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About CEO Lawrence Goldfarb

Lawrence Goldfarb, CEO and Founder of LRG Capital Group and Portfolio Manager of the LRG Capital Funds, is a well known and respected fund manager with over 20 years of investment banking, trading and legal experience. Recognized as an expert in making direct investments in private and public companies, he specializes in indentifying the financial needs of companies using a unique structuring of transactions that enables businesses to develop and provide investor returns.

Larry began his career as a tax attorney with the law firms of Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy and thereafter with Skadden Arps Meagher & Flom, where he provided tax analysis in connection with a wide variety of complex transactions, including financings, mergers and recapitalizations. Subsequently, Larry joined Credit Suisse First Boston Corporation as a Partner and Director of Mergers and Acquisitions. In 1998 he formed BayStar Capital Management, LLC, a vehicle in which he could fund growth oriented, small capitalization, and publicly traded companies. In 2005, Larry formed LRG Capital Group, a California limited liability company, to act as the general partner of the BayStar Capital III Investment Fund. In addition to its role as general partner to the BayStar Capital III Fund, LRG Capital provides financial advisory services to publicly-traded and private companies and, through its affiliates, operates a global investment and banking business for private companies across all industries. With offices in San Francisco, New York and Miami, LRG Capital invests in, and represents companies on equity and debt placements, restructurings, recapitalizations, management buyouts and other strategic alternatives and alliances.

Mr. Goldfarb regularly speaks at both national and international private equity and hedge fund conferences and events, has written numerous books and articles on various investment strategies, and is a guest lecturer at business schools such as Columbia and Berkeley.

Mr. Goldfarb received his J.D. Cum Laude from Georgetown Law School in 1984, where he published numerous articles for the Law Journal and his B.A. in International Economics from George Washington University in 1981.

Mr. Goldfarb is an accomplished jazz musician and, in his spare time, plays with various bands in the Bay Area.

Lawrence Goldfarb - LRG Capital Group