Advisory Council Laurie Holtz Rachlin Cohen & Holtz LLP Laurie Holtz is a partner within the Advisory Services division of Rachlin Choen & Holtz. He has more than 25 years of experience and is a nationally recognized, experienced professional in the specialized practice of forensic accounting. Mr. Holtz has dedicated most of his career to helping clients and attorneys trace and recover funds in financial fraud cases. He also provides management advisory services to a wide range of corporate clients. One of the nation’s pioneers in the area of investigative (forensic) accounting, Mr. Holtz is known for his keen ability to track financial footprints and to present valid, accurate evidence of the nature and logistics of fraud. Throughout his career, he has provided litigation support services and appeared as an expert witness in state, federal and bankruptcy courts for some of the most complex national fraud cases in U.S. history. Mr. Holtz’s clients include receivers, lawyers, trustees, corporate clients ranging in size from sole proprietors to major corporations, and state and federal government agencies, including, among others, the FDIC, SEC, FBI and RTC. L. Richard Fischer, Esq. Morrison & Foerster LLP Mr. Fischer has been a partner of Morrison & Foerster since 1976. His practice focuses on financial services law. For over 30 years, he has advised a wide variety of financial institutions and other companies across the United States on the full range of financial services, payment system and retail banking issues. His practice has a special emphasis on data security, privacy, e-commerce, technology and joint venture issues. He also serves as Washington Counsel for Visa. Mr. Fischer has written and spoken extensively on many aspects of financial services law and has lectured on these subjects at several law schools. He is the author of a treatise on privacy and information practices entitled The Law of Financial Privacy, (3rd ed.), published by A.S. Pratt & Sons, and Editor-in-Chief of the Privacy and Information Law Report, published by Legalworks. Mr. Fischer has been named one of Washington's top banking and privacy lawyers by the Washingtonian magazine; he also is listed in The Best Lawyers in America (2006 and 2007) as a leader in the field of banking law. He was named a Leading Lawyer in Financial Services Law in the 2006 Chambers USA Guide to America's Leading Business Lawyers put out by Chamber & Partners Publishing. Marge Connelly, COO Wachovia Securities Ms. Connelly joined Wachovia Securities in 2006, as Chief Operating Officer and President of its Business Services Group. The Business Services Group comprises the firm's critical operations, processing and corporate support functions and coordinates all aspects of its information technology, including IT development and integration.  She also serves as a member of Wachovia Securities' Operating Committee, its senior executive panel. Prior to joining Wachovia Securities, Ms. Connelly was COO, Capital One, where she played a central role in the company's formation and growth since its establishment in 1994.  Most recently, she was executive vice president for corporate partnerships, a role in which she led the company's efforts to establish and build relationships with other businesses and with governmental and community leaders and organizations.  Earlier Ms. Connelly held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility within the company, including head of its U.S. consumer operations. In addition to having outstanding professional skills and credentials, Ms. Connelly is active in community affairs,serving on the boards of the Greater Richmond YMCA, the World Affairs Council, Richmond Renaissance, the Virginia Chamber of Commerce and the Greater Richmond Partnership.  She also chairs the Virginia Workforce Council as appointed by the Governor to the Longwood University Board of Visitors and the Council on Virginia’s Future, and she is a member of the board of CJW Medical Center.  In 2003, she was named “Outstanding Woman of the Year” in business by the YWCA. John Hueston, Esq. Irell & Manella LLP John Hueston is a litigation partner at Irell & Manella LLP, focusing on trial practice and securities law, corporate crisis management, internal investigations, complex civil litigation, intellectual property litigation, and white collar criminal defense. Mr. Hueston represents a wide range of clients, from large Fortune 100 companies and governments to smaller businesses and individuals. Fortune magazine recently chose Mr. Hueston as one of 25 People Who Shaped the Face of Business in 2006. As Forbes magazine noted of his work in the trial of Jeffrey Skilling and Kenneth Lay, where he served as a lead prosecutor, “John Hueston was quickly able to establish a clear, uninterrupted connection between fraudulent activities at Enron and the two defendants . . .a methodically researched presentation of evidence proving the defendants’ guilt.”  The Los Angeles Times described Mr. Hueston’s cross-examination of Lay as “devastating” and The Associated Press called him “the perfect David to Lay’s Goliath.” California Lawyer Magazine recently named Mr. Hueston a 2007 "California Attorney of the Year."  As a prosecutor, Mr. Hueston was presented with four awards by each of the last three U.S. Attorneys General for his trial work.  He has never lost a trial. The American Lawyer magazine named Mr. Hueston as one of the nation's "Fab Fifty" young litigators and one of ten Star Laterals.  Mr. Hueston has also been specially commended by the National Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the F.B.I. and the I.R.S. for serving as the lead trial attorney in fraud, tax and public corruption trials. John P. Dennis, III WoodRock & Company Mr. Dennis has been the Principal and Managing Director of WoodRock & Co. since he founded the firm in April 1998. He is responsible for deal origination and selection, deal and project leadership, strategy, and business management.  To date, Mr. Dennis has executed over $6 billion in transactions.  Prior to WoodRock, he was a Vice President with Koch Industries, Inc. in their international and capital services groups. In these positions, he was responsible for Koch's global merchant banking and M&A efforts. From early 1996 through June 1997, he served as Chief Financial Officer, and later as acting Chief Operating Officer, of Gas Services International, Limited (“GSI”), a contract compression and engineering services company with offices in Houston, Texas, and Singapore.  Before GSI, he advised both American Breco Corporation and Aviation Sales Company (NYSE: AVS) in their merger, acquisition, divestiture, and financing activities. His prior investment banking experience includes Simmons & Company International and Goldman Sachs & Co.  Prior private equity experience includes SCF Partners, L.P. and Breco Holdings, Inc.  He holds an AB from Harvard College and an MBA from Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management. Following college, he served as an officer in the United States Navy. Dave Jeppesen, SVP Capital One Financial Mr. Jeppesen is a Senior Vice President and Deputy Chief Risk Officer at Capital One. In this role, he oversees Enterprise Risk Management, Operational Risk Management, and corporate level Credit Risk Management activities. Mr. Jeppesen is focused on improving the organization’s risk management activities and increases Capital Ones analytic capability. Mr. Jeppesen started his career as a statistician, focused on predicting consumer behavior for direct marketing activities. In this capacity, he joined Capital One Financial, focused on combining market research, consumer data, product information, and technology to drive the best decision for the consumer and financial decision for the company. He later moved to operations in the Direct Marketing Center. In that capacity, he brought new technology and infrastructure solutions together for direct marketing at Capital One. These involved solutions for areas such as creative development, prospect/customer targeting and credit decisions. Each of these solutions leveraged the latest technology and infrastructure, while pushing the envelope on what that infrastructure could do.