Kenneth S. Springer

President

Mr. Springer, a Certified Fraud Examiner, is President and founder of Corporate Resolutions Inc. A former special agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Mr. Springer has conducted business-related investigations and intelligence gathering for over twenty-five years. He is a recognized expert on state of the art data retrieval technology. Prior to founding Corporate Resolutions in 1991, he was President of Bishops Services, Inc., an investigative firm in New York City.

A 1975 graduate of Siena College with a B.S. in finance, Mr. Springer is an active member of the Society of Former Special Agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, the Securities Industry Association-Compliance & Legal Division, the Association for Corporate Growth, the Association for Independent Private Sector Inspectors General (IPSIG), Turnaround Management Association, the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), the Managed Funds Association (MFA), and the European Venture Capital Association. He is also a frequent speaker and lecturer on private equity, capital markets, due diligence issues and corporate investigations.

Donald P. Klaskin

Managing Director

Mr. Klaskin is Managing Director of the New England Region of Corporate Resolutions Inc. He is head of client relations and oversees the international and domestic investigations. Before joining Corporate Resolutions, he was a manager in the Business Fraud and Asset Protection Group of Arthur Andersen in Boston. Prior to Arthur Andersen he was a principal of a consulting firm overseeing security engagements throughout the United States and Latin America.

Mr. Klaskin was Director of Security for Fleet Bank of Massachusetts and Bank of New England in Boston and was responsible for managing all aspects of security including risk evaluations and physical security planning, investigations of fraud and embezzlement, executive protection and security training. Mr. Klaskin also held senior investigative positions with Bankers Trust and Marine Midland Bank in New York.

Mr. Klaskin has an accounting degree from Fordham University and is a member of the Association for Independent Private Sector Inspectors General (IPSIG), the Turnaround Management Association, and the Association for Corporate Growth.

Keith S. Prager

Keith Prager heads up the Miami Office of Corporate Resolutions. Keith has more that 34 years of diversified law enforcement and private sector experience. He retired from the U.S Customs Service as the Assistant Special Agent-in-Charge of the Miami Office. After retiring, Mr. Prager was Managing Director for an international security consulting firm, responsible for business development and operations in Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean and Florida.

He has extensive experience in the protection of airport and seaport infrastructure, internal conspiracies at airports/seaports, protection of intellectual property, product diversion, competitive intelligence, supply chain security, and cargo theft. He was instrumental in establishing a U.S Customs Cargo Theft initiative in South Florida. He worked closely with several importers/exporters assisting them with cross border security issues and assisted in developing programs to prevent theft of cargo, insertion of contraband into legitimate goods, and the prevention of the diversion of the merchandise into the gray and black markets.

In addition, he has extensive experience in the investigation and prevention of the illegal trafficking of Weapons of Mass Destruction for Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons.

Mr. Prager is also the Director, Maritime and Aviation Operations for NWTC Inc., a Non-Profit Organization serving Federal, State and Local Government, and corporate entities. NWTC Inc. is the only non-profit organization dedicated to the advanced training of law enforcement and military special operations that operate in various environments under extreme adverse conditions.

During his professional career, Mr. Prager developed a comprehensive network of sources and associates throughout Latin and Central America, the Caribbean, and Europe. Mr. Prager is frequently requested to speak on the subject of international security matters and has appeared on numerous national and international news broadcasts. Mr. Prager holds a BS from John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Paul Hayes

Managing Director

Mr. Hayes, a Certified Fraud Examiner, first joined CRI in 2003 as a Managing Director after a 21 year career as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. During his FBI career, Mr. Hayes, a former commercial bank officer, conducted complex financial investigations of public companies such as Crazy Eddie, Inc., and was a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Enron Task Force. His experience also includes investigations of financial institutions, health care institutions and corrupt public officials. As an often assigned undercover agent, Mr. Hayes completed assignments protecting U.S. businesses, to include a matter that involved the theft and attempted sale of pharmaceutical trade secrets valued in the hundreds of millions dollars that became the cornerstone of the Economic Espionage Act of 1996.

Mr. Hayes has experience in trial testimony, including giving evidence as a summary witness in federal banking and health care trials.

Among his activities, he has assisted authors of fraud textbooks in explaining the details of how frauds were committed, and his investigative work has been the subject of chapters in books and news articles.

Mr. Hayes holds a B.S. in Accounting from Utica College, and began his financial career as a commercial banking officer, with experience in commercial and consumer lending, operations, and internal fraud investigations.

Michael Ricks

Senior Associate

mricks@corporateresolutions.com

Michael Ricks has more than 25 years experience in corporate investigations. He trained as an investigative journalist where he worked for and contributed to various national newspapers including the Sunday Times Insight Team and after editing a newspaper moved into business investigations where he specialized in fraud investigations and due diligence for financial institutions and law firms.

He is a member of the Institute of Professional Investigators and for the past 20 years has been involved in the International Symposium on Economic Crime which takes place each September at Jesus Collge Cambridge. He has lectured at the Symposium on various aspects of financial investigation, corruption and due diligence and in 2000 was part of a working party from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies of the University of London which reported to the UK government responsible for Overseas Aid on international corruption.

He has also lectured on international civil investigations to students from the Dickinson School of Law, Pennsylvania State University and gave a presentation on investigating corruption to members of the Supreme People's Procuratorate of the People's republic of China during a visit to London organized by the UK Foreign Office.

On a practical level he was involved in civil inquiries into the death of Robert Calvi, BCCI and a number of other high profile cases.