Expert Witness Guru, Round Table Group CEO Russ Rosenzweig

It is my pleasure to introduce Round Table Group CEO Russ Rosenzweig, who will be regularly sharing his extensive expert witness referral experience and legal business knowledge with law firm partners across the country on a recurring basis.

Russ W. Rosenzweig is the CEO and co-founder of Round Table Group. Prior to joining Round Table, Mr. Rosenzweig served as a senior consultant for the management consulting practice of PriceWaterhouseCoopers in Chicago. Mr. Rosenzweig was previously the youngest corporate finance analyst at Alpha Capital Venture Partners, a venture capital firm in Chicago, where he focused on providing debt and equity financing to middle market public and private companies.

Mr. Rosenzweig holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and mathematical methods in the social sciences from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He also holds a Certificate in Liberal Arts from the University of Chicago and a Certificate des Etudes from the University of Paris (Sorbonne).

At Round Table Group Mr. Rosenzweig is an advisor to law firms on matters related to location, selection, and retention of experts. He also advises fast-growing private companies on location and selection of advisory board members. The firm maintains a network of 95,000 university professors and industry experts around the world.

An authority on innovation and strategy within larger firms, Mr. Rosenzweig co-created the "Internal Venture Marketplace" framework with Professor Harry Davis of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and is the co-author, with Professor Davis, of an article on the topic published in "The Virtual Strategist," an academic journal. He has advised BP, ExxonMobil, Lockheed Martin, Motorola, Black & Decker, FMC Corporation, and other companies on new-venture creation and on promoting entrepreneurship internally. He has applied distance learning and web-based technologies to teach entrepreneurial strategy to hundreds of managers around the world, including, formerly, as Director of the Booz Allen & Hamilton Certificate Program in Business Strategy.

Mr. Rosenzweig serves on the board of advisors of several companies in the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. He was the founder and former Managing Director of Michigan & Oak Partners, a private equity and startup advisory concern. He is an active "angel" and real estate investor.

Mr. Rosenzweig's accomplishments have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Crain's Chicago Business, Fortune Magazine, the Chicago Tribune, and in four business school case studies published by Stanford University. In 2007, Inc. Magazine named RTG for the fourth year in a row to the "Inc. 500" (now "Inc. 5000") list of the fastest growing private companies in the US. Mr. Rosenzweig is regularly quoted in news articles as an expert in entrepreneurship and business strategy. Recently, Crain's Chicago Business named him a member of "The Internet 100," a select group of influential executives, decision makers, financiers and idea people in the Chicago business community.