAQ OMX's mission to support their business goals and growth plans. Mr. McCooey joined NASDAQ in December 2006.

Prior to joining The Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc., Mr. McCooey served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Griswold Company, an agency he founded in 1988 which served prominent and developing buy-side institutions. He also served on the New York Stock Exchange Board of Executives from 2003 - 2006 and was a New York Stock Exchange Floor Official for eight terms. Mr. McCooey served on the NYSE's Group Market Performance Committee and was chairman of the NYSE's Technology and Planning Oversight Committee. In addition, he served on the Board of the NYSE Foundation, which he joined in 2003; the board of the Securities Industry Automation Corporation (SIAC), the technology subsidiary of the New York Stock Exchange and the American Stock Exchange; and on the Committee for Review, part of NYSE Regulation.

Mr. McCooey has been a regular guest on CNBC and has often been quoted in national news publications regarding stock market activity. He is a director of Iona Preparatory School, as well as St. Vincent's Hospital in Westchester, NY. Mr. McCooey attended the College of Holy Cross and resides in Rye, NY.