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Rosemary L. Ripley is a Managing Director of NGEN. Ms. Ripley joined NGEN as an Entrepreneur in Residence in 2006 and shortly thereafter joined the board of EnviroTower. Ms. Ripley brings to NGEN substantial experience in strategic planning, acquisitions and public and private market transactions. Responsible for Corporate Business Development at Altria Group (previously Philip Morris Companies) from 1990-2005, Ms. Ripley helped spearhead and execute numerous expansionary growth plans for the operating companies. She led teams that invested heavily in Central and Eastern Europe and Asia and transformed Kraft Foods with the $19 billion acquisition of Nabisco and subsequent $8.5 billion initial public offering. Ms. Ripley also developed the strategy and led the transformation of Miller Brewing Company from a domestic business to part of an international enterprise with the merger with South African Breweries. Prior to joining Altria, Ms. Ripley was a Managing Director at Furman Selz, responsible for the Retail and Consumer Group, and prior to that was a senior investment banker at L.F. Rothschild, Unterberg, Towbin where she also ran the Retail and Consumer Group. Ms. Ripley co-founded Circle Financial Group, a multi-family office, and sits on the Advisory Board of the Chicago Climate Exchange. Ms. Ripley received both her BA, cum laude, and MBA at Yale University.