BIOGRAPHIES

M. William Benedetto

Mr. Benedetto is a founder of Benedetto, Gartland & Company, Inc. In addition to its fundraising expertise, the firm has provided corporate finance advisory services to a wide variety of companies including Household International, Potomac Electric and Gas, Monsanto, Carey International and The Donna Karan Companies. Previously, Mr. Benedetto served as executive vice president, director and manager of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc.’s Investment Banking Division. As senior officer in charge of that firm’s national corporate and public finance departments, he oversaw all corporate advisory services as well as investment products for the firm’s retail and institutional distribution systems.

Mr. Benedetto has also held various professional, managerial and civic positions within the financial services community, including an assignment as financial advisor to the City of Chicago.

Mr. Benedetto is a member of the Board of Directors of Georgetown University, is chairman of its Board of Regents, and is a former Chairman of the Securities Industry Association's corporate finance committee. He is co-author of Initial Public Offerings: A Strategic Planner for Raising Equity Capital (Probus Publishing, Chicago, IL).

A native New Yorker, Mr. Benedetto obtained a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Georgetown University in 1962. He has also done graduate work at New York University's School of Business Administration. Before beginning his business career, he served in Vietnam as a Captain with the U.S. Air Force.


Michael F. Benedetto

Mr. Benedetto joined Benedetto, Gartland & Company in 1997 and is a shareholder. His focus is on capital raising for investment partnerships.

At BGC, Mr. Benedetto has also provided corporate finance and advisory services to BGC’s clients. Representative transactions include: advising Carey International on its going-private leveraged buyout transaction sponsored by Chartwell Investments and Ford Motor Company; assisting Monsanto Company on the divestiture of its health care services subsidiaries; and advising Children First, Inc. on its strategic alternatives, including the successful completion of a growth capital financing.

Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Benedetto was an Associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions group of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. where he advised clients, including Ingersoll Rand and AT&T, on strategic alternatives. Previously, Mr. Benedetto was a Financial Analyst in the Investment Banking Division of Salomon Brothers Inc. As a member of the Eastern Industrial Coverage Group, he provided corporate finance advice and execution to large industrial corporations, including IBM, Bethlehem Steel and the James River Corporation.

Mr. Benedetto received a B.A. in Philosophy from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.


M. Patrick Campbell

M. Patrick Campbell joined BGC, Inc. in 1995 and became a shareholder in 2000. His focus is equity raising for investment partnerships and capital raising for corporations. His fundraising assignments have included Hancock Mezzanine Partners III and IV, Veritas Capital Fund I and II, Fulham Investors, Kohlberg Investors IV, and The Candover 2001 Fund. His corporate finance assignments have included transactions in the financial services, healthcare and media industries.

Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Campbell was a Vice President at Philo Smith & Co., a private investment firm specializing in the insurance industry.

Mr. Campbell is a trustee of The National Trust for Scotland Foundation, USA and a member of the Board of Directors of Delta-Energy Holdings LLC.

Mr. Campbell received a B.A. from the University of New Hampshire, an A.M. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.


Saverio Costa

Mr. Costa joined BGC in 1999 and became a shareholder in 2006. His focus is capital raising for investment partnerships. His fundraising assignments have included WestView Capital Partners, Hancock Mezzanine Partners III, Veritas Capital Fund III, Fulham Investors I and II, Forward Ventures IV and V, and Vega Partners III and IV.

Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Costa was an Assistant Vice President in the Derivatives Group of Citicorp Securities, Inc., where he structured, marketed and executed risk management solutions for corporate clients in the energy and transportation industries.

Prior to joining Citicorp, Mr. Costa practiced law at Debevoise & Plimpton where he represented private equity sponsors in capital raising, fund structuring and portfolio company acquisition, disposition, restructuring and securities transactions. Before practicing law Mr. Costa was a Senior Accountant at Coopers and Lybrand, where he worked in both the audit and tax departments.

Mr. Costa received a B.S. from Fairfield University and a J.D. degree magna cum laude from New York University School of Law. He is a C.P.A.


Arthur J. Gartland, Jr.

Mr. Gartland is a founder of BGC. His focus is equity capital raising for investment partnerships. He has more than twenty years of investment banking experience including extensive background in private placements, project finance, leasing, high yield securities, financial restructuring and merchant banking.

Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Gartland was a Managing Director of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Incorporated and a shareholder of its parent company, Kidder, Peabody Group, Inc. At Kidder, Peabody, Mr. Gartland was the senior officer responsible for marketing and sales of high yield securities.

Prior to Kidder, Peabody, Mr. Gartland was a Director of Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. and a Managing Director within its Investment Banking Division. He also managed that firm's private placement, project finance, leasing, regulated industries and healthcare finance groups. In addition, he was President of several Dean Witter subsidiaries which served as the general partner of various investment partnerships having aggregate equity capital in excess of $100 million.

While at Dean Witter, Mr. Gartland was responsible for a number of innovative financings, one of which was selected by Institutional Investor as among the "Deals of the Year".

Before joining Dean Witter, Mr. Gartland was an Associate with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in its Corporate Finance Department, specializing in private placements and project finance.

Mr. Gartland received a B.A. from Boston College and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He served on active duty as an officer in the United States Marine Corps.


Jude T. Gartland

Mr. Gartland joined BGC in 1996. His focus is equity capital raising for investment partnerships. Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Gartland was a Senior Vice President of Lehman Brothers, where he was the Chief Technology Officer for the Investment Banking Division. He was responsible for creating and implementing an advanced information strategy for the business, and providing a complete range of technology services globally to the firm’s investment banking professionals and related support staff.

Prior to Lehman Brothers, Mr. Gartland was a consultant to large financial institutions applying a wide variety of advanced technologies to improve operating efficiencies, achieve cost reductions, enhance product and service quality, and attain significant competitive advantage.

Mr. Gartland received an A.B. from Harvard University, and a J.D. degree from Boston College Law School.


Charles B. Mobus, Jr.

Mr. Mobus joined BGC in 1994 and became a shareholder in 1998. He is one of two senior partners who lead the Firm’s general corporate finance practice. Mr. Mobus has substantial experience in financial restructuring, M&A, growth capital financing and high yield securities, including distressed. While at BGC, Mr. Mobus has led numerous restructuring assignments on behalf of both debtors and creditors, as well as many M&A and growth capital transactions. Notable clients have included the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee of Geneva Steel, Inc., the Secured Creditors’ Committee of DESA International, Inc., RSL COM U.S.A., Inc., Imrex, LLC, The National Gypsum Company Settlement Trust, International Airline Support Group, Phoenix Information Systems and USAfrica Airways.

Mr. Mobus also initiated and leads BGC’s efforts at establishing a meaningful corporate finance practice centered on China. His China-centric assignments in recent years have included advising (i) Hainan Airline Group, the fourth-largest airline in China, in connection with raising expansion capital within or outside China, and (ii) BGC fundraising client, Transpac Capital, on the sale of a large minority interest in Eastern Multimedia Corporation (“EMC”), Taiwan’s second-largest cable TV operator, coincident with the (not fully coordinated) sale of a controlling interest in EMC to a consortium that in accordance with local law was precluded from buying 100% of EMC’s shares. Mr. Mobus currently is leading several China-centric assignments involving work, variously, with (x) a leading Mexican textile manufacturer in connection with potential acquisitions in China, (y) a leading U.S. distressed securities firm on purchases of non-performing loans and recovery of capital in China, and (z) a portfolio company of a U.S. private equity firm in connection with a potential sale of a minority interest to a Chinese company in order to create a cargo aircraft leasing firm with worldwide sourcing and distribution capabilities.

Immediately prior to joining BGC, Mr. Mobus was a Managing Director in the Financial Restructuring and Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Smith Barney, Inc. and prior to that worked as a Vice President at Kidder, Peabody & Co., Inc. where he executed a substantial number of M&A assignments, in many cases on behalf of leading LBO firms.

Mr. Mobus received a B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University.


William S. Moller

Mr. Moller joined BGC in 2006 as an Analyst. His focus is on supporting the firm’s capital raising efforts, including due diligence and financial analytics.

Mr. Moller received a B.A. in Economics and Music from Kenyon College.


Jenifer K. Parker

Ms. Parker joined BGC in May 2000 as a result of its merger with Investment Strategies International, Inc./Saugatuck Securities, Inc. (“ISI/Saugatuck”). She has more than 10 years of capital market and treasury management experience and she currently serves as the firm’s Chief Financial Officer and Financial Operations Principal, the position she also held at ISI/Saugatuck. Prior to assuming her role as Chief Financial Officer and Financial Operations Principal at BGC, Ms. Parker served as the firm’s Chief Compliance Officer and also focused on raising equity capital for partnerships that invest in publicly-traded securities.

Prior to ISI/Saugatuck, Ms. Parker was Director of Treasury for Gartner Group, Inc. where she was responsible for managing the company’s cash position, investment portfolio, and investment accounting process. She also coordinated the funding of mergers and acquisition transactions and the resulting integration of treasury functions.

Ms. Parker has held various positions in treasury management within the banking industry, serving as Treasurer of China Trust Bank of New York and Investment Portfolio/Treasury Manager of Eastman Kodak Company’s affiliate bank, Eastman Savings and Loan Association. She was Manager for The Bank of Nova Scotia on the capital markets desk responsible for executing interest rate swaps and options with corporate clients.

Ms. Parker received a B.A. from Miami University of Ohio and an M.B.A. from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Rochester.


Russell P. Pennoyer

Mr. Pennoyer joined BGC in 1993 and became a shareholder in 1995. His focus is equity capital raising for investment partnerships. His fundraising assignments have included the Candover 1994, 1997, 2001 and 2005 funds; Fulham Investors I and II; WestView Capital Partners; and Forward Ventures IV and V.

Prior to joining BGC, Mr. Pennoyer was an executive of American Exploration Company, an energy buyout firm. He previously served as an associate with Davis Polk & Wardwell and held a variety of positions with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York.

He is a trustee of the Achelis, Bodman and William T. Grant Foundations, and of the New-York Historical Society.

Mr. Pennoyer received an A.B. from Harvard College and a J.D. from Columbia University School of Law.


Paul A. Rahn

Mr. Rahn joined BGC in 1994 and has spent his entire time at the Firm working in its general corporate finance practice, in recent years working in particularly close association with Mr. Mobus. In such capacity, Mr. Rahn has made important contributions to assignments BGC has executed on behalf of Hainan Airlines Group, Transpac Capital, the Unsecured Creditors’ Committee of Geneva Steel, RSL COM U.S.A., Inc., The National Gypsum Company Settlement Trust, Imrex, LLC, International Airline Support Group, Phoenix Information Systems, Potomac Capital Investment Corp., USAfrica Airways and O’Sullivan Menu Publishing, among others. He currently is playing a senior support role in connection with all aspects of BGC’s initiative to establish a corporate finance practice centered on China and together with Mr. Mobus has spent substantial time in greater China over the past several years.

Immediately prior to joining BGC, Mr. Rahn worked as an Investment Manager at Capricorn Management, G.P., a private equity firm specializing in growth capital financings and buyouts. While there, he completed a number of investments on the firm’s behalf and worked closely with management teams and boards of directors to develop and implement corporate growth strategies. Prior thereto, Mr. Rahn was a Vice President in the Corporate Finance Department of Chemical Bank where he was involved in transactions of various types, including M&A, private equity financings, leveraged buyouts, and financial restructurings. He has more than 22 years of investment banking experience overall.

Mr. Rahn received a B.A. in Economics from Carleton College and an M.B.A. from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.