Katherine Roberson Petty

Ms. Petty is a Senior Vice President for Donohoe Advisory Associates LLC, where she specializes in advising public and private companies on stock exchange listing matters and related corporate governance issues.

Prior to joining Donohoe Advisory in February 2005, Ms. Petty served as Senior Counsel in the Office of General Counsel for The NASDAQ Stock Market. Ms. Petty’s primary responsibilities included the oversight of, and participation in, NASDAQ’s listing qualifications hearings process. She began her seven-year tenure with NASDAQ as an attorney within the Office of Listing Qualifications Hearings. In that position, she personally conducted more than 1,600 hearings of appeals by issuers denied initial or continued inclusion on NASDAQ. Ms. Petty has successfully worked with countless companies to resolve listing issues, particularly relating to corporate governance and the implications of financings and corporate restructuring transactions. Ms. Petty also worked with the NASDAQ Listing and Hearing Review Council, a standing committee composed of members of the business community, on the development and promulgation of listing standards and policies, including corporate governance initiatives in response to the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Ms. Petty graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia in 1993 and received a J.D. from The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, Illinois in 1997.

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