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.