Robert M. Whelan, Jr., one of our directors since April, 2010, has more than thirty-five years of corporate finance and investment banking experience. He is currently a financial and business advisor. From 2008 to 2009, Mr. Whelan was a Fellow at the Harvard University Advanced Leadership Initiative, an innovative year-long curriculum aimed at providing a rigorous educational program for exceptional leaders who have reached the height of their professions and are seeking to contribute their skills to solve global social problems. Since 2001, Mr. Whelan has been a business advisor providing financial consulting, valuation and strategic services to public and private companies in the technology, healthcare and alternative energy industries. Prior to that, Mr. Whelan was a senior executive with Volpe Brown Whelan, LLC, a private technology and investment banking, brokerage and asset management firm. Prudential Securities acquired Volpe Brown Whelan in 1999 and Mr. Whelan became Vice Chairman, Prudential Volpe Technology Group until 2001. Previously, Mr. Whelan was Managing Director, New York Regional and High Technology Groups at Prudential Securities, and Managing Director and Head of Corporate Finance at Hambrecht & Quist, Inc. Mr. Whelan received a B.A. in history from Dartmouth College and a M.B.A. from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.
