Robert J. Kinsella, President, founded Kinsella Group in 1988. Over the past 25 years he has developed a broad range of experience in acquisitions, sales and turnaround management consulting. He currently serves on the board of directors for two client companies.

Mr. Kinsella began his professional career with a Fortune 500 company, negotiating both product and company acquisitions. In 1981, he began acquiring, building and then selling businesses for his own account, in the process gaining significant knowledge of the printing, metal forming and office furniture industries, as well as product sourcing in Asia.

In the 1990's he acquired eight business-form and specialty printing companies, consolidated all operations in Texas, established a focused sales effort, and added digital printing capabilities as well as direct mail distribution of stock and custom forms. Under his tenure, the businesses captured as customers some of the largest property management companies and largest associations in the United States. Mr. Kinsella exited the businesses via successful sales in the late 1990's.

Also in the 1990's, Mr. Kinsella acquired an auto accessory manufacturing company with metal stamping, nickel chrome plating and painting operations. He re-sourced all production from Taiwan, Hong Kong and some domestic sources, while retaining finishing operations and distribution in the U.S. He also began an office furniture importing operation, sourcing product of his design from Taiwan and South Korea and generating a flow of 26 container loads of product per month into the U.S. Both businesses were eventually sold successfully.

As a frequent traveler to Asia, Mr. Kinsella has developed significant, active contact networks in the primary industrialized areas of China, as well as Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore. In 2004, he joined Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley, Mr. William Daley, Vice Chairman JPMorgan Chase, Lester Crown, CEO Material Services, Bob Barnett, Executive Vice President, Motorola, Philip Condit, former President/CEO Boeing Corporation and other business and civic leaders on a trade mission to Shanghai and Beijing, where the delegation met with major Chinese political and business leaders.

Mr. Kinsella also has extensive experience in managing turnarounds in the construction industry and a wide range of manufacturing and distribution industries. He has successfully led a number of acquisition search initiatives for middle-market, privately held clients, divisional searches for billion-dollar-plus publicly traded clients, and platform searches for private equity firms.

Mr. Kinsella has a Master of Management degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, and a Bachelor of Science degree with majors in Economics and Finance from the University of Missouri. Upon receiving his bachelor's degree he entered the U.S. Navy Officer training program in Newport, RI, was commissioned an officer and subsequently completed Supply Corp training in Athens GA. He served as supply officer aboard the Destroyer USS Ozbourn in Vietnam. He is also a golfer and private pilot.



Brian Dong, Associate, specializes in U.S.-China cross-border trade and business development. Mr. Dong has a strong background in business operations and transactions, with a particular focus on China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and private companies.

Prior to joining Kinsella Group, Mr. Dong served as Vice President of AllCare, Inc., a family-owned provider of disposable medical products to major U.S. hospitals. While at AllCare, Mr. Dong helped establish and broaden the company's national sales and distribution channels and was responsible for much of the company's day-to-day operations, including logistics and inventory control.

Mr. Dong is an experienced business negotiator. He has initiated and helped close a number of sourcing projects for North American Fortune 500 and public companies - such as Newell Rubbermaid, Honeywell, Petters Group, Memcorp, Schrader Bridgeport International and Trinity Industries - with companies in China, including Changzhou Aircraft Manufacture Limited Company. These projects have involved a wide variety of consumer products and manufacturing equipment, including electronics, steel cylinders and other machineries.

Mr. Dong has a strong background in business and marketing research, in topics such as the impact of China's entry into the World Trade Organization on domestic private companies in China; the effects of government policies, laws and regulations on China-foreign investment deals; and in consumer and market research, on products ranging from liquefied propane gas (LPG) and petrochemical ISO tanks to sporting goods, railcar parts and wind-energy production.

Mr. Dong holds a Master of Arts degree from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University, where he concentrated his studies in East Asian Economies. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree, with honors, from Shenzhen University (Shenzhen, China). While in graduate school and as an undergraduate, Mr. Dong had internships at the Foreign Affairs Office of Shenzhen Municipal Government and the US-China Business Council (Washington, DC). Mr. Dong is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.



Louise M. Krzys, Director, Finance & Administration, has been with Kinsella Group since its inception in 1988. In addition to serving as project manager on all client engagements, Ms. Krzys directs the Firm's administration, accounting, compliance, IT and marketing activities.

With over 25 years of practical business experience, Ms. Krzys is responsible for composition of offering memoranda, financial modeling and financial recasting to support engagements for business sale, capital sourcing and turnaround/restructuring clients. She has particular expertise in the development of detailed financial models to support high-growth situations. She also conducts prospect searches for both buy-side and sell-side engagements.

Prior to her 15 years with Kinsella Group, Ms. Krzys was actively engaged with pre-acquisition analysis, due diligence and acquisition integration issues in companies acquired by Mr. Kinsella. Post-acquisition she held controllership positions, directed numerous enterprise software implementations, and developed and implemented accounting, reporting and various business processes. She gained experience dealing with vendor, creditor, tax authority, and banking issues that required attention and resolution.

At Kinsella Group, she has brought this operational expertise to a number of client companies, for which she consulted on and directed many of these same activities.

Ms. Krzys is a Certified Business Intermediary (CBI) and attended the College of DuPage, where she studied accounting.



Emil T. Paguia, Director, Business Development, has more than 12 years of experience in the management and oversight of marketing and sales operations for businesses ranging from start-up companies to established international corporations.

Mr. Paguia leads the business development effort of Kinsella Group. In this key role, he is responsible for fostering ongoing relationships with established strategic partners, private equity firms and existing clients. He is also a primary contributor in the development of strategic initiatives that help increase knowledge and understanding, throughout the marketplace, of the services and benefits provided by Kinsella Group.

Prior to joining Kinsella Group, Mr. Paguia was involved in creating the strategic-market business for ADP Dealer Services - a provider of information technology solutions for the automotive industry - with a focus on key-account development. He also has significant experience in the financial services industry, where he was responsible for developing new business opportunities and improving client service in the wealth management sector.

Mr. Paguia graduated with Distinction from DePaul University, earning a Master Degree of Business Administration in Finance. He obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Committed to community service, Mr. Paguia is currently serving with an adult-volunteer group and leads the Youth Group at his local high school.



William R. Snow, Director, M&A, has over 15 years' experience as a business leader and advisor. At Kinsella Group, Mr. Snow focuses on capital sourcing and business sale assignments for clients. During the course of his career, he has held leadership positions in management, finance, capital formation, operations, sales and administration. His broad knowledge and in-depth experience enable him to effectively integrate long-term, strategic objectives with more immediate, tactical initiatives.

Prior to joining Kinsella Group Mr. Snow focused his energy and expertise on entrepreneurial, rapid-growth and startup companies in a wide range of industries. These have included Movie Gallery (NasdaqNM: MOVI), a video retailer focused on secondary and rural markets; Train Reinforce Inspire, a provider of motivational and inspirational services (and a spin-off from Successories); DigiByte, an angel-funded encryption and digital compression technology company; Vcapital, a venture-funded, online exchange linking entrepreneurs with venture capital; Jesup & Lamont, a New York City-based boutique investment bank; and In-Pipe Technology Company, a venture-funded wastewater treatment company.

In addition to his leadership responsibilities, Mr. Snow has provided advice and counsel to myriad entrepreneurs and early-stage companies, through traditional and emerging communications technologies. He has written a column for ePrairie (a website focused on Midwest entrepreneurial activity), founded a profitable entrepreneurial resource website, and authored and self-published an e-book, Venture Capital 101.

Mr. Snow is an active member of the Midwest business community. He serves as an advisory board member of the Illinois Technology Development Alliance and is an active member of the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, the Technology Executive's Club and the Midwest Entrepreneur's Forum, among other business and industry groups. He has served as both moderator and panelist on numerous business panels, and he routinely speaks at local universities on a range of subjects.

Mr. Snow has a Master of Business Administration in Entrepreneurship and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance, both from DePaul University. He holds the NASD Series 7 and 63 designations. Mr. Snow regularly plays golf and basketball, enjoys reading about history and economics, and has a budding interest in etymology.



Robert E. Stutz, Managing Director, has extensive management and leadership experience, having served at the CEO/President level for three firms.

Most recently, Mr. Stutz was President of Label Makers, Inc., a privately owned flexible packaging manufacturer. Prior to that he was CEO of Stimsonite, Inc., a $100-million NASDAQ-listed manufacturer of highway safety devices, where he led the effort to sell the company to Avery Dennison after having tripled profits over a three-year period. He has also held executive positions at General Electric, General Motors, Cooper Industries and Cherry Corp.

A particular strength is Mr. Stutz' experience in a wide variety of industries, including packaging, highway safety, automotive parts, automotive OEM, electrical and electronic components and systems, and consumer hand tools.

Mr. Stutz has conducted business in Asia - and China in particular - for more than 20 years. In the 1980's he established a region-wide network that included sales representatives and offices in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia and China, to assist customers as they moved their product-assembly operations from North America to Asia.

In the early 1990's, as General Manager of Cherry's Automotive Group, he opened a Tokyo-based sales and engineering office to support activities with the Japanese-based automotive OEM's. Cherry was an early advocate of worldwide sourcing and, through the efforts of Mr. Stutz, the company's products were selected for the first Buicks built by General Motors in mainland China.

Later, as CEO of the highway safety products manufacturer, Stimsonite, Mr. Stutz sponsored the opening of the company's Beijing sales office, negotiated two exclusive-distributor agreements, helped establish national specifications with government agencies, and drove the national approval of the company's reflective pavement markers and sign-sheeting materials. During this period, sales to China grew 350%. After the acquisition of Stimsonite by Avery Dennison, he assisted in the development of a manufacturing and marketing strategy of Stimsonite's products through the Avery infrastructure, which included the building of a new embossing/laminating plant in Shanghai to manufacture reflective films.

Mr. Stutz has a Master of Business Administration from Harvard University and a Bachelor of Science from Brown University in Engineering. He enjoys sports cars, travel and gardening.



Yiyun "Tanya" Tan, Analyst & Relationship Manager, is an experienced business professional whose training and professional background in both the U.S. and China enable her to create effective connections between companies and government agencies on both sides of the Pacific. At Kinsella Group, Ms. Tan focuses on the development of new-client relationships and the deepening of relationships with Chicago Consular delegations from China, Japan and India. Ms. Tan also coordinates Kinsella Group's interactions with a range of pan-Asian business groups and international chambers of commerce, and works with Kinsella Group engagement managers to support a variety of project-research requirements.

Before joining Kinsella Group, Ms. Tan served as a Market Research Analyst at a U.S.-based worldwide manufacturer and OEM producer of leather accessories for major U.S. corporations such as Best Buy and Circuit City. In this capacity, Ms. Tan was responsible for the collection and analysis of information on existing and potential customers, as well as facilitating design and quality-management communications and information between Chinese suppliers and U.S. and European customers.

Before this, Ms. Tan held various management positions in the Marketing, Public Relations and International Human Resources divisions of Shanghai Foreign Service Co., Ltd. (SFSC), the largest Chinese provider of global human resources consulting, outsourcing, agency, education and training, immigration, and overseas study and research services. While at SFSC, Ms. Tan supervised departments responsible for business, market and compensation analysis, inter-division and government agency communications, and personnel management services.

Ms. Tan earned a Master of Business Administration degree, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Economics, with honors, from Shanghai International Studies University, where she concentrated on International Trade and Commerce. She has passed the level-1 examination for Chartered Financial Analyst. Fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English, Ms. Tan has excellent communications skills and is experienced in responding to the needs of large corporate clients.



Charles W. Weikel, Director, Business Advisory, is a management professional with extensive experience leading medium- and small-sized businesses in environments demanding change. His expertise is in strategic development issues that increase shareholder value, including acquisitions, divestitures, new-product development, corporate refocusing and entry into new markets. He has managed numerous corporate restructurings with creditors, including banks and vendors.

Mr. Weikel has broad experience in Asian manufacturing and agribusiness, especially in China, Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia and India. As President and owner of a leading U.S. handling-equipment manufacturer in the 1990's, he tripled sales to the region while establishing joint manufacturing and assembly operations with local partners and governments. During this period, he consummated the design, co-manufacturing and delivery of handling equipment for Asia's largest rice mill in Korat, Thailand. As a member of the Board of Directors of the U.S. Grains Council, Mr. Weikel advised the Minister of the Bureau of Logistics (Bulog), Government of Indonesia on the first-ever delivery of grain on a Panamax-size vessel into the nation.

With seven years' experience in the financial services sector, at GE Capital and Bank of America, Mr. Weikel provided investment and commercial banking services to Fortune 500 and middle-market customers.

Mr. Weikel earned a Master of Business Administration in Finance, with honors, from the University of Chicago, and a Bachelor of Science in Physics from the U.S. Naval Academy. Upon graduation from the Academy he was commissioned an officer, entered the U.S. Navy Nuclear Training Program and subsequently served as a Nuclear Officer aboard the USS Nimitz and the USS Mississippi in the Mediterranean and Caribbean areas.



Polly S. Parrilli, Executive Assistant, provides support to all Firm professionals and is responsible for office and marketing administration.

Prior to joining Kinsella Group, Ms. Parrilli held administrative and executive assistant positions with Alliant Foodservice, a $7-billion Chicago-based food distributor and was editor for a Wisconsin daily newspaper. She has written and restructured company policy and sales training manuals in several industries, including print and technology, and has led company-wide job shadowing programs.

Ms. Parrilli has also held positions as sales representative for a Georgia-based fabric manufacturer and was an assistant buyer for a national retailer. She also currently serves as administrator for a non-profit fundraising organization in the Chicago area.