Robert Sharpe

Brunswick Group LLC provides corporate and financial communications advisory services. It specializes in mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, internal and integration communications, issues management, corporate reputation, and crisis and litigation communications. The company was founded on June 25, 2004 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Holdings, Inc. manufactures and markets cigarettes and tobacco products. The company was founded in 1970 and is headquartered in Winston-Salem, NC.

The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc. manufactures, sells and distributes Pepsi-Cola beverages. The beverages sold by it include Pepsi-Cola, Diet Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Aquafina, Lipton Brisk, Sierra Mist, Diet Mountain Dew, Tropicana Juice Drinks, SoBe and Starbucks Frappuccino. It also sells beverages, including 7 up, Kas, Aqua Minerale, Mirinda and Manzanita sol outside the US. The company also has the right to manufacture, sell and distribute soft drink products of companies other than PepsiCo., including Dr pepper and Squirt under the trademarks that it owns, including Electropura, Epura and Garci Crespo. It operates in the United States, Canada, Greece, Mexico, Russia, Spain and Turkey. The company was incorporated in Delaware in January, 1999 and is headquartered in Somers, NY.

PepsiAmericas, Inc. makes sells and delivers a broad portfolio of Pepsi-Cola core brands, Cadbury beverages and other national and regional brands in U.S. locations as well as Puerto Rico, Jamaica, Barbados, the Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and the Republic of Slovakia. PepsiCo, Inc. holds a 57 percent equity interest in PepsiAmericas. The company was founded in 1962 and is headquartered in Minneapolis, MN.

StarVest Management Inc (Starvest Partners) is a venture capital firm founded in 1999 by Farrington Anne Deborah, Laura Belle Sachar and Jeanne Mariani Sullivan. The firm is headquartered in New York.

Swedish Match AB engages in the manufacture and trade of lighters and tobacco products. It operates through the following segments: Snus and Moist Snuff; Other Tobacco Products; Lights; and Other Operations. The Snus and Moist Snuff segment produces and markets smokeless cigarettes. The Other Tobacco Products segment manufactures and sells chewing tobacco and cigars. The Lights segment develops and trades matches, lighters, razors, batteries, light bulbs, and toothpicks. The Other Operations segment consists of corporate and Swedish distribution functions.The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.