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Investment banker, head of Mergers and Acquisitions and private equity.
Chairman of the Investment Committee, Brock Opportunity Fund; Co-founder, Reading Excellence and Discovery Foundation; Director, United Way. Former Vice Chairman, Merrill Lynch Investment Banking and Chairman/Co-CIO, Merrill Lynch Ventures.
l’École Polytechnique (Paris, France); Northwestern U. Kellogg School M.B.A
Alain Lebec is a member of Brock Capital LLC.
Previously, Mr. Lebec served as Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer at Merrill Lynch Ventures. He was also Vice Chairman of the Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch, Managing Director and Head of the Telecom, Media and Technology Investment Banking Department, Managing Director and Co-Head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Department, Vice-President of International Banking, and an Associate in the Corporate Finance Group in Chicago.
Mr. Lebec served in the French Army as a Second Lieutenant in the 46th Infantry Regiment based in Berlin, Germany. He is a Director and Co-Founder of READ (Reading Excellence And Discovery) Foundation, a literacy program for inner-city children in New York, Director of the United Way of Greenwich, and a Trustee of the Brunswick School.
Alain Lebec holds a Diplome d’Ingénieur from l’École Polytechnique in Paris and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Former CEO, consumer products companies; branding/marketing expert; former private equity partner and chair of portfolio companies; director of public, private and non-profit institutions.
President, Barnegat Group LLC; Managing Director and Operating Advisor, North Castle Partners, LLC; Director and Chair, Nominating and Governance Committee, Eli Lilly & Co., Ford Motor Company; Presiding Director, Finance Committee Chair, The New York Times Company.
Former CEO, Tropicana; CEO, Nabisco Biscuit Company.
Wellesley College B.A.; Harvard Business School M.B.A.
Ellen Marram is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC and is the president of the Barnegat Group LLC, her business advisory firm. From 2000-2005, she was a Managing Director of North Castle Partners, a private equity firm focused on investments in healthy living and aging where she served as Chairman of several portfolio companies. She currently serves as an operating advisor to North Castle and to Physic Ventures, a venture capital firm.
Ms. Marram was President and Chief Executive Officer of Tropicana and the Tropicana Beverage Group from 1993-1998. she transformed the business from a Florida juice company to a market driven, health-focused global juice business,number one in worldwide sales and profits. During her tenure, Tropicana nearly tripled its shareholder value and was sold to PepsiCo in 1998 for $3.3 billion. From 1988-1993, Ms. Marram was the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Nabisco Biscuit Company where she consistently produced strong revenue and profit growth in a highly leveraged environment. Under her vision and direction the company launched the highly successful SnackWell’s line which pioneered low-fat snacking.
Ms. Marram is a director of Ford Motor Company, The New York Times Company and Eli Lilly and Company as well as several private companies and non-profit institutions.
Ms. Marram received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Jean D. Hamilton Senior Managing Director
CEO, diversified financial services companies. Operating and investment expertise. Director of public and private companies in insurance, financial services, money management. Director and committee member of non-profit entities.
Currently, RenaissanceRe Holdings Director, First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds Trustee, Chair of the Thomas Cole National Historic Site Investment Committee, and member of the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundaiton Investment Advisory Committee.
Former CEO of Prudential Institutional, EVP of Prudential Financial, President of Prudential Capital, President of Prudential Asset Sales and Syndications, and SVP of The First National Bank of Chicago (now J.P. Morgan Chase).
University of Illinois B.S.; University of Chicago M.B.A.
Jean D. Hamilton serves as a board director and is a member of Brock Capital Group LLC, a full service investment bank providing strategic advice and implementation support. Ms. Hamilton has extensive experience as a board director and in heading companies. She is involved with a variety of not-for-profit organizations.
Ms. Hamilton serves on the board of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd. where she has served as Chair and is a member of the Corporate Governance and Compensation Committee. Also, she serves on the Transaction and Offerings Committees, and has served as a member of the Investment Committee. She also serves on the boards of First Eagle Funds and First Eagle Variable Funds where she is Chair of the Board Valuation and Liquidity Committee and a member of the Audit and Insurance Committees. Ms. Hamilton is on the Investment Advisory Committee of the Liz Claiborne and Art Ortenberg Foundation and is Chair of the Investment Committee for the Thomas Cole National Historic Site.
At Prudential Financial, Ms. Hamilton served in a variety of management roles. Ms. Hamilton was an Executive Vice President of Prudential Financial, Inc. and Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional, which under her leadership grew in revenues to more than $6 billion. Ms. Hamilton was responsible for evaluating and operating each of the insurance, banking, financial services and real estate businesses within the Prudential Institutional group. Following determination of the strategic fit of these businesses within Prudential and their profit potential, Ms. Hamilton successfully implemented a variety of plans to optimize the value of these businesses. These plans included internal growth, mergers, start-ups, restructurings, sales and discontinuation of various businesses.
Prior to being named Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Institutional, Ms. Hamilton was President of Prudential Capital Group, a private securities asset manager and originator responsible for a portfolio in excess of $20 billion in a wide range of industries and at multiple layers of the capital structure. Prior to holding this position, Ms. Hamilton was President of Prudential Asset Sales and Syndications, Inc., a seller and syndicator of private placement securities, and an entity in whose creation she was involved.
Before joining Prudential Financial, Ms. Hamilton was a Senior Vice President and Head of the Northeastern Corporate Banking Department for The First National Bank of Chicago, now J.P. Morgan Chase.
Ms. Hamilton has a BS degree in Communications from the University of Illinois and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Accounting from the University of Chicago.
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Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Trevor has over 35 years of experience as a business owner, entrepreneur, investor and senior executive specializing in niche manufacturing, telecommunications, enabling technologies, mergers and acquisitions, and specialty financial services product structuring and financing.
Former roles include founder and CEO of K-Tech Microprecision, a leading international telecom fiber optic component manufacturing specialist acquired by 3M Corporation; founder and Chairman of Auriga Europe, a specialist telecom and datacom accessory products online distributor and educator; and Chairman of the Advisory Board for Exterprise Europe, an enabling intelligent (AI) agent software.
Trevor ran and built his family’s business Stylus Supplies Ltd, into the leading provider of audio components and accessories for vinyl record player needles, pickup cartridges and compact disc optical laser assemblies which led to the diversification into high-performance fiber optic products for long distance telecom and nascent Internet /Broadband global networks.
Trevor is also cofounder of NIW Corporation a trusted specialist in innovative financed estate, business and retirement planning solutions for high net worth individuals, families, business owners, executives and multi-industry professionals in the United States. Over the past 18 years, he has been responsible for helping facilitate $5bn of financing for NIW’s industry-leading range of programs and solutions, including major private and mid-market banks in the US.
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