Richard E. Halperin

Since 2000, Mr. Halperin has been a Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Quellos Group, LLC. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Halperin was Executive Vice President and Special Counsel to the Chairman of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings, Inc., where he served as Chief of Staff to Ronald O. Perelman. During his tenure from 1984 to 2000, he created and headed the Perelman family office and was a Senior Executive of the multi-billion dollar diversified holding company, also serving as President of the Revlon Foundation, the MacAndrews & Forbes Foundation and the Perelman Family Foundation. Previous to joining MacAndrews, Mr. Halperin was Administrative Assistant to the Attorney General of New York State Robert Abrams, serving on the Executive Staff and as a State Prosecutor from 1979-1984. Prior to that he served as Press Secretary to Congressman Peter Peyser(R-NY) and as a speechwriter for Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis and then as a lobbyist for the Massachusetts Bar Association. More recently he was on the Transition Committee for Governor George Pataki(1994) and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Citizens Budget Commission and is on the Executive Committee of Boston University's College of Communication. He is also on the Board of Trustees at the Rye Country Day School. Mr. Halperin holds a BS cum laude in Communications from Boston University and a JD from the New England School of Law.