Mr. Dominianni is a retired Partner of, and was Special Counsel to Coudert Brothers LLP, a law firm. He is currently a Director of Stamm International Corporation, Powrmatic Inc., and Powrmatic of Canada Ltd., manufacturers and distributors of heating, ventilating, and air conditioning equipment. He was a Director of American Air Liquide Inc., Air Liquide International Corporation, and a Consultant to Air Liquide America Corp., all manufacturers and distributors of industrial gases, and Mouli Manufacturing Corp., a distributor of kitchen and household products.
Gerald Hellerman
Mr. Hellerman owns and has served as Managing Director of Hellerman Associates, a financial and corporate consulting firm, since the firm's inception in 1993. Mr. Hellerman currently serves as a director, chief financial officer and chief compliance officer for The Mexico Equity and Income Fund, Inc., a director of the Old Mutual 2100 fund complex (consisting of six funds), a director of Brantley Capital Corporation, a director and President of Innovative Clinical Solutions, Ltd., a company formerly engaged in clinical trials and physician network management which is currently in liquidation, and a director of FNC Realty Corporation, a successor to Frank's Nursery & Crafts, Inc., a company which operated the nation's largest chain of lawn and garden retail stores, which has emerged from bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 and is currently operating the properties it owns.
Robert Knapp
Mr. Knapp is Managing Director of Ironsides Partners LLC, which was formed in January 2007 to manage an account for Millennium Partners LP, his former employer from 1996-2006. Mr. Knapp specializes in mis-priced assets, turnaround situations, and closed end fund arbitrage. He served as a founding director of the Vietnam Opportunity Fund, a Cayman Islands private equity fund listed on the London Stock Exchange, for which Millennium acted as seed investor. He also served as a director for the First Hungary Fund, a Channel Islands private equity fund, and as a Director of the Vietnam Frontier Fund, a Cayman Islands investment company.
William Taylor
Mr. Taylor is a Certified Public Accountant and is currently a Director of Northern Illinois University Foundation and a Trustee of Writers Theatre. From 1976 through May 2005, Mr. Taylor was a Partner at Deloitte & Touche. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Taylor was a Director of Deloitte & Touche USA and from 1999 to 2003 Mr. Taylor was a Director of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu.
Warren Holtsberg
Mr. Holtsberg currently serves as Co-Head Portfolio Management of TTGA. Mr. Holtsberg founded Motorola Ventures, the venture capital investment arm for Motorola, Inc. where he led the worldwide fund for eight years. He was also Corporate Vice President and Director of Equity Investments at Motorola. Mr. Holtsberg currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Illinois Venture Capital Association, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurship Center, and Illinois Ventures, the venture investment arm for the University of Illinois.
Michael Tokarz
Mr. Tokarz currently serves as Chairman and Portfolio Manager of the Fund and as Manager of The Tokarz Group Advisers LLC ("TTGA"), the investment adviser to the Fund (the "Adviser"). Mr. Tokarz also is Chairman of The Tokarz Group, a private merchant bank, since 2002. Prior to this, Mr. Tokarz was a senior General Partner and Administrative Partner at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., a private equity firm specializing in management buyouts. He also currently serves on the corporate boards of Conseco, Inc., Walter Industries, Inc. (Chairman of the board), Mueller Water Products, Inc., IDEX Corporation, Stonewater Control Systems, Lomonosov, Athleta, Inc. and Apertio Ltd. Mr. Tokarz is an active member of the endowment committee and Board of Trustees of YMCA in Westchester County. He is also a member of the Board of the Warwick Business School in England. He is Chairman elect and is a member of the Board of the University of Illinois Foundation, and serves on its executive committee, investment policy committee and is Chairman of the budget and finance committee; he is also a member of the Venture Capital Subcommittee and serves as a member of the Board of Managers for Illinois Ventures, LLC. Mr. Tokarz also serves as the Chairman of the Illinois Emerging Technology Fund LLC. Mr. Tokarz serves as a director for the following portfolio companies of the Fund: Baltic Motors Corporation, Dakota Growers Pasta Company, Ohio Medical Corporation, Timberland Machines & Irrigation, Inc., Harmony Pharmacy & Health Centers, Inc., and previously served on the Board of Vestal Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. from April 2004 until July 2005.