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Jefferies Capital Partners
520 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10022
(212) 284-1700


Brian P. Friedman
Mr. Friedman is President of Jefferies Capital Partners and Chairman of the Executive Committee of Jefferies & Company, Inc. Mr. Friedman founded Jefferies Capital Partners, formerly known as ING Furman Selz Investments, in 1994. Mr. Friedman had joined Furman Selz LLC's Investment Banking Division at its inception in 1984 and was Head of the Division from 1987 through 1994. Mr. Friedman served as a member of Furman Selz LLC's Board of Directors, and Management and Operating Committees. Mr. Friedman previously was an attorney with Watchtell, Lipton, Rosen and Katz. Mr. Friedman received both a B.S. in Economics summa cum laude and an M.S. in Accounting from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law. Mr. Friedman is a C.P.A. and a member of the bar of the State of New York.

James L. Luikart
Mr. Luikart is Executive Vice President of Jefferies Capital Partners. Mr. Luikart joined Jefferies Capital Partners in 1994 after spending over twenty years with Citicorp, the last seven years of which were as Vice President of Citicorp Venture Capital, Ltd. Mr. Luikart received a B.A. in History magna cum laude from Yale University and an M.I.A. from Columbia University.

Roy L. Furman
Mr. Furman is Vice Chairman of Jefferies & Company, Inc. and Chairman of Jefferies Capital Partners. In 1973, Mr. Furman co-founded Furman Selz LLC, an international investment banking, institutional brokerage and money-management firm, which was acquired by ING Groep N.V. in 1997. He served as President of Furman Selz until 1997. He then served as Vice Chairman of ING Barings. Mr. Furman received a B.A. from Brooklyn College and an L.L.B. from Harvard Law School.

Vincent J. Cebula
Mr. Cebula is a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners. He joined Jefferies Capital Partners in 2007 after spending over twelveyears with Oaktree Capital Management where he was a Managing Director in the Principal Opportunities group of  funds  that  exceeded $6  billion in committed capital. Prior to that, he was an executive of a publicly traded  company for four years and a banker at Drexel Burnham Lambert for four years. Mr. Cebula received a B.S. Economics summa cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Nicholas Daraviras
Mr. Daraviras is a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 1996, Mr. Daraviras was an equity research analyst focusing on small capitalization emerging growth stocks, most recently for Oppenheimer & Co. Mr. Daraviras graduated as a Wharton Scholar and received his B.S. and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

James J. Dowling
Mr. Dowling is a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 2002, Mr. Dowling was a senior securities research analyst specializing in the transportation industry, portfolio manager and investment banker with Furman Selz LLC and its successors for over eighteen years. Mr. Dowling was previously a securities research analyst for 15 years with Shearson and its predecessors. Mr. Dowling received his B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Stuart B. Katz
Mr. Katz is a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 2001, Mr. Katz was an investment banker with Furman Selz LLC and its successors for over sixteen years. Mr. Katz was previously an attorney with the law firm of O'Melveny & Myers. Mr. Katz received a B.S. in engineering from Cornell University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School. Mr. Katz is a member of the bar of the State of New York.

Seth Eliot Wilson
Mr. Wilson is a Managing Director of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 1994, Mr. Wilson was employed in Furman Selz LLC's Investment Banking Division. Mr. Wilson received an A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Mindy Luxenberg-Grant, C.P.A.
Ms. Luxenberg is the Chief Financial Officer of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 1997, Ms. Luxenberg-Grant was a Manager with Coopers and Lybrand. She had six years of business assurance and tax experience with Coopers and Lybrand, specializing in the Entrepreneurial Advisory Services group, and serviced exclusively venture capital and private investment fund clients. Ms. Luxenberg-Grant also spent two years as the CFO of a venture capital company which invested in small-to-medium-sized companies located in the former Soviet Union. Ms. Luxenberg-Grant received a B.S. in Accounting cum laude from the School of Management of Syracuse University.

Kevin M. Kilcullen, Vice President
Mr. Kilcullen is a Vice President of Jefferies Capital Partners. Prior to joining Jefferies Capital Partners in 2001, Mr. Kilcullen worked in the Retail, Leisure and Consumer Products Group of ING Barings Furman Selz's Investment Banking Division. Mr. Kilcullen received his A.B. cum laude from Harvard University and an M.B.A. from the Columbia Business School.

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