Richard S. Cohen

Mr. Cohen has been President of The Walden Group for more than 12 years and has orchestrated more than 75 merger, acquisition and corporate alliance transactions there. He is an expert on healthcare industry dynamics, corporate valuation matters, and complex transactions and corporate growth strategies.

Frequently, Mr. Cohen is called upon to lecture at major healthcare conferences and universities on the subject of mergers and acquisitions and related topics. He was Co-Chair of the 7th Annual Healthcare M & A Conference. He also chaired a conference, entitled "E-Commerce Strategies for Medical Device Manufacturers", as part of the annual Medical Design and Device convention in New York City.

Mr. Cohen began his career as a corporate and securities attorney at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, a prominent law firm specializing in mergers and acquisitions. He then was associated with The Trump Group, a corporate acquisitions firm, where he was a senior officer. He has been an officer and director of several public and private companies, including president of manufacturing and distribution companies. As president, he ran a manufacturer of security devices for five years. Mr. Cohen has been associated with several medical supply companies for more than 20 years. He has a B.A. degree from Cornell University, a J.D. degree from The New York University School of Law, where he was an editor of the law review, and attended the Leonard M. Stern Graduate School of Business, New York University.

As a member of the Licensing Executive Society, Mr. Cohen served on the boards of several philanthropic institutions, and has been a guest lecturer at Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. In 2006, he received a Distinguished Service Award for his work for one philanthropy.