Rotary Gallop Adds 58 Years of Experience With Its First Advisory Board Appointees

NEW YORK - May 31, 2013 - PRLog -- New York, NY – Rotary Gallop, the world’s only scientific, Big-Data company to break into the world of hostile and contested M&A, and activist advisory, announces the appointment of its first advisory board members. The board will provide valuable counsel to the executive team at Rotary Gallop in the areas of business development, product development, and operations with the incredible perspective of 58 years of combined experience in the finance industry.

“Today, we are thrilled to appoint Ted C. Jones and Christopher Davis as the first members of our advisory board. We expect Rotary Gallop’s technology to have a transformative influence on the hostile and contested corporate situations industry, as well as, on the broader M&A industry. Our experienced advisory board is going to be a key part of guiding how that industry change plays out.”
-Chief Strategy Officer Radhika Dirks, PhD.

“Both Ted Jones and Chris Davis have been giving of the benefit of their experience since the day I met them. Ted’s unique dual expertise as head of Investor Relations and a respected economist puts him in a position to understand both the technical side of our products and how we can help Corporate IR departments over the long term. Chris’s on-the-ground experience in numerous activist situations allows him to help us direct our new technology where it can really make an impact.”
-CEO Travis Dirks, PhD.

Christopher P. Davis
Partner at Kleinberg, Kaplan, Wolff & Cohen
Chair of Kleinberg Kaplan's Mergers and Acquisitions and Investor Activism Groups  

Chris Davis chairs Kleinberg Kaplan's Mergers and Acquisitions and Investor Activism Groups. He advises domestic and international clients on mergers, stock and asset purchases, shareholder activism, proxy contests and tender offers, restructurings, workouts and bankruptcy sales, stock-for-stock mergers, auction sales, defensive and target reviews, joint ventures, divestitures, financings and minority investments in public and private companies. He has represented investment funds, start-up and mature companies, merchant banks and financial institutions and individuals in general corporate work and in numerous investments, private placements, loans, PIPEs, employment negotiations, Hart-Scott-Rodino filings and business combinations. For Chris's full bio, including recent representations, see here (http://www.kkwc.com/bio.php?r=11).

Ted C. Jones, Ph.D.
Director of Investor Relations, Stewart Information Services Corporation NYSE-STC
Senior Vice President-Chief Economist, Stewart Title Guaranty Company

Ted C. Jones, Ph.D., is the senior vice president – chief economist for Stewart Title Guaranty Company and director of investor relations for Stewart Information Services Corp. (NYSE-STC). He addresses the information needs of stockholders, conducts on-going research and supports economic and financial analysis for the company and its customers. Prior to joining Stewart he served as chief economist at Texas A&M University’s Real Estate Center, the nation’s largest publicly funded real estate research group.  An accomplished speaker, he typically gives more than 150 presentations on real estate and the economic outlook each year. You can follow Ted through his blog at  http://blog.stewart.com/dashboard/ or see his full bio here (http://blog.stewart.com/ted/author/tjones/).

For more information visit http://www.RotaryGallop.com, or contact Rotary Gallop at 347. 921. 3257.

About Rotary Gallop
Rotary Gallop specializes in the direct calculation of shareholder control and chances of winning a proxy battle, to guide strategy in hostile takeovers, activist situations, corporate defense and contested M&A transactions. Our insights are grounded in the scientific method, deep domain expertise, and powered using Big Data & Quantitative tools.

The Rotary Gallop S&P 500 Control and Vulnerability Reports spearhead an entirely new field – quantitative corporate control. We are now using our expertise to bring a proactive risk measurement and mitigation view to corporate customers, focusing on their risk of stewarding the biggest episode in the lives of their corporations – a change-in-control event.

Contact Information:
Travis Dirks
347. 921. 3257  
TravisDirks@RotaryGallop.com

Rotary Gallop
2727 Revere St. Suite 5018
Houston TX 77098
www.RotaryGallop.com

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For more details about vulnerability of the S&P 500 or to schedule an interview with CEO Travis Dirks please call at 347. 921. 3257, or e-mail TravisDirks@RotaryGallop.com.