Executive Officers

Richard S. Foote, 49
Director, President, and Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Foote has been a managing director of Berkshire Capital Securities LLC since its formation in May 2004 and a managing director, principal and vice president of Berkshire Capital Corporation, since 1994. Mr. Foote is a director of Berkshire Capital and serves on its compensation committee, commitment committee and technology committee. At Berkshire Capital and its predecessor, Mr. Foote has advised on 32 completed mergers and acquisitions of financial services companies, including high net worth managers, institutional investment managers, mutual fund managers, real estate managers, brokerage firms, investment banks and capital markets firms with aggregate client assets under management transfer of approximately $150 billion and aggregate transaction value of more than $2.4 billion. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Foote was a co-founder and the president and chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Highbury Financial Inc. Mr. Foote is a partner of Broad Hollow Partners LLC, a partnership formed to pursue principal investments in the investment management industry. From 1991 through 1994, Mr. Foote was a co-founder and partner of Knightsbridge Capital Partners, a partnership engaged in investment banking and merchant banking activities. From 1985 to 1991, Mr. Foote was a vice president, an associate, and an analyst in the investment banking division of PaineWebber Incorporated, primarily working on mergers, acquisitions and the issuance of equity and debt securities. Mr. Foote was graduated from Harvard College, cum laude, in 1985 with an A.B. in Economics. Mr. Foote is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts, the Pension Real Estate Association and the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries.

R. Bradley Forth, 33
Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Secretary

Mr. Forth has been a director, vice president, and associate at Berkshire Capital Securities LLC since its formation in May 2004 and an associate and analyst at Berkshire Capital Corporation since 2001. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Forth was a co-founder and the executive vice president, chief financial officer and secretary of Highbury Financial Inc. Mr. Forth is a partner of Broad Hollow Partners LLC, a partnership formed to pursue principal investments in the investment management industry. He graduated from Duke University in 2001 with a B.S. in Economics and a B.A. in Chemistry. Mr. Forth is a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute and the New York Society of Security Analysts

Board of Directors

R. Bruce Cameron, 66
Chairman

Mr. Cameron has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Capital Securities LLC, a New York-based investment banking firm, since its formation in May 2004. Mr. Cameron co-founded Berkshire Capital Corporation, the predecessor firm to Berkshire Capital Securities LLC, in 1983 as the first independent investment bank covering the financial services industry, with a focus on investment management and capital markets firms. Mr. Cameron and his partners have advised on over 270 mergers and acquisitions of financial services companies, including high net worth managers, institutional investment managers, mutual fund managers, real estate managers, brokerage firms, investment banks and capital markets firms with aggregate client assets under management transfer of more than $675 billion and aggregate transaction value in excess of $12.5 billion. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Cameron was a co-founder and the chairman of the board of directors of Highbury Financial Inc., a publicly traded blank check company that became an investment management holding company. Mr. Cameron is co-chairman of the Investment Committee of Broad Hollow Partners LLC, a partnership formed to pursue principal investments in the investment management industry. Prior to forming Berkshire Capital Corporation, Mr. Cameron was an associate director of Paine Webber Group Inc.’s Strategic Planning Group from 1981 through 1983. Mr. Cameron began his career at Prudential Insurance Company from 1978 through 1980, working first in the Comptroller’s Department and then in the Planning & Coordination Group. Mr. Cameron graduated from Trinity College, where he received a B.A. in Economics, and from Harvard Business School, where he received an M.B.A. Mr. Cameron also attended the London School of Economics. Mr. Cameron is a CFA charterholder and a former treasurer of the New York Society of Security Analysts. Mr. Cameron is a Fellow of the Life Management Institute. He is also a past trustee of the Securities Industry Institute.

Joseph C. Canavan, 50
Director

Since January 2010, Mr. Canavan has been Chief Executive Officer of Canavan Capital, a personal investment company. Mr. Canavan was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Assante Wealth Management, a wealth management company, and United Financial Corporation, an asset management firm affiliated with Assante Wealth Management, from November 2003 until November 2009. Prior to joining Assante Wealth Management, Mr. Canavan was the President and CEO of Synergy Asset Management, a wealth management company he founded in December 1997. In 1994, Mr. Canavan launched GT Global (Canada), a mutual fund company, and served as its Chief Executive Officer until 1997. From 1989 until 1994, Mr. Canavan was a Vice President and Director of National Sales with Fidelity Investments. Mr. Canavan began his career as a financial advisor with Burns Fry Ltd. Mr. Canavan serves on the boards of directors of the following non-profit organizations: the Children’s Aid Foundation, of which he is Chairman and Interim Chief Executive Officer, The Next 36, the Fraser Institute, Kids and Company, Brandprotect, and the Kira Talent. Mr. Canavan has a Bachelor of Business Administration from Concordia University and has completed Harvard University’s three-year executive management program for owners and presidents of companies.

Oscar J. Junquera, 59
Director

Mr. Junquera is the founder and Managing Partner of PanMar Capital llc, a private equity and investment banking firm specializing in the financial services sector, which he founded in 2008. Mr. Junquera started his career with Blyth Eastman Paine Webber in 1980 as an Associate in the Investment Banking Division. He was appointed Managing Director in 1988, Group Head—Financial Institutions in 1990, and a member of the Investment Banking Executive Committee in 1995, subsequent to the firm’s acquisition of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Upon the sale of PaineWebber Group to UBS AG in 2000, Mr. Junquera was appointed Global Head of Asset Management Investment Banking and held that position until 2007. He was responsible for establishing and building the bank’s franchise with mutual fund, institutional, high net worth and alternative asset management firms, as well as banks, insurance and financial services companies active in asset management. Mr. Junquera is a director of North Star Realty Finance Corp. and Toroso Investments LLC. Mr. Junquera holds a B.S. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is on the Board of Trustees of the Long Island Chapter of the Nature Conservancy and is a Patron/Contributor to the Boys Club of New York, Lenox Hill Neighborhood House and the Museum of the City of New York.

Robert H. Zerbst, 66
Director

Mr. Zerbst retired as Chairman of CBRE Global Investors, a global investment company and real estate investment manager in 2009, a position he had held since 2007. He continues to serve as a member of the investment committee of Global Multi Manager business, a fund of funds, of CBRE Global Investors. From 1998 until 2007, he was Chief Executive Officer of CBRE Global Investors. Mr. Zerbst joined CB Richard Ellis Investors (now CBRE Global Investors) as president in 1997. In 1981, Mr. Zerbst founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of Piedmont Realty Advisors, a real estate investment manager, and became a partner in The RREEF Funds when Piedmont Realty Advisors merged with The RREEF Funds in 1991. Mr. Zerbst is a director of Digital Realty Trust, a New York Stock Exchange listed realty trust. Mr. Zerbst serves as Chairman of Overseas Investor Services, LLC, a company that provides to foreign investors services relating to investments in United States real estate. Mr. Zerbst is a past Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Managers and member of the board of the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries. Mr. Zerbst is a member of the World Affairs Council of Northern California, Asia Society, the Policy Advisory Board of the Fisher Center at the University of California at Berkeley, Trustee of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a former member of the Real Estate Round Table. Mr. Zerbst holds a B.A. from Miami University and an M.A. in Economics, an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. in Finance and Real Estate Economics from Ohio State University.