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Panelist Bios:


panelistAlan Urech

Mr. Alan Urech is a Senior Executive with over 25 years experience successfully developing and commercializing entrepreneurial businesses. He supports the growth of businesses by using his strong strategic, tactical and operational leadership skills, proven methodologies and best practice expertise. His support enables Stoney River Capital Partner’s (SRCP) client organizations to understand and methodically implement resource and team strategies during different business growth stages.

His background includes HBO & Company where he was part of a team that saw the organization’s expansion
from an initial start-up of under $3 million to over $180 million dollars in revenue within 12 years. During this
period, Mr. Urech was instrumental in developing very successful healthcare product lines which significantly
expanded the Company’s overall profitability. HBOC was sold in 1998 for US$13.8 Billion to McKesson
Corporation, starting their information technology division.

Mr. Urech is Managing Partner and Principal at Stoney River Capital Partners LLC, an Angel-backed consultancy
with over 17 direct partners. He provides senior level management consulting on investment funding strategies,
corporate growth planning and plan implementation, business directions and exit strategies to young viable
entrepreneurial seed, start-up and expanding companies. His goal is to help them successfully communicate
and transition the company’s business proposition from successful product/service commercialization through
harvest. SRCP cultivated over 200 capital sources that places investments into high growth companies.
Mr. Urech is an Instructor in Georgia State University’s J. Mack Robinson College of Business. He instructs
Graduate and Undergraduate level programs in entrepreneurship at the Herman J. Russell, Sr. International
Center for Entrepreneurship.

Mr. Urech is currently on numerous Boards including Blank Stage Productions, NuVision Pharmaceuticals, TAG
Health, MIT Forum (Atlanta) Programs, Georgia State University Health Advisory Board, Digitainment Georgia
and the Stage2 Business Accelerator. He has written a column entitled “Entrepreneurs’ Corner” for the Business
Post, an Appen Newspaper. He is a frequent judge in numerous Business Plan competitions including the
Georgia Bowl and the international Moot Bowl in Austin,TX, where 40 countries compete. Mr. Urech worked with
the Vatican in Vatican City for five years in Information Technology while being the volunteer president of the
council in the Saint Vincent de Paul Society of North Georgia. His focus at the Vatican was to leverage emerging
internet technologies.


panelist Justin R. Howard
Partner

Justin Howard represents public and private companies in a variety of complex mergers and acquisitions, including leveraged acquisitions and dispositions of portfolio investments by private equity funds. He also regularly represents issuers and underwriters in public and private offerings of debt, equity and convertible securities and advises public companies regarding variety of corporate governance matters.

Mr. Howard is an adjunct professor at the University of Georgia School of Law, where he teaches a course on mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Howard received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1999, where he was an articles editor of the Georgia Law Review. Mr. Howard received a B.B.A. in banking and finance, cum laude, from the University of Georgia in 1996.

panelist J Outland
Managing Partner and Founder

James Outland is a founding partner of NCP and has 20 years of private equity, mergers and
acquisitions, and business development leadership experience in both entrepreneurial business
ventures and well-established corporations. Prior to co-founding New Capital Partners, James
served in various key roles in the healthcare industry as an officer of UnitedHealth Group after
its acquisition of Complete Health Services.

James currently serves portfolio companies as Chairman of the Board for Senior Whole Health and Prism Pointe Technologies, as well as serving on the Board of Teladoc Medical Services and Styx Capital. James also served as the CEO for Senior Whole Health during its first year of operations in addition to his role as Chairman of the Board. James previously served as a Board Member of former portfolio company Awarix which sold to McKesson (NYSE:MCK). James
was recognized as one of Birmingham's "Top 40 Under 40" in 2004 and served as the 2005 President of the Birmingham Venture Club.

James earned a BA in Political Science and a BFA in Advertising from Southern Methodist University.

panelist Christopher Hanks

Christopher C. Hanks is an entrepreneur and lecturer at the University of Georgia where he teaches
the entrepreneurship curriculum at the Terry College of Business. He also serves as the director of
the Terry College of Business Entrepreneurship Program, the only entrepreneurship program focused exclusively on the launch of successful ventures. He owns multiple businesses, including service, e-commerce, and publishing ventures. Certified as a business appraiser, Hanks provides expert witness testimony regarding the value of privately held businesses. He also serves as a developer for
a private equity fund focused on social entrepreneurship and is active in the franchise industry. Prior
to joining UGA, Hanks taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University and conducted seminars
for entrepreneurs at the Herman J. Russell, Sr. International Center for Entrepreneurship. He earned a
BBA in risk management from the University of Georgia and an MBA in finance from San Jose State
University. Before launching his first business, Hanks held corporate risk management positions in the
pharmaceutical and beverage industries.

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