Glenn Golenberg
Co-Vice Chairman

Mr. Golenberg, is presently a co-founder and Managing Director of Golenberg & Company, a merchant banking firm that invests in and offers financial advisory services to a wide variety of businesses. Founded in 1978, the Los Angeles merchant banking firm of Golenberg & Company also had offices in Cleveland and New York . He is also a Managing Director of The Bellwether Group, a merchant bank which provides strategic and financial advisory services to expansion-stage emerging technology and life-science related companies. Having been engaged in the investment banking industry since 1966, Mr. Golenberg has arranged financings well in excess of $1 billion and has served as a financial advisor in more than two hundred transactions. These include mergers and acquisitions and as a financial advisor in numerous assignments involving initial public offerings (IPO's), financial restructurings, venture capital financings and leveraged buyouts (LBO's).

Mr. Golenberg was recently recognized by the Los Angeles Business Journal's Angels of L.A., as one of the “29 Top Los Angeles-Area Investors.” He has invested in and worked with a number of high-growth and early-stage companies in a variety of industries. Prior to 1966, Mr. Golenberg was a CPA with Arthur Andersen & Co. From 1966 to 1973, he was associated with McDonald & Company, a leading regional investment banking firm headquartered in Cleveland , where he served as co-director of research and subsequently a general partner, serving in Corporate Finance in 1970. In 1973, he and other partners bought a controlling interest in Joseph, Mellen & Miller. The firm later merged with J.N. Russell, a New York Stock Exchange member, with Mr. Golenberg serving as President and Chief Executive Officer. That firm was sold to Prescott, Ball & Turben in 1978.

Mr. Golenberg is actively involved with a number of companies, and is a Director of Grill Concepts, Inc., Meadowbrook Golf Group, Inc., F&B Gudtfood and Direct Ventures. He is also Senior Advisor to Outsource Partners International, Inc. In addition, he has been chairman of numerous operating companies in which he and partners held a controlling interest. In the past, Mr. Golenberg has served as a Director of numerous publicly held companies. Mr. Golenberg is a member of the Business Advisory Council at his alma mater, Miami University in Oxford , Ohio , and served on the Graduate Executive Board of the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania , where he received his MBA degree. Since moving to Southern California, he has served on the Visiting Committee of the University Of Southern California School Of Business . Mr. Golenberg has been invited to lecture at all three institutions on the subject of entrepreneurship, corporate finance, and investment banking. He is a member of Beta Alpha Psi (National Accounting Society) and Beta Gamma Sigma (National Business Honorary).

When residing in Cleveland , Mr. Golenberg was an active community member, serving on the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Federation; the Board of Trustees, Treasurer and Executive Committees of Mt. Sinai Hospital; the Cleveland Area Development Finance Corporation and; the Visiting Committee of Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University . In Southern California , among other activities, he has been appointed to the Board of Governors, the Executive Committee, the Finance Committee and the Investment Committee of Cedars-Sinai Hospital; the Investment and Finance Committees of Wilshire Boulevard Temple and the Board, the Executive and the Finance Committees of the Jewish Community Foundation.

He also served on the Executive and Finance Committees of the Jewish Federation and currently serves as Chairman of the Pension Investment Committee as well as Vice General Chairman of the United Jewish Fund. He was a member of Kennedy Center 's National Committee for the Performing Arts. He was Co- Chairman of the Special Gifts Committee of the Music Center in Los Angeles , and is a member of the Fraternity of Friends. In addition Mr. Golenberg is currently Vice Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Tel Aviv University Recanati Business School .

Mr. Golenberg is a member of the Union Club of Cleveland, and the Harmonie Club of New York .