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Kyle Bradford joined American Capital in March 2002 and is a Principal in the Dallas Buyout Group. He is responsible for originating, executing and managing investments in middle-market companies across a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare services, life sciences, medical devices, and consumer products, among others. Mr. Bradford currently is Chairman of American Capital portfolio companies Value Plastics and ECA Medical, serves on the board of directors of The Meadows and Unwired Technology, and is a board observer of Scientific Protein Laboratories.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Bradford worked in the Technology Investment Banking Division of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. At Salomon, Mr. Bradford specialized in equity and debt underwriting and merger and acquisition advisory assignments for companies in various technology sectors. Before Salomon, he worked in the Syndicated Finance Group of Banc of America Securities in New York.

Mr. Bradford received a Masters in Professional Accounting and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Managing Director Profile, Sponsor Finance Team

Bowen Diehl joined American Capital in October 2001 as a Vice President in the Dallas office, was promoted to Principal in 2004, and then promoted to Managing Director in January, 2007 where he is now responsible for the Sponsor Finance Group for the Western Offices for American Capital (Dallas and Chicago). While at American Capital, Mr. Diehl has completed transactions and managed investments in healthcare (including pharmaceutical/life sciences, healthcare/pharma services and behavioral health), business services, consumer finance and industrial manufacturing. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Diehl was a Vice President in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch where he focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory assignments, as well as public debt and equity offerings for companies in the southwest United States. While at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Diehl gained experience working with companies in the exploration and production, oilfield services, natural gas pipeline, natural gas gathering and processing, homebuilding and semiconductor sectors. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Diehl was with Chase Securities, Inc. from 1995 to January 2000, most recently as a Vice President in the Global Oil and Gas Group. Mr. Diehl is currently Chairman of the Boards of Scientific Protein Laboratories, and Meadows of Wickenburg, serves as a member of the Boards of TestAmerica Holdings, Inc., and Forba (d/b/a Small Smiles), as well as serves as an observer to the Board of Tensar Holdings, Inc.

Mr. Diehl holds a Bachelor of Engineering with majors in Environmental/Geotechnical Engineering and Economics from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Diehl also holds a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.

Todd Friant joined American Capital in July 2005 as part of Energy Team in the Dallas office. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Friant was a Director at Hunt Resources, where he spent two years assisting in the build-out of Hunt Consolidated's (holding company for the oil and real estate businesses of Ray Hunt), energy-focused private equity initiative. While at Hunt, Mr. Friant originated, evaluated and managed a broad range of investments across all energy sectors. Prior to Hunt, Mr. Friant worked at Simmons and Company International in Houston, Texas where he specialized in merger and acquisition advisory assignments principally for oil field service companies. Before this, Mr. Friant worked at Salomon Smith Barney in the Financial Entrepreneur's Investment Banking Division in New York. At Salomon, Mr. Friant specialized in equity and debt underwriting and merger and acquisition advisory assignments for private equity groups across all industries.

Mr. Friant's responsibilities include serving on the Boards of Directors of Explorer Pipeline Company, Dynojet Research, Inc., Fosbel Holdings Ltd., and LVI Holdings, LLC. Mr. Friant has previously served on the Boards of Consolidated Utility Services, Inc., BPWest, Inc., Pacific Handy Cutter, Inc., and Fleischmann’s Vinegar Company, Inc.

Todd earned a B.B.A. in Accounting and an M.S. in Finance, summa cum laude from Texas A&M University.

Douglas Kelley joined American Capital’s Dallas office in 2004 and is a Principal in the Sponsor Finance Group. He is responsible for originating, executing, and managing debt and minority equity investments in partnership with other financial sponsors. Mr. Kelley has made debt and equity investments in private companies within a range of industries including food, healthcare, technology, and energy services. Mr. Kelley serves on the board of directors or as board observer of several American Capital investments, including Corrpro, Hospitality Mints, CreditCards.com and Direct Mail Holding. He previously served on the board of directors of BPWest.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Kelley was an Associate at J.P. Morgan in its Los Angeles-based investment banking practice; was an Associate and founding member of the Los Angeles office of The Beacon Group, a New York-based merchant banking firm which managed over $2 billion of private equity capital and provided strategic advisory services to both middle-market and Fortune 500 clients; and was a Financial Analyst in the New York-based leveraged finance group of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Kelley holds M.B.A. and B.B.A. degrees from the McCombs School at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Managing Director Profile, Energy Group

Kevin W. Kuykendall joined American Capital in April 2003. In January 2005, Mr. Kuykendall was placed in charge of building an energy investing effort for American Capital. Mr. Kuykendall was promoted to Managing Director in 2006 and now leads a team of energy-focused investment professionals based in Dallas, Texas.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Kuykendall was a Director in the Principal Investments Group of Enron Corp., where he spent seven years originating, executing, managing, and exiting a wide variety of energy-related investments, including leveraged buyouts, asset breakups, and early-stage direct equity investments in the exploration and production, oilfield services, coal, utility services, power, and power technology sectors.

Mr. Kuykendall currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Innova-Extel Acquisition Holdings, Inc., Fosbel Inc., Dynojet Research, Inc., ADF Holdings, Inc., LVI Holdings, Inc. as well as a board member of CMX Consulting, Inc., in addition to having served on 14 other Boards of Directors over portions of the past 15 years.

Kevin earned an M.B.A. with a Finance Concentration from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.B.A. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.

Jeff MacDowell joined American Capital in April 2001 as a Principal in the Dallas office and was promoted to Managing Director in 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. MacDowell was Vice President - Finance and Corporate Development of Dynamex Inc., a publicly-traded same-day transportation company with $250 million in revenues. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. MacDowell was with BACE Industries, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in industry consolidations. During his tenure at BACE, Mr. MacDowell was Vice President of RentX Industries, Inc., an equipment rental industry consolidator.

Prior to joining BACE, Mr. MacDowell was with Banque Paribas from 1991 to 1996 as a Vice President in the Merchant Banking Group where he focused on senior debt financings primarily for private equity sponsors. While at Paribas, Mr. MacDowell was involved in financing commitments that totaled in excess of $800 million. Prior to Paribas, Mr. MacDowell was with CS First Boston in the Dallas Investment Banking group where he gained corporate finance experience in initial public offerings, public equity and debt offerings, private debt placements, M&A, and corporate restructurings. While at First Boston, Mr. MacDowell was involved in financings that totaled in excess of $1.8 billion.

Mr. MacDowell graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Fernando Ruiz joined American Capital in October 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Fernando held management positions in sourcing for the GE Consumer and Industrial Division in Puerto Rico and GE Appliances in Mexico. Fernando was responsible for leading and developing sourcing strategies to deliver 10%+ productivity goals on a material spend base of $280 million. Moreover, he simplified the supply chain process by consolidating the vendor base and reducing order to delivery lead-time to 5 days. He started his professional career as production engineer and ISO 9000 auditor at Mabe, which is a Mexican joint venture entity with GE Appliances. Fernando is certified Green Belt in Six Sigma.

Fernando received his MBA from a joint program between Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (Glendale, Arizona) and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, NL. Mexico). He earned his B.S. Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro (Queretaro, Qro, Mexico). Fernando lives in Plano, Texas.

Adam Stern joined American Capital in May 2005 and is a Principal in the Dallas Buyout Group. He is responsible for originating, executing and managing investments in middle-market companies across a variety of sectors, including consumer products, business services, healthcare and industrial manufacturing. Mr. Stern currently serves on the board of directors of Pacific Handy Cutter and is a board observer of Rug Doctor and Imaging Business Machines.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Stern was an Associate in Dallas at The Riverside Company, a New York-based private equity firm with approximately $3 billion under management. Before The Riverside Company, he worked at Park Avenue Equity Partners, a New York-based private equity firm with approximately $300 million under management and The Chart Group, a New York-based merchant banking firm. He began his career in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers in the Natural Resources and Power Group.

Mr. Stern graduated with high honors from the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business, where he earned a BBA in Accounting and a MPA in Taxation. He has passed all four parts of the certified public accountancy exam.

Marshall White joined American Capital in October 2004 and is a Vice President in the Dallas office.  He is responsible for evaluating and executing mezzanine investments and buyouts and monitoring certain portfolio companies.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. White spent over two years in the Industrials and Transportation Investment Banking group at JPMorgan in New York.  While at JPMorgan, Mr. White focused on merger and acquisitions for large-cap industrial companies.  He also worked with several Class I railroad companies on various debt offerings and acquisition financings.

Mr. White graduated with a Bachelor of Science and Administration from Georgetown University in May 2002.

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.