OUR PEOPLE

Malon Wilkus is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of American Capital, Ltd. (Nasdaq: ACAS). American Capital has $101 billion in assets under management and, both directly and through its global asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate and structured products. Mr. Wilkus has also been the Chairman of European Capital Limited, a private equity and mezzanine fund, since its formation in 2005. American Capital and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $ 500 million per company in North America and €5 million to €100 million per company in Europe.

Mr. Wilkus is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC), a real estate investment trust (REIT) formed in 2008.  American Capital Agency invests exclusively in agency securities for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. Government agency or a U.S. Government-sponsored entity.

Mr. Wilkus is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE), a real estate investment trust (REIT) formed in 2011. MTGE is a mortgage REIT that invests in and manages a leveraged portfolio of agency mortgage investments, non-agency mortgage investments and other mortgage-related investments.

Mr. Wilkus is the Chairman of American Capital, LLC, the fund management portfolio company of American Capital, Ltd.

He has served on the board of over a dozen middle market companies in various industries.

John Erickson joined American Capital as Chief Financial Officer in January 1998 and was named President, Structured Products in 2008. Mr. Erickson serves on American Capital’s investment committee and he has more than 25 years of finance and accounting experience in private and public company settings.

Mr. Erickson is also the Chief Financial Officer of American Capital Agency Corp., a real estate investment trust (“REIT”) formed in 2008 and publicly traded on the NASDAQ (Ticker: “AGNC”).  American Capital Agency invests exclusively in agency pass-through securities and collateralized mortgage obligations for which the principal and interest payments are guaranteed by a U.S. Government agency or a U.S. Government-sponsored entity.

Gordon O'Brien joined American Capital in October 1998 as a Principal, was promoted to Managing Director in 2001 and became a member of the Investment Committee in 2002. In July 2008 he was named to his current position. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. O'Brien was Vice President at Pennington Partners & Company, a private equity firm with $90 million under management. There, Mr. O'Brien was responsible for structuring private equity investments, conducting due diligence, negotiating debt agreements and managing portfolio companies.

Prior to his tenure at Pennington Partners, Mr. O'Brien worked at Golder, Thoma, Cressey, Rauner, Inc., a private equity firm with $700 million under management and before that at Chemical Bank in Chicago. Before joining Chemical, Mr. O'Brien was co-owner of a door manufacturing company in Australia. Mr. O'Brien has participated in various transactions in the funeral home, food service, institutional pharmacy, logistics and cable and wire industries.

Mr. O'Brien holds a graduate degree in business from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business.

Ira Wagner initially joined American Capital Ltd. in 1986 and rejoined in October 1997 as a Principal. In May 2001, Mr. Wagner was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of American Capital and in August 2008 he became President, European Private Finance. In these roles, Mr. Wagner was instrumental in the growth of American Capital from 2001 and also led the development of American Capital’s European private finance platform beginning in 2004, being named President of European Capital Financial Services in 2005. In addition, Mr. Wagner led the development of American Capital’s Syndications Team in New York beginning in 2005, which is responsible for placing senior debt underwritten by American Capital, and managed the CLO platform, also in New York, also beginning in 2005.

Before Mr. Wagner rejoined American Capital in 1997 he was a Senior Vice President at MONY Capital Markets, a specialty investment banking firm in which he was responsible for arranging financing for numerous companies primarily in the food and natural resources industries.

Prior to earning his M.B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985, Mr. Wagner was the co-founder of a business which distributed imported auto parts in western New England from 1975 through 1982.

Samuel A. Flax joined American Capital in January, 2005, as its Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He also serves as the company's corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Flax was a senior partner in the corporate and securities practice group of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. At Arnold & Porter, Mr. Flax was American Capital's principal external counsel since before the company's 1997 initial public offering. As outside counsel, Mr. Flax represented American Capital in raising more than $4.5 billion in debt and equity capital, advised the company on corporate, securities and other legal matters and represented the company in many of its investment transactions. At Arnold & Porter, Mr. Flax also represented a variety of other clients in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings of sovereign and other debt, real estate investments and bankruptcy matters.

Mr. Flax joined Arnold & Porter in 1985 and became a partner in 1990. He is a graduate of the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review, and received his undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech. Following graduation from law school, he was a law clerk for the Hon. H. Emory Widener, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.

Roland Cline has worked as a principal at American Capital since 1988, during which time he has led or participated in dozens of merger and acquisition transactions. Prior to American Capital's IPO in 1997, Mr. Cline orchestrated change-of-control ESOP and management buyout transactions. He led seven, post-IPO portfolio investments involving $209 million of ACAS funding which yielded a 19.0% weighted-average, realized IRR. Mr. Cline has served as a director at 10 American Capital portfolio companies during the past 10 years. He was promoted to Managing Director of the San Francisco office in 2001 and became a member of the Investment Committee in 2002. Mr. Cline was seconded to the Paris office in 2005.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Cline founded and directed an advisory firm that specialized in leveraged buyouts and other investment banking services, and undertook a limited engagement to provide investment banking and privatization services in Eastern Europe. Prior to that Mr. Cline worked for the Industrial Cooperative Association where he led his first leveraged ESOP buyout in 1985. From 1979 to 1983, he was Director of Technical Assistance at the Institute of Public Administration where he developed turnaround business plans for manufacturing firms. From 1976 to 1979, Mr. Cline held management positions in market research and business planning at the Alberto Culver Company and at International Harvester.

Mr. Cline earned a B.A. in 1970 and an M.B.A. in 1976, both at the University of Wisconsin at Madison.

Mr. Graff has served as a Senior Vice President since 2004 and as a Senior Managing Director since 2008.  From 2005 to 2008 he served as a Regional Managing Director and from 2004 to 2005 he served as a Managing Director.  Mr. Graff also served as a Vice President and Principal from 2001 to 2004.

From 2000 to 2001, he was a Principal of Odyssey Investments Partners, a private equity fund.

Mr. Graff holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from the State University of New York at Binghamton and an M.B.A. from NYU's Stern School of Business.

Darin Winn joined American Capital in August 1998 as a Principal opening our Dallas office, was promoted to Managing Director in 2001, became a member of the Investment Committee in 2002 and was promoted to Regional Managing Director in 2005 and then to Senior Managing Director in 2008. Mr. Winn leads the Dallas office with a team of eleven investment professionals; that team is responsible for managing a portfolio of thirteen investments comprising approximately $285 million in assets. Mr. Winn is Chairman of American Capital portfolio company Network for Medical Communication & Research and serves on the board of directors of A.H. Harris, Case Logic, Chronic Care Solutions, CIVCO Holdings, ECA Medical, FMI International, Future Food LP, HMS Healthcare, Trinity Hospice, and Value Plastics, Inc.

Prior to joining American Capital, from 1995 to 1998 Mr. Winn was with Stratford Capital Partners, a $130 million mezzanine and equity fund controlled by Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. While with Stratford, Mr. Winn closed 17 mezzanine and equity transactions totaling more than $60 million. Prior to Stratford Capital, Mr. Winn was a member of GE Capital's Southwest Corporate Finance Group where he focused on transactions involving senior debt financing opportunities. While at GE, Mr. Winn was involved in financings which totaled in excess of $1.4 billion. Prior to GE, Mr. Winn was a member of Dean Witter Reynolds' Southwest Corporate Finance Group where he gained experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, and public offerings and private placements of both debt and equity.

Mr. Winn holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.