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Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

Edwards Wildman attorneys are known internationally for their work in private equity, venture capital, corporate and finance transactions, complex litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and intellectual property. Our clients know us as their trusted legal and business adviser—providing the strategic, collaborative and client-focused counsel that helps protect and advance their business goals. Creative yet pragmatic, we bring deep industry knowledge and take the time to develop an intimate understanding of our clients’ businesses, to help them effectively navigate risk, regulatory issues and the diverse challenges of a competitive marketplace—in the boardroom or the courtroom. With more than a century of experience, working with Fortune 500 and FTSE 250 clients and start-up companies alike, throughout a range of industries and across three continents, we are a forceful advocate for our clients’ businesses.
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BDO
BDO provides assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting services to a wide range of publicly traded and privately held companies. We offer a sophisticated array of services and the global capabilities of the world's fifth largest accounting and consulting network, combined with the personal attention of experienced professionals. For additional resources specifically for Board members refer to BDO Board Reflections.

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Bingham McCutchen
With 1,100 lawyers in 13 offices spanning the United States, United Kingdom, Europe and Asia, Bingham focuses on serving clients in high-stakes litigation, complex financing and financial regulatory issues, government affairs, and a wide variety of sophisticated corporate and technology matters.

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Deloitte
The subsidiaries of Deloitte & Touche USA LLP are among the nation’s leading professional services firms, providing audit, tax, consulting, and financial advisory services through nearly 40,000 people in more than 90 cities. Known as employers of choice, they are dedicated to helping their clients and their people excel.

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Edwards Wildman attorneys are known internationally for their work in private equity, venture capital, corporate and finance transactions, complex litigation, insurance and reinsurance, and intellectual property. Our clients know us as their trusted legal and business adviser—providing the strategic, collaborative and client-focused counsel that helps protect and advance their business goals. Creative yet pragmatic, we bring deep industry knowledge and take the time to develop an intimate understanding of our clients’ businesses, to help them effectively navigate risk, regulatory issues and the diverse challenges of a competitive marketplace—in the boardroom or the courtroom. With more than a century of experience, working with Fortune 500 and FTSE 250 clients and start-up companies alike, throughout a range of industries and across three continents, we are a forceful advocate for our clients’ businesses.

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Egon Zehnder International
Egon Zehnder International is one of the largest privately held executive search firms in the world with 370 consultants in 62 wholly owned offices in 37 countries. The firm specializes in senior-level executive search, board consulting and director search, talent management and management appraisals.

EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com

Grant Thornton LLP
The people in the independent firms of Grant Thornton International Ltd provide personalized attention and the highest quality service to public and private clients in more than 100 countries. Grant Thornton LLP is the U.S. member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd, one of the six global audit, tax and advisory organizations. Grant Thornton International Ltd and its member firms are not a worldwide partnership, as each member firm is a separate and distinct legal entity. For more information visit us at www.gt.com

Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP is a multi-service law firm of more than 130 attorneys with offices located throughout New England. Our multidisciplinary approach to problem solving allows us to provide legal service to both individuals and businesses, including many of the region's publicly-held corporations and emerging businesses with both domestic and foreign operations, financial institutions, several of the nation's largest real estate developers and construction companies, major hospitals, state and local governments and agencies, and privately-owned businesses and partnerships.

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Korn/Ferry International
Korn/Ferry International , founded in 1969, is the worlds largest Executive Search firm. We provide talent management solutions that enable clients to attract, develop, retain, and sustain talent. Korn/Ferry's executive recruitment services are used to fill executive-level positions, such as board directors, chief executive officers, chief financial officers, chief operating officers, chief information officers, and other senior executive officers in industrial, consumer, financial services, technology, life sciences, healthcare, and education/not-for-profit markets. The company also provides leadership and talent consulting services, which include strategic and organizational alignment, leadership and executive development, and talent and performance management services.

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KPMG
KPMG is a global network of professional firms providing Audit, Tax, and Advisory services. We operate in 145 countries and have more than 133,000 professionals, including more than 7,100 partners, working in member firms around the world. Our purpose is to turn knowledge into value for the benefit of our clients, our people, and the capital markets. Our member firms aim to provide clients with a globally consistent set of multidisciplinary financial and accounting services, based on deep industry knowledge.

Liberty Mutual
Since 1912, we at Liberty Mutual have committed ourselves to providing broad, useful and competitively-priced insurance products and services to meet our customers ever-changing needs. Our delivery on this commitment is the reason we’re now the 5th largest P&C insurance company in the United States, why we’ve earned an A.M. Best Co. ‘A’ (Excellent) rating, and why we have the breadth, depth and financial strength that you can always depend on - in the United States and around the world.

McGladrey
McGladrey is the brand under which RSM McGladrey, Inc. and McGladrey & Pullen, LLP serve clients’ business needs. Together, the companies rank as the fifth largest U.S. provider of accounting, tax and business consulting services with 7,000 professionals and associates in 90 offices. We are member firms of RSM International, the sixth largest worldwide accounting and consulting organization. With more than 735 offices in 76 countries, we can help you expand overseas or simply gain insights into global best practices. Our Boston-area office employs over 500 professionals and serves clients in a wide variety of industries.

Mintz Levin
Founded in 1933, Mintz Levin has grown into a versatile law firm of nearly 500 highly qualified and dedicated attorneys representing diverse international clients in many industries who turn to us for a wide range of legal services and resources. Our offices are located in Boston, Washington DC, New York, San Diego, Los Angeles, Palo Alto, Stamford (CT), and London. Our clients include: Entrepreneurs, Research Scientists, Investors, Underwriters, Directors and Officers Start-Ups and Emerging Growth Companies Privately Held and Family Businesses Fortune 500 Companies Medical and Academic institutions, public agencies and industry associations

Pearl Meyer & Partners
For 20 years, Pearl Meyer & Partners (www.pearlmeyer.com) has served as a trusted independent advisor to Boards and their senior management in the areas of compensation governance, strategy and program design. Clients rely on PM&P to develop programs that align rewards with long-term business goals to create value for all stakeholders: shareholders, executives, and employees.

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Radford - an Aon Hewitt Company
Comprised of industry thought leaders, Radford’s global consulting practice focuses on the compensation issues facing technology and life sciences companies at all stages of development. Radford consultants are skilled in a variety of compensation areas and can offer a tailored solution for your company’s toughest global business and compensation challenges. For more information on Radford, please visit www.radford.com. Radford is an Aon Hewitt company.

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Sharon Merrill Associates
Sharon Merrill Associates, an investor relations and corporate communications strategic advisory firm, has been developing award-winning investor relations campaigns for private and public companies for more than two decades. The firm provides a range of services including board-shareholder communications counsel, investor perception audits, crisis communications, private company corporate visibility, M&A, corporate disclosure, investor outreach and IPO preparation.

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State Street Corporation
With $21.5 trillion in assets under custody and administration, and $2.0 trillion in assets under management* as of December 31, 2010, State Street is a leading financial services provider serving some of the world’s most sophisticated institutions. We offer a flexible suite of services that spans the investment spectrum, including investment management, research and trading, and investment servicing. With operations in 26 countries in more than 100 markets, our global reach, expertise, and unique combination of consistency and innovation help clients manage uncertainty, act on growth opportunities, optimize cost structures and enhance the value of their services. For more information, visit State Street’s website at www.statestreet.com . *This AUM includes the assets of the SPDR Gold Trust (approx. $56 billion as of December 31, 2010), for which State Street Global Markets, LLC, an affiliate of State Street Global Advisors, serves as the marketing agent.

Towers Watson
At Towers Watson, our focus is on giving you the clarity to make the right decisions. Whether you're concerned about managing risk, keeping top talent or providing the right benefits at the right cost, we bring the right perspective. Towers Watson - A global company with a singular focus on our clients. Benefits -- Risk and Financial Services -- Talent and Rewards.

Sponsors
BDO
Bingham McCutchen
Deloitte
Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP
Egon Zehnder International
EMC Corporation
Grant Thornton LLP
Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP
Korn/Ferry International
KPMG
Liberty Mutual
McGladrey
Mintz Levin
Pearl Meyer & Partners
Radford - an Aon Hewitt Company
Sharon Merrill Associates
State Street Corporation
Towers Watson