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Mr. Keilin was elected as an outside Director to The Segal Group’s Board of Directors on February 1, 2000. He has extensive experience in public service, investment banking, and financial services. Before founding Keilin & Co. LLC (an investment banking firm) and KPS Special Situations Funds (a family of private equity funds), he was a general partner of Lazard Freres & Co. where he provided financial advice to major cities and the State of Illinois as well as a number of corporate and union clients. Mr. Keilin also served as Executive Director and later as Chairman of the Municipal Assistance Corporation for the City of New York. He has advised both the United Steelworkers of America and the Air Line Pilots Association on a variety of issues, including the acquisition of United Airlines by its employees and the creation of Weirton Steel Corporation by a joint labor-management committee. Mr. Keilin is a graduate of Rice University and Harvard Law School.