Frank Gatti, MBA, CPA, NACD Leadership Fellow

Frank has been directly involved with over $10 billion of M&A, Equity and Debt Transactions, Turnaround, Transformational Strategies, Credit Ratings, Investor & Bank Relations and Benefits Administration.

He had a 13 year career at ETS leading a two-year turnaround that reversed a decade of operating and cash flow deficits. During his tenure revenues quadrupled to $1.3 billion with 35% from outside the U.S. and 6.500 employees worldwide. Through his leadership of numerous transformational transactions and initiatives, the creation of financial functions/tools and building high performance teams, over $500 million of net free cash flow was generated and reinvested in quality, innovation, R&D and technology.

Prior to ETS, Frank spent about 20 years at NYT where he was directly involved in over fifty M&A transactions that propelled the company to a media conglomerate. Revenues during his tenure grew from $400 million to $2.4 billion, 50% from acquired businesses, and 13,000 employees across the U.S. Due to this explosive growth, he implemented a range of scalable and integrated technologies to facilitate timely decisions by Management and the Board of Directors and created a shared services center.

Mr. Gatti began his career with Deloitte/New York and provided an array of services to public, private and tax-exempt companies across various industry segments.

Dan Brill, MBA

Dan Brill has extensive experience in global banking and finance developed in a career spanning more than thirty years at Citicorp in the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. From 2008 to 2012 he was the Chief Risk Officer of Treasury and Trade Solutions at Citicorp’s Division of Global Transaction Services, responsible for identifying risks and resolving complex business issues across a broad array of functions in Global Cash Management and Finance Services. In addition to currently serving as Board President of SARAH, Inc. (Guilford CT), he is a member of Midstate Investors, LLC (Middletown CT).

Prior to joining H.S. Grace & Company, Inc., Dan had extensive experience in negotiating complex corporate acquisition finance agreements with attorneys, investors and debt providers and also had lead experience in negotiating debt restructuring for Donald Trump and Rupert Murdoch. At HSG, Dan has served on engagement teams addressing financial institution matters and corporate financing. He also has served as a speaker in HSG’s business and professional programs for law and insurance clients. He received his MBA from Wake Forest University School of Business.

Ed Grun

Ed has over 40 years of professional design and management experience. His portfolio includes over 50 million square feet of development including more than 60 hotels and resorts totaling over 35,000 keys, high-rise residential and numerous large corporate campus projects. Among his notable projects are: the Sands Parisian Macau, Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, the Fairmont Austin, Signia Hilton at Georgia World, Manchester Pacific Gateway, Deloitte University, KPMG Innovation & Learning Campus and the ExxonMobil and Halliburton Corporate Campuses. He earned a B.E.D. in Architecture and Building Construction from Texas A & M University, Magna Cum Laude

Dr. Stephen Grace

Dr. Stephen Grace is President and Founder of H.S. Grace & Company, Inc., a litigation support, expert testimony and business consulting firm serving corporate officers and directors and their counsel as well as other organizations and individuals. Dr. Grace is an economist, consultant and longtime expert witness on corporate governance, business practices, and damages arising in business disputes.

His prior business career included senior responsibilities in 3 organizations involved in real estate, oil & gas, national sports team franchises, auto and equipment leasing, and other areas. In these roles, he managed financing and guided entities through bankruptcy and troubled debt situations. Since founding H.S. Grace, he has assisted in litigation involving complex commercial disputes in the energy, banking, financial and insurance industries and in numerous other organizations including partnerships and non-profit entities. He has also assisted clients in defending against shareowner derivative suits and regulatory enforcement actions.

H.S. Grace & Company’s resources include about thirty advisors and expert engagement staff members from a wide range of industries and professional disciplines. For additional information about the firm and its work, see www.hsgraceco.com. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Lamar University, a Master’s Degree from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Economics from University of Houston. MBA .

Steven B. Lilien, Ph.D., CPA

Steven B. Lilien, Ph.D., CPA is the Weinstein Professor of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business, Bernard M. Baruch College, The City University of New York. Steven is the Chairman of the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy at the Zicklin School of Business and the Director of the Robert Zicklin Center for Financial Integrity.

Joseph Monteleone, Esq.

Joe serves as coverage and monitoring counsel for errors and omissions (E&O), directors and officers (D&O), employment practices liability (EPL), and other claims-made insurance products.

Additionally, Joe also provides clients with consulting and testifying expert witness in insurance disputes involving claims handling practice and industry custom and practice in the underwriting of risk. In particular, he has concentrated this work in the D&O and professional liability product lines.

In Joe’s practice, he handles reinsurance audits in specialty lines such as Representations and Warranties Insurance. He is also experienced in drafting policies and endorsements.

Joe is certified as an arbitrator by ARIAS-US concentrating on D&O and professional lines coverage disputes. He is also a mediator of insurance and reinsurance coverage disputes.

S. Lawrence Prendergast , MBA

Larry Prendergast is Chairman of the Turrell Fund and serves on the advisory boards of several investment funds, including JPMorgan. He is a member of the Board of Advisors for H.S. Grace & Company and provides expert services 5 relating to business operations, corporate finance, acquisitions and restructuring, officer and director responsibilities and other matters. Larry was previously a board member of three NYSE listed companies, AT&T Capital Corp., LaBranche & Co., and Lucent Technologies, Inc., and also served as Chairman of the Financial Executives Research Foundation.

Larry was the Vice President and Treasurer of AT&T from 1983–1997. In 1997 he was elected Chairman and CEO of AT&T Investment Management Corp. which was responsible for the investment and the administration of $35 billion in funded employee plan assets for AT&T Corp. He retired from AT&T in 1999 and subsequently served as Executive Vice President of Finance at LaBranche & Co. Inc., a New York Stock Exchange specialist firm. Larry is the author of the book, “Uncommon Profits Through Stock Purchase Warrants” published by Dow-Jones Irwin. He earned a BA in Mathematics from Brown University and an MBA from New York University.

Richard Schrader, MBA, MA, PE

Rich Schrader has almost 50 years of professional experience with almost 40 years in engineering and construction. He worked for Parsons Brinckerhoff for almost 30 years, including as chairman of the $2.5 billion revenue firm. Previously, he spent 11 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and taught at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

His experience spans commercial real estate and housing, enterprise risk programs, corporate governance, ethics and compliance, corporate finance, government contracts, HR and benefits programs, public/private partnerships, strategic planning, M&A, corporate IT and facilities construction. He earned a BS from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, an MA from the Jons Hopkins University School of Avanced international Studies and an MBA in Finance from Long Island University.