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Gary Lutin

Chairman, The Shareholder Forum

            Gary Lutin has been conducting the “Shareholder Forum” programs since 1999, when he was invited by the New York Society of Security Analysts (“NYSSA”) to serve as the guest chairman of their pioneering public education project to show how investors could obtain the information they needed for buy-sell and voting decisions.  The influential and sometimes controversial series of Forum demonstration cases, from the dot-com era insistence on reality metrics about Amazon.com to the recent fair value questions about Bear Stearns, have led the way to many of the marketplace and regulatory reforms that currently support investor interests, and Forum programs addressing broadly applicable investment issues such as executive compensation continue to provide a foundation for both private and public policy decisions.  (See www.shareholderforum.com.)

            Prior to his activities chairing Shareholder Forum programs, Mr. Lutin had been the lead investor in acquisitions of companies with the management oversight of J. Keith Louden.  Starting his career in investment banking, he had founded Lutin & Company in 1976 when he was 28 years old, and within five years established the firm’s clear dominance in the niche for capital access and acquisition programs supporting the growth of competitively superior mid‑size companies, making it the model for a subsequent generation of “boutique” and “merchant banking” firms.  Mr. Lutin had been trained at Manufacturers Hanover Trust, Weeden & Company, the Committee for Economic Development, and Salomon Bros. & Hutzler, and had graduated from Yale University in 1969 with an economics degree.

            Mr. Lutin can be reached at Lutin & Company, 575 Madison Avenue, New York, New York 10022, by telephone at 212-605-0335 or by email at gl@shareholderforum.com.

 

 

 

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It is the policy of Forum programs to be open to all shareholders of a subject company and to any fiduciaries or professionals concerned with their decisions, according to the Forum’s stated "Conditions of Participation." In all cases, each participant is expected to make independent use of information obtained through the Forum, and participation is considered private unless the party specifically authorizes identification.

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