Imperial Capital Consumer Summit

Ross DeVol, Executive Director
Milken Institute

Ross DeVol is Executive Director of Economic Research as well as Executive Director of the Centers for Health Economics, Regional Economics and California at the Milken Institute. He oversees the Institute’s research on the dynamics of comparative regional growth performance, technology and its impact on regional and national economies and health-related topics such as chronic disease. He is an expert on the intangible economy and how regions can prepare themselves to compete in it. He was the principal author of “An Unhealthy America: The Economic Burden of Chronic Disease” which brought to light for the first time what is often overlooked in the discussion of the impact of chronic disease — the economic loss associated with preventable illness and the cost to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and American businesses in lost growth. The study is the first of its kind to estimate the avoidable costs if a serious effort were made to improve Americans’ health. He authored the ground-breaking study, America’s High-Tech Economy: Growth, Development, and Risks for Metropolitan Areas, an examination of how clusters of high-technology industries across the country affect economic growth in those regions.

Prior to joining the Institute, Mr. DeVol was senior vice president of Global Insight, Inc. (formerly Wharton Econometric Forecasting), where he supervised their Regional Economic Services group. He was the firm’s chief spokesman on international trade. He also served as the head of Global Insight’s U.S. Long-Term Macro Service and authored numerous special reports on behalf of the U.S. Macro Group. He is ranked among the “Super Stars” of Think Tank Scholars by International Economy magazine.

To learn more about the Milken Institute, please visit www.milkeninstitute.org.

Martin E. Franklin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Jarden Corporation

Martin E. Franklin has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jarden Corporation since 2001. A Fortune 500, global diversified consumer products with revenue of over $6 billion, Jarden features market leading brands that are often synonymous with the niche categories they serve, including Ball® home canning jars, Bicycle® playing cards, Coleman® camping and outdoor equipment, Crock-Pot® slow cookers, First Alert® safety and security products, K2® and Volkl® skis, Marmot® technical apparel, Mr. Coffee® coffee makers, Rawlings® baseballs, and Shakespeare®, Ugly Stik®, Berkley® and Abu Garcia® fishing tackle.

Mr. Franklin is also currently a director at Kenneth Cole Productions, Inc., Promotora de Informaciones, SA. (PRISA), the world’s leading Spanish and Portuguese media group and Justice Holdings Limited, an investment vehicle listed on the LSE. Between 1992 and 2000, Mr. Franklin was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Benson Eyecare Corporation and its two pubic spin-offs, Lumen Technologies, Inc. and Bolle, Inc.

To learn more about Jarden Corporation, please visit www.jarden.com.

Peter J. Nolan, Managing Partner
Leonard Green & Partners, L.P.

Peter Nolan is a Managing Partner of Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. (“LGP”), one of the nation’s preeminent private equity firms with approximately $9 billion of equity capital under management. Founded in 1999, LGP has invested in 53 companies with an aggregate value in excess of $44 billion and LGP is currently investing its fifth fund, Green Equity Investors V, L.P., a $5.3 billion private equity fund. Prior to joining LGP in 1997, Peter was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. While at DLJ, Peter helped to build the Los Angeles investment banking office into the largest regional presence in the nation with more than 100 professionals.

Currently, Peter serves on the Board of Directors of AerSale Holdings, Inc., AsianMedia Group, LLC, Aspen Dental Management, Inc., Motorsport Aftermarket Group, and Scitor Corporation.

To learn more about Leonard Green & Partners, L.P., please visit www.leonardgreen.com.