Mark Robbins
Chairman

Mr. Robbins is the founder and Chairman of American Institutional Partners, LLC. Previously, he served as co-founder and managing partner of Peninsula Advisors, an Investment Company specializing in structured finance and private equity. Mr. Robbins has managed and originated over $1.2 billion in private placements. Mr. Robbins served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Madtrax Group where he originated and managed over $900 million in private placements. Mr. Robbins has developed and engineered structured investments, business valuations models and diversified financial products. He is recognized for planning and implementing innovative business strategies, and specializing in building small cap companies. Mr. Robbins has served as Investment Director and Lead Negotiator on M&A deals with several leading financial institutions.

In 2000, Mr. Robbins was awarded top honors at the 2000 Utah State Business award for young entrepreneurs of Utah.

Steve Norris
Board of Director / Chairman of the Investment Committee

Steve Norris was one of the co-founders of The Carlyle Group in Washington D.C. serving as President of its management company from inception in 1987 to 1996. He will be Chairman of Company's Investment Committee and will review all investments as well as providing advice on investment policy, potential investments and exit strategies from investments.

Mr. Norris was involved in the decision-making process in essentially every major Carlyle investment decision from its beginning as a $105 million fund that made investments of more than four times that amount through extensive use of co-investors and strategic partners. Those investments yielded an annual return on investment in excess of 40%. He also served on the boards of directors of major Carlyle portfolio companies. He was actively involved in recruiting all of Carlyle's current senior partners and played a major role in recruiting President George W. Bush to serve as a director of one of its portfolio companies and in enlisting former Secretary of State James Baker III and former Secretary of Defense Frank C. Carlucci to be senior partners of Carlyle.

Mr. Norris acted as a principal financial advisor to Prince Al- Waleed bin Talal Al Saud of Kingdom Holding Company, in structuring and negotiating the re-capitalization of Citibank, which returned over $15 billion in profits on about $590 million of equity invested. He also advised or played a key role in other Kingdom Holding Company investments. He was appointed by former president George H.W. Bush and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as one of five governing members of the $100 billion Federal Retirement System Thrift Investment Board.

Since 1997, Mr. Norris, and certain members of his team, have worked on a number of investments including real estate investments in Europe and the United States. They were involved in amongst others the privatization of Thompson CSF, the re capitalization of Suez, the acquisition of portions of Credit Foncier's real estate portfolio in Paris by the German firm of IVG, the formation of Nomura's (London) bid for Dutch mortgage bank, the offer by a major of Saudia Arabian investment firm for Lamborgini in Italy, and the formation of a bid by Leucadia International's for the Labouchere Bank in Holland. He also negotiated and structured investments in Synxis Corporation, which was backed by George Soros and Mr. Norris, and MARC Global Holdings.

Mr. Norris served as a law clerk on the U.S. Tax Court and earned a B.S. and J.D. from the University of Alabama, was fellow at Yale Law School and earned a L.L.M in Taxation from New York University.

Robert Kasten
Member of Investment Committee

Mr. Kasten is the President of Kasten & Company, an international banking and business consulting group.   Mr. Kasten was previously a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin from 1981 to 1993, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 to 1978 and a member of the Wisconsin State Senate from 1972 to 1974.   Mr. Kasten was a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, a member of the Defense Subcommittee, and Chairman of the Foreign Operations Subcommittee which has funding and oversight responsibility for all U.S. assistance programs, the Export-Import Bank, the World Bank, the multilateral development banks, and the Eastern European Development Bank. He also served on the Senate budget committee and was the ranking member on the Surface Transportation Subcommittee of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee.

He is also a consultant for the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution, a trustee for the American University in Cairo, a member of the Bretton Woods Committee which provides advice to multilateral institutions such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.  Mr. Kasten has served as the Chairman and Director of the Emerging Markets Group which managed the Democratic Century Fund, LLP, a hedge fund investing in emerging market securities that focuses on country selection.

Mr. Kasten holds a B.A. in English from the University of Arizona and an MBA in Finance from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business.

Gregory J. Young
Board of Director

Gregory J. Young is a member of the Board of Directors

Mr. Young has an extensive and diverse background in the financial services arena. His strengths include risk management, product development, quantitative modeling & research as it relates to fixed income, emerging markets, equities, derivatives & structured products, et al. Mr. Young’s professional experience includes: SVP Washington Mutual - Corporate Risk Management; VP AIG Financial Product Corp - New Product Development and Hedging Strategies; VP Aetna Inc -- Head of Investment Risk Management; VP Banco Santander - New Product Development and Financial Modeling/Analytics

Mr. Young earned his MBA from the University of Chicago and a Sc.B, Applied Mathematics from Brown University. Mr. Young’s professional designations have included Chartered Financial Analyst and a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries.