Mr. Lederman is a co-founder of a number of companies, including: the 2012 co-founding of Digital PowerRadio, LLC, a company that develops, patents and markets products that more efficiently transmit and store digital information; the 2009 co-founding of Critical Alert Systems, Inc., a company specializing in providing communication services to hospitals and related medical facilities; the 2008 co-founding of a hedge fund specializing in purchasing the stock of publically traded special purpose acquisition companies; and the co-founder of HD Partners Acquisition Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (AMEX: HDP) that was dissolved in 2008. He is also the co-founder of a company that built and purchased telecommunications towers and a company that manufactured liquid personal care products. Both companies were sold. From 1969 until his retirement as a senior partner in 2000, Mr. Lederman was an attorney at the law firm Latham & Watkins LLP, where he specialized in business transactions. Prior to joining Latham & Watkins, from 1968 to 1969, he was a law clerk to the Honorable Irving Hill, a U.S. District court Judge for the Central District of California. Mr. Lederman attended the London School of Economics and received a B.S. in Economics (cum laude) from the Wharton School – University of Pennsylvania. He obtained his law degree (cum laude) from the Harvard Law School.