Audrey Roth, Principal

Audrey represents entrepreneurs, company executives and venture capitalists and has done so successfully for nearly two decades, helping to bring young companies to profitability and maturity. She has also worked with the management teams of numerous companies, gaining deep expertise and experience in M&A and securities deals. She began her career as an attorney working as outside counsel for heads of life sciences and technology companies on their most challenging business and legal assignments including financing, M&A, licensing and corporate governance. Over the last ten years, Audrey has served as partner and head of the Private Equity/Emerging Company group at Sullivan & Worcester LLP, partner and member of the Private Equity group at Goodwin Procter LLP, and partner and chair of the Venture Capital and Emerging Companies group for Kelley Drye LLP.

Audrey has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar and co-managing editor for the Human Rights Law Review, and a B.A. from City University of New York, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude. She is a member of the Massachusetts and New York bars.

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Jeffrey Fink, Principal

Jeff brings a dozen years’ experience representing private equity and venture capital funds, their portfolio companies, and entrepreneurial businesses, and has worked on a wide range of tech company deals, both on and off shore. He has worked on day to day operational issues as well as joint ventures, licensing, mergers and acquisitions, financings, and public and private securities offerings. On the fund side, Jeff has negotiated terms for both funds and investors. He has represented partnerships in fundraising efforts that ranged from small family affairs to $1 billion in institutional money, negotiated complex compensation arrangements for fund principals, and dealt with the occasional limited partner blowup. On the portfolio company side, Jeff has served as outside general counsel to telecommunications, technology, manufacturing, marketing and service businesses. Jeff utilizes his extensive background on a part-time basis to work with our internal operations. Prior to co-founding Convergent, Jeff was most recently Senior Counsel at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York.

Jeff has a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was a founding editor of the Journal of Chinese Law and an associate editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and an A.B. from the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated Cum Laude. He is a member of the New York bar.

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Ralph Dunham, Of Counsel

As a successful senior executive who has run financial services companies, Ralph understands the view from management's side of the desk. Ralph now draws on that expertise to assist entrepreneurs with strategic planning, financing, investment management, marketing, corporate governance, and other areas critical to launching new ventures and managing financial growth.

Prior to joining Convergent GC, Ralph was President and CEO of Mystic Financial, Inc. (Nasdaq: MYST), a publicly-held bank holding company, and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Medford Co-operative Bank. Under his leadership, Mystic Financial was named as a Boston Globe 100 Top Performing Company in 2003 and 2004, and Medford Co-operative Bank was named by the Boston Business Journal as one of the Top 50 Best Places to Work. He led the company's IPO in 2001 and its sale in 2005.

Ralph is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a J.D. from the Massachusetts School of Law, an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts, and a B.S. degree from Norwich University. He also completed post-graduate work at Bentley College and Executive Development programs at Fairfield University. He is a member of the Massachusetts bar.

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