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Itzik Cohen is Chief Business Officer at Prosper Marketplace, a leading online marketplace for consumer credit. In this role, Itzik is responsible for growing all aspects of the business through strategic partnerships, sales and corporate development. He also oversees Prosper Marketplace’s new lines of business, including elective medical and home improvement, and plays a key role in the company’s corporate strategy.Prior to joining Prosper, Itzik was CEO and founder of ClipSync, a leading interactive video platform that partnered with some of the biggest media companies in the world. Before founding ClipSync, Itzik was a part of the executive team at WebEx Communications, the Web Meeting Applications company. At WebEx he led all strategic business partnerships and corporate development, and helped drive the success that led to a�successful IPO and eventually�being acquired by Cisco Systems.Prior to his professional career, Itzik was a professional basketball player in the Euroleague playing for Maccabi Tel-Aviv, a 5 time EuroLeague champion. Itzik also served in the Israeli Air Force and received B.S from Tel Aviv University.

Theodore L. Koenig, President, CEO and founder of Monroe Capital LLC, has over 30 years of experience in structuring and investing in debt and equity transactions.� Monroe Capital is a leading provider of senior and junior debt and equity co-investments to middle market companies. Monroe Capital has invested over $2.5 billion of capital in over 500 investment transactions since its inception.� Koenig also serves as the Chairman, President and CEO of Monroe Capital Corporation (NASDAQ: MRCC), a publicly traded business development company (BDC).� Prior to founding Monroe Capital in 2004, Koenig was President and CEO of Hilco Capital LP, a junior secured/mezzanine debt fund established in 2000. �

Mr. Brockway has nearly 30 years of experience in private equity investing and firm management. He has successfully invested in businesses in a variety of industries, as well as founded and managed Brockway Moran & Partners, a middle market private equity firm where he also presently serves as Managing Partner.Prior to founding Brockway Moran & Partners, Mr. Brockway was an executive of Trivest, Inc. for 11 years in positions of increasing responsibility, ultimately serving as Managing Director and as one of three shareholders. Mr. Brockway presently serves on the Board of Directors of The Vintner Group, MD Now Medical Centers, Woodstream Corporation, Turning Technologies and Crisis Prevention Institute. He has previously served on the boards of a variety of portfolio companies. Mr. Brockway is also a trustee of Wake Forest University and a board member of Boca Helping Hands.Mr. Brockway is married with two adult daughters. In his spare time, he enjoys being with family and friends, watching sports, attending concerts and exercising.

Doug serves as Chairman of the Board for Newport Board Group, a national partnership of CEOs and senior executives who advise emerging middle market companies and the private equity firms that invest in them. He also serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence at the Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship at Florida State University. He is Immediate Past Chairman of the Board for the Association for Corporate Growth (ACG), a global not-for-profit organization with 58 Chapters and 14,000 members in the US and internationally, representing middle market private capital investors, intermediaries and the middle market deal community. Doug also serves as the Advisory Board Chairman for the Institute for Exceptional Growth Companies, a national research institute-funded by the NASDAQ Foundation and the University of Wisconsin - Extension. Its mission is to study exceptional growth companies, the capital markets, and their impact on employment and economic growth. Doug has since 2002 been Chairman of The Co-investment Partnership, a firm that manages a pool of capital that co-invests with other private equity and venture capital investors.Previously, Doug was Chairman and CEO of Tatum LLC, which grew into a highly respected national professional services firm with 30 offices and over 1000 professionals and employees. The company was sold to Spherion in 2010. Prior to his role with Tatum LLC, Doug served a number of companies as a senior executive and/or board member.Doug is a recognized expert on the capital markets and the entrepreneurial growth economy. He has testified before the U.S. Congress about the financing challenges growing companies face and about U.S. tax policy. He has been keynote speaker at the Securities Exchange Commission Forum. Doug speaks extensively throughout the world, presenting the research and frameworks included in his book No Man’s Land: Where Growing Companies Fail. The book, published in the U.S. in 2007, has received four national Best Business Book awards and has been published in China, Taiwan and South Korea and is slated for publication in Vietnam. The book was included in the recently updated edition of The 100 Best Business Books of All Time by Jack Covert and Todd Sattersten. Doug’s insights about rapid growth companies, private equity and the capital markets have been cited in hundreds of media outlets including Inc. Magazine, The Financial Times, New York Times online and the Chicago Daily Herald.

Brian Weinstein is an experienced financial executive with a career spanning 17 years in fixed-income trading and asset allocation. As a managing director on BlackRock�s fixed income team, he most recently served as head of multi-sector fixed income. In this capacity, he oversaw 40 investors managing more than $300 billion in assets across short duration, financial institutions and multi-sector fixed income portfolios.He worked extensively with pension funds, endowments, insurers and other institutional clients. Brian is an expert in understanding long-term valuation trends across the spectrum of fixed income instruments, and was a senior member of the team that established BlackRock�s perspective on fixed income investing.Brian earned a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Pennsylvania.

John Arensmeyer is an economics expert and former small- business owner who is the founder and chief executive of Small Business Majority.

Amy Baker Johnson was appointed senior SEO and content marketing strategist for BBVA Compass in 2014. She is responsible for providing knowledge used in strategic decision making by using web and search analytics. She uses strategic and technical SEO for the bank’s web properties to increase conversion by improving site traffic. Alongside the corporate website development team, she leads the design and development of web properties that meet the financial education needs of consumer and business clients. Johnson is part of the Digital Marketing unit, and based in Birmingham, Ala.Johnson previously managed web content for the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a leading university and medical center, and the largest employer in Alabama.� Most recently, Johnson owned and led a digital marketing consulting firm specializing in small business growth, sustainable converged media strategies and business analytics. She led teams of designers, developers and writers in streamlining user experience, increasing visitor engagement and optimizing customer websites for conversion. Johnson earned a degree in Business Administration from Samford University in 2000.�

Lara serves as President & CEO of NOW Corp, a company she co-founded to free small businesses from the burden of funding trade credit and to enable small business growth.� The concept for NOW Corp�s NOWaccount stems from the challenges Lara faced when growing her manufacturing business, Nourish.�Lara co-founded Nourish Inc, and introduced its first patented products for children, in airports, hotels, entertainment venues and retail outlets across the US.� Lara experienced the challenge of managing cash flow in a growing business and having to fund the trade credit required to support growth.� Not finding a solution that worked, she partnered with John Hayes and launched NOW Corp and NOWaccount, the first revenue accelerator for B2B.� NOWaccount enables businesses to get paid immediately in a way that is not a loan, feels like but costs less than taking a credit card for payment and is largely invisible to their customer.� NOWaccount will change the way small businesses manage cash flow, has done over $75M in transactions and aims to turn a portion of the $1.2T of trade credit that small businesses hold into cash.� NOWaccount�s innovative structure is the subject of a Harvard Business School case study.Lara co-founded and served as CEO of Insomnia, LLC, a firm specializing in investment, development and management of complex and innovative �world-changing� projects. Lara developed a white paper on the state of global infrastructure and the impending shift in the global balance of power.� She is a frequent speaker at industry conferences on innovative thinking that can reshape our infrastructure and community.�Lara spent 5 years at Dewberry Capital Corporation, an Atlanta-based commercial real estate development and investment firm, where she served as the company�s Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Operating Officer, overseeing development, sales & leasing, property management and marketing.����Lara was the Executive Vice President of Dunk, a performance footwear and apparel manufacturing/retail company built on the concept of mass customization and founded with Shaquille O�Neal & Mike Piazza. She built the operations, IT and sales & marketing groups.Lara was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Retail and Consumer Products Division of iXL (now Scient), an Internet strategy and consulting firm. She founded the division in 1999 and built it into one of the top performing groups within iXL. The group operated across 26 offices worldwide with clients such as The Home Depot, Coca-Cola, and Nike. �Lara began her career with Andersen Consulting as the first Business Analyst in the Strategic Services South Practice.Lara is an internationally recognized speaker, leading seminars on creativity, innovation and access to capital.� Internationally, Lara has worked in Koriyama, Japan with the U.S. Defense Department�s EAGLE Japan Program and served as the Ambassador to Lebanon for the 1996 Olympic Games.Lara received an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a BS in Aerospace Engineering with highest honors from the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was featured in USA Today as one of the top 20 students in the US and was the ODK National Leader of the Year. Lara was a scholarship member of the varsity Track & Field team at Georgia Tech.Lara has served on several Boards including: Georgia Tech Alumni Association Board of Trustees, Georgia Tech�s Scheller College of Business, the Georgia Tech College of Engineering, ACE Loans, Atlanta Heights Charter School, Flag Bank, Georgia Tech�s Alexander Tharpe Fund, and Society of International Business Fellows. Lara is a member of the Leadership Georgia Class of 2005 and the Leadership Atlanta Class of 2004. Lara taught finance as an adjunct instructor in Georgia Tech�s MBA Program for 10 years.� Lara was appointed by the Governor of Georgia to serve on the Georgia Regional Transportation Authority (GRTA) Board.� Lara was recently honored by the Georgia Tech Athletic Association with the Total Person Alumnus Award and by the Georgia Tech Women in Engineering as the Alumnus of the Year.� She is a member of the Georgia Tech Young Alumni Hall of Fame and was a recipient of a Womenetics 2013 POW! Award honoring Purposeful Women.�

Joined Wynnchurch in 2008. Prior to joining Wynnchurch, was with Lime Rock Management, the $6 billion global private equity firm, where he was involved in the execution of numerous basic materials sector investments across North America and Europe. Began career at UBS in its Investment Banking Department in New York, where he was involved in a number of mergers, acquisitions and financings across various industries.TRANSACTIONS:Has over a decade of experience in private equity investing and corporate finance. Responsibilities range from deal origination and structuring to due diligence, execution and monitoring. Experience includes transactions involving family businesses, corporate carve-outs, underperforming companies and restructurings. Played a meaningful role in several Wynnchurch investments including NSC Minerals, Northstar Aerospace, U.S. Pipe and its acquisitions of Griffin Pipe Products, Metalfit and Custom Fab, and Burtek's acquisition of Votaw Precision Technologies.DIRECTORSHIPS:Assists in the directorship of Heligear Acquisition Holding Co. dba Northstar Aerospace, Inc. and USP Holdings, Inc.� Civic leadership includes Chicago Children’s Choir, National Young Leadership Cabinet, Kellogg Alumni in Private Equity, and Young Professionals in Energy.EDUCATION:B.A., Northwestern University; M.B.A., Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.