Previously, Gina was a partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers Financial Advisory Services Group, where she served as interim CFO for a mid-size global management consulting firm and as a financial advisor to numerous companies experiencing financial and operational changes. Her industry experience includes professional services firms, health care, transportation, financial services, telecommunications, retail, distributors, securities/ commodities, and hospitality. Gina received a bachelors degree in public accounting from Pace University. She is a CPA, a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, and a Certified Fraud Examiner.

Michael W. Malakoff is a managing member and cofounder of the Trisul Group, LLC, a management consultancy specializing in growth strategies. Michael has a proven track record of providing value-added consulting, developing new businesses, and improving operating effectiveness, both as a consultant and an executive. His experience covers a wide variety of industries, including professional services, financial services, and travel. Michael also has significant entrepreneurial experience, having previously cofounded a successful e-business consulting startup. He began his career as an attorney.

Michael earned a BA in economics from the University of Texas, a JD from Pepperdine University School of Law, and an MBA from the Southern Methodist University Cox School of Business.

Thomas Marbach has worked for two leading consulting and systems integration firms. As a part of his consulting and industry experience, he has served as project manager on large-scale implementations of accounting and finance, human resource, and other administrative systems. He has also worked in the service firms functions of finance and accounting, recruiting, and new service development. His professional experience includes technology management consulting to clients in a variety of industries.

Tom received his doctorate in business administration with a major in information systems from the University of Texas at Arlington. He received his MS in accounting from North Texas State University and his BS in computer science from East Texas State University. He is a CPA in the state of Texas.

Brant C. Martin is an attorney with Puls, Taylor & Woodson, LLP. He has an active national trial practice consisting of class actions, personal injury,

professional malpractice, and commercial litigation disputes. Brant has prosecuted numerous complex lawsuits and class actions in federal and state courts involving securities fraud, defective products, and consumer protection. As a plaintiffs lawyer, Brant draws on his unique background as a former corporate and securities lawyer and as a former law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Schell of the Eastern District of Texas.

Brant received his JD from the Southern Methodist University School of Law where he was valedictorian of his law school class, served as editor-in-chief of the SMU Law Review, and received a full scholarship as a Hatton

W. Sumners Scholar. Prior to attending SMU, Brant earned a masters in religion and literature from Yale University and a bachelors degree in Spanish and English from Washington and Lee University. Currently, he serves on the board of directors of the Tarrant County Trial Lawyers Association and on the board of advocates of the Texas Trial Lawyers Association. Brant was also selected in 2004 as one of the Best Lawyers Under 40 by D Magazine.

D. Michael McDowell is cofounding partner of McCrory & McDowell LLC and is currently managing partner of the firm and chairman of its executive committee. He and Ken McCrory formed McCrory & McDowell in 1983 and built it into one of the largest accounting and consulting firms in Pittsburgh.

Mike focuses his practice on strategic planning, which includes developing the strategic process for clients such as law and accounting firms, facilitating clients strategic retreats, and assisting with the implementation of strategic initiatives. Mike provides consulting services to the health care industry and has served as COO for multispecialty physician networks that employ hundreds of physicians and generate more than $500 million in annual charges.

Before founding McCrory & McDowell, Mike worked in the international division of a large international accounting firm. He holds a BS from Indiana State University and is licensed as a CPA in Pennsylvania. Mike is a member of the National Association of Certified Valuation Analysts and has been qualified as a facilitator through the Institute of Cultural Affairs. He has published a number of articles on the strategic management of professional firms.

Scott M. McElhaney is a partner at Jackson Walker LLP, a Dallas, Texas, law firm, where he practices commercial litigation and employment law. He has handled a wide range of cases in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He has significant experience in employment discrimination, FLSA, and ERISA litigation; trade secret misappropriation claims; noncompetition agreement injunction proceedings; fraud and breach of fiduciary duty cases; defamation cases; and copyright infringement claims.

Scott is also an instructor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law, where he teaches employment law and has taught legal research and writing.

Scott received his bachelors degree, summa cum laude, from Dartmouth College and his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. Prior to entering private practice, he was a law clerk to Chief Judge Barefoot Sanders, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, and to Judge Irving Goldberg, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.

Jeffery B. Nemy is a senior vice president at The Interpublic Group of Companies, one of the largest marketing communications companies in the world. Interpublic provides advertising, public relations, and other marketing

services globally through its network of over 40,000 employees in approximately 130 countries. Prior to transferring within the company to his role in developing a new global IT shared services organization, he served as senior vice-president, regional finance director for the San Francisco office of Foote, Cone & Belding, one of the largest advertising agencies on the West Coast, with approximately $1 billion in billings and over 400 employees. Previously, he was director of financial services during the startup phase at Nex-tel Communications where he led the development of the companys financial planning and reporting systems. Prior to that, he was responsible for managing the financial planning and analysis functions for Chronicle Broadcasting Company. For the first decade of his career, he worked as a management consultant at both Arthur Young and Price Waterhouse and provided valuation analysis services while working for a boutique M&A advisory firm. He received his MBA from the University of Santa Clara and completed his undergraduate work in business administration and economics at California State University, Chico. He is a CPA in California.

K. Todd Phillips is a founding partner of Wick Phillips, LLP, a Dallas-based law firm focused on providing its clients with innovative solutions to a wide variety of commercial disputes. From counseling clients on potential litigation issues, to aggressively and creatively litigating complex disputes, Wick Phillips, LLP is committed to providing the highest level of service throughout all phases of the dispute resolution process.

Todd was born in Anchorage, Alaska, and was raised in Laguna Niguel, California. Todd earned his BA degree with honors from Michigan State University and a law degree from Southern Methodist University School of Law.

After graduating from Southern Methodist University, Todd began his career as an associate in the business litigation section at Haynes and Boone, LLP. Thereafter, Todd was employed as an associate in the litigation department of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, which was recently recognized as one of the nations top litigation departments by The American Lawyer. Todd is admitted to practice in the State of Texas.

John J. Reddish is founder and president of Advent Management International, Limited. John and his associates work with, and speak to, leaders who want to master growth, transition, and succession.

Prior to starting his own consulting practice in 1978, John served as vice president of the Presidents Association (PA) of the American Management Association. From 1971 to 1976, he was president and director of client services at RA Group, an advertising and public relations agency. John has also been associated with the New York State Nurses Association, IBM Corporation, Edison Electric Institute, and the Civil Service Employees Association.

John is a member of the National Speakers Association, the American Arbitration Association panel of arbitrators, and the Pennsylvania Business