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Malon Wilkus is the founder, Chairman, and CEO of American Capital, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ACAS). American Capital, with $20 billion in capital resources under management, is the only private equity fund and the largest alternative asset management company in the S&P 500. American Capital, both directly and through its global asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in private equity, leveraged finance, real estate and structured products. American Capital and its affiliates invest from $5 million to $800 million per company in North America and €5 million to €500 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 with capital resources of approximately $2.5 billion. 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.

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.

Mr. Burge joined American Capital's Investment Committee in 2007 after serving as Partner from 1998 until 2007 at Norwest Equity Partners, a private equity fund affiliated with Wells Fargo & Co. with over $2 Billion under management. There he was responsible for all aspects of investment activities and participated on numerous boards of directors. Prior to Norwest, in 1995, he co-founded Wells Fargo Equity Capital, which was then later merged with Norwest. Before Wells Fargo Equity, he was Managing General Partner at Wedbush Capital Partners where he managed a private equity fund and oversaw investment activities. Prior to Wedbush, Mr. Burge worked in commercial banking for Wells Fargo & Co. and Security Pacific Bank where he primarily worked on providing senior debt to leveraged buyout transactions. Mr. Burge holds a B.S. in Finance from San Diego State University and an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

John Erickson joined American Capital as Chief Financial Officer in January of 1998. He has more than 15 years of finance and accounting experience in private and public company settings.

Mr. Erickson spent nearly eight years with Storage USA, Inc. (NYSE:SUS) and its related subsidiaries. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and managed Storage USA's capitalization growth from $30 million to more than $1 billion during his tenure. Mr. Erickson negotiated and structured in excess of $750 million in public and private debt and equity offerings for Storage USA including its initial public offering. In addition to his capital raising activities, Mr. Erickson developed the business plan, structured and served as President of Storage USA Franchise Corp., a subsidiary which provides franchise services to the self-storage industry.

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 re-joined American Capital in October, 1997 as a Principal and has over 20 years of experience as an investment banker and entrepreneur. Prior to re-joining American Capital, Mr. Wagner was a Senior Vice President at MONY Capital Markets, a specialty investment banking firm which arranged private financing primarily for companies in the food industry. While at MONY Capital Markets he was responsible for arranging financing in excess of $200 million for numerous companies. In May 2001 Mr. Wagner was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. In July 2008 he became President, European Private Finance.

Prior to joining MONY Capital Markets, Mr. Wagner was employed by American Capital from 1986 to 1988, where he was responsible for the successful employee buyout of North Coast Brass.

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 joined American Capital in July 2001 as a Principal, was promoted to Managing Director and became a member of the Investment Committee in 2004, and was promoted to Regional Managing Director in 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Graff was a Principal with Odyssey Investment Partners, a $760 million private equity fund specializing in leveraged buy-outs and growth financings for middle-market companies. Prior to Odyssey, Mr. Graff was a Senior Vice President of GE Equity, where he was responsible for direct equity investments in the form of LBOs, LBUs and growth financings. Prior to GE, Mr. Graff was a Director of Mergers & Acquisitions at Automatic Data Processing, Inc.

He started his career with Coopers & Lybrand where he worked as a Certified Public Accountant, spending six years in various corporate finance and business assurance positions that focused on middle-market companies.

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. 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 CIVCO Holdings, Chronic Care Solutions, FMI International, HMS Healthcare Trinity Hospice, Case Logic, and A.H. Harris.

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.