Bill Mackenzie - Turnaround Management Association

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Vince Harper

Bank of the West

Vince is a Senior Relationship Manager & Vice President with the Bank of the

West Special Assets Division based in Denver. He has been active in the commercial loan workout field for 20+ years, primarily in Upstate New York, until a relocation to Denver in December of 2003.

Vince’s previous positions, held in Denver with CoBank, ACB as Manager &

Senior Vice President of the bank’s Special Assets Group and in Upstate N.Y. with HSBC Bank USA, and Citibank, included 14 years with HSBC as a Manager in their Special Credits Area leading three teams of workout officers located in

Rochester, Syracuse and Albany, New York.

He has extensive experience in middle market and corporate restructurings/workouts – a number of which have gone through bankruptcy proceedings - and has acted as Agent on syndicated transactions. He has been involved in a wide variety of industries such as manufacturing, distribution, services and retail and he has also managed problem real estate transactions, which included special use facilities and development projects.

He has also managed a number of agribusiness situations, primarily at CoBank, and one of his teams at HSBC administered a portfolio of farmer/operator problem loans in the dairy industry.

Vince holds a B.S. Degree from the State University of New York at Brockport and an MBA from St. John Fisher College. He is a board member of the

Colorado Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association (“TMA”) and was the past Chapter President and a founding board member of the TMA’s Upstate

New York chapter. He is also a long-standing member of the Risk Management

Association (“RMA”).

Vince has been an active speaker and presenter for both national and local TMA chapter events as well as a number of bar association seminars/programs. He is presently the Co-Chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of

Corporate Renewal, a monthly TMA sponsored professional publication.

Vince resides in the Denver area with his wife, Cindy, and their three children.

Richard Jenkins

Alvarez & Marsal

Richard Jenkins, a Managing Director, specializes in analyzing strategic business plans, managing cash requirements of companies facing liquidity crunches and developing plans to restructure clients’ businesses including the creation and implementation of plans of reorganization. These efforts have included making a determination between operating and liquidating certain segments of a distressed business, assessing companies’ strategic business plans, developing mechanisms to monitor cash requirements, valuing various business enterprises and developing comprehensive capital budgeting models.

With over 13 years of consulting experience, Mr. Jenkins has concentrated his efforts in assisting companies evaluate and refine strategic business plans as well as developing viable alternatives to restructuring their balance sheets. Mr.

Jenkins advisory assignments have included working with numerous real estate including.

Prior to working at A&M, Mr. Jenkins was a Director in the Business Recovery

Services practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Richard worked on numerous projects where he evaluated and assisted companies with the development of strategic business p lans, identified alternatives to restructuring a company’s balance sheet and managed debtor/creditor relationships for numerous clients.

Prior to working at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Mr. Jenkins worked as a financial consultant for Peterson Consulting from 1992 to 1997, where he developed a broad understanding of financial valuation concepts, investment strategies, corporate restructuring and business plan development.

Mr. Jenkins earned his bachelor’s degree in Finance from Colorado State

University. Mr. Jenkins holds a CPA certificate from the state of Colorado and is a member of the Association of Insolvency and Restructuring Advisors (AIRA) in addition to serving as Treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors for the

Colorado Chapter of the Turnaround Management Association.

Thomas M. Kim

Principal, Manchester Business Services – Colorado, LLC

Mr. Kim is a corporate renewal and restructuring advisee based in Denver, where he focuses on distressed small and middle-market companies. Drawing on his

18 years experience, Mr. Kim focuses on advising enterprises that are facing financial or operational distress. He also assists parties interested in acquiring or disposing of distressed companies. Throughout his career, he has advised borrowers facing crisis and lenders whose loans are jeopardized by financially distressed borrowers. His areas of expertise include:

Corporate renewal/restructuring management;

Acquisition of and/or disposing of distressed companies;

Advisory to borrowers and lenders with financially distressed portfolios.

Prior to joining Manchester, Mr. Kim was Managing Director and Founder of r2

Advisors, LLC, a professional services firm specializing in turnarounds of small and medium-sized businesses. Prior to that, he was an originator and asset manager with Republic Financial Corporation, a private investment company based in Denver, where his duties included troubled loan recovery and valuation of distressed companies from an investor’s perspective.

Prior to Republic, Mr. Kim gained experience in a wide variety of distressed company situations as a bankruptcy lawyer, primarily with LeBoeuf, Lamb,

Greene and MacRae, LLP, an international law firm based in New York City. His law practice included insolvency and corporate transactional matters. His clients included Wells Fargo Business Credit, Shearson Lehman, The National

Organization of Life and Health Insurance Guarantee Associations, America

West Airlines, The Official Creditors’ Committee for Oren L. Benson, and General

Motors Corporation.

Bill Mackenzie

Cloyses Partners

Bill has specialized in turnarounds, under-valued and emerging companies for the majority of his professional career. He has assumed roles as CEO, President,

Interim President, CFO, CRO and COO in situations that are characterized by operational ambiguity; and that require immediate risk assessment, balance sheet stabilization, management reporting and control systems and improvement in earnings and shareholder value.

Particular skills in motivating and retaining existing management teams during periods of rapid change.

Most recent engagements include the position as the CEO of a national rental retail chain; as the Liquidating Trustee of AmeriVest Properties, formerly a publicly traded REIT. He has held advisory positions in a wide variety of industries including consumer packaged goods, healthcare, the guard/security industry, trucking and transportation, residential real estate, a national bus manufacturing company (restructuring unsecured debt), and a $500 million

Midwest food/agricultural entity, among others. In addition he served as Chief

Restructuring Officer of Western Integrated Networks (WINfirst) a “triple play” telecom after the company filed for Chapter 11; as Chief Restructuring Officer,

Viasource Communications, Inc., a national rollup of cable installation companies; Interim CFO of ConnectSouth Communications, Inc., an Austin based DSL company operating in 33 markets; as CEO of a start-up software company in the healthcare industry; and as EVP of a regional homebuilding company.

He served in management positions at Bristol Myers, Sara Lee Corporation,

Quaker Oats Company, Colorado National Bank (now US Bank), among others.

He has a BS in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business

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