Jonathan Spalter, Chairman and CEO 

Before creating the independent investment research firm Public Insight, LP, Spalter served in the Clinton Administration where he was confirmed by the US Senate to serve as Associate Director of the US Information Agency, and CIO. He also served in the White House as a Director on the National Security Council staff, and as chief international affairs spokesman for Vice President Al Gore. In the private sector, Spalter has been CEO of Snocap, founded by the creators of Napster; CEO of Vivendi Universal’s health publishing subsidiary, Atmedica Worldwide, and as Vivendi Universal’s group Senior Vice President for global public policy. Spalter was an analyst at Multinational Strategies Inc., the New York investment and political risk advisory firm. He was graduated Magna Cum Laude from Harvard University, and received the M. Phil from Cambridge University, where he focused on international economics and political risk analysis. A frequent commentator and author on financial markets and public policy, he is a member and former Fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations. jonathan.spalter@public-insight.com

Governor Jim Hodges, Vice Chairman

Governor Hodges served as Governor of South Carolina from 1999 – 2003. He recently served as National Co-Chairman of the Obama-Biden Presidential Campaign. He is a partner with McGuireWoods LLP and a senior advisor with McGuireWoods Consulting LLC. He advises clients on energy, health care, education, economic development, and other issues, dividing his time between Washington, D.C., and Columbia, S.C. Since 1993, he has been the CEO of Hodges Consulting, a business, government relations, and economic development consulting firm. He received his J.D. and B.S. from the University of South Carolina in Columbia.

Dr. Paul M. Sacks, Managing Director, New York

Dr. Sacks takes on the new role of Managing Director, overseeing the activities of our New York office. He has for twenty years been President of Multinational Strategies, Inc. (MNS), a financial advisory firm assisting asset management companies and sovereign clients from emerging markets in their privatization and capital markets activities. Prior to joining MNS, Dr. Sacks worked at Chase Manhattan Bank where he helped establish their commercial sovereign risk subsidiary. He has served as foreign investment advisor to the Prime Ministers of the Czech Republic and Bulgaria, in addition to several other sovereign mandates. Dr. Sacks holds an M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an A.B. from the University of Rochester. From 1975-1979 he served as Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. Over the past decade Dr. Sacks also served as Adjunct Professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and also serves on Public Insight’s National Advisory Board. paul.sacks@public-insight.com

Jessie Seyfer, Director of Research and Client Services

Ms. Seyfer joins Public Insight from the journalism world, where she was a newspaper reporter and editor covering business, law, regulatory affairs, and the telecommunications sector. She was most recently Associate Editor at The Recorder, a daily newspaper based in California for legal professionals. She also worked as a reporter there, covering Silicon Valley legal affairs, with a focus on the business of law, general counsel issues and intellectual property. Prior to that, she spent several years as a business and legal reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, where she covered federal and state courts, networking, telecommunications, the California Public Utilities Commission and crime. Ms. Seyfer holds a master’s degree in journalism from the University of California at Berkeley and a Bachelor of Science degree in physiology from the University of California at Davis. jessie.seyfer@public-insight.com