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Mr. Crino is President and co-founder of Skyway Advisors, LLC. Prior to forming Skyway in October 2002, Mr. Crino was employed from 1997 through 2002 in the Media and Entertainment Group at Communications Equity Associates, most recently in the position of Senior Vice President and Head of the Broadcast and Publishing Groups. Mr. Crino was co-founder of the Converging Media Group at CEA in 1999, and has substantial experience advising media, entertainment, technology and real estate related companies on investment banking related matters. Mr. Crino has executed numerous transactions including mergers & acquisitions and financial advisory engagements, and private placements of equity and debt securities. Prior to CEA, Mr. Crino was CFO and Vice President at Instep Software. From 1991 through 1996 Mr. Crino practiced law in the corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions groups at Schiff, Hardin & Waite in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Crino holds a BBA from the University of Texas, a law degree with honors from the University of Illinois, where he served as an editor of The Law Review, and an MBA from the JL Kellogg Graduate School of Management. Mr. Crino holds Series 7, 24, 28 and 63 securities licenses and has been published on numerous topics including financial derivative transactions and directors duties in merger and acquisition situations. | 