Mr. Jon B. Kutler is the Founder of Admiralty Partners, Inc. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. Mr. Kutler is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Quarterdeck Investment Partners, LLC. He is also the a Founding Member of the Space Innovation Council. Previously, he served Jefferies Quarterdeck as the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. In 1992, Mr. Kutler founded the Quarterdeck Family of Companies, including Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Inc.; Quarterdeck Investment Partners, LLC and Quarterdeck Investment Partners, Ltd. (both now operating as Jefferies Quarterdeck); Quarterdeck Equity Partners, Inc.; and Quarterdeck Public Equities, LLC. In March 2006, he resigned from Jefferies Quarterdeck to focus his efforts in private equity investments under the Admiralty Partners, Inc. banner. He began his investment banking career on Wall Street in 1984, after serving 10 years in various positions in the U.S. Navy. He has worked with Goldman Sachs, The First Boston Corporation and was the Managing Director in charge of the West Coast office and international aerospace and defense practice of Wasserstein, Perella & Co. In addition, Mr. Kutler serves as the Chairman of Quarterdeck Equity Partners, Inc. He has been Executive Chairman at Arotech Corporation since May 10, 2016. He has been a Director of Arotech Corporation since February 2016 and serves as its Lead Independent Director. He serves as a Trustee of the California Institute of Technology. He is a Member of an Advisory Panel established by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment to evaluate the status of the space launch vehicle industry. He served as a Director of TeleCommunication Systems Inc. from February 2011 to February 23, 2016. Mr. Kutler was a Director of AmSafe, Inc. and Venturian Corp. He has testified before numerous Congressional committees with regard to the driving forces and implications of the ongoing consolidation of the defense and aerospace contractor base and has served as the Chairman of the White House Small Business Task Force on Defense Conversion. He is a nationally recognized expert in the field of aerospace and defense who had foretold a paring of global aerospace and defense spending and resultant glut of capacity that would idle the entire sector, threatening both the security and economy of the victors. His articles on consolidation, restructuring and defense conversion have appeared in Business Week, The New York Times, Fortune, The Los Angeles Times, Defense News and Aviation Week & Space Technology. In January 1990 issue of Aviation Week and Space Technology magazine, he called for ???an aggressive merger-and-acquisition environment??? to forestall a high-stakes game of musical chairs for survival. Within months, the resultant merger and acquisition activity caused the sector to burst into an era of competition, efficiency and profitability. As a result of his advisory work on transactions in these sectors, he was profiled by Institutional Investor magazine as the leading expert in the industry. Mr. Kutler received an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. in Naval Architecture from United States Naval Academy.