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Arnold I. Burns, Director (Proposed), has been the chairman of New York-based QuanStar Group, LLC since 2004. Prior to this, Mr. Burns served as a managing director and senior partner at Natexis Bleichroeder Inc., Arnhold and S. Bleichroeder, Inc., and Proskauer Rose LLP. From 1986 to 1988, he served at the U.S. Department of Justice in Wash., D.C. as an associate attorney general and then as a deputy attorney general.
Mr. Burns is a current member of the American Bar Association, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, the New York County Lawyers' Association, the Federal Bar Association and the Cornell Law Association. He is also a member of the board of directors at New Valley Corporation, the NYC Economic Development Corporation, where he also serves on the executive committee, and the Yankee Entertainment Sports Network.
Mr. Burns graduated from Union College in Schenectady, New York in 1950 and from Cornell Law School in 1953. He also completed postgraduate work at Parker School of International Law in New York. | 