Howard L. Ellin is a global co-head of Skadden Arps’s Corporate Transactions and Mergers and Acquisitions practices. He focuses on a wide variety of transactions, including private equity and leveraged buyouts, public and private acquisitions, corporate restructurings and financings, and general corporate advice. He has advised numerous clients in major M&A transactions, including Express Scripts, Inc., News Corporation, Landis+Gyr, DISH Network Corporation, Univision Communications Inc, Dubai Aerospace Enterprise Ltd., IBM Corporation and McDonnell Douglas. Mr. Tiffany is an expert in security and what is now termed Big Data. He co-founded Mission Assurance Corporation, now a part of Recursion Ventures. He also co-founded, and is currently a Fellow of, Critical Assets Labs, the research arm of Critical Assets. In addition to growing the Lab, where he supports the productization of its DARPA research, he currently has a stealth-mode startup in "convenient security," that is, raising the security and privacy of everyday people without special procedures. He is also a ninja. Michael's most recent public speaking engagement was in August at the Potomac Institute, where he spoke about Cyber Deterrence with Dr James Mulvenon and Gen Michael Hayden, former director of NSA and CIA.
Jonathan Askin
Jonathan Askin is a professor at Brooklyn Law School, teaching
technology, telecommunications, and entrepreneurial law and policy. He is
the Founder of the Brooklyn Law Incubator & Policy Clinic, which represents Internet, new media,
communications and other tech entrepreneurs, startups, innovators and
organizations on business development, policy advocacy and law reform.Howard Ellin
Among the private equity sponsors that Mr. Ellin has advised are Wasserstein & Co., First Reserve Corporation, Windward Capital Partners, Castle Harlan, Colony Capital, TD Capital, Poster Financial Group and Leonard Green. Mr. Ellin also represents many companies in their dealings with private equity firms in going-private transactions, having represented AMC Entertainment Inc. when it was taken private by JP Morgan Partners and Apollo Investors.
Mr. Ellin serves as Skadden, Arps’ global hiring partner. He repeatedly has been selected for inclusion in Chambers USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business and Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America. He also was listed in Chambers Global: The World’s Leading Lawyers for Business 2012.Barrett F. Kalb
Barrett Kalb has over 30 years as senior partner of two top-tier New Jersey law firms as well as extensive experience negotiating the formation, acquisition and sale of business entities. Mr. Kalb is the former chairman of Chatlos Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of communications related equipment supplied to telecom companies throughout the United States, Canada and Europe. He is presently corporate counsel to several domestic corporate entities in a number of related industries, and was a pioneer in the practical aspects of IP law as they relate to computer licensing. Mr Kalb is also a former CPA who has many years of practical accounting experience and a lifelong pilot and lover of science fiction.Dan Kaminsky
Dan Kaminsky has been a noted security researcher for over a decade, and has spent his career advising Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Avaya, and Microsoft. Dan spent three years working with Microsoft on their Vista, Server 2008, and Windows 7 releases.
Dan is best known for his work finding a critical flaw in the Internet’s Domain Name System (DNS), and for leading what became the largest synchronized fix to the Internet’s infrastructure of all time. Of the seven Recovery Key Shareholders who possess the ability to restore the DNS root keys, Dan is the American representative. Dan is presently developing systems to reduce the cost and complexity of securing critical infrastructure.Michael J. J. Tiffany
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