John E. Mack III is Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Investment Banking and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Imperial Capital. Mr. Mack joined Imperial Capital in 2008 as part of the firm’s acquisition of certain assets of USBX Inc., an investment banking firm focused on mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Mack was founder and Chief Executive Officer of USBX. Prior to USBX, Mr. Mack served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Protection One, Inc. (NASDAQ: PONE), then the nation's second largest provider of life safety and property monitoring services. Prior to assuming the role of CEO, Mr. Mack held the positions of Chief Financial Officer, Chief Strategy Officer and Executive Vice President of Business Development, where he was involved in over 200 acquisitions and oversaw the company’s growth from approximately 30,000 subscribers and $17 million in revenue to more than 1.6 million subscribers, $600 million in revenue and an enterprise value of over $2 billion. Before joining Protection One, Mr. Mack was a Senior Executive Officer with Westec Security, Inc. and prior to Westec he was a Senior Executive Officer with MCM, Inc., dba FAFCO Solar of Northern California. Mr. Mack earned a B.A. from Stanford University and an M.B.A from the University of California at Los Angeles.

Chris Shepard is Executive Vice President, Co-Head of Corporate Finance and Head of Capital Markets at Imperial Capital. Based in Los Angeles, Mr. Shepard has over 15 years experience in financings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings. He has advised on over $5 billion in transactions in a wide range of industries, including healthcare, telecom, industrial, consumer, media, technology, energy, gaming and transportation. Prior to joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Shepard was an Associate at the Los Angeles office of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, a New York-based corporate law firm, where he specialized in public securities and mergers and acquisitions transactions. Mr. Shepard received his B.S. with a concentration in Accounting, an M.B.A. and his J.D. from the University of Michigan.

Allen Stern is Managing Director, Capital Markets, Investment Banking Group in the Los Angeles office of Imperial Capital. He has over 25 years of experience advising boards and management teams on debt and equity capital markets, merger and acquisitions and restructurings. Mr. Stern has significant relationships within the institutional community including financial sponsors, hedge funds, mezzanine funds and senior lenders. Before joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Stern was a Senior Vice President in the corporate real estate finance division of the Binswanger Company. Prior, he was a Vice President in the leveraged leasing/equipment and project finance arm of B.O.T Financial. Mr. Stern received a B.S. degree in Economics from Northeastern University in Boston.

Erich Hobelmann is Vice President, Investment Banking Group in Imperial Capital’s New York Office. Mr. Hobelmann advises on a variety of restructuring, M&A, capital raising and valuation matters. In addition, Mr. Hobelmann has extensive transaction experience within Imperial Capital’s Alternative Energy and Industrials industry verticals. Prior to joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Hobelmann worked in the Financial Restructuring Group at Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin where he focused on a variety of debtor and creditor side financial restructuring engagements and distressed M&A transactions. Mr. Hobelmann received his B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance and Business Economics from the University of Southern California.

Russell Brumpton is Vice President, Investment Banking, based out of the Los Angeles office of Imperial Capital. Prior to joining Imperial Capital, Mr. Brumpton was employed by Standard & Poor’s Corporate Value Consulting division, where he performed business and intangible asset valuations for companies in a variety of industries for the purposes of financial reporting, tax and internal restructuring. Prior to Standard & Poors, Mr. Brumpton was in the assurance and business advisory group at PricewaterhouseCoopers and was an analyst at Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Brumpton received his B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.