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Nicholas R. ShapiroSenior Analyst - Corporate DevelopmentThe Brink's Company

Nick is a member of the Corporate Development Team at The Brink's Company, a global leader insecurity-related services. He focuses on strategy and international acquisitions and has worked onprojects in the Asia Pacific, EMEA, Latin America and North America regions. Brink's services includearmored car transportation, money processing, long-distance transport of valuables, vaulting and other value-added solutions.

Prior to joining The Brink's Company, Nick performed due diligence, valuations and portfolio companymonitoring for American Capital, a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager. Hegraduated from McIntire with concentrations in Finance and Accounting and began his career as aninvestment banking analyst at HoulihanLokey. Nick serves as a McIntire Alumni Trustee Leader for theClass of 2005.

Ruben EspinozaAssociateBooz Allen & Hamilton

Rubén Espinoza is an Associate with Booz Allen & Hamilton in the firm's Technology Capability Practice.His current client focus includes international markets and U.S. Civil agencies facilitating e-Governmenttransformation and strategy projects. As an Associate, he is responsible for engagement execution,business development, and staff management. Prior to joining Booz Allen & Hamilton, Rubén spentseveral years as a Senior Business Consultant with Digital Focus, Commerce One and CGI¶s (formerly

American Management Systems) Washington DC office.

Rubén obtained his M.B.A. from the London Business School Dubai-London campus in Finance andEmerging Markets, M.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia inManagement of Information Technology, and he holds a B.S. degree in Decision Sciences and

Management of Information Systems from the School of Management at George Mason University. He isalso fluent in Spanish.

Adair Sigmond RossManager of IT Business Analysis & Quality Assurance

I have 13 yrs of IT experience across several industries including Financial Services, Retail, Healthcareand Insurance. I earned my undergraduate degree from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Whileat UNC, I studied abroad in Seville, Spain and in Greece. I earned my Masters of Science in InformationTechnology (MSMIT) degree from the UVA McIntire School of Commerce in 2004. I currently manageglobal software development initiatives at Mondial Assistance.

Cailin E. WilliamsCredit Policy AnalystPNC Bank, Greater Washington, D.C. Area

Cailin is an analyst for the Credit Policy group that supports Corporate Banking in the Washington, D.C.market. She is responsible for underwriting existing and new relationships within the group¶s clientportfolio which is primarily comprised of companies that earn between $30 million and $500 million inannual revenue. Her direct responsibilities include researching client profiles, identifying credit risks,analyzing transaction structure, uncovering contingent liabilities and assessing financial performance.

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She also reviews customer relationships on a quarterly or semi-annual basis, occasionally accompanyingCorporate Banking relationship managers to meetings with client companies.

Cailin joined PNC full-time in August 2010 as an analyst, starting in PNC¶s credit training program inPhiladelphia and later completing sales and product training in Pittsburgh. Prior to joining PNC, Cailininterned in the summer of 2009 for Alvarez and Marsal in the Dispute Analysis and Forensic Accountinggroup with a focus on the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy filing. In 2008, Cailin was a summer analyst atLehman Brothers in the Legal, Compliance and Audit Group.

In the fall of 2008, Cailin completed a semester abroad in London while studying international businessand finance, while also interning for the private equity placement firm, Almeida Capital. In May of 2010,Cailin graduated from Wake Forest University with a B.A. in Economics and Communication.

Geoff PetersWikoff Color CorporationFort Mill, South Carolina

Geoff Peters was named President and Chief Executive Officer of Wikoff Color Corporation in August,

2010, and served as the company¶s President and Chief Operating Officer since September, 2006 whenhe joined the company. Geoff spent most of his 30-year career with Sea-Land Service, a global logisticscompany, and Setech Incorporated, a $250 million integrated supply company. His diverse managementexperience includes serving as Vice President and General Manager ± Europe for Sea-Land and Chief Operating Officer for Setech.

Wikoff Color manufactures inks and coatings for the printing and packaging industries. The company¶sproducts end up on the packaging of a number of well-known consumer brands including Starbuck¶s,Chick-fil-A, Stouffers, Wendy¶s, McDonald¶s, Coke, Pepsi and Victoria¶s Secret. Wikoff Color is anemployee-owned company with 30 manufacturing plants throughout the U.S. and Canada andinternational operations in the UK, Chile and China. The company¶s headquarters are located in Fort Mill,SC.

Geoff is a native of Baltimore, MD. He earned a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at theUniversity of Virginia and an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Geoff and hiswife, Susan (also a McIntire graduate), live in Charlotte, NC with their two daughters, Katherine andCaroline.

Matthew P. Preece,Partner McColl Partners

Matt Preece is a Partner and co-head of the Consumer Group at McColl Partners, a middle-marketinvestment bank headquartered in Charlotte with additional offices in Dallas, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.Before McColl Partners, Mr. Preece worked as an associate at CapitalSouth Partners, a middle market

private equity fund, where he gained principal investing experience in leveraged buyouts, acquisition andgrowth financings, and recapitalizations. He also served as a Corporate Development associate atTITAN Technology Partners and as a research analyst on PaineWebber's equity derivatives trading deskin New York. Mr. Preece received a bachelor of science degree in commerce with concentrations infinance and marketing from the McIntire School of Commerce at The University of Virginia ('98) and amaster of business administration degree with concentrations in analytical finance, management strategy,and entrepreneurship from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University ('04), where hegraduated with distinction and was a member of the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society.

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Owen RankinExecutive Vice President, Corporate and Public Affairs

Owen Rankin is an Executive Vice President in the Corporate and Public Affairs practice at Edelman NYworking with PepsiCo and Johnson & Johnson on Corporate Reputation management.

He has over 25 years of global experience in reputation management, corporate social responsibility,consumer and health marketing, senior executive positioning and event leadership. His experienceincludes 11 years at Johnson & Johnson where he had a range of responsibilities for managing their Corporate Reputation, to global pediatric CSR to running the US Johnson¶s Baby business to leadingglobal activation for their Beijing Olympic sponsorship.

Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Mr. Rankin spent 11 years at Tambrands, Inc. in Marketing andManagement roles in the U.S. and Europe. He lived in London for three years leading all strategicmarketing for Europe, Asia and Latin America. His last assignment at Tambrands was as the VicePresident of Global Marketing.

Mr. Rankin started his career in Advertising, spending four years at two New York-based advertisingagencies.

Al J. Park, Director CapTech

College of Arts and Sciences ± 1999

Mr. Park is a native of Richmond, VA. He is a 1999 graduate of the College of Arts & Sciences, withdegrees in Government and Sociology. While at the University, Mr. Park was active in student affairsincluding President of the Fraternity System and a member of the Dean of Students Search Committee.Mr. Park is a Director at CapTech, a technology consulting company and leads the Washington, DCoffice. Founded in 1997, CapTech is a private midsized consulting firm that designs and buildsinformation systems. CapTech is headquartered in Richmond, Virginia.

Prior to CapTech, Mr. Park was a Managing Director with FTI Consulting in Washington, DC and Los Angeles. He provided advisory services to Fortune 500 clients in financial services, healthcare andtechnology. Preceding FTI, he was a partner in a manufacturing firm supplying defense contractors inSouthern CA and also worked at KPMG and Andersen in New York and San Francisco.He resides in Vienna, VA with his wife, Joelle Heise, a 2000 graduate of the College.

JACK RIDGE, Global Employee Services Finance Director The Procter & Gamble Company

Mr. Ridge is responsible for financial oversight and leadership of P&G¶s $9B global employee servicesbusiness which includes operations such as payroll, pension administration, and travel management thatare delivered to 127,000 employees in 80 different countries. Across 23 years experience in Procter &

Gamble, he has worked in a broad variety of Finance & Accounting roles. Most recently he was theFinance leader for the $3B Global Snacks and Coffee franchise. Prior to that he led the corporate deal-making center of expertise in the outsourcing space, while leading deals on multiple outsourcing projects(including the most comprehensive HR outsourcing project ever executed). He has led P&G internalaudit activities for North America and Corporate functions. He was the finance leader for P&G¶s GlobalWal-Mart Team. Broadly, he has worked across the P&G Beauty, Health & Wellness and Fabric Carebusinesses, and across most core F&A functional areas in Procter & Gamble.

Mr. Ridge holds an MBA from the University of Michigan and the professional designation of CertifiedInternal Auditor. He has presented in multiple forums on outsourcing transactions and consumer product

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internal audit approaches. Throughout his career he has maintained a strong interest in collegerecruiting, including leadership for University of Michigan F&A recruiting for many years.

Mr. Ridge and his wife Shelly live in Cincinnati and have 4 children ± college age girls attending theUniversity of Pennsylvania and the University of Virginia, and two girls in high school.

Robert (Rob) A. Vallejo | Engagement Partner Richmond, VA | (804) 697-1902 | [email protected]

ExperienceRob is a partner in our Assurance practice who relocated to our Richmond, Virginia office in July 2008after completing a tour with our National Professional Services Group as a consulting partner based inParis, France. While on tour, he worked with some of our Firms¶ largest European clients includingNovartis, Eni, E.ON, Sanofi-Aventis, AXA, Sodexho and Nokia. He worked with each of these companiesand their audit teams to comply with the internal control requirements of the Sarbanes ± Oxley Act. Robhas published articles and given multiple presentations on the PCAOB¶s Auditing Standard No. 5, An

Audit of Internal Control over Financial Reporting that is Integrated with an Audit of Financial Statements and the SEC¶s guidance for management regarding internal control over financial reporting.

In Richmond, Rob serves NewMarket Corporation, Tredegar Corporation and Stanley Furniture Company(all SEC listed companies) and a number of private companies in a variety of industries, including energy(coal) and industrial manufacturing. Rob is active in the Richmond marketplace and specializes inassisting clients with the movement from US GAAP to IFRS. Rob is a graduate of the Leadership MetroRichmond class of 2009.

Prior to his tour in Paris, Rob served several public manufacturing companies in the Philadelphia areaincluding Crown, Cork & Seal, West Pharmaceuticals, IKON Office Services and Carpenter Technology.Before joining the assurance team in Philadelphia, he worked for three years in the Firm's Amsterdam,The Netherlands office.

Rob holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Virginia and is a Certified Public Accountant licensed in Virginia, New York and Illinois. Rob is the founder of the Philadelphia Chapter of

ALPFA, the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting. He has been with PwC since1992.

Thad JonesPartner Quad-C Management

Thad joined Quad-C in 1998 and currently sits on the Board of Directors of Augusta Sportswear Groupand Balboa Water Group and works with Asset Acceptance Capital Corp. (now public). Thad has madeinvestments in building products, consumer / leisure and business services and has worked with manyQuad-C investments including Acoustical Material Services, Collins & Aikman Floorcoverings, and HuddleHouse. Prior to joining Quad-C, Thad worked in corporate finance with both Robinson-Humphrey andCroft & Bender where he executed public offerings and private placements of debt and equity, as well as

acquisitions and divestitures of public and private companies. Thad holds a B.S. degree from the McIntireSchool of Commerce, University of Virginia.

JOHN BURRISChief Executive Officer John Burris is Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Sourcefire, Inc. (Nasdaq:FIRE), the creator of Snort® and a global leader in intelligent cybersecurity solutions. Burris joinedSourcefire in July 2008 and brings over 20 years of leadership, management, sales and corporatedevelopment experience to the Company.

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Before joining Sourcefire, Burris was a key contributor to the decade of growth achieved by CitrixSystems. Burris served as Senior Vice President from 1999 until 2008, during which time the company'sannual revenues increased from $400 million to $1.4 billion. Additionally, Burris was employed by LucentTechnologies from 1994 to 1999 as Vice President and General Manager of the Gulf States region. Prior to 1994, Burris was employed in various sales and customer service capacities for AT&T Corp., includingterms as Managing Director for AT&T's Asia/Pacific and European operations.Burris graduated from Marshall University, Summa Cum Laude, with a BBA degree in Management andcompleted an eMBA while at AT&T. He serves on the board of workspace.com, a privately held SaaScompany, and was recently named to the board of QlikTech, (NASDAQ: QLIK) a maker of businessintelligence software.

Stewart E. McHieProgram Director, MSBA and Adjunct Professor Catholic University of America

Mr. McHie joined the CUA staff and faculty in January, 2010 to develop the new Masters of Science inBusiness Analysis program with department chair Dr. Andrew Abela. Stew joins CUA following hisretirement in September 2009 from ExxonMobil.

A 34 year veteran of Exxon and ExxonMobil, Stew served in a variety of business analysis, strategicplanning, and sales management positions in the United States, Australia and England. Following aseries of overseas assignments, Mr. McHie returned to the US and led the effort to reposition the ExxonBrand in the United States. This initiative was later extended to all Esso Brands outside of the US. Withthe merger of Exxon and Mobil in 2000, Mr. McHie was named to his last position of Global BrandManager where he led strategic development for Brand Positioning, Consumer Research,Communications, and Marketing Program execution for ExxonMobil's global fuels operations.

Mr. McHie earned a bachelor degree in Business Administration from the University of Kentucky and livesin Fairfax, Virginia where he recently served on the Board of Directors of The Advertising Council andFairfax County School System Marketing Advisory Board.

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