KBRO - Investment Banking Team

Mr. Bennani manages the investment banking department's day-to-day operations. He has worked on numerous financing and M&A advisory transactions totaling more than $2 billion. Mr. Bennani joined Kaufman Bros. in 1995 from Barington Capital, L.P.'s investment banking department. His responsibilities ranged from public and private financing transactions to general financial advisory for mergers and acquisition, restructuring, acquisition financing and recapitalization. His primary industry focus was technology. Mr. Bennani received a MBA in international finance from New York University's Stern School of Business. He also received his Masters in computer science as well as a BS in mathematics and physics from the University of Pierre and Marie Curie in Paris.

Mr. Bingham is responsible for the department's efforts in the software industry. Mr. Bingham joined Kaufman Bros. in 2000 from ING Barings in New York, where he was a director in the mergers and acquisitions group. At ING Barings, he was responsible for structuring and executing corporate advisory transactions. Prior to joining ING Barings, Mr. Bingham was a Vice President at Nomura Securities International in New York, where he was a senior member of several product areas. As a member of the high-yield department, he was responsible for structuring and executing high-yield debt and proprietary bridge loans. As a member of the Corporate Finance Department, he was responsible for structuring and executing a public and private equity offerings. As a member of the mergers and acquisitions Department, he was responsible for structuring and executing M&A and advisory assignments for US listed companies. Mr. Bingham holds an MBA from Northeastern University in Boston and a BA from Columbia University in New York.

Before joining Kaufman Bros., Mr. Rutter served as Executive Vice President and Co-Founder of Square 1 Bank, a de novo commercial bank formed in 2005 and focused on emerging growth technology companies. Prior to Square 1, he worked in venture capital and fund-of-funds investment management, serving as President of Comerica Ventures and Comerica Capital Advisors and as President of Imperial Ventures and Imperial Creditcorp. Mr. Rutter also co-founded and served as Senior Vice President of the Special Markets Group/Emerging Growth Division at Imperial Bank in Silicon Valley, a venture-banking practice providing secured credit facilities, bridge loans, and acquisition financing to venture capital-backed technology companies. Mr. Rutter was also active in financing technology startups while working as an Assistant Vice President in the Technology Group at Silicon Valley Bank. Mr. Rutter received his A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University in Palo Alto, CA and an M.S.F.S. in Foreign Service (International Trade & Finance) from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.

Prior to joining Kaufman Bros., Mr. Colley was an associate in Gilford Securities' corporate finance department. While at Gilford Securities, Mr. Colley was responsible for the evaluation, structuring and execution of both public and private transactions in the technology arena. Mr. Colley was also involved with Gilford Securities' merger and acquisition advisory business. Prior to joining Gilford Securities, Mr. Colley was an analyst in the merchant banking group at MBF Capital Corp., where he worked on principal investment transactions and provided advisory services to the technology and communications industries. Mr. Colley received his B.B.A. degree with a concentration in finance from the University of San Diego School of Business.

Mr. Johannesen became a securities analyst in 1996 for Bodri Capital Management, a $600 million hedge fund in Palo Alto, CA before joining Pacific Heights Capital Management in San Francisco in 1998. Soon after, Mr. Johannesen became a writer and editor focusing on technology for sectorbase.com, a financial portal and research tool aimed at institutional investors. He then joined MK Global Ventures, a $200 million venture capital fund, as an associate in March 2000 and was named General Partner in January 2001. There, he served on the boards of four companies including Cross Access Corp. a privately-held enterprise software company and StratEdge a privately-held semiconductor packaging company. Mr. Johannesen holds a Bachelor's degree in communications from Stanford University.

Prior to founding MK Global Ventures, a $200 million venture capital fund, in 1987, Mr. Kaufman spent six years as a general partner of Oak Investment Partners, where he was involved in the formation of numerous technology companies and served as founding investor and director of Businessland, Davox, Katun, Easel, Ekco, Interlan and Ziyad, among others. Prior to becoming an Oak Partner, Mr. Kaufman was president and COO of Centronics Data Corp., a $150 million NYSE-listed manufacturer of computer-related printing devices. He was also a senior financial executive with Xerox Corporation for 13 years and an engineer with Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation for the first five years of his career. Mr. Kaufman holds a BS degree in mechanical engineering and an MS degree in industrial management and finance from the Polytechnic University of New York.

Jim O'Neill - Senior Vice President of Investment Banking

joneill@kbro.com

Mr. O'Neill has worked in investment banking since 1998, joining Kaufman Bros., L.P. in 2007 as a Senior Vice President. Prior to joining Kaufman Bros., Mr. O’Neill was a Senior Vice President at Brinson Patrick raising capital primarily for mortgage finance and commercial real estate companies. Mr. O’Neill was also previously employed at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc. and Scotia Capital, the investment banking division of the Bank of Nova Scotia, working on advisory, mergers and acquisitions and equity and debt capital raising mandates. Mr. O'Neill received his M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University and his degree in Accounting from the University of Scranton. He earned his C.P.A. in the State of New Jersey.