Alta and Daniel K. Thorne

Dan Thorne is President of Star Lake Capital, Inc. a private equity management and venture capital firm. Mr. Thorne is also Chairman of the eponymous Daniel K. Thorne Foundation, supporting historic preservation and wildlife conservation worldwide. An ardent preservationist and conservationist, he currently is a Trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and serves on the board of the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International. He and his wife are members of the Honorary Board of Trustees of Global Heritage Fund. He is a former member of the board of the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Since 1995, he has also been a principal shareholder and member of the Board of Directors of Hamilton Thorne Biosciences, Inc. and, since 1999, a managing partner of Thacher Associates, a New York firm specializing in integrity risk management for corporate and government entities. Mr. Thorne has in the past served on the boards of CCH, Inc. from 1979-1996, SLT Communications, and the Imperial Sugar Company, as well as serving as Chairman of the Georgetown Steel Company, subsequently sold to the Mittal Steel Group.