Tricia Gross

Foros is a financial services firm that provides M&A and corporate finance advisory and capital raising services. Its clients are leading corporations and entrepreneurs who place a premium on superior advice and who look to their financial advisor to be a true partner in growing and transforming their business. Foros fuses two of the financial world's powerful offerings: financial advice and long-term value investing. Foros commenced operations in June 2009 through its Foros Advisors LLC subsidiary. Its Foros Securities LLC subsidiary obtained SEC registration and was granted FINRA membership in August. The Company has already advised on one announced transaction: Virgin Mobile USA on its July 2009 announced sale to Sprint Nextel.

Citigroup Private Bank is the private banking subsidiary of Citigroup, Inc. (NYSE: C) in the US. Headquartered in New York City, the firm serves worldly and wealthy individuals and their families with a customized private banking service that crosses borders. They also provide services to professional investors, family offices, and lawyers and law firms.

Comverse Technology, Inc. provides software and systems for business enablement through converged billing and active customer management, mobile Internet, value-added and managed services. The company operates its business through its subsidiary company, Verint System, Inc. Verint provides Actionable Intelligence solutions and services for enterprise workforce optimization and security intelligence and Starhome, a leading global provider of mobile roaming solutions and services that maximizes revenues for mobile operators by enhancing roaming services. Its solutions provide flexible deployment models, including in-network, hosted and managed services. Comverse Technology was founded in October 1984 and is headquartered in New York, NY.