New York, NY February 22, 2010 —
The Orchard, a global leader in music and video distribution and comprehensive digital strategy, announced today that current interim CEO Brad Navin has been appointed Chief Executive Officer and a director of the company. Navin was selected after Board Chairman Michael Donahue led a search committee to evaluate candidates and identify the company’s new leader. The search committee began this process in October 2009.

“With Brad’s more than 14 years of leadership in the industry, six of those with The Orchard, including as Executive Vice President and General Manager, our Board of Directors is confident in Brad’s proven ability to lead The Orchard into the next decade,” said Donahue. “As an accomplished executive who is intimately familiar with The Orchard’s business, Brad is the perfect fit for this role. We’re extremely pleased to have him direct the company.”

“I’m thrilled to take on this prestigious position and to continue to drive marketing and distribution with the best team assembled,” said Navin. “We’ll remain focused on what we do best: partnering with great clients, creating strategic marketing plans, and investing in artists we believe in.”

Donahue also expressed gratitude for the time and effort the board search committee and the external search consultant, Work&Partners LLC, expended on this important project. Donahue continues, “Our search committee and advisor Alan Work conducted a comprehensive process to fill this crucial role with the person who we believe can take the company to the next level."

About The Orchard(R)

Headquartered in New York and London with operations in 25 markets around the world, The Orchard (NASDAQ: ORCD) is a full service media company specializing in the distribution of music and video entertainment. Founded in 1997, the company is a global leader in digital marketing and distribution, driving sales across more than 730 digital storefronts and mobile carriers in 69 countries. Fostering creativity and independence, The Orchard enables labels, studios, artists and rights holders to grow and monetize audiences globally. For further information please visit www.theorchard.com.

Forward Looking Statements

This release may contain certain forward-looking statements regarding The Orchard's expectations regarding future events and operating performance within the meaning of Federal Securities laws that are subject to certain risks and uncertainties and involve factors that may cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or suggested. Factors that could cause actual results to differ include, but are not limited to, the ability of The Orchard to distribute certain products, videos and films and provide certain marketing and other services. Undue reliance should not be placed on such forward-looking statements as they speak only as of the date hereof, and The Orchard undertakes no obligation to update these statements to reflect subsequent events or circumstances except as may be required by law. Additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those projected or suggested in any forward-looking statements are contained in The Orchard's most recent periodic reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q that are filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

CONTACT:
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Source: The Orchard

New York, NY June 15, 2009 —
Accounting & Consulting
FTI Consulting Inc.: Steven J. Siwinski, 39, was appointed managing director. He joins from Ernst & Young, where he had been a partner.

New York, NY February 11, 2008—
New York-based executive search firm Work&Partners LLC has placed Marc Zimmerman as Vice President and Global Practice Executive, Business Information Management and Jojy Mathew as Vice President, Business Intelligence at Capgemini Financial Services USA, Inc. Mr. Zimmerman was formerly with Swingtide, Inc. as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of their Financial Services Group. Mr. Mathew was previously the VP and Managing Director of the Data Mastery Practice at Swingtide. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. Capgemini is a provider of systems integration and consulting services within the financial, technology and outsourcing industries. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY January 22, 2008—
New York-based executive search firm Work&Partners LLC has placed Peter Ryder as Director for the Technology Industry Consulting Practice at Deloitte Consulting LLP. Deloitte is one of the largest and fastest growing management consulting firms providing strategic, operational, financial, and technology related advisory services to many of the world's most prestigious companies. Mr. Ryder was formerly with Computer Sciences Corporation where he held several positions during his 11 years with the firm. Most recently he was the Managing Director of North American High-Tech and Manufacturing Business Development. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY September 11, 2007 —
Executive search firm Work&Partners LLC has placed Dr. Patricia O'Brien as a Senior Vice President and Key Account Manager of Aon Consulting, a division of global human capital and management company Aon Corporation. Dr. O’Brien is a health care professional with six years of clinical practice experience and fifteen years of professional services experience that has included sales and consulting to top health care companies. She was formerly with Diamond Management and Technology Consultants where she was the Co-practice leader for Healthcare and a member of the Leadership Council. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY August 14, 2007—
Executives had criminal pasts
By ALLAN DRURY
(Original publication: August 14, 2007)

Minutes after being sentenced to five years in federal prison for leaking insider information from Taro Pharmaceuticals Industries Ltd. in Hawthorne, Zvi Rosenthal sat in the Brooklyn courtroom with his head in his hands, unable for the moment to watch his son, Amir Rosenthal, face the judge for his role in the scheme.

But the trauma of being punished for fraudulent behavior was not a new feeling for the elder Rosenthal, 62. Records show he was sentenced in 2000 to three years of probation and fined $20,000 for making false claims about his work at Isratex, a Brooklyn company the government said provided the military with defective uniforms.

Rosenthal, sentenced in July, is one of two former Westchester executives shown in recent months to have pulled off an unlikely and dubious feat. In an era when technology puts criminal records at the fingertips of any computer user, Rosenthal and Kevin Cassidy, the former chief executive at Valhalla-based Optionable Inc., held executive-level jobs, even though both had felony fraud convictions.

Other factors also make Cassidy's story remarkable. He had been imprisoned for two crimes before serving two stints as Optionable's chief executive, from March 2001 to March 2004 and from September 2005 until May. His second hiring took place long after scandals at companies such as Enron Corp. and WorldCom Inc., experts on executive hiring say, prompted corporate boards to place candidates for executive jobs under the most intense of scrutiny.

"That's unbelievable," Jeff Heath, the president of The Landstone Group, an executive search firm in New York City, said of Cassidy's hiring. When Cassidy was hired the second time, the company's stock had just become available to the public, putting Optionable under the watch of regulators and public shareholders.

Optionable, an energy trading company, hired Cassidy, even though the information on his crimes was available to anyone on the Web sites of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons and the federal court system. Also, a LexisNexis search by The Journal News after Cassidy resigned turned up news stories written about his 1993 arrest in Florida on charges of credit card fraud and money laundering, a case that eventually resulted in a 30-month sentence. He also was sentenced in 1993 by a judge in White Plains to serve six months for tax evasion.

Investors in Taro and Optionable may never know how Cassidy got hired twice as chief executive or how Rosenthal remained in his job, even though both had felony convictions on their records, since neither Optionable nor Taro has commented. Officials at neither company returned phone calls seeking comment for this article.

But Heath said he suspects that Optionable did not conduct routine background checks on Cassidy before hiring him. Smaller companies sometimes are not as vigilant about checking candidates' backgrounds, he said.

"The problem we've got is that talent is getting tighter and tighter, and companies are getting more desperate to hire people and they may make mistakes," he said. "They may close their eyes for a minute and say, 'We've got the guy we want and forget about doing the due diligence to check him.' "

The company never disclosed Cassidy's convictions in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a fact that supports Heath's belief that the company was not aware of his record. While no law requires public companies to disclose such information, they are supposed to disclose information that investors would consider "material" when considering whether to buy or sell the shares.

It's less clear that Taro would have been obligated to disclose any information it may have had on Rosenthal's past, since he was not as close to the top of his company's hierarchy.

Rosenthal started working for Taro in 1994 and was promoted to vice president of materials management and logistics in 1997, years before his first conviction.

Heath said most companies do not routinely conduct continuing checks on the records of their existing executives.

Rosenthal's position as vice president gave him access to information on Taro's earnings, drug approvals and other matters before the public. He leaked that information to Amir Rosenthal, 29, who tipped two brothers and three others, a scheme the SEC said netted $3.7 million.

Executive search experts agreed companies stepped up their reviews of candidates for top jobs once the corporate scandals burst into public view, starting with Enron in late 2001.

Along with searching criminal histories, investigators that companies hire search out candidates' driving records from state motor vehicle departments - the thinking being that a person who's chronically reckless behind the wheel may not be responsible when it comes to handling millions of dollars or dealing with employees and customers.

They also want to know about a job candidate's financial standing. A person with crushing personal debts may also not be the best person to run the finances of a company or division. Even worse, that person may be tempted to embezzle.

But some companies are also suspicious of a person with tremendous personal wealth because they believe that person may be unmotivated to work.

"They want you to owe money, but not a lot of money," said Alan Work, who runs Work & Partners LLC, a White Plains search firm.

Drug tests and physical exams are also routine requirements before a candidate gets a key to the executive suite, Work said.

Work called the Rosenthal and Cassidy cases surprising but said he knows of others who managed to get or hold jobs with questionable histories.

"It still happens," he said. "Surprised? You're always surprised when a guy has two convictions, but some people self-promote pretty well sometimes.

New York, NY May 1, 2007 —
New York-based executive search firm Work&Partners LLC has placed Katherine Hutchison as Senior Director of Risk for PayPal, Inc. Ms. Hutchison was formerly an Independent Consultant providing strategic, product and communications planning, project management and operational assistance to high-tech companies. Prior to that, she was the Vice President of Marketing and Strategic Planning at ClearCommerce Corporation/eFunds Corporation. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. PayPal is the premier global electronic payments provider for the online community, specializing in transfer of money between consumers and merchants. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY March 14, 2007 —
Work&Partners LLC, an executive search firm in Harrison, has taken larger office space. The company occupies about 1,100 square feet, twice as much as it did before, at 701 Westchester Ave., said Alan Work, the President of the company.

New York, NY January 27, 2007—
Work&Partners LLC, an executive search firm in White Plains, placed Edward Merchant as the Vice President to lead the North America Capital Markets Industry Practice for Financial Services Strategic Business unit of Capgemini, an information technology consulting company. Merchant was formerly the Chief Information Officer at ABN AMRO Bank N.V.

New York, NY January 25, 2007—
New York-based executive search firm Work&Partners LLC has placed Steve Korn as vice president, strategic accounts for Patni Computer Systems, Inc. Mr. Korn was formerly with Electronic Data Systems where he held a variety of roles, most recently as a leader within the enterprise risk management practice. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. Patni is a global information technology services provider, specializes in implementing applications from leading software companies such as Baan, Oracle, PeopleSoft, and SAP. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY December 22, 2006 —
New York-based Work&Partners LLC has placed James S. Anderson as a senior manager for the insurance consulting practice at IBM Global Services in the Northeast. Mr. Anderson was most recently an insurance segment account lead for BearingPoint Inc.'s financial services group, where he was responsible for sales and service delivery of assigned clients. Alan J. Work of Work&Partners led the search. IBM Global Services offers business consulting, systems integration and outsourcing services, as well as application development, data storage, infrastructure management, networking and technology support. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

Vol.18 No.7, A Hunt-Scanlon Publication, September 2006—
New York-based Work&Partners LLC has recruited Robert J. Park as vice president of finance operations at PayPal. Mr. Park was formerly with McKesson Corporation where he was vice president of accounting and financial reporting. Alan Work of Work&Partners led the search. PayPal is the premier global electronic payments provider for the online community, specializing in transfer of money between consumers and merchants. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY July 5, 2006—
New York-based Work&Partners LLC has recruited Robert J. Park as vice president of finance operations at PayPal. Mr. Park was formerly with McKesson Corporation where he was vice president of accounting and financial reporting. Alan Work of Work&Partners led the search. PayPal is the premier global electronic payments provider for the online community, specializing in transfer of money between consumers and merchants. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY April 24, 2006 —
New York-based Work&Partners LLC has recruited Joseph M. Doloboff as a tax senior managing director for the corporate finance practice at FTI Consulting in Los Angeles. FTI Consulting specializes in corporate financial consulting and offers a wide range of services to corporations and to their advisors, lawyers, lenders and investors. Mr. Doloboff was formerly a partner in the transactions advisory services tax group at Ernst & Young. Jon Work of Work&Partners led the search. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY March 7, 2005 —
Alan J. Work of New York-based Work&Partners LLC has recruited John M. Sherman as chief architect for Bessemer Trust a leading private wealth management firm headquartered in New York. Mr. Sherman was formerly vice president, wealth management services and senior architect at State Street Bank. Work&Partners focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY August 17, 2004—
New York-based Work&Partners Executive Search LLC has recruited William Bosak as the director of workflow redesign for John Wiley & Sons. Inc. Mr. Bosak has been a consultant and has directed IT strategy for KPE and for Reed Elsevier. Alan J. Work and Jon R. Work conducted the search. Wiley is a global publisher of' high-quality print and electronic products, specializing in scientific, technical, and medical books and journals, college textbooks, professional and consumer books and subscription services. Work&Partners Executive Search focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY September 17, 2003 —
Alan J. Work of Work&Partners Executive Search LLC has recruited Antonio H. V. Perrotta as managing director and chief technology officer of Bessemer Trust. Mr. Perrotta was formerly a vice president for J.P. Morgan in the Asset Management Services, Global Systems and Architecture group. Bessemer Trust is a private wealth management firm headquartered in New York. Work&Partners Executive Search LLC is a White Plains, New York­ headquartered search firm that focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY January 31, 2003 —
Alan J. Work of Work&Partners Executive Search LLC has recruited Peter T. Lowes as lead partner for managed services in the global financial services industry practice at Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Lowes formerly served as a partner with Hawk Holdings, a venture capital firm. Deloitte Consulting is a leading management consulting firm. Work&Partners Executive Search LLC is a White Plains, New York-headquartered search firm that focuses on professional services, management consulting and information technology.

New York, NY January 30, 2003 —
Work&Partners Executive Search is a retained search in focusing in professional services management consulting, and information technology. Located in White Plains, New York, the firm is founded by Alan Work who previously founded New York City-based Hechkoff/Work Executive Search.