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Gene Shen, Former Head of Financial Services at AT Kearney Executive Search, Joins Options Group

New York, April 13, 2002  - Options Group, a leading global executive search and strategic consulting firm, is pleased to announce that Gene Shen will be joining the firm as Vice Chairman.

Gene has been in the financial services industry for 25 years, initially within the capital markets and multinational corporate finance units of Citicorp, and subsequently as a Managing Director at The Whitney Group, an executive search firm specializing in financial services. Most recently, Gene was both the Head of the Global Financial Services Group and President of AT Kearney Executive Search. Gene's expertise includes investment banking, capital markets, derivative & structured products, private banking, asset management, private equity/venture capital, and securitization. His work has been global with a focus on Asian and European clients.

"Gene is a welcome addition in that he brings us the strategic consulting experience and global network to take Options Group to the next level," said Michael Karp, founding partner of the Options Group.

In addition to client management, Gene is responsible for Options Group to the next stage of its evolution - providing strategic consulting and human capital advisory services to the financial services industry from an extensive global platform. A graduate of Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, with dual specializations in Political Science and Modern Languages, Gene also attended a joint program between the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy and the Harvard Business and Law Schools, with a focus on International Finance and Law.