From 2002 to 2008, Mr. Andreini was Managing Director and General Partner at Money Management Group. There, he raised $1.7 billion in two years for Money Management Group’s two funds; and grew the staff from 4 employees to 32 in 3-years. Prior to Money Management Group, he was President and CEO at Interworld. He took the company public in 1999 and contributed to making Interworld one of the leading providers of enterprise software in the business-to-business space. He also generated a market capitalization of $2.9 billion and grew organization from 30 to 150 professionals in two years. From 1978 to 1998, he was Executive Vice President, Member of the Office of the President and Board of Directors at Comdisco where he raised $25 billion in financing and completed the first asset backed bond deal secured by leases. He also oversaw all private placement debts including venture leasing, worldwide budgets, debt financing of all leveraged leases, and hedge fund investments. Prior to Comdisco, he was an M & A Associate at Salomon Brothers from 1973 to 1978 where he generated new business and specialized in technology issuers such as ATT, MCI and Comdisco. Mr. Andreini was also a part of global team of 15 that opened London Office in 1976.

Mr. Andreini received his B.A. from Princeton University and his J.D. from Rutgers University Law School.

Mr. Bharara is a member of the Attorney General’s Advisory Committee and serves as Chair of its Subcommittee on White Collar Fraud. Mr. Bharara is also a Co-Chair of the Securities and Commodities Fraud Working Group of the interagency Financial Fraud Enforcement Task Force.

As United States Attorney, Mr. Bharara oversees numerous criminal and civil cases, including groundbreaking financial fraud and insider trading prosecutions, historic international terrorism cases, and the resolution of alleged civil rights violations at various public venues. Since becoming United States Attorney, Mr. Bharara has formed a specialized unit in the Criminal Division dedicated to addressing the significant threats posed by large-scale sophisticated frauds and emerging cyber crimes. He has created another specialized unit of prosecutors, merging two previously independent units, to pursue and prosecute the leaders of organizations that engage in transnational acts of terrorism, narco-terrorism, narcotics trafficking, and money laundering. Under his supervision, the Office continues to combat corruption by city, state, and federal officials, as well as violent crime in New York City and the rest of the District.

Prior to becoming the United States Attorney, Mr. Bharara served as the Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Administrative Oversight and the Courts. During his tenure, he helped to lead the Senate Judiciary Committee investigation into the firing of United States Attorneys.

From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Bharara served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he prosecuted a wide range of cases involving organized crime, racketeering, securities fraud, money laundering, narcotics trafficking, and other crimes.

Mr. Bharara was a litigation associate in New York at Swidler Berlin Shereff Friedman from 1996 to 2000 and Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher from 1993 to 1996. He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Government in 1990, and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. in 1993, where he was a member of the Columbia Law Review.

John has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Pace University with a major in Accounting. He is an accomplished marathon runner with seventeen races to date.

During 2007 and 2008, John was the Managing Director of Deutsche Bank and the Global Head of Hedge Fund Consulting for the Global Prime Finance Group. He currently serves as consultant to Deutsche Bank in the same capacity. From 2005 to 2006, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Olympia Capital. Before that he was a senior partner in Ernst & Young, where he arrived in June 2002 with a hedge fund team that he developed while at Arthur Andersen. He began his career with Andersen in 1974 and was admitted as a partner in 2002.

John received a B.A. in Economics from Dickinson College. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York and is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He received a Lifetime Achievement Award from Global Custodian in November 2005 for his work in the hedge fund industry.

Ms. Laufer’s career has spanned a broad cross-section of the institutional investment industry. Following her early days as a securities analyst with the National Bank of Detroit she was appointed Director of Mutual Fund Research for Merrill Lynch in New York. She was then recruited by the Frank Russell Company as a consultant serving Russell’s Fortune 500 clients, providing strategy and conducting manager research for their pension funds and high net worth clients. While at Russell she was the first consultant to work directly with George Russell in the formation of the high net worth effort at that firm. In 1997, she co-founded Hanover Square Associates to represent managers and provide marketing consulting services on a contractual basis. Her successful fundraising venture led to her involvement as a partner at the New Energy Fund, a hedge fund devoted to public and private investments in the renewable energy sector. She formed Virid Capital Management in 2009 to focus exclusively on public market investments in the cleantech sector.

She has an A.B. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan. She holds a current Series 7 and 63 registration.

Mr. Paredones started his career at Philadelphia-based economic research center Wharton Econometrics, where he elaborated economic analysis for the Latin America region. Following this, he has spent most of his career identifying distinctive business opportunities for leading financial institutions as J.P. Morgan, Julius Baer and Quantek Asset Management, participating in major capital markets, advisory and principal investing transactions. His most recent experience as Chief Investment Officer with Clifftop Capital Management has evidenced his ability to aggregate value for emerging companies and entrepreneurs throughout the Americas.

Mr. Paredones is a Mexican citizen (1974), fluent in Spanish and English. He graduated in 1998 from Monterrey Institute of Technology, where he also taught the entrepreneurial course, with a B.S. degree in Economics. He also obtained an M.P.A., International Finance & Policy, from Columbia University. Mr. Paredones was awarded with the “Native Leadership Scholarship” by Channel Foundation.

Mr. Siegel is a member of the New York State and New York City Bar. He has been designated a Certified Regulatory and Compliance Professional by FINRA and Wharton. He received his B.A. in Political Science, magna cum laude, from Tufts University and a Juris Doctor from Washington College of Law at American University.

Lisa holds a B.A. in Political Science and a B.B.A. in Finance from Southern Methodist University.

She is on the Board of 100 Women in Hedge Funds and serves as President of the Foundation and is also a Board Member of IDEAS (Investing in the Development and Educational Advancement of Students, Inc). Also, she is a founding board member of the Professional Association of Investment Communications Resources (PAICR).

Prior to joining Ramius in January 2004, Ms.Werner was a Marketing Manager at Lincoln Financial Group responsible for the strategic marketing of their Mutual Funds and Managed Accounts businesses through their wholesaling arm. Ms. Werner has also worked in a number of other senior marketing positions including Director of Marketing for Volaris Advisors (sold to Credit Suisse) , an options firm and Director of Alternative Investments Marketing for Merrill Lynch Investment Managers’ retail and institutional businesses. She was also a Director of Communications and Market Research for Prudential Financial. Ms. Werner received a B.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.