DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHIES

BOB DALY
(TBA)

BARUCH HALPERN
Mr. Halpern is the principal of Halpern Capital (HC), a d.b.a. entity of UVEST Investment Services. For over 20 years, Mr. Halpern has been involved in equity research, as well as financings and other banking activities such as management restructurings, private placements, and leveraged buyouts. In 1999, HC was instrumental in the closing of a $290 million LBO, and in 2000, HC handled equity private placements (PIPEs) in excess of $120 million. Prior to HC, Mr. Halpern founded The Home Closing Network Inc., the first corporate professional real estate closing company in New York, serving as agents for Prudential, Loan America, Empire and numerous other major financial institutions. He was also Executive Officer of Halpern Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focusing on undervalued companies that were considered attractive as leverage buyout candidates. Mr. Halpern was directly responsible for the leverage buyout of Best Products Co. for $685 million, in which the investors realized a return of 162% in less than one year.

From 1980 to 1985, Mr. Halpern was a Vice President at Fred Alger & Co., a registered investment advisory firm. He became a Group Research Leader in 1983, managing a one billion dollar portfolio consisting of over 600 companies in a broad range of industries. He participated in the roundtable discussion in The Wall Street Transcript and was quoted several times in “Heard on the Street” in The Wall Street Journal.

Prior to his work with Fred Alger & Co., Mr. Halpern was manager of Benefit Finance at Celanese Corporation. He was responsible for the company’s employee benefit programs, managing the $300 million in assets of the company’s pension and profit sharing plans. He also held numerous other financial positions at the Celanese Chemical Division ($500 million in sales at the time), including Manager of General Accounting, Manager of the Credit and Trading Department, and Financial Analyst responsible for budgets, long-range planning, profitability analysis and capital projects. Mr. Halpern received his Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Brooklyn College and his Masters of Business Administration in Finance from Baruch College.

ANDREW G. HAUPTMAN
Andrew Hauptman is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Andell Limited, a London based private investment company that he controls along with his wife, Ellen Bronfman. Andell invests primarily in the media, communications, leisure and wellness sectors in North America and Europe with offices in London and Montreal. Mr. Hauptman is also co-owner of Andell Entertainment, the film production arm of the company.

Mr. Hauptman serves as a member of the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee of Koor Industries Ltd., an NYSE Israeli-based industrial holding company focused on telecommunications equipment, defense electronics and other hi-tech businesses. Additionally, Mr. Hauptman serves as Chairman of Mission Pictures, which operates under the Andell Entertainment umbrella.

In his free time, Mr. Hauptman is an avid tennis player and collector of music. He has extensive travel and cross-cultural experience, having previously done volunteer work in Africa and Latin America, as well as independent travel across Asia and North America.

ALISA ANNE JONES
Alisa Anne Jones is a Principal of Strategic Philanthropy, which provides capital formation, partnership development and turnaround consulting to not-for-profits, foundations, and socially conscious for-profit ventures. Ms. Jones has served as an advisor to the Francine and Sterling Clark Art Institute, Prentiss Smith & Company, Mindbranch and the investment bank Dresdner, Klienwort, Wasserstein. In the years prior to launching Strategic Philanthropy, Ms. Jones served as a Managing Consultant at IXL/Scient, a multinational technology integration firm where she led a group responsible for approximately $8 million in annual revenues, working with clients such as General Electric, Chase Manhattan, Sotheby's and Tommy Hilfiger. Prior to that Ms. Jones worked with Deloitte & Touche, Pharmacia and Banque Populaire on European Union transition via MTC, a Paris-based human capital consulting group.

Ms. Jones graduated with a B.A. in Theater and Film from the University of California in 1992 and was a recipient of the MacArthur undergraduate scholarship, the Forbes Memorial Scholarship and the Helene Macon Boggs scholarship. Jones was also a visiting student at Exeter University's school of drama in the UK and served as a director of WET: the Women's Ensemble Theater in Santa Cruz, California. Ms. Jones holds a Masters in Film Studies from New York University where she focused on issues of technology, representation, community and critical theory. While at NYU, Jones was elected faculty representative and received the Dean's award for distinguished academic service.

More recently, Ms. Jones is the author of a work of fiction due out this fall. In addition, Jones is the mother of two daughters Olivia (4) and Sophie (2). She is a speaker of English, French and Italian. She enjoys downhill skiing, pilates and splits her time between Vermont and New York City.

BENJAMIN SILLIMAN JONES
Benjamin Silliman Jones is Senior Vice President of Village Ventures, Inc. (VVI), which manages a proprietary nationwide network of early-stage venture capital funds focused on emerging technology centers. Launched in the spring of 2000, VVI is backed with commitments of over $100 million from lead investors Bain Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Sandler Capital Management, and Janus Capital Corporation. To date, the group has opened 10 funds, circled over $150 million in local capital, and have an interest in 16 early-stage companies.

Jones leads VVI Services, which provides infrastructure and professional services to the national fund network, including corporate partnerships, marketing, public relations, recruiting and technology. Prior to joining VVI, Jones served as a Vice President at AGENCY.COM, a leading Internet marketing and communications firm within the Omnicom Group, where he headed a 40-person team responsible for more than $10 million of annual revenue. His clients included Hewlett-Packard, Texaco, The Financial Times, and Goldman Sachs.

Jones graduated with a B.A. from Yale University in 1991 and was a recipient of National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship in 1994.

WILLIAM LIPSCHUTZ
William Lipschutz is the owner and principal of Hathersage Capital Management LLC, a U.S. based Asset Management firm and Hedge Fund Advisor. Hathersage invests in the global foreign exchange markets, seeking value in the relationship between various currency pairs throughout North America, Europe and Asia.

Mr. Lipschutz was at one time a Managing Director of Salomon Brothers Inc., where he was Global Head of Foreign Exchange. He was the principal trader for Salomon Brothers’ proprietary foreign exchange account from 1984 until he left in June 1990. From 1986 until 1992, Bill served as a member of the Board of Governors of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange, as well as vice chairman of the Foreign Exchange Committee of that Exchange.

Mr. Lipschutz is featured in The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders, by Jack D. Schwager, 1992.

C. KIM MCCARTHY
C. Kim McCarthy is an attorney and producer who recently moved to New York City from Washington , D.C. She was formerly Vice President, Compliance and Government Relations for Quest Diagnostics, Incorporated, the nation’s leading clinical diagnostic laboratory company. She is a graduate of The George Washington University and George Mason University School of Law. Ms. McCarthy founded Pack of Two Productions in 2001. New York credits include Jane Eyre The Musical on Broadway and the upcoming Reno: Rebel Without a Pause. She is currently developing Antonya Nelson’s novel Nobody’s Girl for the screen.

J DAKOTA POWELL
As Head of Entertainment for KPE UK, the European operation of an American new media firm, Powell was responsible for developing, producing and merchandising digital content across multiple platforms-Internet, wireless devices and enhanced television. Her work has been profiled in The Future of Digital Entertainment, Time Magazine Europe, and in Creative Business, Financial Times. Prior to KPE, Powell was Director of Business Strategy for Arc e:Consultancy (NYC) where she wrote business plans, Internet and investor strategies for a wide range of companies, including: Citigroup, Pegasus Investors, and Harper Collins.In the realm of theatre, Powell’s plays include: BLISS MOON, THE IMPOSTOR, SAVAGE LIGHT, BLACKWATER, HARRY BLACK. HARRY BLACK was produced in the Ensemble Studio Theatre’s New Work Series. BLACKWATER was selected for the National Playwrights Conference, O’Neill Theatre Center and the Lincoln Center Reading Series. THE IMPOSTOR starred Calista Flockhart and Austin Pendleton and was twice nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. Powell has been produced by the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, the Philadephia Theater Company's New Works Series, Circle Repertory Theatre, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, and Duke University’s New Works Series; in addition, she has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory Theatre, Talking Wall Pictures, and PBS Great Performances. Her screenplay, Triggers, is the winner of the Writer Guild of America screenwriting fellowship.

Powell graduated cum laude from Yale University and completed her masters at the Interactive Telecommunications Program, New York University.

JAMES D. STERN
Jim Stern has had a varied career in theater and film. He is currently co-producing Mel Brooks’ sensational Tony Award winning show, The Producers. Among Jim’s other Broadway and Off-Broadway productions are the runaway hit Stomp; The Diary of Anne Frank, starring Natalie Portman; Anna Deveare Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles 1992; Lanford Wilson’s Redwood Curtain, starring Jeff Daniels; The Weir; Alan Ayckbourn’s thriller Communicating Doors; Bunny Bunny; The Sound of Music; Swing; and Wild Men, starring George Wendt. On the film side, Stern directed and produced the darkly comic psychological thriller It’s the Rage, starring Joan Allen, Jeff Daniels, Anna Paquin, David Schwimmer & Gary Sinise and the IMAX hit film, Michael Jordan to the Max. Currently Stern is producing the IMAX film, Pulse: A Stomp Odyssey, inspired by Stomp.

GEORGE WHITE
(TBA)

PAUL ZWILLENBERG
As CEO of <kpe> Europe, Paul Zwillenberg, guides some of the biggest names in the media, entertainment, technology and telecommunications industries in the development and execution of the business strategies. While at <kpe>, Zwillenberg was honoured by TIME Magazine as 2000 as one of the "Digital Europe 25", the most influential people on the European technology scene.

Prior to joining <kpe>, Zwillenberg was the founder and Managing Director of Associated New Media (ANM), the electronic publishing division of Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT). During Zwillenberg's tenure, built ANM it into the UK's fourth largest destination in the UK.

Previously, Zwillenberg held a number of strategic positions in the telecom and computing industries. He was Vice President and Global Marketing Director for Digital Equipment Corp while at DDB Worldwide where he set-up a marketing support network in 57 countries. He began his career working on advanced telecommunications technologies, email, e-commerce, wireless and interactive television for Sprint, AT&T and Bell Atlantic. While at university, he founded an early interactive information services company which developed programming for USA Today and Coors.

Often turned to as an authority on the European media marketplace, he has also been quoted in The Economist, The Financial Times and The Guardian and is/was a contributor to the Financial Times and The Industry Standard.

Zwillenberg earned his BA in History with distinction from Duke University and a certificate from the University of Glasgow Business School. He is a supporter of Duke University's Perkins Library.