Russ Rosenzweig

Chief Executive Officer

Russ W. Rosenzweig is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Round Table Group. Prior to joining Round Table Group, 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 BA 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 the location, selection, and retention of experts. He also advises fast-growing private companies on the location and selection of advisory board members.

In addition to his work in expert witness search & referral, Mr. Rosenzweig teaches students and executives on topics related to entrepreneurship, management strategy, leadership, and self-discovery. He is a professor (adjunct) of management strategy at the renowned Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He also teaches at the University of Chicago Graham School, where he directs the University of Chicago's New Entrepreneurs Program, an advanced program of study for seasoned professionals beginning the process of starting a new venture. Mr. Rosenzweig has served as a visiting fellow at the Illinois Institute of Technology and is a frequent guest lecturer for MBA courses at Stanford University and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

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 start-up 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 Round Table Group for the fourth year in a row to the "Inc. 500" (now "Inc. 5000") list of the fastest-growing private companies in the U.S. 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.

Mr. Rosenzweig has a special interest in the interrelationship of management, the liberal arts, and music. He is at the center of a Chicago School movement to discover business strategy insights from classic texts, particularly works by Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Descartes, Hume, and Shakespeare, as well as Eastern texts such as the Bhagavad Gita. Mr. Rosenzweig recently studied the applications of ancient wisdom to modern business with the renowned Swami Parthasarathy at the Vedanta Academy near Mumbai, India.

Mr. Rosenzweig is a Governing Member of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and he serves on the board of directors of the Chicago Chamber Musicians, one of the world's premier chamber music groups. An avid clarinetist, he was once a nationally ranked amateur and is presently a member of the Sherwood Conservatory's chamber music ensemble. He recently performed pieces by Mozart, Beethoven, Milhaud, Poulenc, von Weber, and Mendelssohn in recital.

Mr. Rosenzweig is an active member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO) where he is president elect of the Chicago Chapter and chair of the EO Global Learning Committee. He is also a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, Young President's Organization (YPO), the University Club of Chicago, and the Northwestern University Alumni Admissions Council. He enjoys jazz and classical music, spicy ethnic food, bicycling, skiing, kung fu, squash, and performing on his clarinet.

Interested in collaborating with Mr. Rosenzweig? Please contact him if you are:

* An attorney in need of expert witnesses * An expert seeking to share your expertise with law firms * An attorney or expert witness interested in learning how to become more entrepreneurial, profitable, and self-actualized * A leader in any field with burning questions that can be answered by connecting with specialized experts * A leader who wants to discuss how "great books" and topics related to spirituality and self- discovery can be applied to entrepreneurship * An entrepreneur interested in growing your business