Our management team is led by Jay R. Bloom and Dean C. Kehler, our co-Chairmen and Chief Executive Officers. Our management team has guided public and private companies over more than three decades as private equity principals, owners, corporate directors and advisors across a wide variety of industries, including the energy, infrastructure, telecom/media, technology, consumer products and services, financial services, and manufacturing sectors. Through these activities, our management team has developed a broad network of contacts that we believe will be helpful in identifying targets for a potential business combination. Messrs. Bloom and Kehler are Managing Partners of Trimaran Capital Partners, which they co-founded in 1998. Trimaran has managed private equity, collateralized loan obligations and hedge funds (in the case of hedge funds, as sub-advisor). Prior to Trimaran, Messrs. Bloom and Kehler were Managing Directors and Vice Chairmen of CIBC World Markets Corp. (“CIBC”), where they were responsible for CIBC’s United States and European merchant banking activities, which were conducted through the CIBC WG Argosy Merchant Funds (the “CIBC Funds”). In addition, Messrs. Bloom and Kehler were responsible for overseeing CIBC’s United States and European Leveraged Finance businesses, which included financial sponsor coverage; acquisition finance; high yield origination, underwriting, sales and trading; private placements and financial restructuring advisory services.