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PANELISTS:
Jeff Green
Vice President
Blum Capital
www.blumcapital.com
Jeff
Green, Vice President, joined Blum Capital in 2007 as a
member of the investment team. Prior to joining Blum
Capital, Mr. Green was an Associate with SPO Partners & Co.
where he was part of a 10-person investment team managing a
highly concentrated portfolio of public and private
investments. Prior to SPO Partners, Mr. Green was an Analyst
in the Media, Technology, and Leveraged Finance Groups in
the Investment Banking Division of Goldman Sachs. Mr. Green
earned a BA in Political Economy, with High Honors, from the
University of California at Berkeley, where he was elected
to Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
Peter Moore
Managing Member
Clados Management
www.clados.com
Peter Moore is Managing Member of Clados Management LLC.
Prior to founding Clados, Peter pursued investments in
convertible arbitrage at Symphony Asset Management and
Descartes Capital, in risk arbitrage at Bear Stearns, and in
venture capital at Apax Partners, where he initiated the
firm's 2003 investment in publicly-traded Audible, Inc. He
started his career at Goldman Sachs in investment banking
and equity derivatives trading. Peter graduated from
Dartmouth College with an AB in Engineering Sciences and
Asian Studies and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate
School of Business.
Patrick Wolff
Vice President, Research and Trading
Clarium Capital Management
www.clariumcapital.com
Patrick Wolff is Vice President of Research and Trading at
Clarium Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar global
macro hedge fund with offices in San Francisco and New York.
Mr. Wolff has been with Clarium since 2005 and was the
author of The Long Goodbye, Clarium's August 2007 Quarterly
Letter. Mr. Wolff was a professional chess player from
1989-1995 and the US Chess Champion in 1992 and 1995. He has
authored several books including The Complete Idiot's Guide
to Chess and is the chess columnist for The Boston Globe.
Prior to joining Clarium, Mr. Wolff worked as a strategy
consultant from 1997-1999 and was employed in business
development and product management at several Silicon Valley
startups from 1999-2001. He worked in marketing and M&A
roles at Capital One from 2001-2005. Mr. Wolff studied at
Yale before taking a break to play play chess professionally
and graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Philosophy
from Harvard University.
Jon Meyer
Managing Director
Farallon Capital Management
www.faralloncapital.com
Mr.
Meyer, a Managing Director, joined Farallon in 2003.
Previously, Mr. Meyer was an associate at Berkshire
Partners, L.L.C., focusing on equity investments in the
communications sector. Prior to Berkshire Partners, Mr.
Meyer worked as an associate consultant at Bain & Company,
Inc., where he performed project research and developed
product strategies for a variety of companies in the
consumer products, financial services, manufacturing and
retail industries.
Mr. Meyer graduated Summa Cum Laude from Williams College
with a B.A. in Economics and earned his M.B.A. from Stanford
Business School.
Ted Goldthorpe
Managing Director
Goldman Sachs Special Situations Group
www.gs.com
Ted
co-heads the Canadian Special Situations Group and AmSSG
Private Equity Investing within the Global Special
Situations Group. He joined Goldman Sachs in 1999 in the
Financial Institutions Group in Investment Banking. He then
worked in the Principal Investment Area in the firm's
Merchant Bank and on the High Yield Distressed Investing
Desk in the Fixed Income Division. Ted was named managing
director in 2007. Ted serves on the boards of JHT, Baxa
Healthcare, Flatiron Holdings and the Sparta Insurance
Holdings. He earned a bachelor's degree in commerce at
Queen's University, Canada, in 1999.
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