James Kennedy

Circuit City Stores, Inc. is a specialty retailer of consumer electronics, home office products, entertainment software and related services. The company has two reportable segments: its domestic segment and its international segment. Circuit City was incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1949. The company is located in Richmond, VA.

PeopleSoft, Inc. provides enterprise software that ties together back-office applications and databases. Its software addresses such tasks as accounting, human resources management and supply chain management. PeopleSoft has expanded its product lines to include vertical applications for manufacturing firms and government agencies. In late 2003 Oracle launched a hostile attempt to purchase PeopleSoft, which ultimately agreed to be purchased for $10.3 billion in December 2004. Oracle completed the acquisition of the company in January 2005. PeopleSoft is located in Redwood Shores, CA.

BearingPoint provides management and technology consulting services in Europe, parts of Latin America and the Asia Pacific region, and in the United States. Their services include business management, consulting and training services. The company is headquartered in Dallas, TX.

PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC provides assurance, tax and advisory services. Its services include audit and assurance, consulting, deals, human resources, legal, tax, and family business. The firm also offers accountability, risk management, structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and performance and process improvement. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Buffalo, NY.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Hyperion Books, Inc. publishes fiction and non-fiction books for adults under imprints, which include Miramax, ESPN Books, Hyperion East, ABC Daytime Press, Theia and Hyperion Audiobooks. The company was founded by Michael D. Eisner and Robert S. Miller in 1990 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

BAX Global, Inc. provides supply chain management and transportation services for the aerospace, automotive, hi-tech, retail, and health care industries. It provides multi-modal logistics management for business-to-business shippers. The company was founded in 1972 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.