Garrett F. Bouton has served on our board of directors since November 2006 was elected chairman of the board in June of 2007. Prior to his retirement in 2003, Mr. Bouton served as the managing director/regional CEO of Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco. Mr. Bouton has held positions with ARBI Assets in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (founder and president), Rosenberg Investment Management in Orinda, California (chief operating officer), and Scandinavian Bank Group in London, England (group managing director/chief executive officer) and Citigroup. Mr. Bouton holds a master's degree in international economics from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, and a bachelor's degree from Colorado College.

David J. Teece co-founded our business in 1988. He served as Chairman of the Board from the date of the management buyout of our business in September 2000 though June of 2007. Dr. Teece served as the Chairman of LECG, Inc., our predecessor company, from its founding until it was acquired by Navigant Consulting, Inc. in August 1998. Dr. Teece has performed economic, business and financial consulting services in the capacity of an expert for our firm since the inception of our business, and he has been an economic, business and financial consultant for 30 years. Since 1982, Dr. Teece has been a Professor of Business Administration at the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley, where since 1994 he has directed the Institute of Management, Innovation and Organization. Dr. Teece has had teaching and research positions at Stanford University and Oxford University. He has authored over 150 publications in economics, business and technology strategy and has testified before Congress and government agencies on regulatory policy and competition policy. Dr. Teece has a PhD in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He also serves on the board of directors of the Atlas Family of Mutual Funds, the Atlas Insurance Trusts, Canterbury Ltd. and several other private entities.

William W. Liebeck has served on our board of directors since September 2000. Mr. Liebeck was a partner of Thoma Cressey Equity Partners, Inc., a private equity investment firm, from June 1997 until March 2005. From June 1990 to July 1996, Mr. Liebeck was a partner at the private equity firm of Equivest Partners, Inc. Prior to that, he was a partner at Golder Thoma & Co., also a private equity firm. Mr. Liebeck currently serves as a director of several private companies. He has a BA in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

William J. Spencer has served on our board of directors since November 2002. He has been Chairman Emeritus of the International SEMATECH, a consortium of twelve semiconductor manufacturing companies from seven countries, since November 2000. From October 1997 to October 2000, Dr. Spencer was Chairman of the Board of SEMATECH. He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SEMATECH from November 1990 to October 1997. Dr. Spencer is a director of Capital Group ICA, a privately held corporation, a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and serves on many advisory groups. Dr. Spencer held teaching positions at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of New Mexico. During 1997 and 1998, he was a member of the board of directors of LECG, Inc. prior to its acquisition by Navigant Consulting. Dr. Spencer has an MS in Mathematics and a PhD in Physics from Kansas State University.