Douglas S. Land - Founder & Managing Director
Mr. Land has been a financial and economic consultant since 1981. For the past 19 years he has assisted public and private firms in all phases of business start-up and growth including feasibility studies, business-plan preparation, equity funding, debt funding, private placements structuring, and initial public offerings. A member of the Board of Directors of several client companies, he is also the founder of Economic Analysis Group (Washington, DC). Mr. Land was formerly an executive of Hambro Resource Development Incorporated, an affiliate of Hambros Bank of London, UK. He has BA in Economics, and an MBA and MA in International Relations from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
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Erik K. Buchakian - Principal
Mr. Buchakian has been an investment banker focusing on the IT Services and Business Services sectors since joining The Chesapeake Group in 1993. During that time he has advised clients throughout all phases of the M&A process for numerous transactions ranging from $5 million to $1.3 billion in size, and has also specialized in providing strategic and financial consulting to growing, entrepreneurial companies. Prior to joining Chesapeake, he spent four years as a programmer and systems analyst in the financial services industry, designing and supporting banking applications for Barclay's Bank, PLC and as a consultant with Cap Gemini. Mr. Buchakian was also a research assistant in Economics at Columbia University. He has a BA in Computer Science from Queens College of the City University of New York and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.
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Thomas T. Rooney- Principal
Mr. Rooney has over 20 years of technology investment banking experience with the last 17 at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ). Over this period he had significant responsibilities with respect to equity trading, research and corporate finance. From 1985-94, he was consistently ranked as one of the leading technology analysts on Wall Street by Institutional Investor Magazine and on multiple occasions was cited by the Wall Street Journal for the accuracy of his earnings forecasts. More recently he helped build the largest and most profitable software services practice on Wall Street first as an analyst and then as an investment banker. During this time he helped complete nearly 30 capital raising projects raising more than $2.5 billion and completed over $3 billion in M&A transactions. He has extensive expertise in structuring and positioning transactions particularly with respect to the public markets. Mr. Rooney has a BS in Economics/Political Science from Bates College.
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Salvatore P. Cenatiempo - Principal
Mr. Cenatiempo has over 10 years of experience in financial and economic consulting and investment banking. His areas of focus include business valuation, financial modeling and analysis, business plan preparation, and transaction support and due diligence. He has broad transaction experience including public and private financing and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Cenatiempo previously worked for Economic Analysis Group, a Washington DC based litigation consulting firm. He has a BA from New York University and an MBA, Beta Gamma Sigma, from New York University's Stern School of Business.
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Siddhartha Padam - Principal
Mr. Padam heads Chesapeake’s operations in India and has over 9 years of strategic planning and M&A experience in the technology and business services space. Prior to joining Chesapeake, Mr. Padam was Principal - Acquisitions & Investments at Infosys Technologies, where he worked with the Board and senior management to identify strategic opportunities. He has also been part of the Corporate Planning and Enterprise Risk Management functions at Infosys. Formerly Mr. Padam was with Valtech where he led the strategic planning, M&A and post-merger integration functions in India. Mr. Padam has previously worked at ChrysCapital, one of India's largest private equity firms, where he focused on investing in the business services space. Mr. Padam has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore, India and also holds a Masters in Economics from Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune India.

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Srinivas (Sri) Kalale – Vice President

Mr. Kalale  is based in the Bangalore, India office of The Chesapeake Group where he manages and executes M&A and financing transactions. Mr. Kalale has over 10 years of experience, including eight years in corporate & product strategy, marketing and consulting. Prior to joining Chesapeake, Mr. Kalale was with Pharus Advisors where he worked on M&A and private equity assignments, primarily in the technology sector. In addition, Mr. Kalale’s corporate experience includes management responsibilities at Oracle USA where he managed multi-million dollar CRM products and played a lead role in integrating PeopleSoft and Siebel CRM products into Oracle’s CRM portfolio. Mr. Kalale has a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Bangalore University, MS in Computer Science from University of Illinois, Chicago and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley.

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Aish Sinha - Associate
Mr. Sinha joined Chesapeake from Huron Consulting Group where he worked for over a year as an analyst in the Corporate Advisory Services practice. At Huron he was primarily involved in the restructuring process of a national airline carrier operating under Chapter 11 protection. He has a BS in Finance and Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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Eli Greif - Associate
Mr. Greif joined Chesapeake from Standard & Poor's where he spent two years as an Associate in their Corporate Value Consulting practice.  Prior to S&P he spent two years as a Corporate Finance Analyst with Intel Corporation and also served as a Legislative Aide to a United States Senator. He has a BA in Business-Finance from Indiana University - Bloomington.
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Rajesh Subramanian - Analyst

Mr. Subramanian joined Chesapeake from Cygnus Business Consulting & Research where he worked for a year as an equity research analyst covering US and UK based energy companies. Prior to Cygnus Mr. Subramanian worked for BoardEx India for two years as an analyst responsible for financial research. He has a B.Com from Calicut University and a MBA in Finance, from Bharathiar University.

Akhil Uday – Analyst

Mr. Uday joined Chesapeake from Kotak Securities where he worked for over a year as an advisor in the Financial Planning division. At Kotak he was primarily involved in advising High Networth Individual (HNI) clients with their investment portfolios. He has a Bachelor of Business Management from Christ College, Bangalore India.

John Rogers - Advisor
Mr. Rogers has almost 20 years of management and corporate development experience in IT software and services. He was previously the Director of Operations for Informix Software, Ltd. Prior to Informix, Mr. Rogers was the Managing Director of Dataquest Europe, where he guided the company through a turnaround and successful sell to Gartner. Prior to Dataquest, he worked at IBM where he held various management positions of increasing responsibility, his last being that of Vice President of Services for Europe. Mr. Rogers also serves on the Advisory Board of ITSMA Europe.
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Dr. William H. Lehr - Advisor
Dr. Lehr is Associate Professor of Economics at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. Dr. Lehr has substantial consulting experience in the areas of technology and telecommunications including extensive assignments for AT&T and NYNEX. Prior to associating with Chesapeake, Dr. Lehr – who has published numerous papers in the areas of technology and telecommunications – served as Manager of Financial Analysis at MCI Telecommunications (now MCI Worldcom). He has an MSE in Chemical Engineering, an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University.

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