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Summary

Name Age Since Current Position

Edwin Lewis

62 2011 Independent Chairman of the Board

Julian Geiger

66 2011 President, Chief Executive Officer, Director

John Ireland

49 2011 Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer

Eric Wesolowski

43 2013 Chief Operating Officer

Robin Sepe

38 2012 Senior Vice President - Human Resources

Mark Klein

51 2011 Director

Kirk Rose

2012 Director

Stephen Fass

68 2012 Independent Director

Frederick Kraegel

52 2009 Independent Director

Leonard Potter

51 2009 Independent Director

Jeffrey Roseman

51 2011 Independent Director

Biographies

Name Description

Edwin Lewis

Mr. Edwin H. Lewis is an Independent Chairman of the Board of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc., since May 5, 2011. He serves as the chairman of the board of managers of Holdings, since March 2008. Mr. Lewis has served as chairman and chief executive officer of NYDJ Apparel, LLC, a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of women’s jeans, since September 2008. Mr. Lewis has served as president of C&E Holdings Inc., a privately held finance company, since February 1997 and president of Magnolia Bluff, Inc., a privately held real estate holding company, since January, 2002. Mr. Lewis is the sole shareholder of C&E Holdings Inc. and Magnolia Bluff, Inc. In addition, Mr. Lewis served as president and vice chairman of Mossimo, Inc., a designer and licensor of apparel, from 2002 to 2006 and served previously as Mossimo, Inc.’s chief executive officer and vice chairman from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Lewis was with Tommy Hilfiger, Inc., a worldwide apparel and retail company, from 1990 to 1996, serving as vice chairman and chief executive officer. Mr. Lewis worked for Polo Ralph Lauren, a worldwide apparel company, from 1974 through 1990, where he held positions, including executive vice president and president of Ralph Lauren Womenswear, Inc., a worldwide apparel company. Mr. Lewis serves on the Board of Directors as a designee of the holders of the Series A Voting Preferred Stock (the “Series A Holders”).

Julian Geiger

Mr. Julian R. Geiger is President, Chief Executive Officer, Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. He has served as a director of the Company and Holdings since May 5, 2011 and in addition was appointed to serve as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Company and Holdings on November 14, 2011. He served as the chairman of the board of directors of Aéropostale, Inc. (“Aéropostale”), a mall-based specialty retailer, from August 1998 to February 2012 and served as its chairman and chief executive officer from August 1998 to February 2010 and as a part-time advisor to the company from December 2010 to February 2012. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Geiger served as president and chief executive officer of Federated Specialty Stores, Inc., a division of Federated Department Stores, Inc., which included Aéropostale. Before joining Federated Specialty Stores, Inc., Mr. Geiger served as president of the Eagle Eye Kids wholesale and retail divisions of Asian American Partners from 1993 to 1996. Prior to that time, Mr. Geiger held a range of merchandising positions from 1975 to 1993 at R.H. Macy & Co., Inc., a department store holding company, including president of merchandising for Macy’s East. Mr. Geiger received his BA in History from Columbia College and his MBA from the Columbia Graduate School of Business Administration.

John Ireland

Mr. John D. Ireland is Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President, Treasurer of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. He has served as the chief financial officer of the Company since May 5, 2011, a senior vice president since November 14, 2011 and a treasurer since June 2011. Previously, Mr. Ireland held the title of executive vice president—finance between June and November 2011. He has served as the chief financial officer of Holdings since March 2008. Mr. Ireland has also served as a member/CPA for Accounting Strategies Group, LLC, a certified public accounting firm, since September 2008 and has been the president of ASG, LLC, the predecessor entity to Accounting Services Group LLC, since June 2004. In addition, Mr. Ireland has served as vice president of both C&E Holdings Inc. and Magnolia Bluff, Inc. since 2001. Mr. Ireland has been a certified public accountant since 1985. Mr. Ireland also has served as a director of Provident State Bank, a state bank, since March 2006. Mr. Ireland received his BS degree in Accounting from the University of Maryland and received his MS degree in Taxation from Georgetown University.

Eric Wesolowski

Mr. Eric Wesolowski is appointed as the Chief Operating Officer of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. He has served as the Chief Operating Officer of CBS’s subsidiary, Crumbs Holdings LLC (“Holdings”), since November 5, 2012. Prior to his service with Holdings, Mr. Wesolowski served as the President of Ecko Direct LLC starting in May 2007, where he was responsible for the daily operations of the retail division of Marc Ecko Enterprises, a global fashion and lifestyle company, and, starting in 2011, he also served as the Chief Operating Officer of Marc Ecko Enterprises. For 16 years prior to that, Mr. Wesolowski held various management positions, including Senior Vice President, Operations, at Aeropostale, a mall-based specialty retailer.

Robin Sepe

Ms. Robin Sepe is Senior Vice President - Human Resources of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc., since February 2012. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Sepe served as senior vice president human resources—chief people officer at Modell’s Sporting Goods from 2010 to 2012. Prior to Modell’s Sporting Goods, Ms. Sepe worked at Aeropostale where her last position was vice president, human resources from 1996 to 2010. During her tenure at Aeropostale, Ms. Sepe developed innovative incentive programs that resulted in high retention levels of top tier managers and instituted key succession planning and development programs that helped to grow the organization from within. Ms. Sepe began her career at Barnes & Noble in 1995 and she holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Queens College.

Mark Klein

Mr. Mark D. Klein is Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. He has been a director since the Company’s inception, its president and chief executive officer from inception to May 5, 2011 and its chairman of the board from April 2010 until May 5, 2011. Mr. Klein has been a director of NeXt BDC Capital Corp. since January 2011. From April 2007 until August 2008, Mr. Klein was the chief executive officer of Hanover Group US LLC, an indirect US subsidiary of the Hanover Group, a business services firm. From March 2005 to September 2006, he was chief executive officer and president of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc., the parent of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., and chief executive officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management Inc., a subsidiary of Ladenburg Financial Services, Inc. Prior to joining Ladenburg Thalmann, from June 2000 to March 2005, Mr. Klein served as the chief executive officer and president of NBGI Asset Management, Inc. and NBGI Securities, which were the U.S. subsidiaries of the National Bank of Greece, the financial institution in Greece. Prior to joining NBGI, Mr. Klein was president and founder of Newbrook Capital Management, founder and managing member of Independence Holdings Partners, LLC, a private equity fund of funds company, and founder and general partner of Intrinsic Edge Partners, a long/short equity hedge fund. Prior to the formation of Newbrook Capital Management and Independence Holdings Partners, LLC, Mr. Klein was a senior portfolio manager for PaineWebber and Smith Barney Shearson, both investment banking firms. Mr. Klein is a graduate of J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, with a Masters of Management Degree and also received a Bachelors of Business Administration Degree with high distinction from Emory University.

Kirk Rose

Stephen Fass

Mr. Stephen Z. Fass is an Independent Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc., since January 20, 2012. In February 2012, Mr. Fass announced the formation of a new company, FCG Foods, LLC for which he is serving as founder, president and chief executive officer. The company will be doing business as Seth Greenberg’s Authentic New York Brownie Crunch. Beginning in October 2005 he served as a consultant to, and from November 2006 as a partner and vice president of, Ciao Imports LLC, a specialty food importer and distributor. Mr. Fass has served as a member of Ciao Import’s board since November 2007. From September 2003 to October 2005, he was a partner and vice president of Sales for Vela Di Natura, LLC, an importer of Serbian juices and other specialty foods from Serbia. Beginning in February 2002, Mr. Fass served as a consultant, and from August 2003, as a partner and producer, for At Chefs Theater Inc., a Broadway production featuring star chefs and musical entertainment, where he oversaw all phases of the food operation. From September 1997 to February 2001, he served as vice president and as an executive committee member for ABC Carpet and Home Inc. From January 1994 to June 1997, he served as president of William Greenberg Desserts and Cafés, where Mr. Fass wrote the business plan that took the company public and was a member of its board during the same period. From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Fass served as a full time consultant to the chairman of the board of Fauchon, the Parisian food emporium, and assisted with the Fauchon’s American expansion in both the retail and wholesale markets. Between 1969 and 1992 Mr. Fass held a variety of positions with increasing responsibility in the food division of Bloomingdales and Macy’s.

Frederick Kraegel

Mr. Frederick G. Kraegel is an Independent Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. He has been a managing director with Parham Partners LLC, a financial advisory firm since February 2011. He was with Bridge Associates LLC, a financial advisory firm, from February 2003 through January 2012, having served as a senior director and in such capacity served in a number of roles including as financial advisor to the Chapter 7 Trustee of Refco, LLC. Mr. Kraegel was an independent consultant from July 2002 to February 2003. From July 2001 to July 2002 Mr. Kraegel was executive vice president, chief administrative officer and director of AMF Bowling Worldwide, Inc, an operator of bowling centers, where he was hired to provide direction for the Chapter 11 process and financial, information technology and real estate functions. Mr. Kraegel was president and director of Acme Markets of Virginia, Inc., a retail food store chain, from 2000 to 2001 and led the effort in which the retail operations of the 32-store chain were sold. In 1998, he was hired as senior vice president and chief financial officer of Factory Card Outlet Corp., a retail party supply chain, to direct the financial restructuring of the company including the filing a Chapter 11 proceeding in 1999; Mr. Kraegel left the company in 2000 prior to its emergence from bankruptcy in 2002. Mr. Kraegel was with Peat, Marwick Mitchell & Co. (now KPMG LLP) from 1971 – 1987, having been a partner from 1980 – 1987 and is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Kraegel graduated from Valparaiso University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting.

Leonard Potter

Mr. Leonard A. Potter is an Independent Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc. Mr. Potter is the president and chief investment officer of Wildcat Capital Management, LLC, an investment advisory firm. From August 2009 through August 2011, Mr. Potter served as the chief investment officer of Salt Creek Hospitality, a private acquirer and owner of hospitality related assets. From December 2002 through July 2009, Mr. Potter was a managing director of private equity at Soros Fund Management LLC, a privately held investment firm, where, from May 2005 through July 2009, Mr. Potter served as co-head of the private equity group and a member of the private equity investment committee. Mr. Potter has continued to serve as a consultant to Soros Fund Management since August 2009. From September 1998 until joining Soros Fund Management LLC in 2002, Mr. Potter was a managing director of Alpine Consolidated LLC, a private merchant bank, and from April 1996 through September 1998, Mr. Potter founded and served as a managing director of Capstone Partners LLC, a private merchant bank. Prior to founding Capstone Partners, Mr. Potter was an attorney specializing in mergers, acquisitions and corporate finance at the law firms of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius and Willkie Farr & Gallagher. Mr. Potter is a director of Solar Capital Ltd., Solar Senior Capital Ltd. and GSV Capital Corp., each a public business development company, Auto Europe Group, a private car rental company, Stonegate Production Company LLC, a private oil and gas exploration and production company, and Hilton Worldwide, Inc., a private hotel management and ownership company, and is a member of the Board of Trustees of Brandeis University. Mr. Potter has served as a director of several other public and private companies. Mr. Potter has a Bachelors of Arts Degree from Brandeis University and a Juris Doctor Degree from the Fordham University School of Law.

Jeffrey Roseman

Mr. Jeffrey D. Roseman is an Independent Director of Crumbs Bake Shop, Inc., since May 5, 2011. He is a founding partner of Newmark Knight Frank Retail, LLC, a real estate services firm, and has served as that company’s executive vice president since 2004. Prior to joining Newmark Knight Frank Retail, Mr. Roseman was employed by New Spectrum Realty Services, a real estate brokerage firm, for ten years, last serving as that company’s senior vice president. Mr. Roseman has completed transactions $2 billion and encompassing 10 million square feet of retail space. Mr. Roseman has assisted retailers on their entry and expansion strategies, both nationally and internationally, including such companies as Urban Outfitters, Equinox, The Palm Restaurant, Pret A Manager and Chipotle Mexican Grill. Mr. Roseman has served on the Hillyer College Board of Directors, the University of Hartford since March 2008 and on the Real Estate Board of New York Board of Directions since January 2012. Mr. Roseman serves on the Board of Directors of the Company as a designee of the Series A Holders.

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