Flatworld Acquisition Corp. (fka FWLAF)

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Gilbert H. Lamphere
Partner
New York
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Mr. Lamphere has more than 30 years of experience as a principal investor and financier in private equity transactions.

Mr. Lamphere currently serves as a director of CSX (NYSE:CSX) and advising director of J.H. Whitney Pan Asian LLC. Mr. Lamphere has also headed four other private equity funds and has extensive operational experience as a Chairman and/or board member of a wide range of publicly-traded and private companies. Mr. Lamphere has been intimately involved in billions of dollars of equity and debt financing. Mr. Lamphere was a Managing Director and member of the Board of Directors of The Fremont Group, a diversified investment company with over $9 billion of assets under management. Mr. Lamphere also co-headed the raising and management of Fremont Partners' $605 million private equity fund, his fourth fund. Prior to Fremont Partners, Mr. Lamphere was a vice president at Morgan Stanley & Co.

Mr. Lamphere has previously served on the boards of several publicly-traded companies including: Canadian National Railway Company (NYSE); Illinois Central Corporation (NYSE - acquired by Canadian National); Carlyle Industries, Inc; Recognition International (NYSE); Cleveland-Cliffs (NYSE); R.P. Scherer (NYSE - acquired by Cardinal Health); Global Natural Resources Corporation (NYSE); Sylvan, Inc (NASDAQ); Lincoln Snack Company (NASDAQ); Simmons Outdoor Corporation and Children's Discovery Center of America (NASDAQ). Mr. Lamphere also served as Chairman and CEO of the Prospect Group (NASDAQ:PROS), the first ever publicly-traded leveraged buyout fund.

Mr. Lamphere graduated from Princeton University with an A.B. in Economics with Honors and from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar and was recipient of the Loeb Rhoades Fellow finance prize.