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LLC, Denali Advisors LLC, and Convergence Investment Partners LLC. Previously, Mel was Director of Institutional Investments, North America at Investec Asset Management. Prior to joining Investec, Mel was Managing Director of Global Distribution at Artio Global Investors/Julius Baer Investment Management (JBIM). During his tenure at JBIM, assets under management grew from $800 million to a peak of $78 billion, ultimately resulting in an IPO and NYSE listing in 2009. He was also Managing Director and portfolio manager on the value equity team at Wells Capital Management and a Vice President at Shearson Lehman Brothers. Mel holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation and received his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Mel also attended IMD, Global Leadership Program in Lausanne, Switzerland. He is a member of the Los Angeles Society of Financial Analysts. Mel Lindsey serves on the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee for the California Community Foundation, UCLA Anderson School of Management Board of Advisors, and the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee of the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles.

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Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Artio Global Investors/JBIM. From 1990 to 1995, he was Head of Global Fixed Income at Bankers Trust Company. From 1988 to 1990, Richard was Head of Corporate Bonds and Mortgage Backed Securities at Mitchell Hutchins. Richard is on the Board of Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison, a prison education charity. Richard received his BA in History from University of California, Berkeley and his MBA in Finance from New York University.

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has over 30 years of experience investing, lending and structuring transactions for middle market companies including senior debt, mezzanine debt, equity and equity-like financings aggregating in more than $22 billion in deal volume. Henry served as a Managing Director at Vintage Fund Management and a Principal at William E. Simon & Sons, where he was responsible for all aspects of the private equity investment activities and served as the Chairman of the Board, led the business review operating committees as well as head of Nominating, Audit, Compensation and Special Committees for multiple companies. Henry also served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Leeward Islands Lottery Holding Company and was the architect of the firm’s successful sale to a strategic acquirer. Henry graduated with a BA in Economics from Stanford University and received his MBA in Finance/Strategy/Accounting from UCLA Anderson School of Management. He serves on, or has previously served on, several not for profit Boards including Stanford Haas Center Board and The Riordan Program at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. Henry has been a featured speaker at Stanford University, Harvard Business School and UCLA Anderson School of Management. He participated on two NCAA national champion tennis teams while at Stanford.

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management industry. Prior to joining Nile, she spent a year and a half with Investec Asset Management, where she was a manager on the North American Institutional distribution team and responsible for landing key accounts in the western region. From 2001 to 2012, Hien was an Associate Director of Institutional Investments at Artio Global Investors/JBIM, where she assisted in raising $25 billion in assets. From 1997 to 2001, she was with Prime Performance, as a senior account manager. She started her career with Great West Life & Annuity as a marketing associate. Hien received her BA in International Business & Marketing from University of Colorado.

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management industry. He was most recently the Executive Director, Risk Management at Indus Capital, a long/short equity fund. Previously, he was the Head of Risk Management at Artio Global Investors/JBIM, which he joined in 2004. Before joining Artio, Prasad was a Senior Vice President for Quantitative Analysis and Risk Management at Jennison Associates. His professional experience also includes three years as a Managing Director for Quantitative Analysis and Risk Management at Prudential Investments; three years as Director of Risk Management for Nomura Securities International; and, a year as a Senior Associate at Smith Breeden Associates. Before joining Smith Breeden. Prasad was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Indiana University in Bloomington. Prasad received his Doctorate in Business Administration from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science in Statistics and Operations Research from Bowling Green University and a Bachelor of Statistics in Mathematics and Statistics from Indian Statistical Institute.

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Development at Causeway Capital. Previously, she was a Director of Emerging Market Credit Sales at Standard Chartered and a Vice President of Credit Sales at Credit Suisse. Stephanie began her career at Merrill Lynch in the Financial Institutions Group. She received her B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, her MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, is a CFA charterholder and a CAIA charterholder.

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engineering roles, he has gained full-stack experience building innovative data-driven processes. Prasant received his B.S in Game Design and Development from Rochester Institute of Technology and his M.S in Analytics from The University of The Pacific.

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organizational development. Her client list includes [several Fortune 500 companies]. Most recently, Tracy led the Los Angeles Consumer industry practice at Russell Reynolds Associates, where she handled senior-level management and board searches and led broad scale executive assessment initiatives across a variety of industries. As a member of Russell Reynolds’ Diversity Practice, she consulted with corporations to diversify their boards and senior management teams. She is a veteran of the cable television industry, having served as General Manager of FoxFamily Channel. Prior to this, she was Vice President of Affiliate Marketing for Nickelodeon Networks, where she oversaw marketing initiatives for Nickelodeon, Nick at Nite, TV Land, and Noggin. Previous to this, she was Director of Marketing for MTV Networks. Ms. Lawrence began her career in brand management at Kraft and later worked as a Category Manager at Nestle Brands. Throughout her career, Tracy has been committed to diversity. She served on the industry-wide diversity committee for the National Cable and Telecommunications Association (NCTA); was the Founder and Board Chair of Digital Diversity Network and earned two Mark Awards for excellence in advertising, a BDA award for creative innovation, was a recipient of NAMIC’s Winston Tony Cox Executive Achievement Award and the NCTA’s Vanguard Award for Young Leadership. She has been a member of the Aspen Institute’s Forum on Communications and Society. Tracy earned her BA in Economics from Stanford University and her MBA from Harvard Business School.

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and former CEO of Progress Investment Management Company, a San Francisco-based manager of managers, focusing on emerging firms (small, minority and women-owned investment companies). Since its inception in 1990, Progress Investment Management has funded more than 125 emerging firms across a broad range of public security asset classes. Progress currently manages more than $8.8 billion in assets for some of the world’s largest public and corporate pension funds. After a management-led buyout, the company is 100% owned by its employees. Mr. Cazenave was appointed by President Carter to serve as Regional Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), and he also has served as Director of Business Development for the State of California and as a Principal Consultant to the State Assembly Office of Research. Today, he serves on advisory boards of Evolution Real Estate Partners, Vicente Capital Partners, the UCLA Anderson’s Harold and Pauline Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies and the Jesuit Retreat Center in Los Altos, California. In addition to serving as an advisor, he also volunteers at San Quentin State Prison and acts as a prostate cancer peer support counselor at University of California San Francisco Medical Center. Mr. Cazenave received the 8th Annual NY NASP Foundation Wall Street Hall of Fame Award in February 2006 and the NASP Travers Bell Award in 2011. In 2012 he was honored as a Distinguished Alumnus for the College of Natural and Social Sciences by California State University, Los Angeles. And in November 2013, he was inducted into the Hall of Fame for the National Association of Investment Companies, an association representing the interests of minority-owned investment firms. He holds the Series 7 and 24 securities licenses with FINRA. Mr. Cazenave received his B.A. in political science from California State University, Los Angeles, and completed Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business Executive Program for Smaller Companies.

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strategic advisor to growth companies and companies in transition. Prior to founding Riverford, Mr. Reinfrank was a co-founder and a Managing General Partner of Clarity Partners, an $800 million private equity firm focused on media and communications, and a co-founder of Clarity China, L.P., a $220 million private equity partnership with investments in Greater China. Before Clarity, he was a co-founder and a Managing General Partner of Rader Reinfrank & Co., a private equity fund. His prior experience includes roles as an executive, investor, and advisor across a wide range of industries for the Roy E. Disney and Marvin Davis families. Mr. Reinfrank is a member of the Board of Directors of Apollo Investment Corporation, a publicly-traded financial services company (NASDAQ: AINV). He is the former Chairman of its Audit Committee (2013-2018) and is a member of its Audit, Nominating and Governance committees. Mr. Reinfrank is a Senior Advisor to BC Partners, an international investment company, a Senior Advisor to Grafine Partners (NYC), Pall Mall Capital, Ltd. (London), The K Fund/Andina Family Offices (LA) and Transnational Capital Corporation (NYC). Mr. Reinfrank meets the requirements of a Sarbanes-Oxley audit committee financial expert pursuant to item 407(d)(5)(ii) of Regulation S-K and is FINRA licensed for Series 7, 62 and 63. Mr. Reinfrank was previously a director of WebTV Networks (acquired by Microsoft), Trillium Digital Systems (acquired by Intel), Weatherford International (NYSE: WFT), Enterra Corporation (NYSE: EN), CRC-Evans Pipeline, Parker Drilling Company (NYSE:PKD), Kayne Anderson Acquisition Corp. (merged into NASDAQ: ALTM), Impremedia LLC, Base Entertainment LLC, Naylor LLC, Crescent Entertainment, LLC and Central Soya, Inc. Mr. Reinfrank earned his BA in Economics from Stanford and his MBA in Finance & Accounting from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

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Artio Global Investors/JBIM, Head of Investment Management for JP Morgan Singapore and Head of Global Equity for Bankers Trust International Private Bank before joining Nile. During his tenure, assets under management at all these organizations expanded dramatically. Brett’s responsibilities included the development of asset management and research processes, global asset allocation strategies and economic analysis. Brett began his career as an analyst with Irwin Management Company where he was responsible for the selection and evaluation of external managers and for financial oversight of Venture Capital investments. He has appeared on CNBC, Bloomberg and Fox Business News, been quoted in The Wall Street Journal, and was a guest lecturer at Yale University. Brett received his BA in Economics from the University of Virginia and his MBA from The Darden Graduate School of Business. Brett serves on the University of Virginia Alumni Association Board of Managers.

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