Eliot S. Laurence

ELIOT S. LAURENCE is a Senior Vice President of Jefferies & Co., Inc. He
has 15 years of previous experience in the securities industry,
primarily focused on apparel retailing, at J.C. Bradford & Co., Brooks,
Montague & Associates and Wessels, Arnold & Henderson. Mr. Laurence
received both a BA in Economics and an MBA in Finance from New York
University.