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Greg Benning

Managing Director & Co-Founder gbenning@benningLLC.com

Greg is a career middle market investment banker with over 20 years of client advisory and transactional experience. He has managed and executed over 150 M&A, divestiture and financing transactions, with proceeds totaling over $15B.

Previously, Mr. Benning was Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for the emerging growth investment bank, Adams Harkness, and a partner-level banker at the regional investment bank, Tucker Anthony. Most recently, he launched the Northeast US middle market M&A practices for Barrington Associates and A.G.Edwards & Sons, both now parts of Wells Fargo Bank.

Mr. Benning is an acknowledged expert on M&A transaction markets, deal structures and acquisition finance, and has presented, spoken and written for organizations including ACG Boston, the Angel Capital Association, Babson College, Boston University, Corporate Board Member, Ernst & Young, IBF's Venture Capital Summit, the Nantucket Conference, the National Association of Corporate Directors, Thomson Financial and YCombinator. He has also regularly participated in the professional development programs of several regional and national law firms, covering topics including imbedded derivatives in M&A deal structures, earnouts and contingent payment structures, and fairness opinion best practices.

Mr. Benning has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, and a B.A. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania, where he was Captain of the Heavyweight Crew. He is a Series 24 Registered Securities Principal and Registered Securities Representative (Series 7, 63, 79) with BML Securities LLC. Greg is married with two children, a competitive master-level rower, and an avid salt water fly fisherman.

Robert Roose

Vice President rroose@benningLLC.com

Robert Roose is a Vice President at Benning Associates, where he is responsible for transaction origination and execution. Prior to joining BA, Robert worked in the Investment Banking Department of Cowen and Company in New York, where he was responsible for the execution of private and public offerings as well as M&A transactions in the health care industry. Prior to joining Cowen and Company, Robert held roles in the Investment Banking Division of Canaccord Adams as well as the Economic Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.

Robert graduated from Wesleyan University with Honors in Economics. He was also a 2X All-New England wrestler for Wesleyan. He is a Registered Securities Representative (Series 7, 63, 79) with BML Securities LLC.

Miles Littlefield

Associate mlittlefield@benningLLC.com

Miles Littlefield is an Associate at Benning Associates, where he is responsible for transaction execution. Prior to joining BA, Mr. Littlefield worked as a Senior Analyst with Barrington Associates, where he helped launch the firm's northeast middle market M&A practice. While at Barrington he worked on a number of transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, recapitalizations, and fairness opinions. Before Barrington, he worked as an Analyst with Innovation Advisors, a middle market, technology focused investment bank. As an analyst, Mr. Littlefield helped provide M&A advisory services to clients in the Software and IT Services sectors.

Mr. Littlefield graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a B.A. degree in International Relations.

Matthew Brochu

Associate mbrochu@benningLLC.com

Matthew Brochu is an Associate at Benning Associates, where he is responsible for transaction execution. Prior to joining BA, Matthew worked as an investment banking analyst for Covington Associates, where he focused on numerous sell-side, buy-side, and capital raising transactions. Prior to joining Covington Associates, Matthew worked as an analyst in A.G. Edwards' Boston office supporting the Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Institutions and Real Estate, and Emerging Growth groups. In addition, Matthew worked for Knob Hill Partners, a private equity search firm, conducting investment analyses, financial modeling and valuation, and deal sourcing, and as a summer research associate for Fidelity Investments, conducting mutual fund research for Fidelity's Strategic Advisers Group.

Matthew graduated from Babson College with a B.S. in Finance. He also played Division III Varsity soccer for Babson.

James Remington

Managing Director & Co-Founder jremington@benningLLC.com

Jay is a mergers and acquisitions specialist whose 14-year banking career includes extensive middle market transaction experience with training in the Health Care, Retail, and Technology industry groups at bulge-bracket firms. Mr. Remington has worked on more than 30 successful advisory and capital markets transactions valued in aggregate at more than $22 billion.

Prior to BA, Mr. Remington was a Principal at Wells Fargo Middle Market (formerly Barrington Associates) in Boston, a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group of Houlihan Lokey, a middle market investment bank in Los Angeles, and an M&A specialist at emerging growth investment bank Adams Harkness. Earlier in his career, Jay worked in Merrill Lynch's Global Healthcare Group and Retail Group and in Lehman Brothers' Global Technology Group.

Mr. Remington earned an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in Physics from Brown University, where he was a four year member of the Varsity Wrestling Team. Mr. Remington is a General Securities Registered Representative licensed with FINRA. He serves on the Board of Visitors for the Fenn School in Concord, Mass., and formerly chaired the Annual Fund for the Kent School in Kent, Conn. Mr. Remington lives with his wife and sons near Boston.

He is a Registered Securities Representative (Series 7, 63, 79) with BML Securities LLC.

Peter Cahill

Managing Director pcahill@benningLLC.com

Pete has eleven years of investment banking client advisory and transactional experience. He began his career at the emerging growth specialist Adams Harkness where he helped launch and lead that firm's Resource Optimization Technologies Group and San Francisco office. Most recently he led the Energy Technology Group at First Albany Capital.

Throughout his career, Mr. Cahill has worked with middle market and emerging growth companies to help define and execute their business development and corporate financing strategies. He specializes in mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, public and private financings, and has industry experience in business services and technology-based product and manufacturing companies.

In addition to his investment banking career background, Mr. Cahill's experience also includes start-up / entrepreneurial environments having worked as the CFO of a small software development company as well as founding his own small business.

Mr. Cahill earned his MBA with a concentration in Finance from Boston University and a BA in International Affairs from the University of Colorado.

Jessica Dumphy

Jessica has spent her career focusing on middle market companies, in both client advisory and in-house transactional roles. She brings to BA an effective combination of investment banking and actual company experience. Her career has spanned almost 20 years.

Prior to joining BA, Ms. Dumphy was with Haemonetics Corporation (NYSE:HAE) in roles encompassing business development, corporate strategy, corporate communications, finance, and operations. Earlier in her career, Jessica gained investment banking experience at Tucker Anthony Incorporated, focusing on middle market advisory and capital markets transactions in the healthcare, financial, and consumer products fields. Additionally, Jessica was a sell-side equity analyst focusing on the healthcare sector with H.C. Wainwright & Co.

Ms. Dumphy earned a B.A. in economics and political science from the University of Michigan and lives with her husband and children just outside of Boston.

Brian Stornelli

Brian is an Associate at Benning Associates. He has provided transaction execution services for M&A, private placements, public market financings and advisory engagements in the technology, healthcare and financial services industries.

Most recently he served as a finance and strategy consultant for early-stage start-up companies preparing to raise additional funding. Mr. Stornelli was previously a Senior Investment Banking Analyst at Stifel Nicolaus Weisel in the Technology Group providing advisory and transaction execution services for IT services, semiconductor and software companies. Prior to Stifel, he was an Analyst in the Emerging Growth and Financial Institutions Groups at A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc.

Mr. Stornelli holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Babson College with concentrations in finance and economics.