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Curt Launer Managing Director

telephone 212-209-3000

Co-head, Energy investment banking group; Founder, Bakken Energy, developer of clean hydrogen production, transportation and storage applications.

Won Institutional Investor Magazine’s first place honors for twelve of thirteen years; Inducted into Institutional Investor’s Hall of Fame in 2011 and named “one of the best analysts of all time.”

Equity research analyst at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) and First Boston, covering natural gas, pipelines, exploration, production and midstream infrastructure industries.

Expertise in energy infrastructure, MLP qualifying assets, exploration & production and Liquefied Natural Gas; Led teams at Sagent Advisors, Deutsche Bank and S2K Financial.

Originated and participated in over $30 billion in merger and acquisition transactions and over $50 billion in equity and debt capital raising; Testified before Congress and industry regulators regarding gas and oil pipelines, MLPs and natural gas related issues as well as the proceedings involving the demise of Enron, where he assisted the investigation and prosecution of former executives.

B.S. Accounting, State University of New York – Buffalo.

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Charles O. Svenson Senior Managing Director

telephone 212-209-3000 ext. 125

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Investment banker, expertise in energy, alternative energy, project finance and transportation.

Co-Chairman, Investment Committee of Hamilton College; Trustee, Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks; Chairman, the Adirondack Nature Conservancy and Adirondack Land Trust; President, Harvard Law School Association of New York City

Former Managing Director, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (now Credit Suisse); VP, Head of Project Finance, Goldman Sachs; Dewey, Ballantine, Busby, Palmer & Wood

Hamilton College B.A.; Harvard Law School LL.B.

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Norman H. Brown, Jr. Senior Managing Director

telephone 212-209-3000 ext. 215

Investment banker; expert in metals, mining, infrastructure and mergers & acquisitions.

Headed restructuring and metal & mining, Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Inc, Credit Suisse First Boston; SVP, Head of M&A Department, E.F. Hutton; Director, Macquarie Infrastructure Company Trust; Trustee and member, Investment Committee of the University of Oregon Endowment Foundation.

University of Oregon B.A.; University of Pennsylvania Wharton School M.B.A.

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Jenne K. Britell Advisor

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Former CEO, global and domestic diversified financial services companies and advisor to private equity, venture capital, and public companies in the areas of financial products and services; professional director, public and private companies and non-profits, including positions as non-executive Chairman, Audit Committee Chair, and designated financial expert

President, Global Commercial and Mortgage Banking and Executive Vice President, Global Consumer Finance, GE Capital; former President and CEO, GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe; President and CEO, GE Mortgage Services Senior Advisor to E-Bay and PayPal for Financial Services; Chairman, United Rentals; Chairman of Audit Committee and designated financial expert, Crown Holdings; Director, member of Audit and Finance Committee, designated financial expert, and member of Compensation Committee, Quest Diagnostics; Director and Chairman of Audit Committee, U.S. Russia Fund and U.S. Russia Foundation for Entrepreneurship and the Rule of Law; Former Director, TIAA-CREF and Aames Investment Corp., and Director and designated financial expert, Lincoln Financial and West Pharmaceutical Services.

Harvard University, B.A., M.A.; Columbia University, M.S., Ph.D.

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Jenne K. Britell, Ph.D., is the Chairman of United Rentals, Inc. (NYSE:URI). She is also the Chairman and CEO of Structured Ventures, Inc, advisors on financial services business and product strategy to U.S. and foreign companies. She is a director of two additional NYSE companies: Crown Holdings, Inc.(CCK);* and Quest Diagnostics Inc. (DGX).** She is also a director of the U.S. Russia Investment Fund and the U.S. Russia Foundation, and a Sustaining Trustee of the Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Dr. Britell is a former senior executive of GE Capital. At GE Capital, until March 2000, she served as the Executive Vice President of Global Consumer Finance and President of Global Mortgage and Commercial Banking. Previously, she was President and CEO of GE Capital, Central and Eastern Europe. Based in Vienna, she had responsibility for the GE Capital consumer and commercial banking businesses in the region, as well as in Austria and Switzerland, and for the consumer finance business in Germany. Prior to that, as President and CEO, she led the turnaround of GE Capital Mortgage Services. At GE, she was recognized as a business leader who led turnarounds or enhanced profitability, with outstanding Six Sigma and compliance performance. She also served as Chairman of the Management or Supervisory Boards of many foreign GE-owned banks.

From 1993-1996, she was Executive Vice President, Chief Lending Officer, and General Manager, Mortgage Banking, of Dime Bancorp, where she led the turnaround of the Dime’s mortgage business, among other efforts.

From 1990-1993, as Chairman and CEO of HomePower, Inc., she was a senior advisor to many national and international corporations, including Chase, Dime, MONY, the Central European Development Corp., the Polish-American Enterprise Fund and the World Bank. She was also the founding Chairman and CEO of the Polish-American Mortgage Bank, in Warsaw, Poland. This Bank was the first private western-style residential construction/mortgage bank, in Central and Eastern Europe.

Previously, Dr. Britell held senior positions at Citicorp and Republic New York Corporation (now HSBC).

She received her B.A., with honors, and M.A. from Harvard University and her M.S. (business administration) and Ph.D. from Columbia University.

Dr. Britell was formerly Senior Advisor to eBay and PayPal for Financial Services, a director of Lincoln National Corporation and of West Pharmaceutical Services, Inc., lead director of Aames Investment Corporation, and a trustee of TIAA-CREF, of the Brooklyn Academy of Music, of the New York City Housing Partnership, and of William Paterson University, and a charter member of the US Department of Defense Advisory Committee on Military Personnel Testing.

*Chairman, Audit Committee, designated financial expert. **Member, Audit and Finance Committee, designated financial expert and Member, Compensation Committee.

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Karen N. Horn Senior Managing Director

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Former CEO, diversified financial services; professional director; economist; Former Federal Reserve Bank president.

Director and/or lead director, Norfolk Southern Corporation, Eli Lilly, Simon Property Group, Fannie Mae, T. Rowe Price Funds, U.S. Russia Investment Fund.

Former Managing Director, Marsh & McLennan Companies; Managing Director, Bankers Trust; Chairman & CEO, Bank One of Cleveland; President, Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland; Treasurer, Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania; Director, TRW, Rubbermaid, British Petroleum, Georgia-Pacific, The Rockefeller Foundation.

Pomona College B.A.; Johns Hopkins University Ph.D.

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