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Jules Kroll

Founder and Principal

Mr. Kroll is the acknowledged pioneer of the modern investigations, intelligence, and corporate security industry. He is chairman and co-founder of K2 Intelligence, an industry-leading investigative, compliance, and cybersecurity firm with a specialization in asset recovery.

Mr. Kroll is also the founder of Kroll Bond Ratings Agency, BlueVoyant, a cybersecurity firm, and Kroll Inc. These businesses established investigations and risk consulting as indispensable services to corporations and law firms.

He currently serves as chairman of Kroll Bond Rating Agency and is a member of the Board of Directors of BlueVoyant. He is also chairman of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation. Previously, Mr. Kroll was a member of the Board of Regents of Georgetown University and the Board of Trustees of Cornell University and also served as the chairman of the Georgetown Law Center Board of Visitors.

Mr. Kroll received an LL.B. from Georgetown University Law Center and a BA from Cornell University.

Aaron Rubinstein

Founder and Principal

Mr. Rubinstein has over forty years of experience representing defendants and plaintiffs in complex commercial litigations, including securities, commodities, derivatives, contract claims, and bankruptcy related matters. He has handled both private suits, including class actions and shareholder derivative actions, and proceedings before government enforcement agencies.

Mr. Rubinstein was previously a senior litigation Partner at Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP. He was chairman of the Kaye Scholer litigation department for 12 years as well as chairman of the firm’s Financial Services Litigation Practice Group. He has served in numerous leadership capacities at Kaye Scholer, including as general counsel and chairman of the firm’s risk management committee.

Mr. Rubinstein has been recognized as a leading lawyer by Chambers USA (NY: Litigation General Commercial) and a leading commercial litigator by Who’s Who Legal and Best Lawyers. In addition, Benchmark Litigation 2014 ranked Mr. Rubinstein as a National and Local Litigation Star in Commercial Litigation.

Mr. Rubinstein received a JD from New York University School of Law, Order of the Coif, and a BA from Cornell University, magna cum laude.

Earl Doppelt

Founder and Principal

Mr. Doppelt is an experienced lawyer who has served as a senior executive and general counsel at numerous multinational corporations where he managed large in-house legal teams, outside counsel, and multiple complex litigations and business transactions.

He began his career as a litigator at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP where he worked on general commercial litigation and counseling, including antitrust and securities work.

Mr. Doppelt subsequently led the legal departments of Paramount Communications and The Dun & Bradstreet Corporation, where he oversaw the break-up of the company into three separate public entities. He became responsible for all legal matters as well as Government Relations at one of those companies, AC Nielsen Corporation. Mr. Doppelt then assumed the same positions at VNU (now named Nielsen), the Dutch conglomerate that acquired ACNielsen. Before forming BlueWhite, Mr. Doppelt served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Walter Energy.

Mr. Doppelt received a JD from Cornell Law School, summa cum laude, and a BA from the University of Rochester, summa cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa.

Jack Blackburn

Founder and Principal

Mr. Blackburn is a former Wall Street executive with decades of experience in principal investments and specialty finance. He was most recently with Burford Capital where he set up and managed the litigation finance lending business.

Mr. Blackburn started his career at Freddie Mac before moving to Citibank as the fifth member of the newly formed Citicorp Real Estate Investment Bank. At Citibank, he syndicated bank loans, purchased commercial real estate loans from the FDIC, restructured sub-performing loans, and completed one of the first securitizations of commercial real estate loans. Mr. Blackburn then joined Merrill Lynch & Co. to build a commercial real estate principal investment trading desk in the U.S. Among his achievements there are founding the distressed asset principal investment desk in Japan for real estate and asset-based products, organizing Merrill’s asset-based derivatives desk, setting up a Bermuda based reinsurance company, and founding the principal investment desk for specialty finance assets. Following Merrill Lynch, Mr. Blackburn formed AmRock Advisors and AmRock Capital where he invests and advises businesses and investors on transactions in ABS, CMBS, structured finance, consumer and small business lending and the litigation finance market.

Mr. Blackburn received a BBA in accounting and a MBA and JD from the University of Georgia.