Manager Vice President

Resume of Ezra Zask

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC

Securities Expert Witness Services

EZRA ZASK ADVISORS, LLC, (EZA), (2001-Present); Founder and President

Expert witness and litigation support services

Consulting with hedge fund and fund of funds including due diligence, risk management, asset

allocation

Advisory Director for M&A firm specializing in securities firms

AZIMUTH ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS/ (2005-2006); Business Development

Responsible for strategy, asset raising and M&A for diversified fund of funds with $250mm in assets

IBBOTSON ASSOCIATES ADVISORS, LLC (2002-2005); Founder and Manager

Founded successful hedge fund advisory program for banks, fund of funds, family offices including

manager selection, due diligence, asset allocation and risk management for wide range of hedge

funds

EZRA ZASK ASSOCIATES, LLC (1991-1998), Founder & President of CTA

Founded and managed hedge fund that managed $200 million using currency and interest rate spot,

forward, swaps, futures and options with a variety of banks and brokers.

MELLON BANK, CAPITAL MARKETS GROUP, Pittsburgh; Global Trading Manager (1988-90)

Managed worldwide trading strategic trading in currency and interest rate spot, forwards, swaps,

options

MANUFACTURERS HANOVER TRUST COMPANY, (1980-1988), Capital Markets Group

Managing Director and European Regional Treasury Manager, London (1986-1988)

Managed all aspects of trading in Europe for foreign exchange and interest rate spot, forward,

derivatives

Vice President and Co-Chief Dealer, New York (1983 1986)

Vice President and Manager, International Treasury Consulting Group (1980 1983)

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, 2005-6; Adjunct Professor

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY BENDHEIM CENTER FOR FINANCE, 2001-2005; Lecturer

CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY, (1998-90) Graduate School of Ind. Adm. Associate

Professor

FORDHAM AND COLUMBIA UNIVERSITIES - Adjunct Instructor, 1975 - 1978

RECENT CASES INCLUDE

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue: Strategy and research in complex derivatives case.

Coniston Partners: Wrote expert report and testified in tax fraud case involving options trading

Milberg Weiss Expert report and deposition in stockholders loss with interest rate derivatives

Hague Newman & Regal, LLP: Testified in NASD investment suitability arbitration

Commodities Futures Trading Commission: Expert reports in cases on FX forward and futures

contracts

Bruce Ashmore v. Goodbody Stockbrokers and Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority

Valuation of hedge fund for subsidiary of Allied Irish Bank (Dublin, Ireland)

30 Indian Mountain Road Lakeville, CT 06039

860-***-**** cell: 646-***-**** ********@***.***

Resume of Ezra Zask

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC

Securities Expert Witness Services

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency: Expert report, deposition involving managed futures and

tax issues. (Toronto, Canada)

Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, Expert report and testimony on prime brokerage transactions

EDUCATION

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, M.A., M. Phil., 1975

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, B.A., 1972

30 Indian Mountain Road Lakeville, CT 06039

860-***-**** cell: 646-***-**** ********@***.***

Ezra Zask Advisors, LLC

Securities Litigation Support Services

Litigation Support Experience

Vetter, Price & Kaufman: Anchor Hocking vs. Monetti

Research report and deposition on damages arising from currency trade contracts

Goodwin Procter LLP: US v Martignoni

Litigation support and expert witness (testified in US District Court) against an ABN

Amro currency options trader who lost $70,000,000

Doar, Devorkin & Rieck: US v Menachem Pri-Har (1994-5)

Expert report on commodities futures for criminal appeal in fraud case

Walter, Conston, Alexander & Green: Zavaleta v Bayerische Vereinsbank

Expert report in wrongful dismissal case.

Conston, Alexander & Green: CFTC v Standard Forex

Expert report on violations involving futures trading.

Jones Day Reavis & Pogue: Guy Saffra v Swiss Bank Corporation Bank

Strategy and research in complex derivatives case.

Weil, Gotshal & Menges: Orange County v Merrill Lynch

Expert report on fixed income investing by Orange County and comparable investors.

Coniston Partners: Leema Enterprises v Commissioner of the Internal Revenue

Wrote expert report and testified in tax fraud case involving options trading

Milberg Weiss Class action v Pittsburgh National Bank

Expert report and deposition in stockholders loss with interest rate derivatives

Hoguet Newman & Regal, LLP: Bernd Fink v Merrill Lynch (2001)

Testified in NASD investment suitability arbitration involving Merrill Lynch.

Boise & Schiller: Worked with Ernst & Young and on liquidation of III hedge fund (2001)

Commodities Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) Enforcement Division (2001-Present)

Expert reports in several cases on forward and futures contracts as part of the CFTC s

effort to regulate renegade Forex firms.

Bruce Ashmore v. Goodbody Stockbrokers and Irish Financial Services Regulatory Authority

(Dublin, Ireland). Expert report on valuation of hedge fund for subsidiary of Allied Irish

Bank.(2006)

Canada Customs and Revenue Agency: Expert report, deposition and trial testimony in case

involving Refco managed futures fund and tax issues. (2005-6)

Sugar, Friedberg & Felsenthal, 2006, Living Water Fund L.P., Abba Funds, LP and RJ

Trading, LLC v. Refco Capital Markets, Ltd., Fimat Alternative Strategies, Inc. and Fimat

USA, Inc. (2006). Prepared expert report, deposed and testified in Bankruptcy Court on

prime brokerage transactions.

Caldwell, Leslie, Proctor & Pettit, LLC and Girardi Keese Lawyers, 2006-7, Gonzales, etc.

al. v. Lloyds TSB Bank, et. al. Prepared expert report and deposition in case involving

foreign currency fraud and prime brokerage due diligence procedures

Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP, C. Clark Hodgson, Jr., Receiver v. Man Financial

Inc., et.al, Prepared expert report and deposition in case involving fund of hedge fund

investments

Cooley Godward Kronish LLP, 2006-7, Allied Irish Bank v. Bank of America and Citibank.

Litigation support services in case involving $700 million in trading losses.

30 Indian Mountain Road Lakeville, CT 06039

860-***-**** cell: 646-***-**** ********@***.***

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