Management/Board

Jean-Luc Pelissier, PhD., CEO, CBA Group

Jean-Luc Pelissier joined the CBA Group as Executive Chairman in January 2007 and was appointed CEO in October 2007. Previously, Pelissier was president of NPTest, managing the development and sales of semiconductor test equipment platforms until its acquisition by Credence.

With 20 years of demonstrated success in the electronic, semiconductor and semiconductor equipment markets, Pelissier has extensive international experience managing customer relationship, manufacturing, product development, sales, support and professional service organizations across the technology world (Europe, USA, Japan, Korea and Asia mostly). Pelissier has a successful track record managing and turnaround of large international organizations, as well as building start-up businesses.

Prior to NPTest, Pelissier spent 15 years with Schlumberger in various assignments ranging from marketing, sales and business development to manufacturing, service and general management. He served as president and chairman of the board of High Connection Density, a memory module company, and started a consulting, test and product engineering service practice for the semiconductor industry called SABER. Pelissier started his career in engineering working with companies such as Thomson, Elf Aquitaine and IBM.

Pelissier holds a Ph.D. in Electronics, Circuits, and Systems and two engineering degrees in electrical engineering, computer aided design and automation, from the University of Science and Techniques du Languedoc in Montpellier, France.

Keith O’Leary, CFO, CBA Group

Keith G. O’Leary joined the CBA Group as Chief Financial Officer in June 2008. Previously, O’Leary was CEO of SCP Global Technologies, Inc. managing the wafer cleaning tool manufacturing, service and spares businesses.

O’Leary has a 30-year proven track record of leading organizations to increased profitability and solid shareholder return by turning around operational performance, establishing organizational capabilities, and improving new product strategies. He is also a strong driver of marketing initiatives, process improvements and globalization of business operations. O’Leary’s expertise has been applied to both large multinational companies (Fujitsu Microelectronics and Philips Semiconductors) as well as start-up and mid-sized companies (TriMedia and SCP).

O’Leary started his career with Price Waterhouse in various roles in Sacramento and San Francisco, CA, as well as three years in Hamburg, Germany. O’Leary holds a BS degree in Business Administration from California State University, Dominguez Hills, CA and is a CPA.

Lynn Tilton - CEO and Principal, Patriarch Partners, LLC

Ms. Tilton serves as Chief Executive Officer and sole Principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities ("Patriarch"), a private equity firm managing $7 billion in assets. Ms. Tilton is well recognized by TV and print media alike for her modern day industrialist efforts to rebuild America. Her labors, since the founding of Patriarch have saved over 200,000 jobs and more than 100 companies from liquidation. In 2009, she was honored with the prestigious Turnaround Atlas Leadership Achievement Award for her work in distressed investing.

Ms. Tilton has dedicated herself to being an advocate for rebuilding America's manufacturing base and a voice for small and middle-market enterprises (SMEs) and their employees. Concerned about the dearth of lending to SMEs, Ms. Tilton has proposed a public-private investment program to encourage lending to these companies. Ms. Tilton's SME Rescue Loans plan, will save hundreds of thousands of jobs while helping to rebuild America's industrial base.

Ms. Tilton's career spans 28 years and encompasses private equity, distressed asset management, financial engineering, high yield loan sales and trading, investment banking and senior management. In addition to her role at Patriarch, Ms. Tilton currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MD Helicopters Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft.

Ms. Tilton founded Patriarch Partners to develop innovative financial solutions and to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. The platform later evolved toward fund investments focused primarily upon the acquisition of companies undergoing pervasive change and loan origination to those same companies.

Under Ms. Tilton's leadership, Patriarch has positioned itself as a proactive partner to companies during periods of operational, industrial and economic transformation. Patriarch provides liquidity, time and strategic support, frequently saving US companies and US jobs. Patriarch inspires management teams to rebuild, using creative structural solutions and add-on investments in order to enhance companies' long-term values.

Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust ("LDMT"), a special situations investment fund and Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a firm which she founded to offer customized research, valuation and execution services to sellers of bank loans and high yield bonds. Ms. Tilton began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1981. She also worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker until 1989.

Ms. Tilton earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.