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Douglas Lyons, Pearlmark

Pearlmark

Doug Lyons is a Managing Principal of Pearlmark, with responsibility for the firm’s capital markets and debt investment activities. He is also a member of the firm’s Investment and Management Committees. Prior to joining the firm in 1996, Mr. Lyons was Vice President of Equity Institutional Investors, Inc. where he was responsible for merchant banking activities. Previously, he worked in the New York Real Estate Capital Markets groups for Bankers Trust Company and Merrill Lynch & Co.

Mr. Lyons earned a BA from Amherst College and a MBA from Harvard University. He is a member and Trustee of the Urban Land Institute (ULI) and a member of the Pension Real Estate Association (PREA). In addition Mr. Lyons is currently or has been a Trustee or member of several non-profit boards, including the Loomis Chaffee School, Lycee Francais de Chicago and St. James Cathedral.

Jennifer Bellah Maguire

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

Jennifer Bellah Maguire is a partner in Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher’s Los Angeles office and is co-chair to the firm’s investment fund group. Her practice focuses on private equity fund formation and mergers and acquisitions, including public company transactions and divestitures. Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business has recognized her as a leading lawyer from 2012-2015 in the area of Private Equity: Buyouts and from 2012-2013 in the areas of Investment Funds: Private Equity: Fund Formation. Currently and for the past several years, Chambers USA has recognized her as a leading lawyer in the areas of Private Equity: Fund Formation and Buyouts, in California Corporate M&A: Private Equity and in Southern California Corporate M&A. She was shortlisted for the Chambers USA ‘Women in Law’ Awards in the Corporate M&A Lawyer of the Year category, 2012. She has also been named as one of the “Most Influential M&A Advisors” (2013) and ranked among “The Best of the Bar” for Corporate Transactions (2007) by The Los Angeles Business Journal. Bellah Maguire has been selected by her peers for inclusion in 2006-2016 editions of The Best Lawyers in America© in the fields of Securities/Capital Markets Law and was named to the International Who’s Who of Private Fund Lawyers for 2011.

She has represented a number of groups in raising leveraged buy-out, venture and other funds, including the $6 billion leveraged buy-out fund raised by Leonard Green & Partners in 2012. Her going private experience includes the sale of SPARTA and the acquisition of The Sports Authority.

Bellah Maguire holds a bachelor of arts from Bryn Mawr College, magna cum laude, and studied for one year at Sorbonne University in Paris, France. She was awarded a Watson Foundation Fellowship following college. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, where she was a member of the Order of the Coif and served as an Associate Editor for the California Law Review. She speaks and writes French fluently and practiced in the firm’s Paris office. Prior to joining the firm, she served as law clerk for the Honorable Mary M. Schroeder in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Bellah Maguire is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Otis College of Art and Design and a founding member of the board of the Los Angeles Ballet.

James Martin

Orion Analytical

James Martin is a scientist, professor, art conservator, and artist. James founded and operates Orion, a micro-niche materials analysis and consulting firm established in 2000 to investigate art, cultural property, and collectibles spanning more than 4,000 years – from ancient Egyptian artifacts to paintings and sculpture, architectural finishes, Bordeaux wines, and more. People on five continents rely on James to elucidate the structure and composition of materials, resolve questions about attribution and authenticity, provide leads and testimony in civil and criminal proceedings, help build and preserve assets and legacies – and avoid costly litigation. James taught at the Getty, Smithsonian, and FBI Counter-terrorism and Forensic Science Research Unit, and now holds academic appointments at New York University and Williams College. He has conducted art fraud investigations for the FBI for twenty years, and is an esteemed expert in criminal investigations and legal proceedings in the United States and abroad. He has undertaken more than 1,700 investigations.

Chris McCoy, StoreCoin

StoreCoin

Chris McCoy is the creator of Storecoin, a new public blockchain powering free transactions using its Dynamic Proof of Stake consensus algorithm (DyPoS). He’s also a Member of the World Economic Forum on their blockchain and global cross-data flow initiatives.

Ron McCray, Private Investor, Member of the Boston Celtics Ownership Group

Private investor, member of the Boston Celtics Ownership Group

Ron McCray is a private investor, corporate director, jazz saxophonist, former chief executive officer and lawyer. Currently, Ron serves as an advisor to RLJ Equity Partners, a private equity firm, and 645 Ventures, an early stage, high technology venture capital firm. He serves on the boards of A.H. Belo Corporation, and Meta Bank Financial Group, Inc.

Ron is a Senate-confirmed, presidential appointee on the FRTIB, which oversees the world’s largest pension fund, and serves as a trustee of Cornell University, where he sponsors the McCray Scholars program. He is the vice chairman of Charleston Jazz, and a member of the board of the Newport Festivals Foundation.

Ron previously served on the boards of TESSCO Technologies Incorporated, Career Education Corp., EveryWare Global, Knight Ridder and Kimberly-Clark de Mexico.

As an executive, Ron served as Chairman, CEO and President of Career Education Corp, and prior to that, as the Chief Administrative Officer at Nike. As a lawyer, he served as SVP – Law and Government Affairs and Chief Compliance Officer of Kimberly-Clark, and worked at law firms Weil Gotshal & Manges in New York City and Jones, Day in Dallas.

Ron previously served on the governing boards of Harvard Law School and Jazz at Lincoln Center. He also is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Boston Celtics ownership group.

Ron graduated from Cornell University, where he earned Dean’s List honors and was inducted into the Aleph Semach/Raven and Serpent, and Quill and Dagger Honor Societies, earned a varsity letter, and set school and meet records. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he graduated as the editor and business manager of the Harvard Civil Rights/Civil Liberties Law Review, and was named a Traphagen Distinguished Alumnus.