Robert M. Ireland was previously a Vice President and General Partner of Kelso & Company. Prior to his association with Kelso & Company, Mr. Ireland was a consultant to Transamerica Corporation and Memorex Corporation. From 1970 to 1974, Mr. Ireland was a Security Analyst at BA Investment Management Corporation, a subsidiary of Bank of America NT&SA. Mr. Ireland graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. in Economics in 1965. He received his M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California at Los Angeles in 1967. Mr. Ireland is a senior member of the American Society of Appraisers.

John L. (Jack) Scripps graduated from Stanford University with an A.B. degree in Economics in 1966, and received his M.B.A. degree in Finance from Stanford in 1968. Mr. Scripps previously served as the chief financial officer for three privately held corporations and as a systems analyst for the U.S. Department of Defense.

M. O. “Tony” Weinress has been active in providing investment banking and merger and acquisition services for middle market companies for over ten years. He has been an officer of a major New York Stock Exchange member firm, operated an investment subsidiary for a predecessor of Union Bank, and helped found and operate a Small Business Investment Company in Southern California. Mr. Weinress received his B.A. degree from Princeton University and an M.B.A in Finance from Columbia University.

Linda Holmes-Rubin established ForCapital Associates in 1996 to provide investment banking, financial consulting and valuation services to small and medium-sized companies. Prior to forming ForCapital Associates, Ms. Holmes-Rubin was Director of Corporate Finance, Atlanta Regional Office, for National Securities Corporation, where she also provided investment banking and valuation services to both private and public companies. Prior to that, she was a Vice President, Atlanta Regional Office, of the First National Bank of Chicago and an Assistant Vice President, Atlanta  Regional Office, of Citicorp.

Herb Kalman has over 25 years of public accounting experience with middle market companies.  Mr. Kalman has been involved in business valuations for ESOPs since 1984. He has been involved in merger and acquisition transactions involving transactions ranging from less than $500,000 to transactions in excess of $50 million.  A CPA since 1970, Mr. Kalman has been a partner with the National CPA firms of Deloitte & Touche. and Grant Thornton as well as the founder and former managing partner of his own CPA firm. Mr. Kalman has been a consultant and frequent speaker in areas of business valuation, merger and acquisition, ESOPs and practice management since 1984.  Mr. Kalman has also been CFO of a Company where he generated cash through licensing and sales of technology, vendor negotiations and stock sales. Mr. Kalman received his BBA from the University of Houston. He is both a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified Valuation Analyst.

Scott Present has over 25 years of experience in business valuation, corporate finance and management consulting. He conducts valuations for ESOP, fairness opinion, merger and acquisition, divestiture and recapitalization, estate and gift tax, contract and shareholder dispute, and related business purposes. He has also served in chief financial officer positions in healthcare and manufacturing firms. Mr. Present holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School and an A.B. degree from Harvard College.

Brian J. Pomerantz

Mr. Pomerantz has over 20 years of experience as a financial advisor to middle market companies.

Prior to joining Sansome Street Appraisers, Mr. Pomerantz was President and Chief Executive Officer of Media Enterprises, LP, Chicago, IL.,  a holding company for trade publications. Prior to that, Mr. Pomerantz was Chief Financial Officer of CMX, Inc., a Northfield, IL business firm consulting. Prior to joining CMX, Mr. Pomerantz was the Founder and Managing Principal of Ascent Financial, LLC,  a private equity firm founded in partnership with a seventy-person financial consulting firm.

Mr. Pomerantz’s valuation experience includes valuations of middle market companies, start-ups, real estate and intellectual property.  Having acquired, invested in and run middle market companies, Mr. Pomerantz brings a “real world” perspective towards understanding the unique aspects of value.

Mr. Pomerantz received his Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Indiana University, and his MBA degree in Finance and Strategy from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.

Richard J. Cadenasso

Richard J. Cadenasso has extensive experience in providing valuation and merger and acquisition advisory services to both public and private companies.  Most recently he has advised start-up and small to medium-sized companies in financial matters including, mergers, acquisitions, valuations, forecasting, and capital sources and formation.  Prior to founding his own consulting practice in 1998, he was a Managing Director in the investment banking division of Montgomery Securities (now Banc of America Securities) where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions and was a member of the firm’s Fairness Opinion Committee.  Mr. Cadenasso co-founded Montgomery Securities’ Middle-Market Financial Advisory Services Group in 1990.  He started at Montgomery Securities in 1982 as a member of the firm’s Operations Department.

Mr. Cadenasso has a B. S. in Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento with concentrations in both Finance and Real Estate and Land Use Affairs.

Greg P. Tesone, ASA

With over a decade of full-time business appraisal experience, Greg formed Center Point Business Valuations, LLC in 2007 to focus exclusively on valuation issues that companies face today. The demands of the IRS, SEC and FASB regulatory environment require a firm dedicated exclusively to the field of valuation.

At Center Point, Greg is responsible for leading, developing, and directing the growth of the company's business appraisal services in addition to managing a team of analysts. Greg also provides litigation support, expert witness testimony, and valuation consulting services.

Prior to forming Center Point, Greg co-founded Equity Valuation Group where he oversaw the company's analysts, service areas, marketing and sales effort. Before joining EVG, Greg spent eight years with ValueNomics, a Silicon Valley-based business valuation firm where his duties included managing ValueNomics' San Diego office. Prior to this, he was an analyst with a Southern California-based investment banking firm.

Greg is an Accredited Senior Appraiser (ASA) through the American Society of Appraisers and is a graduate of San Diego State University business school with an emphasis in finance.