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LANCE JOHNSON

Lance is currently an attorney in the Corporate and Securities practice group at Piper Rudnick LLP. He is an active business counselor with a professional background in corporate finance and securities law. During his legal career, Lance has provided legal advice to investment bankers and
management teams at firms such as Deutsche Bank Securities, Perdue Farms Incorporated, First Horizon Pharmaceutical Corporation and MacroGenics, Inc.
and business advice to a number of start-up and small businesses in the D.C.
metropolitan area.

In 1999, Lance founded ServiceConnex, Inc., an information technology and solutions company based in Washington, D.C. Lance was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ServiceConnex and thus actively participated in and
managed all aspects of operations including business and execution plan development, capital raising, negotiation of strategic partnership/alliance agreements, completing patent application and development of proprietary technology platform. During his time at ServiceConnex, Lance conducted
negotiations with large information technology departments and companies such as Experian, MicroStrategy, CarFax, Jiffy Lube International Information Solutions and J.D. Power & Associates.

Prior to ServiceConnex, Lance was an associate at Brobeck, Phleger and Harrison LLP and Piper Rudnick LLP. His legal experience includes structuring and negotiating public securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, corporate formation and governance, representing investment banks, private equity funds, start-up, emerging and mature companies. Lance worked with companies such as Deutsche Bank Securities, Lehman Brothers, Robertson Stephens, LionBridge Technologies, OneMain and U.S. Interactive.

Lance received a B.S. in Commerce, with a concentration in Finance from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia in 1994, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1997.

 
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