Ms. Usonis has over 20 years of corporate finance and capital markets experience and currently is a Director at Regent Advisors LLC, which provides advisory services for equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, and joint ventures. She has advised on several initial public offerings and reverse takeover transactions on Canadian and London stock exchanges. Previously, she structured financings for natural resource projects in emerging market countries at N M Rothschild & Sons (Washington) LLC and structured taxable and tax-exempt financings for corporate and public issuers at Salomon Smith Barney.

Ms. Usonis graduated summa cum laude with a BSc in Finance from Villanova University.