Mr. Seth R. Freeman
Managing Director and CEO, CIRA

Mr. Freeman has over twenty-two years experience as an advisor, investor and senior executive of start-up, high-growth and troubled companies. Mr. Freeman is one of fewer than 600 Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors in the United States . He is a Director and Vice President of the Turnaround Management Association (TMA) Northern California Chapter and a member of the American Bankruptcy Institute and TMA International Committees and Associate Member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and a Certified Fraud Examiner candidate.

Mr. Freeman holds an MBA in International Management from Thunderbird. He served as the 2001 Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Turnaround Management Association monthly "Journal of Corporate Renewal". He was the 2002 Chairman of the TMA web site (www.turnaround.org). Mr. Freeman has been quoted in TheStreet.com, Daily Deal, Bloomberg, INC., Red Herring, El Financiero (Mexico), Business Mexico and Latin Finance, among other business publications. He regularly speaks at major conferences pertaining to troubled companies, insolvency and private equity investment.