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Theodore J. (Ted) Brombach (Proposed), a director of the Company, has been an investment banker for more than 20 years. Currently, he is a founder and Managing Partner of XMS Capital Partners, LLC, a boutique investment banking firm based in Chicago. Prior to founding XMS, he spent 16 years at Morgan Stanley, both in New York and Chicago. At Morgan Stanley, Mr. Brombach most recently served as the co-head of the Midwest Investment Banking Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, he served in the Mergers & Acquisitions Department of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated in New York and also in London.
While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Brombach served as a generalist investment banker, working across a broad array of industries and geographies, and had responsibility for some of the firm's largest clients. His extensive client experience includes: Anheuser Busch's acquisition of Harbin Brewery, in Harbin, China, the first contested takeover deal in mainland China and a deal voted Asian M&A Deal of the Year in 2005; General Mills'disposition of its shares held by Diageo PLC of London - shares acquired in the context of the acquisition of Pillsbury by General Mills, an award winning equity deal in 2005. In addition, Mr. Brombach's clients have included a number of other food and beverage and industrial clients such as Cargill, 3M, Emerson, ConAgra, Premium Standard Farms and Enersys.
Mr. Brombach is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame where he received a BA, magna cum laude. He also was a 1990 graduate of Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he studied finance, accounting and marketing. Mr. Brombach is a member of the board of directors of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and is a member of the board of directors of Great River Holding Company, a multi-bank holding company based in Minnesota.
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