Senior Leadership

Julian Biggins is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Biggins has nearly a decade of investment banking experience, most recently as a member of JP Morgan's Asia-Pacific Real Estate Investment Banking team, where he provided capital structure and transaction advisory services to real estate companies and funds management clients in the Asia-Pacific region. Mr. Biggin was previously on the real estate research team at UBS, where he focused on the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry and provided strategic, quantitative and qualitative studies to Australian and international institutional clients. Mr. Biggins has extensive experience in global real estate markets with advisory roles to Australian companies acquiring real estate or real estate businesses in the United States, United Kingdom, Continental Europe, Japan and China.

Mr. Biggins holds a Bachelor of Business (Property) in addition to a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from the University of South Australia.

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John Binnie is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Binnie has a long career of advising financial services clients across a number of sectors on a wide range of corporate finance matters including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings and restructurings. Mr. Binnie began his career in 1985 in the Financial Institutions Group of Salomon Brothers both in New York and London, where he spent 18 years and transitioned with the firm to Citigroup, ultimately becoming the Co-Head of the Banking and Diversified Financials Group within the Investment Bank. After his time at Citigroup Global Markets, Mr. Binnie was the Head of Diversified Financials at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Binnie was most recently the Lead Capital Markets Partner at Southgate Alternative Investments.

Mr. Binnie was a Morehead Scholar and holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Managing Director & Co-Head of Recapitalization & Restructuring Group

New York

Thane Carlston is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Moelis & Company. Mr. Carlston has been in the investment banking industry for 20 years. From 1998 until joining Moelis & Company in 2008, he was Co-Head of the Recapitalization and Restructuring Group at Jefferies & Company. During his leadership, Jefferies advised on nearly $200 billion of restructuring transactions. Before joining Jefferies, he ran the New York office for Chanin and Company, a boutique investment banking firm specialized in providing restructuring advice. Mr. Carlston has extensive experience advising companies, equity sponsors, bondholders and creditor groups in out-of-court restructurings as well as pre-packaged, pre-arranged and unplanned Chapter 11 reorganizations. He has structured and led numerous exchange offers, consent solicitations and lender negotiations in a variety of industries. In addition to advising clients on recapitalization and restructuring services, he has advised on a number of financing and M&A transactions.

Mr. Carlston holds a B.S. in Political Science from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Vice Chairman of Europe, Middle East & Africa Investment Banking

London

David Cheyne is a Vice Chairman of Europe, Middle East & Africa Investment Banking. Mr. Cheyne has 40 years of deal making experience and joins from Linklaters where he was most recently the firm’s Senior Partner and previously was Global Head of the firm’s Corporate Department. Throughout his career, Mr. Cheyne has played a central role in a wide range of corporate transactions incorporating M&A, joint ventures, flotations and general corporate finance. For more than 10 years Mr. Cheyne was jointly ranked as the UK’s highest-rated M&A lawyer according to the Chambers UK Directory. In September 2011 he was awarded City A.M.’s Lawyer of the Year award.

Mr. Cheyne holds an M.A. in Law from Trinity College Cambridge.

Ed Chiang is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Chiang has over 21 years of capital markets and investment banking experience. Prior to Moelis & Company, he spent a total of 16 years at Merrill Lynch and Banc of America Securities, where he was most recently Group Head of Private Equity Placements, a member of the Equity Capital Markets Operating Committee and a Managing Director from 2002-2009. During his tenure at BofA, his group executed over $13 billion in equity and equity-linked financing transactions, including 90 PIPE transactions for over $5 billion in proceeds. At Merrill Lynch, Mr. Chiang was an investment banker in the Private Equity and the Mergers & Acquisitions groups where he advised on $17 billion of M&A transactions in addition to acquisition-related and strategic equity placements totaling $4.5 billion.

Mr. Chiang holds an A.B. in Economics from Princeton University.

Joseph Chow is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Chow was most recently a Managing Partner at CJC Partners Inc., Beijing, where he advised on cross-border acquisitions for Chinese-based companies and on financing advisory opportunities for companies at various stages of development. He was previously a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs Asia in the Private Financing Group and Chief Financial Officer of China Netcom Corporation. Mr. Chow also held roles at Citi and GE Capital.

Mr. Chow holds an M.B.A. from the University of Maryland College Park.

Matt Clark is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Clark has over 10 years of investment banking and principal investing experience. His prior investment banking experience includes roles in the Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Sponsors and Global Industrials Groups at UBS Investment Bank, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Deutsche Bank Alex Brown. He has extensive experience advising companies in a broad range of strategic transactions, including buy and sell side mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and special committee advisory, as well as providing capital raising solutions. His clients include public companies as well as private equity and family owned businesses. Mr. Clark was previously a Partner at Barrington Partners, a short-oriented hedge fund.

Mr. Clark received a B.A. in Economics and English from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

John Collins is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Collins has almost 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Morgan Stanley, where Mr. Collins advised companies from a broad range of industries on a wide variety of complex transactions including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and public market-focused divestitures including subsidiary IPOs, split-offs and spin-offs. Most recently, Mr. Collins was responsible for clients in the metals and mining, paper, packaging and chemicals sectors. Mr. Collins worked at Morgan Stanley for the full span of his career and previously also worked in the firm's Real Estate Group in London and New York.

Mr. Collins holds an A.B. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and serves as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Harlem Educational Activities Fund.

Peter Corbell is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Corbell has a long career of restructuring, principal investing and investment banking experience. He has advised clients on financial restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance matters aggregating over $55 billion in transaction value. Most recently, Mr. Corbell was at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP acting as Special Counsel in the firm's Financial Restructuring Group, after having spent several years in the Financial Restructuring Group of Chanin Capital Partners where he was a Managing Director. Mr. Corbell also worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse and before this, at a Beijing-based principal investment fund where he evaluated and executed investment opportunities in China and New Zealand.

Mr. Corbell holds a B.A. in East Asian Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from the University of Southern California.

Meyrick Cox is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Cox has over 20 years of investment banking experience and was most recently Global Head of Auto & Steel at Rothschild. Previously, Mr. Cox was Co-Head of Industrials for EMEA at Goldman Sachs. Over the course of his career, Mr. Cox has represented the world's largest automotive and industrial companies across a broad geography including EMEA, India and China.

Mr. Cox holds a degree in Engineering from Cambridge University and an M.B.A. from City of London University.

Managing Director & Chief Operating Officer

New York

Elizabeth Crain is the Chief Operating Officer of Moelis & Company and is responsible for Moelis & Company's global strategy, infrastructure and business management. Ms. Crain has been in the investment banking and private equity industries for over 20 years as a banker, principal and operations specialist. She was most recently a Managing Director in the UBS Investment Bank Office of the CEO and President and served as Manager of the UBS Investment Bank Client Committee and member of the UBS Investment Bank Board. Prior to this, Ms. Crain was both the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of the UBS Investment Banking Department Americas franchise, where she played a critical role in the build-out of both the Global and Americas IBD platforms. Before joining UBS, Ms. Crain was a principal at Morgan Stanley Capital Partners and an investment banker at Merrill Lynch. In 2011, Ms. Crain was named one of the "25 Most Powerful Women in Finance" by American Banker.

Ms. Crain holds a B.S. from Arizona State University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Bob Crowley is a Managing Director and Head of the Boston Office of Moelis & Company. Mr. Crowley was most recently a Managing Director and Global Head of High Yield Capital Markets at UBS. At the time of his departure from UBS, Mr. Crowley served on the Investment Banking Department's Executive Committee (Americas) and the Credit Fixed Income Department's Management Committee (Global). Prior to running High Yield Capital Markets, Mr. Crowley was a senior investment banker in the firm's Global Industrial Group, where he led top franchises in the homebuilding and environmental services sectors. Mr. Crowley started his banking career at Salomon Brothers and worked at BankBoston before joining UBS. Before becoming a banker, Mr. Crowley was a high yield research analyst covering the homebuilding/building materials sectors. Mr. Crowley was honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2009 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Crowley holds a B.A. in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.

Scott DeGhetto is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. DeGhetto has over 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as Co-Head of the Power & Renewable Energy Group at Credit Suisse. Previously, he worked at JP Morgan where he was a Managing Director in the Power and Pipeline Group. Mr. DeGhetto also spent more than seven years as a Managing Director in the Global Utilities Group at UBS. He has extensive experience advising clients in M&A, capital markets, restructuring and bankruptcy transactions.

Mr. DeGhetto holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University.

Charlie Denison is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Denison has over 30 years of investment banking experience. Most recently, Mr. Denison ran the Chicago office of Deutsche Bank and predecessor Bankers Trust since 1994, and was responsible for overseeing the firm's investment banking activities in the Midwest as well as coordinating the strategies of the private wealth and asset management businesses. From 1996 to 2008 he was also Co-Head of the Industrials Investment Banking Group and was responsible for its Paper and Packaging sector practice. During his career, Mr. Denison has advised clients on numerous transactions across mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and debt and equity financings. Mr. Denison joined Bankers Trust in 1987 from Harris Bank.

Mr. Denison holds an A.B. in Economics and Government from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of Lyric Opera of Chicago since 1995 and of Chicago Youth Centers since 1990. He was a member of The Chicago Children's Museum Board of Directors from 1990 until 1998.

Jared Dermont is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Dermont's financial advisory assignments include advising companies, creditors and government entities in a variety of industries on recapitalizations, restructurings, mergers and acquisitions and has completed over 75 assignments representing more than $150 billion in aggregate value. Mr. Dermont's domestic and cross-border M&A experience includes both buy-side and sell-side assignments as well as Special Committee representations. His financing expertise includes senior secured debt financings, DIP financings, exit financings, second lien loans, convertible notes, rights offerings, preferred stock investments and common equity investments. Most recently, Mr. Dermont was a Managing Director at Rothschild Inc. where he originated and executed numerous in-court and out-of-court restructuring and M&A transactions. Prior to Rothschild, Mr. Dermont was a Vice President in the Healthcare Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Banc of America Securities. He began his career at Peter J. Solomon Company. Mr. Dermont was recently honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2010 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Dermont holds a B.A. in Economics from Tufts University.

Managing Director & Co-Head of Recapitalization & Restructuring Group

New York

Bill Derrough is a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Moelis & Company. Mr. Derrough has been in the investment banking industry for 20 years. From 1998 until joining Moelis & Company, he co-founded and co-headed the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies & Company. During his leadership, Jefferies completed over 125 transactions representing nearly $200 billion. While at Jefferies, Mr. Derrough advised a wide spectrum of clients and investors on restructurings, recapitalizations, financings, mergers, and other engagements.

Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Derrough was a Principal at Doyle & Boissiere, a private investment firm, and before this, a Senior Vice President of Chanin & Company, an investment banking firm focused on restructuring advice, and a generalist in corporate finance at Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Derrough holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Peter Dixon is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Dixon has over 13 years of experience advising clients on public and private mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, restructurings and investment management transactions. Prior to Moelis & Company, Mr. Dixon was a Division Director in the Real Estate Advisory team at Macquarie Group Limited based in Sydney. Prior to Macquarie, Mr. Dixon worked at Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Sydney and Linklaters in London as a corporate advisory lawyer.

Mr. Dixon holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Finance) and Bachelor of Laws from the University of New South Wales.

James Dunphy is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Dunphy has 22 years of investment banking experience, including 19 years at Credit Suisse. From 2001-2007 he was Head of Consumer, Healthcare and Retail Investment Banking based in Sydney, where he completed numerous advisory, capital markets and leveraged finance transactions. Mr. Dunphy was previously a Director in Credit Suisse's Global Industrial & Services Industrial Group in New York. Most recently, Mr. Dunphy was engaged as a Consultant at Royal Bank of Scotland where he completed transactions for Industrial and Infrastructure clients. Mr. Dunphy began his career as a solicitor with Bell Gully.

Mr. Dunphy holds a Bachelor of Laws (Hons) from Victoria University of Wellington.

Ed Eppler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Eppler has been in the investment banking industry for over 20 years, most recently as the Head of the Aerospace and Defense Group at CIBC World Markets. While at CIBC, Mr. Eppler successfully built leading market positions in several industry sectors, including aerospace and defense, communications technology and industrial services. He has initiated and managed more than 100 corporate finance and financial advisory assignments, including public and private equity and debt financings, mergers and acquisitions, financial restructurings and leveraged buyouts. Prior to joining CIBC, Mr. Eppler was an officer at Oppenheimer & Company, Inc., and he began his career at E.F. Hutton and Company, Inc.

Mr. Eppler holds a B.A. in history from Middlebury College and an M.B.A. in finance from The Stern School of Business at New York University.

David Faris is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Faris was most recently a Managing Director in the Chemicals Investment Banking Group at Credit Suisse. During his tenure at Credit Suisse, Mr. Faris advised on a wide variety of domestic and international transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, restructurings and leveraged buyouts. Prior to Credit Suisse, Mr. Faris was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette where he provided a broad range of investment banking services to chemical and other general industrial companies and also worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. Mr. Faris joined DLJ from Schroders where he worked in the investment banking group and covered a broad range of industrial companies. He began his investment banking career in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Faris holds a B.A. from the University of Rochester and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Managing Director & Head of Sales Trading

Sydney

Rob Farrington is a Managing Director and Head of Sales Trading at Moelis & Company in Australia. Mr. Farrington has over 20 years of experience within the financial industry across equity derivatives sales, execution and trading, futures sales and institutional equity sales. Most recently, Mr. Farrington was a Director in Institutional Equity Sales Trading at Credit Suisse and Head of Domestic Sales for the sales trading division. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Farrington worked at UBS where he was a Managing Director in Institutional Equity Sales Trading. During his career, Mr. Farrington also worked in equity derivatives sales and execution at Macquarie Bank, ANZ Bank and Ord Minnett.

Michael Findlay is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Findlay has 22 years of experience working with clients in the equity markets and has advised senior management and corporate directors across Europe, the Middle East and Africa on capital markets issues in connection with strategic transactions and general shareholder matters. Mr. Findlay was Managing Director and Co-Head of EMEA Corporate Broking at Merrill Lynch from 2004 to 2009. In this role, he led the firm's relationships with FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 clients and provided equity market advice and solutions on numerous financings and M&A transactions across EMEA. He joined Merrill Lynch in 1998, after previously working for UBS and Robert Fleming & Co.

Mr. Findlay is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute For Securities and Investment and is currently a non-executive director of UK Mail Group PLC.

Rob Flachs is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Flachs was most recently a Managing Director in the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Jefferies & Company. Mr. Flachs was part of a core team that advised on over 125 transactions representing nearly $200 billion. While at Jefferies, Mr. Flachs specialized in advising companies and creditors in recapitalizations, in-court and out-of-court restructurings, financings and distressed M&A in a wide variety of industries. Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Flachs was an attorney at both Guth Rothman & Christopher and Irell & Manella.

Mr. Flachs graduated summa cum laude with a B.A. from the University of California at Los Angeles and holds a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

Guillermo Garcia is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Garcia was most recently a Partner and Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Richmond Park Partners. He joined Richmond Park Partners in 2009 from Barclays where he was Global Head of Corporate Development. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Garcia spent 12 years at Goldman Sachs in a variety of roles, most recently as a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group. Over the course of his career, Mr. Garcia has covered several industry verticals, including insurance, banks and financial technology, both in London and in New York.

Mr. Garcia holds a B.S. from Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

John Garrett is a Managing Director of Hedge Fund Sales at Moelis & Company in Australia. Mr. Garrett has extensive experience in the financial industry across property investment sales, equity research, sales trading, risk arbitrage, long/short and special situations. Most recently, Mr. Garrett was Head of Hedge Fund Sales at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Garrett joined UBS in 1996 as a REIT analyst on the Australian Equities Research team and was responsible for REIT trading/sales from 1997 through 2002. Between 2002 and 2007, Mr. Garrett was Head of Sales Trading at UBS.

Mr. Garrett holds a Bachelor of Business in Property/Valuation and a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment from the Securities Institute of Australia. He is also an Accredited Level 1 and Level 2 Derivatives Advisor on the Australian Stock Exchange.

Stu Goldstein is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Goldstein was most recently a Managing Director and the Head of West Coast Technology Investment Banking at Citigroup. While at Citigroup, he provided strategic advisory services to technology companies on the full spectrum of corporate finance matters, in particular mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Goldstein was previously a Managing Director in Citigroup's Mergers and Acquisitions Group and managed its Enterprise Software and Communications Equipment M&A franchises. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Goldstein was a law clerk for the Honorable Anthony J. Scirica of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals.

Mr. Goldstein holds a B.S in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a B.A. in History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

John Grady is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company. Mr. Grady has over 25 years of experience in financial services in senior positions across asset management, private wealth management and banking. He was most recently a Managing Director and Head of New Business Development at Athena Capital, an investment management firm based outside Boston. Previously, Mr. Grady was at Lehman Brothers where he was the Managing Director responsible for the Investment Management Division in New England. Mr. Grady also spent 14 years at State Street Global Advisors, where he was a Managing Director in the Global Private Client Group, a member of State Street Corporation's Executive Operating Group and was responsible for institutional sales, client service, consultant relations and charitable asset management.

Mr. Grady holds a B.A. from Boston University. He is a member of the Board of Overseers at Brigham Women's Hospital and serves on the Board of Directors of the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies. He is also a member of the Executive Committee and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Board of Trustees for the Belmont Hill School.

Bert Grisel is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Grisel has over 20 years of investment banking experience advising clients on corporate finance matters and capital solutions and was most recently Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Asia Pacific Advisers ("APA"). Prior to joining APA, he was a Managing Director at ABN AMRO and Head of Industrials and Real Estate based in Hong Kong. Mr. Grisel has also worked in Amsterdam for ABN AMRO in various product groups and management positions.

Mr. Grisel holds a Master in (Business) Law from Groningen University in the Netherlands.

Andrew Haber is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Haber focuses on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and other advisory services within the Telecom/Media/Technology sectors. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Haber was with Bear Stearns for 10 years, most recently as a Managing Director where he was responsible for M&A coverage and execution in the Telecom/Media/Technology Group. He has advised clients on a wide variety of transactions, including domestic and international acquisitions (public and private), spin-offs/split-offs, leveraged buyouts, exclusive sales, joint ventures, highly contested transactions and in-court and out-of-court restructurings with an aggregate value of over $100 billion. Prior to receiving his M.B.A., Mr. Haber spent three years with Booz Allen Hamilton as a Management Consultant, where he advised clients across various industries in the United States, Mexico and Brazil.

Mr. Haber graduated cum laude from the University of Michigan with a B.A. and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Rich Harding is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Harding joined Moelis & Company from the Global Healthcare Group at Citigroup where he originated and executed a wide variety of corporate finance transactions in the healthcare sector, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and other equity and debt transactions. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Harding worked in the healthcare industry at Health Dialog Services Corporation. Mr. Harding was recently honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2010 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Harding holds a B.A. in Economics and Government from Connecticut College and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Michigan.

Tony Harrington is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr Harrington has over 35 years of business and strategic leadership experience advising corporate clients internationally. Most recently Mr. Harrington was Global Managing Partner - Strategy at PricewaterhouseCoopers and a member of the PricewaterhouseCoopers Global Executive Committee. He was previously Senior Partner and CEO of PricewaterhouseCoopers in Australia and Chairman of the firm’s Foundation. He played a leading role in the significant growth of PricewaterhouseCoopers, positioning it as the leading professional services firm in Australia. Prior to PricewaterhouseCoopers Mr. Harrington was Deputy Chairman of Coopers & Lybrand and Managing Partner of Taxation Services.

Mr. Harrington holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of New South Wales and is a Member of the Order of Australia. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, a Fellow of FINSA and Chairman of The Australian Charities Fund.

Mark Henkels is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company and is among the founding partners of the New York office. Mr. Henkels has over 20 years of investment banking experience. Before joining Moelis, he was Head of the Industrial Growth and Services Group at CIBC World Markets. While at CIBC, Mr. Henkels built one of Wall Street's leading industrial banking franchises in metals and mining, capital goods, chemicals, aerospace and defense and building products. Prior to CIBC, Mr. Henkels led the Global Basic Industries franchises at Merrill Lynch focusing on the steel and aluminum, capital goods and building products sectors. Previous investment banking experience also included tenures at Salomon Brothers' and Smith Barney.

Mr. Henkels holds a B.A. in Accounting from Creighton University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Amelia Hill is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Ms. Hill specializes in capital markets and has advised clients on numerous listed and unlisted capital raisings including IPOs, pre-IPO raisings, follow-on raisings, convertible securities and block trades for public and private companies. Ms. Hill advised clients on capital raising transactions and mergers and acquisitions at UBS Investment Bank for 10 years prior to joining Moelis & Company and most recently led UBS’s Equity Origination efforts across emerging companies and the firm’s Alternative Capital Group in Australia.

Ms. Hill holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours - University Medal) and a PhD in Finance from the University of Sydney.

Roger Hoit is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Hoit has over 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Managing Director in the Global Financial Sponsors Group at Morgan Stanley. While at Morgan Stanley, he built a leading franchise advising financial sponsors and their portfolio companies on strategic transactions and investment opportunities. In this role, he originated and executed the full spectrum of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financings and derivative transactions. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley in 2000, Mr. Hoit was a Managing Director at SG Cowen, a division of Société Générale, and previously a Managing Director and Partner at Gleacher & Co. Mr. Hoit began his career at PaineWebber Incorporated.

Mr. Hoit holds a B.A. in Economics from Amherst College.

Stan Holtz is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Holtz has over 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Managing Director and Head of US Telecom Investment Banking at Bank of America. While at Bank of America, Mr. Holtz built a leading franchise advising telecom companies on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, restructurings and leveraged buyouts. Prior to joining Bank of America, Mr. Holtz was a Managing Director and Head of US Wireless Communication Services Investment Banking at UBS as well as a Managing Director in the Media and Telecommunications Group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Holtz holds a B.S. from DePaul University and an M.B.A from the University of Chicago.

Mark Hootnick is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Hootnick has extensive experience providing restructuring advice to companies, creditors, shareholders and other interested parties on restructuring transactions both in Chapter 11 and in out-of-court situations. Mr. Hootnick was most recently a Managing Director at Broadpoint Securities and previously was a Managing Director at Imperial Capital and Greenhill & Co. He also served as a founding member of Miller Buckfire after beginning his career as an attorney at Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel.

Mr. Hootnick holds a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

Zul Jamal is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Jamal has extensive investment banking experience and focuses on in-court and out-of-court recapitalizations and restructurings for companies, creditors and acquirers across a wide range of industries. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2008, Mr. Jamal was a Senior Vice President at Jefferies & Company where he advised clients on a wide variety of restructuring transactions including Chapter 11 bankruptcies, exchange offers, consent solicitations, lender negotiations and distressed financings. Mr. Jamal also worked at Jefferies International in London where he was responsible for international financial sponsor, restructuring and leveraged finance activities.

Mr. Jamal graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

John Joliet is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Joliet was most recently Managing Director and Global Head of Software Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank. He also served as the Head of UBS Investment Bank's Los Angeles office. While at UBS, Mr. Joliet's team advised and financed many leading software companies in the ERP, Enterprise Applications, SaaS, Business Intelligence and Security subsectors, with a particular focus on high-growth, middle-market companies. Prior to joining UBS in 2001, Mr. Joliet had been with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette for his entire career, advising high-growth companies and LBO sponsors in diverse sectors including Business Services, Technology, Media, Financial Institutions and Wireless Communications.

Mr. Joliet holds a B.B.A. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan and an M.B.A., with honors, from the University of Chicago. Mr. Joliet and his family are active supporters of St. Paul's Parish in Westwood as well as several organizations dedicated to finding a cure for Cystic Fibrosis.

Joe Kennedy is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Kennedy was most recently Head of Retail Investment Banking at Wachovia. Prior to this, Mr. Kennedy was the Co-Head of Retail Investment Banking and the Sector Head of Restaurants at Bank of America, where he managed a leading franchise advising executives on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings, recapitalizations and other corporate finance matters. Before Bank of America, Mr. Kennedy worked at Merrill Lynch and Chemical Banking Corporation.

Mr. Kennedy holds a B.S. from the College of Business Administration at Fordham University and an M.B.A. from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.

Kasim Kutay is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Kutay has 22 years of investment banking experience. Mr. Kutay started his investment banking career at Morgan Stanley, where he spent 18 years and was most recently Chairman of the European Healthcare Group. While at Morgan Stanley, Mr. Kutay managed a leading franchise advising healthcare companies on the full spectrum of corporate finance matters including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other debt and equity financings.

Mr. Kutay holds an M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics. Mr. Kutay sits on the Investment Committee of SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies), the UK's leading university for the study of Asia and Africa. He is also a member of the Advisory Council of the London Middle East Institute, and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Northwick Park Institute for Medical Research, the UK's leading independent medical research institute.

Stan Lai is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Lai was most recently a Managing Director and Head of Private Placements at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. At Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Mr. Lai oversaw a leading and diversified private capital advisory platform where he originated, structured and executed a wide variety of privately negotiated equity, mezzanine, structured securities and illiquid portfolio monetization transactions for public and private clients across all sectors. Prior to that, he worked within the Private Funds Placement Group at Merrill Lynch. Previously, Mr. Lai was an investment banker at Salomon Brothers and was a member of the Restructuring Practice at Deloitte & Touche.

Mr. Lai holds an A.B. from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.

Managing Partner of Private Equity

New York

Kurt Larsen is a Managing Partner of Moelis Capital Partners and focuses primarily on the industrial, consumer/retail and media sectors. Mr. Larsen has been in the private equity industry for over 21 years during which time he has invested across a wide spectrum of industries and throughout the capital structure. Over the years, Mr. Larsen has invested through a variety of economic cycles and has adjusted his investment strategy to adapt to these differing environments, including employing a "buy and build" strategy during the 1990s and a more industry targeted approach in recent years.

Mr. Larsen was most recently a Managing Director at Cerberus Capital Management, L.P. where he focused on middle market private equity and subordinated debt investments. He played an integral role in all aspects of the investment process and actively worked with management teams and boards to deliver value creation.

Prior to joining Cerberus in 2003, Mr. Larsen founded and was the managing partner of his own private equity firm. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Larsen was a Principal at Aurora Capital Group, a middle market private equity firm. Before joining Aurora Capital, Mr. Larsen worked as an Associate at WSGP Partners, a private equity firm founded by William E. Simon and Gerald L. Parsky. Mr. Larsen began his career as an Analyst at Drexel Burnham Lambert and attended the University of Utah. He currently serves on the board of directors of CyberCore Technologies, Hawthorne Global Aviation Services, Quest Specialty Chemicals, RecoverCare, LLC and Uintah Engineering & Land Surveying.

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J. Richard Leaman III

Managing Director

New York

Rick Leaman is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Leaman has 25 years of investment banking experience, most recently as Chairman of UBS Investment Bank's Investment Banking Division as well as a member of the Investment Bank's Executive Committee. From 2005 to 2009, he served as both Global Head of Investment Banking and Joint Global Head of Investment Banking at UBS, overseeing over 2,000 bankers for coverage of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and advisory services to corporate and institutional clients, governments and financial sponsors. He was previously Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at UBS as well as Co-Head of Healthcare Banking at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., which was acquired by UBS in 1997. He began his career in investment banking at Smith Barney, Harris Upham & Co. Incorporated.

Mr. Leaman holds a B.A. from Duke University and an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Mr. Leaman is a member of the Board of Visitors for the Fuqua School of Business.

Vinny Lima is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Lima was most recently at Christopher Street Capital, where he was a founding partner of the U.S. credit business and a Managing Director in charge of capital markets. Prior to Christopher Street Capital, he worked at Citigroup and Salomon Brothers for 17 years and was a Managing Director and Head of High Yield Syndicate. In that role, he was responsible for overseeing a team that structured, underwrote and distributed high yield transactions for leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and refinancings. Previously, he was the Head of North America High Yield Sales, overseeing relationships with major institutional accounts, and worked in High Grade Sales for the firm in Boston, Chicago and New York.

Mr. Lima holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Rutgers College. He is a Board member of NJ Seeds.

Patrick Loftus-Hills is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Loftus-Hills has 20 years of experience in the metals and mining field and was most recently based in Hong Kong as the Joint Head of the Asian Industrials Group and Head of Natural Resources at UBS where he worked for 11 years. He was previously responsible for Mining in the Americas at UBS while based in New York and worked in the mining team at UBS in Australia. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Loftus-Hills worked with Macquarie Bank and BHP Billiton. He has completed numerous cross border mergers and acquisitions globally and raised capital for companies on all of the major stock exchanges and in all the major markets around the world.

Mr. Loftus-Hills holds a B.Sc. and a Bachelor of Laws from Monash University Australia.

Michael Magliana is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Magliana was most recently an Executive Director in the European Financial Sponsor Group at JP Morgan in London. In this role, he was responsible for the company's Pan-European relationship with leading private equity firms which included identifying opportunities and directing, coordinating and leading investment banking transaction teams to deliver solutions across M&A and debt and equity products.

Mr. Magliana holds a B.A. in Marketing from Boston College and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Navid Mahmoodzadegan is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of Moelis & Company. Mr. Mahmoodzadegan was most recently the Global Head of Media Investment Banking at UBS and a member of the UBS Investment Banking Department Americas Executive Committee and previously an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Mahmoodzadegan's expertise is rooted in a deep understanding of the broadcasting, cable, publishing, entertainment, satellite and digital media sectors, significant experience working with financial sponsors and broad knowledge of all aspects of the capital structure. The New York Times recently included Mr. Mahmoodzadegan in the "Facebook of Wall Street's Future" and Dealmaker, a U.S. investment banking and private equity magazine, named Mr. Mahmoodzadegan to the "Top 40 Under 40" dealmakers in 2007 and the top "rainmaker" in the media sector in 2006.

Mr. Mahmoodzadegan holds an A.B. from the University of Michigan (Phi Beta Kappa) and a J.D. from Harvard Law School (magna cum laude).

Hervé Malausséna is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Malausséna has nearly 20 years of investment banking experience and was most recently a Managing Director and Head of EMEA Telecommunications Investment Banking at Citigroup in London. Mr. Malausséna worked at Citigroup and predecessors Salomon Smith Barney and Citicorp for 17 years and in his most recent role was the senior banker responsible for the origination and execution of investment banking transactions for some of the largest telecommunications clients in the EMEA region. Mr. Malausséna previously worked as Head of Latin America Telecommunications and Media Investment Banking at Citigroup in New York, where he worked with global and regional companies in the sector on structuring, managing and executing cross-border M&A transactions, as well as on advising on debt and equity capital markets issuance. Prior to that, he worked in the Leveraged Finance Group of Citigroup in London and also for Banque Indosuez in sales and trading in Paris and Tokyo.

Mr. Malausséna holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Institut Supérior de Gestion, Paris and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Steven Meehan is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Meehan has 25 years of investment banking experience and was most recently the CEO of UBS Russia and CIS across all businesses including securities, banking and wealth management. He was also a member of the UBS Group EMEA Management Committee. He was previously the Head of Life Sciences within the Global Healthcare Group in the New York office of UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Meehan was part of a team that formed the Healthcare Group at UBS in 1999. During his investment banking career he also held senior roles in M&A, leveraged finance and capital markets at Salomon Smith Barney, NatWest Securities and Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Mr. Meehan holds a B.S. in Business Administration/Finance from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Peter Meijer is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Meijer has over 16 years of fixed income trading and structuring experience. Prior to Moelis & Company, Mr. Meijer was at JP Morgan, where he focused on Structured Solutions for financial institutions. He was previously Global Head of the Franchise Structuring Group at JP Morgan, where he was responsible for origination, development and structuring of several market leading credit transactions and structured credit funds. Prior to JP Morgan, Mr. Meijer was a Director in the Citigroup Global Markets Structured Products Group, where he was responsible for coverage of Northern Europe. Mr. Meijer began his career in the Netherlands in 1995 at Credit Lyonnais and Rabobank where he was a bond trader and credit derivatives trader and structurer.

Mr. Meijer holds an M.Sc. in Econometrics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Managing Director, Chief Operating Officer, Australia

Sydney

David Miles is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Miles was most recently the Chief Operating Officer for the Investment Bank at JPMorgan in Australia. He was previously an Executive Manager at Commonwealth Bank following 12 years at JP MorganChase in various executive roles.

Mr. Miles holds a B(Comm) from the University of New South Wales and is a Fellow with the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Fellow with the Financial Services Institute of Australasia.

Michele Miyakawa is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Ms. Miyakawa most recently served as an Executive Director in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group at UBS Investment Bank. Prior to UBS, Ms. Miyakawa was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. In addition to investment banking, Ms. Miyakawa served as a Board Member of the Hollywood Hills West Council and as a Director at the Children's Bureau of Southern California Foundation.

Ms. Miyakawa holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Chief Executive Officer

Los Angeles

Ken Moelis is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Moelis & Company. With over 580 employees across eleven offices globally, the firm has advised on over $600 billion of transactions and has $3.9 billion of total asset management capital.

Prior to founding Moelis & Company, Mr. Moelis was President of UBS Investment Bank from 2005 to 2007. He joined UBS in 2001 and previously held positions including Joint Global Head of Investment Banking and Head of Americas Investment Banking. Prior to UBS, Mr. Moelis was Head of Corporate Finance at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette from 1996 through 2000. He was previously Co-Head of the firm’s Los Angeles office from 1990 through 1996 and began his investment banking career in 1981 at Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Mr. Moelis was recently named to the 50 Most Influential list by Bloomberg Markets. He is a member of the Board of the Tourette Syndrome Association, the Wharton Board of Overseers and the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Hospital. He holds an undergraduate degree and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

John Momtazee is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of Moelis & Company. Mr. Momtazee was most recently a Managing Director in the Global Media Group and the Head of Broadcasting Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank. While at UBS, he covered clients across several media sub-sectors, including diversified media, cable television, broadcast television, broadcast radio, digital media, entertainment, publishing and outdoor advertising. Mr. Momtazee has advised and financed many of the largest, most sophisticated media clients and worked extensively with leading financial sponsors. Mr. Momtazee was previously an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and then served as the Chief Financial Officer of The .TV Corporation. Mr. Momtazee was honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2009 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Momtazee and his family are active supporters of the Parish of St. Matthew, the Tourette Syndrome Association and the Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network. Mr. Momtazee holds an A.B. in Quantitative Economics and an M.S. in Engineering Economic Systems from Stanford University and an M.B.A. and J.D., both with honors, from the University of Chicago.

Charles Noel-Johnson is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Noel-Johnson has extensive investment banking experience advising corporates, creditors, private equity and sovereigns across Europe and the Middle East on numerous restructurings, debt refinancings and strategic advisory transactions. Mr. Noel-Johnson joined Moelis & Company in June 2009 from Close Brothers Corporate Finance where he spent eight years in the European Debt Advisory and Restructuring Group based in London. Prior to Close Brothers, he worked at JP Morgan Asset Management in London. Mr. Noel-Johnson was honored as Financial News' 2011 "40 Under 40 Rising Stars in investment banking".

Mr. Noel-Johnson holds an M.A. Honors in Politics from Edinburgh University and studied Political Science & International Relations at the University of California, San Diego. He is an Associate of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment and is registered with the Financial Services Authority.

Alex Oldroyd is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Ms. Oldroyd was most recently Managing Director and Pan-European Beverages Analyst at Barclays Capital. Prior to joining Barclays in 2009, Ms. Oldroyd worked for Morgan Stanley for 14 years, most recently as Managing Director and Pan-European Beverages Analyst. She began her career at Société Générale as an Equity Analyst covering UK beverage and leisure companies.

Ms. Oldroyd holds a B.Sc. with First Class Honours from University College, London.

Partner of Private Equity

New York

Stephan Oppenheimer is a Partner of Moelis Capital Partners and focuses on the business services and media sectors. Mr. Oppenheimer has extensive investment experience, having invested in numerous large and middle market leveraged buyouts and growth equity transactions across a broad range of industries in the United States and internationally and has served on the boards of directors of nine former portfolio companies.

Mr. Oppenheimer spent 10 years at CCMP Capital Advisors, LLC and its predecessor organizations, JP Morgan Partners and Chase Capital Partners, where he most recently focused on transactions in the services, media and telecom and industrial sectors. Previously, Mr. Oppenheimer worked as an investment banker in the Acquisition Finance Group of Chase Securities, Inc. and as a systems consultant with American Management Systems, Inc. and System Planning Corporation.

Mr. Oppenheimer holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an M.B.A. from The Darden School at the University of Virginia. He currently serves on the board of directors of CyberCore Technologies and MidCap Financial, LLC.

Richard Orders is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Orders has over 20 years of experience advising corporate clients across the Asia Pacific region and was most recently Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Pacific Advisers ("APA"). He was previously a Managing Director in the RBS/ABN AMRO group in Asia Pacific and before that was Vice Chairman and Head of Global Clients Asia Pacific for ABN AMRO, where he worked since 1996. Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Mr. Orders was a Managing Director and Head of Barings Investment Banking in Asia. He has also worked for Barings in other roles within corporate finance and debt capital markets based in Australia and London.

Mr. Orders holds a BA (Hons) degree from the University of Oxford.

Managing Director & Vice Chairman of Recapitalization & Restructuring Group

New York

Steve Panagos is a Managing Director and Vice Chairman of the Recapitalization & Restructuring Group at Moelis & Company. Mr. Panagos is a widely recognized turnaround expert and has a long and distinguished career of leading complex bankruptcies and reorganizations for both companies and their creditors across a broad spectrum of industries. To date, Mr. Panagos has restructured more than $70 billion worth of debt across more than 80 situations and has provided expert testimony regarding valuation and restructuring matters.

Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Panagos was the National Practice Leader of Kroll Zolfo Cooper's Corporate Advisory & Restructuring Practice. During his 20 year tenure at Kroll Zolfo Cooper, Mr. Panagos provided restructuring advice to numerous companies or their creditors. On several occasions he has taken certain management roles to lead the restructuring process from within. Examples include serving as Chief Operating Officer and President of Krispy Kreme, Interim Chief Executive Officer and Chief Restructuring Officer of Penn Traffic Supermarkets and Chief Restructuring Officer of Metromedia Fiber Networks, as well as several interim management positions at many other companies. Before joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Panagos was a Founder of Panagos Katz Situational Investing.

Mr. Panagos holds a B.S. from the University of Michigan. He is a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor, a former member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors and a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Brady Parish is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Parish has nearly 20 years of investment banking and business development experience predominantly focused on the oil and gas sector. He was most recently a Managing Director in the Global Natural Resources Group at Goldman Sachs in Houston where he helped lead the oil and gas investment banking effort and was a member of the Merger Leadership Group. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs in 2005, Mr. Parish was a Director in the Global Energy and Power Group at Merrill Lynch and previously worked in the Energy Investment Banking Group at JP Morgan.

Mr. Parish holds a B.B.A. from Texas A&M University and an M.B.A. from the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Landon Parsons is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company. Mr. Parsons has nearly 25 years of structured credit experience as an analyst, investor and advisor. Previously, Mr. Parsons was a member of the Mortgage Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs. He joined Goldman in 2008 after seven years at C-BASS, an affiliate of Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corporation and Radian, where he was a Managing Director responsible for investing and managing structured products in non-agency and subprime RMBS, CMBS and ABS. Mr. Parsons also served as Managing Director and Co-Head of Structured Finance for CGA Investment Management and as a Senior Business Development Manager at Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. Prior to this, he held positions at Credit Lyonnais, Capital Markets Assurance Corporation and Citicorp.

Mr. Parsons holds a B.A. from the University of Northern Iowa and an M.S. from Krannert Graduate School of Management at Purdue University.

Dom Petrosino is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Petrosino has extensive capital markets and investment banking experience and was most recently Head of Leveraged Finance Capital Markets at Bear Stearns. While at Bear Stearns, he managed a leading business focused on providing capital structure solutions, including underwriting, structuring and executing leveraged loans, high yield notes and mezzanine financings. In this role, Mr. Petrosino advised clients across a broad range of industries on leveraged buyouts, acquisition financings, recapitalizations and other capital structure matters. Prior to Bear Stearns, Mr. Petrosino was a Vice President of High Yield Corporate Finance at Chase Securities and previously a Vice President in Chase's Global Mining & Metals Group.

Mr. Petrosino holds a B.S. from New York University and an M.B.A. from Baruch College.

Gregg Polle is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Polle has over 25 years of investment banking experience, having previously served as Co-Head of the Global Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Head of the Industrials Group and a member of the Investment Banking Operating Committee at Citigroup. Mr. Polle worked at Citigroup and its predecessors Salomon Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney between 1983 and 2008.

Mr. Polle holds a B.S. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The Spence School.

Matthew Prest is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Prest was most recently Managing Director at Close Brothers in London. He has advised clients across a broad range of industries on leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and other capital structure matters. Mr. Prest joined Close Brothers from M&G Investment Management Limited where he was a Director in the Fixed Income team. Prior to that, he spent eight years at KPMG in London which included significant assignments in both Asia and the Middle East as well as Europe.

Mr. Prest holds a B.A. in History from the University of Warwick.

Managing Director & Head of Investment Banking for Australia

Sydney

Andrew Pridham is a Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking for Australia at Moelis & Company. Mr. Pridham has over 20 years of experience in investment banking and was most recently Executive Chairman of Investment Banking at JP Morgan Australia, where he completed many major M&A, equity raising and other advisory transactions and played a leading role in the significant growth of JP Morgan's Australian business. Prior to his six year tenure at JP Morgan, Mr. Pridham spent 12 years at UBS where he held senior roles including Global Head of Real Estate Investment Banking and Head of Investment Banking for Australasia. He was also a member of the UBS Global Investment Banking Management Committee.

Mr. Pridham holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (PRM) from the University of South Australia.

Al Puchala is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Puchala has nearly 30 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Signal Equity Partners. He previously held investment banking roles at Lazard Frères and Morgan Stanley. Mr. Puchala has deep TMT experience and brings tremendous relationships within the public sector.

Mr. Puchala holds a B.A. cum laude from Yale University, a J.D. from Georgetown University, an M.A. in Economics from New York University and is a published author.

Jeff Raich is a Managing Director and Founding Partner of Moelis & Company. Mr. Raich has been in the investment banking industry for 21 years and has advised on over 150 M&A transactions across a broad spectrum of industries. His clients have included public and private companies, private equity firms and hedge funds. Most recently Mr. Raich was the Joint Global Head of Mergers and Acquisitions at UBS Investment Bank. He joined UBS in 2001 and founded UBS's Exclusive Sales and Divestitures Group in 2002. Mr. Raich was a member of the UBS Investment Bank Board, the UBS Global Management Committee and the Investment Banking Department Americas Executive Committee and was Co-Head of Investment Banking Los Angeles. He also served as the Chairman of UBS's Business Review Group in the Americas. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Raich was a Managing Director and Head of West Coast Mergers and Acquisitions at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He began his career as an investment banker with PaineWebber.

Mr. Raich holds a B.S. with Distinction in Commerce from The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia (Beta Gamma Sigma). He is a member of the McIntire School of Commerce Advisory Board at the University of Virginia.

Benoit Renon is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Renon was most recently a Managing Director and Head of European Consumer Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley in London. At Morgan Stanley, Mr. Renon was responsible for industry coverage of consumer clients including food, beverage, tobacco and home and personal care companies across Europe, working on varied advisory and capital markets transactions. From 2001 to 2006 he was with Morgan Stanley in Paris, where he was a member of the French investment banking team advising key French clients across a wide variety of sectors. Prior to that, he was at Lazard Frères in Paris as a member of their French investment banking team for eight years.

After graduating from the ESSEC Business School and prior to joining Lazard, Mr. Renon spent two years as a bridge officer in the French Navy.

Sash Rentala is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Rentala has over 13 years of investment banking experience, most recently as an Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Rentala has advised clients on a variety of leveraged finance and restructuring transactions including bank and bond new money issuances, exchange offers, consent solicitations, lender negotiations and amendments. During his tenure at UBS, Mr. Rentala focused on the industrials sector including transactions in the chemicals, auto and metals and mining sectors. Mr. Rentala was previously a Vice President in Investment Banking at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He also served as a Lieutenant in the United States Navy.

Mr. Rentala holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Chris Riley is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Riley has over 18 years of investment banking and consulting experience and was recently a Managing Director at Greenhill & Co. He has extensive experience working on a broad range of strategic projects and cross-border M&A transactions for leading industrial, chemical, healthcare and private equity companies in German-speaking markets and internationally. Mr. Riley also previously worked at Goldman Sachs.

Mr. Riley holds a B.Sc. in International Business from Aston University and an M.A. in European Politics and Administration from the Collège d’Europe.

Anthony Rokovich is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr.Rokovich was most recently a Managing Director in the Real Estate, Lodging & Leisure Group at UBS working on strategic and financing transactions in the mall, strip mall, outlet, multifamily and healthcare sectors. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch in Real Estate Investment Banking.

Mr. Rokovich holds a B.A. from the University of Vermont and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Yadin Rozov is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Rozov has extensive fixed income trading, structuring and risk management experience, most recently as a Managing Director and the Americas Head of the Repositioning Group at UBS Investment Bank. In this role, Mr. Rozov was instrumental in the implementation of the strategic exiting of legacy businesses and risk positions across the bank, including complex structured and securitized products with underlying credit, real estate and consumer obligations. Prior to the Repositioning Group, Mr. Rozov was Global Co-Head of the Structured Products Group at UBS. Mr. Rozov was previously a Credit Derivatives Trader at Citigroup Global Markets.

Mr. Rozov holds a B.A. in Physics from Rutgers University and did graduate work in Mathematics in Finance at New York University.

Alex Rubin is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Rubin has 20 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Managing Director in the Global Real Estate Investment Banking Group at Citigroup. In this role, Mr. Rubin advised public and private real estate clients such as REITs, real estate finance companies and private equity investment firms on a wide range of corporate finance transactions including mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings and recapitalizations. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Rubin was a Managing Director and Co-Head of European Real Estate Investment Banking at UBS Investment Bank based in London as well as a Managing Director at Merrill Lynch in New York.

Mr. Rubin holds a B.A. degree from Cornell University where he currently serves on the College of Arts & Sciences Advisory Council.

Chris Ryan is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Ryan has nearly 30 years of investment banking and fixed income experience, including trading, structuring, capital markets, research, sales and risk management as well as extensive experience building and managing fixed income businesses around the world. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Ryan spent nine years at UBS Investment Bank, where he was Global Head of Credit Fixed Income and Regional Head of Fixed Income, Commodities and Currencies for the Americas. Prior to UBS, Mr. Ryan was Global Head of Syndicated Loans at Lehman Brothers, which he joined in 1992. He was the sole founder of the firm's loan business. Mr. Ryan began his career at Salomon Brothers.

Mr. Ryan graduated magna cum laude with an A.B. in Mathematics and Economics from Duke University.

Nick Saggese is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company. Mr. Saggese joins Moelis & Company following a more than 25-year career with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where he most recently was a Partner and served as the Co-Head of the firm's Private Equity practice. In this role, he represented clients in connection with a variety of corporate transactions, including private equity, mergers and acquisitions, recapitalizations, securities offerings and corporate restructurings. Mr. Saggese is a co-author of one of the leading handbooks regarding corporate restructurings. He has also been recognized as a top lawyer in each of capital markets, mergers and acquisitions and private equity in a number of legal and business journals and was recently named one of the Top 100 Lawyers in California by the Daily Journal.

Mr. Saggese holds a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles, an M.B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. He is a Member of the Board of Visitors of the University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Economics, a Member of the Board of Advisors of Los Angeles Regional Foodbank and a Member of the Board of Overseers of Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

Anton Sahazizian is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Sahazizian has extensive experience advising clients on mergers & acquisitions and was most recently a Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at UBS Investment Bank in New York. Mr. Sahazizian worked at UBS for nearly 10 years, and in his most recent role was the senior banker responsible for the origination and execution of M&A transactions for some of the largest global industrials companies in the chemicals, capital goods, paper, packaging, forest products and energy sectors. He advised on numerous high-profile strategic M&A transactions within the sector and was responsible for related coverage of corporate clients as well as private equity firms. Mr. Sahazizian started his investment banking career in the Los Angeles office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and was one of the founders of UBS' Los Angeles office and their Exclusive Sales and Divestitures Group. Previously, he was a securities lawyer in Toronto, Canada, with McMillan Binch and Goodman and Carr.

Mr. Sahazizian holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario. He also graduated from Queen's University Law School in Kingston, Ontario and holds an M.B.A. from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Augusto Sasso is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Moelis & Company. Mr. Sasso has extensive diversified investment banking and real estate experience with Moelis & Company, Credit Suisse First Boston, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and Preservation Partners Development mainly focused on the Real Estate and Lodging, Gaming and Leisure industries. Previously, Mr. Sasso held various corporate finance and business development positions with Raytheon Company and Hughes Electronics. Mr. Sasso joined Moelis & Company in July 2007 and has advised on a broad range of restructurings, mergers and acquisitions, joint venture partnerships and equity and debt financings and was honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2009 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Sasso holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated first in his class magna cum laude with an M.B.A. from the University of Arizona.

Kent Savagian is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Savagian has 22 years of investment banking experience, most recently as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking Division at Credit Suisse. Previously, Mr. Savagian was the Group Head of the Los Angeles office, a Managing Director in Media & Telecom Group and a member of the America's Management Committee at Credit Suisse. He worked at Credit Suisse since 1996 when it was Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Savagian holds a B.S. from Brigham Young University and an M.B.A. from the Anderson Graduate School of Management at UCLA.

Kevin Scheetz is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Scheetz has extensive investment banking experience and has spent the majority of his career focusing on the technology industry with a particular expertise in hardware, communications, semiconductors and electronics. Most recently Mr. Scheetz was Head of the Semiconductors, Electronics and Hardware Investment Banking franchise at Merrill Lynch. In this role, he advised public and private companies and venture capital investors on a wide range of corporate finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, initial public offerings and other debt and equity financings. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Scheetz was an investment banker covering technology clients focused on the communications and hardware sectors at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Scheetz holds a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Frank Sellman is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Sellman has extensive investment banking experience and specializes in advising companies in the building and construction materials industry on a wide variety of corporate finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, financial restructurings, and public and private equity and debt financings. Prior to joining Moelis & Company in 2008, Mr. Sellman was a Managing Director at Bear Stearns, where he ran the firm's Exclusive Sales and Divestitures Group. Mr. Sellman was previously at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and began his career at the Bank of Boston.

Mr. Sellman holds a B.A. in History from Boston University.

Michael Senft is a Senior Advisor at Moelis & Company. Mr. Senft has over 25 years of investment banking experience, most recently as Managing Director and Head of Leveraged Finance Capital Markets & Head of High Yield at CIBC World Markets where he advised companies from a broad range of industries including resources, consumer, healthcare, chemicals, services and manufacturing. Prior to this, Mr. Senft was a Managing Director in Leveraged Finance and Senior Origination Officer at Merrill Lynch where he worked for 19 years and previously held roles including Head of U.S. Financial Sponsors Leveraged Finance, Head of European Leveraged Finance Origination and Co-head of Leveraged Finance.

Mr. Senft holds a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Greg Shaia is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Shaia has 22 years of investment banking and private equity experience, most recently as a Senior Managing Director and the Head of Retail and Apparel Investment Banking at Bear Stearns. While at Bear Stearns, Mr. Shaia built a leading franchise advising retail and consumer companies on a wide variety of corporate finance transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts and debt financings. Prior to joining Bear Stearns in 2004, Mr. Shaia was a Managing Director and ran Soft-Lines and Broad-Lines Retail and Apparel Investment Banking at Citigroup and was previously a Principal in the Consumer and Retail Investment Banking Group at Deutsche Banc Alex Brown.

Mr. Shaia holds a B.A. in Literature from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Columbia Business School.

Partner of Private Equity

New York

Greg Share is a Partner of Moelis Capital Partners and focuses on the financial services and telecom sectors. Mr. Share has 13 years of private equity investment experience in the United States and Europe having made a number of growth equity, leveraged buyout and restructuring investments.

Mr. Share was previously a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group, where he most recently focused on financial services and insurance investments. At Fortress, Mr. Share was involved in all aspects of the private equity investment process including sourcing new opportunities, acquisition structuring and working closely with portfolio company management teams. Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Share was a Vice President at Madison Dearborn Partners where he specialized in private equity investing in the media and communications sectors. Mr. Share began his career at Lazard Frères & Company.

Mr. Share graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. He currently serves on the board of directors of Kinsale Capital Group and Opportunity Bank.

Peijie Shiu is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Shiu has over a decade of investment banking experience across various platforms, including risk advisory, sales & trading and proprietary trading. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Shiu was a Quantitative Analyst and Executive Director at UBS Investment Bank. In this role he provided pricing, structuring and risk valuation services on fixed income products covering credit derivatives, structured finance, interest rates and corporate markets.

Mr. Shiu holds a MEng in Financial Engineering Option, Operation Research and Industrial Engineering from the College of Engineering at Cornell University.

Andrew Shore is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Shore has 21 years of investment banking and research experience, most recently as a Managing Director in the Global Consumer Products Group at JP Morgan. While at JP Morgan, Mr. Shore built a leading franchise advising clients in the global household and personal care industries on mergers and acquisitions, debt and equity financings and a broad range of financial advisory services. Prior to joining JP Morgan, Mr. Shore was a Managing Director in Deutsche Bank's Consumer Products and Retail Group and previously the Head of Deutsche Bank's Global Consumer Products Strategy, which included analysis and portfolio construction of food, beverage, tobacco and household products stocks. While an equity research analyst, he was a highly ranked member of the Institutional Investor's All-American Research Team for 17 years. Before Deutsche Bank, Mr. Shore was a Managing Director at both Paine Webber and Prudential Securities and began his career at Shearson Lehman Brothers.

Mr. Shore holds a B.B.A. in Finance from the George Washington University.

Caroline Silver is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Ms. Silver has been in the investment banking industry for over 23 years and was most recently Vice Chairman of EMEA Investment Banking at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Prior to this, she spent 14 years at Morgan Stanley, where she was Global Vice Chairman of Investment Banking and previously held a number of senior positions including European Head of Financial Institutions and Head of Restructuring. Ms. Silver also worked in M&A and corporate finance at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell for seven years and started her career as a Chartered Accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Ms. Silver holds a B.A. in English with Spanish from Durham University.

Managing Director & Chief Financial Officer

New York

Joe Simon is a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Moelis & Company. Mr. Simon has over 25 years of experience as a senior manager of financial controls, operations and strategy and has particular experience with financial services firms, most recently serving as CFO of Financial Security Assurance for seven years. While at Financial Security Assurance, Mr. Simon re-engineered the treasury and accounting areas to enhance the firm's financial planning and analysis, allocation of capital and transparency of financial reporting. In addition, he led several financing transactions for the firm.

Prior to Financial Security Assurance, Mr. Simon worked at Cantor Fitzgerald where he served as CFO, Global Controller and Global Head of Operations. During his time at Cantor Fitzgerald, he managed a global accounting and operations team and established the firm's treasury function. Before joining Cantor Fitzgerald in 1993, Mr. Simon was a Principal and Vice President of Fixed Income Product Control at Morgan Stanley. Mr. Simon has also served as CFO of IntraLinks and TENTV.com. He began his career at Price Waterhouse.

Mr. Simon holds a B.S. from Cornell University and an M.B.A. from The University of Michigan. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

John Sipp is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Sipp has over 23 years of investment banking experience and was most recently a Managing Director and Head of the Insurance Investment Banking Group for the Americas at Credit Suisse. Mr. Sipp joined Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in 1998 as a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group. Following the firm's acquisition by Credit Suisse in 2000 he led the group responsible for coverage of the insurance industry and worked closely with senior executives of insurance companies in the United States, Europe and Asia on strategic and financial matters including capital raising, risk management, mergers and acquisitions and financings. He began his career at Goldman Sachs where he was a member of its Financial Institutions Group for 11 years.

Mr. Sipp holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Managing Director & Head of Equities for Australia

Sydney

John Steinthal is a Managing Director and Head of Equities for Australia at Moelis & Company. Mr. Steinthal has over 20 years of experience in equities and was most recently a co-founder and principal of Edward Baillie Capital where he created and managed a successful suite of unlisted alternative investment products. Mr. Steinthal previously spent 14 years at UBS, where he was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Australasian Equities. Under Mr. Steinthal's leadership, UBS was consistently a top-ranked equities franchise in Australia and attained a record market share for Australian equities trading.

Mr. Steinthal holds a Bachelor of Business (Distinction) from Victoria University of Technology.

John Thorndike is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Thorndike has over 40 years of investment banking experience and was most recently Managing Director and Senior Advisor at Credit Suisse. Previously, Mr. Thorndike worked for Merrill Lynch from 1984-2007 and with Morgan Stanley from 1971-1984. He has originated a number of marquee deals during his career for companies in the Utility sector.

Mr. Thorndike holds a B.A. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. He also attended Cambridge University.

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Managing Director

Dubai

Yorick van Slingelandt is a Managing Director and Co-Head of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) at Moelis & Company. Mr. van Slingelandt spent 15 years at JP Morgan in London, Hong Kong and Dubai, most recently as Head of Corporate Finance for Middle East & North Africa and prior to that as Head of Transport and Infrastructure in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He has extensive experience in M&A and capital markets transactions and has advised clients across a variety of industries including telecommunications, aerospace, transport and industrials.

Mr. van Slingelandt holds an engineering and business degree (Ingénieur Commercial et de Gestion) from Université Catholique de Louvain and a Masters in Management from the Community of European Management Schools.

Ken Viellieu is a Managing Director and Head of the Chicago Office of Moelis & Company. Mr. Viellieu has been in the investment banking industry for almost 25 years, most recently as a Senior Managing Director and Head of Midwest Investment Banking at Bear Stearns and previously as a Managing Director and Head of the Chicago Office of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and an investment banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Over the course of his career, he has advised clients in a broad range of industries on the full spectrum of corporate finance matters, including mergers and acquisitions, leveraged finance transactions, public and private equity offerings and corporate restructurings. In particular, he has worked closely with clients in the retail and consumer, food and drug retailing, industrial and transportation, financial services, healthcare and media sectors.

Mr. Viellieu holds a B.S. in Accounting from Indiana University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Viellieu is a member of the Children's Memorial Hospital Foundation Board and a Director and Patron of the Big Shoulders Fund. He is also a member of the Advisory Board for the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Board of Trustees for North Shore Country Day School.

Craig Wadler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Wadler has 15 years of investment banking experience and was most recently a Managing Director at Credit Suisse where he was a founding member of the Hedge Fund Advisory business which focused on working with portfolio companies and investments of hedge fund clients. Previously, Mr. Wadler worked at UBS Investment Bank where he founded a Hedge Fund coverage business in 2005. Prior to joining UBS Investment Bank, Mr. Wadler worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Mr. Wadler holds a B.S. from Indiana University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Todd Wadler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Prior to the founding of Moelis & Company, Mr. Wadler was a Managing Director in the UBS Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group and previously was an investment banker at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Wadler has originated and executed on numerous restructuring and other leveraged finance transactions, including bank amendments and in-court and out-of-court restructurings as well as new capital raisings through the issuance of bank, high yield and mezzanine financings in connection with leveraged buyouts and recapitalizations. In addition, Mr. Wadler has also originated and executed on a number of M&A and equity transactions throughout his career, with extensive experience in exclusive sale transactions. Over the course of his career, Mr. Wadler has advised many leading financial sponsors and public and private companies. Mr. Wadler was recently honored as Investment Dealers' Digest's 2010 "40 Under 40."

Mr. Wadler holds a B.S. in Finance with Distinction from Indiana University.

Osamu Watanabe is General Counsel at Moelis & Company. He was previously General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Sagent Advisors and prior to that held senior positions at UBS, Credit Suisse First Boston and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, including General Counsel to GRP Partners, a venture capital fund affiliated with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Mr. Watanabe was in private practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Melbourne from 1987 to 1997 and clerked for the Honorable Morey L. Sear, Eastern District of Louisiana.

Mr. Watanabe holds a B.A. from Antioch College and a J.D. from Yale Law School, class of 1985.

Brian Webber is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Webber joined UBS Investment Bank in 2001 and was most recently Managing Director and Global Head of Technology Investment Banking. Prior to joining UBS he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and was the Head of Business and Technology Services Investment Banking. Mr. Webber previously worked in technology product development at Ford Motor Company.

Mr. Webber is active in the community and is an Advisory Board member of the Vision Center at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Mr. Webber holds a B.A. from the University of Utah and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Evan Winkler is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Winkler has extensive experience advising management teams and corporate directors on critical strategic transactions in the technology, media and telecommunications sectors as well as in retail, consumer products and manufacturing. Mr. Winkler was most recently a Managing Director and Co-Head of TMT Mergers & Acquisitions and previously Head of Technology Mergers & Acquisitions at UBS Investment Bank. He joined UBS in 2003 from Credit Suisse First Boston where he specialized in TMT Mergers & Acquisitions.

Mr. Winkler graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago.

Roger Wood is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Wood has 25 years of investment banking experience, during which time he advised some of the largest global power and infrastructure companies on critical strategic transactions both in the United States and internationally. Mr. Wood was most recently Head of North American Utilities and Infrastructure and Global Co-Head of both Utilities and Infrastructure at Rothschild. Prior to joining Rothschild in 2005, Mr. Wood was a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Citigroup and previously worked in Energy Investment Banking at JP Morgan in New York and London. Mr. Wood began his career as a member of JP Morgan's Mergers and Acquisitions Group in London.

Mr. Wood holds a B.A. in Modern History from University College, Oxford.

Chris Wyke is a Managing Director at Moelis & Company. Mr. Wyke has extensive restructuring, M&A and equity and debt capital markets experience. Prior to joining Moelis & Company, Mr. Wyke worked in investment banking for JPMorgan and UBS in London, Singapore and Sydney where he originated and executed a wide range of domestic and international transactions.

Mr. Wyke holds a Bachelor of Economics with Honours from University College London.

Managing Partner of Private Equity

New York

Ted Yun is a Managing Partner of Moelis Capital Partners and focuses on the healthcare, consumer/retail and business services sectors. Mr. Yun has 20 years of investment experience and expertise in building and managing private equity firms and has served on the boards of directors of 15 former portfolio companies.

Mr. Yun spent 11 years at J.W. Childs, where he was a Partner and Chairman of the Investment Committee. After his time at J.W. Childs, he was a founder and Managing Partner of West Hill Partners, a private equity firm focused on middle market growth company buyouts. Previously, Mr. Yun worked at DLJ Merchant Banking, The Blackstone Group and Drexel Burnham Lambert.

Mr. Yun holds a B.S. of Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School of Business and a B.A.S. with a concentration in Computer Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science at the University of Pennsylvania and holds an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He currently serves on the board of directors of WIN Holdings, Inc. and Napa Management Services Corp.

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