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Mr. Peterson is a member of the Board of Directors of Cleary Gull and currently serves as Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking. Mr. Peterson has over 20 years of experience in corporate and financing transactions. Since joining Cleary Gull in 1995, Mr. Peterson has advised clients completing numerous merger and acquisition and public and private financing assignments representing over $2.0 billion of transaction value in the Consumer, Wholesale Distribution, Growth Industrial, Healthcare, Technology, Automotive and Staffing areas. From 1998 through 2001 he was Head of Investment Banking and a member of Management Committee and Board of Directors of Tucker Anthony Sutro Capital Markets, a company formerly affiliated with Cleary Gull. Previously, Mr. Peterson practiced corporate law for 13 years and was a shareholder in the Milwaukee, Wisconsin law firm of Godfrey & Kahn, S.C. where he represented buyers, sellers, lenders, investors, intermediaries, executives and owners of privately and publicly held businesses in numerous transactions including mergers and acquisitions, public offerings, private placements of debt and equity, senior credit facilities, management and leveraged buyouts, joint ventures and strategic alliances. He is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Richardson Electronics, Ltd. (Nasdaq - RELL) and a member of the Board of Directors of Krueger International, Inc., a privately-held contract furniture manufacturer, and Medem, Inc., a privately-held healthcare information technology company. Mr. Peterson earned his B.A. in accounting with high honors from Michigan State University, a C.P.A. designation in Illinois, where he was a tax accountant with Arthur Young, and his J.D. (Order of the Coif) from the University of Wisconsin. | 