Imperial Capital, LLC

Imperial Capital is a nationally recognized full–service investment banking and institutional securities firm offering a wide range of services to a diverse client base. These services include mergers and acquisitions, private placements, divestitures, financial restructuring and recapitalizations, capital raising, and valuations. The firm provides a strong background in Security Products and Services, Technology, Consumer, and Business Services sectors, and is comprised of over 50 professionals located in offices in Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco. Imperial Capital’s professionals bring a unique set of experiences and qualifications to complement their extensive capital markets capabilities, and are dedicated to advising and implementing creative, value enhancing solutions for their corporate and institutional investor clients.

You can learn more about the company through their website: www.imperialcapital.com .

John E. Mack III

Managing Director, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions
Imperial Capital, LLC

John E. Mack III is the Managing Director, Head of Mergers & Acquisitions for Imperial Capital, LLC, a leading middle-market investment bank and full service institutional brokerage firm. Formerly, the founder and CEO of USBX Advisory Services, Mr. Mack served on the Board of Directors and was responsible for the business’s growth which lead to the strategic decision to join forces with Imperial Capital to form a much larger full service investment bank.

Prior to founding USBX, Mr. Mack served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Protection One, Inc. (NYSE: POI), 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, over $600 million in revenue and an enterprise value of $2 billion. Before joining Protection One, Mr. Mack was a senior executive officer with Westec Security, Inc.

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp

Established in 1908, Mitchell Silberberg’s 125 attorneys provide integrated legal and business solutions addressing our clients’ concerns in the following areas: Complex Litigation; Labor and Employment, Immigration and Benefits; Intellectual Property and Technology; Entertainment and New Media; Tax and Family Wealth Planning; Environmental Law; and Corporate/Business Transactions with a focus on the security industry.

You can learn more about the company through their web site: www.msk.com

Lessing E. Gold
Partner and Chair, MS&K Corporate Department
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Lessing Lessing Gold is Chair of the Corporate Department at Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP. He has served as counsel in innumerable mergers and acquisitions within the security industry, including the recent acquisition of one of the largest security alarm companies in the United States. Les serves as general counsel to the California Alarm Association, advising the organization on regulatory, antitrust, and liability issues. He is also a frequent speaker at the Central Alarm and Security Industry Associations and author of a monthly column in a leading security trade publication.

 

CapitalSource Finance, LLC

CapitalSource is a specialized commercial finance company operating as a REIT and offering first mortgage, asset-based, cash flow and mezzanine financing to small and mid-sized borrowers. By offering a broad array of financial products, we had outstanding $10.5 billion in loan commitments as of June 30, 2006. The Security Lending Group is one of the strategic business units of CapitalSource and provides loans to companies focused on the protection of life, property, and information. Headquartered in Chevy Chase, Maryland, the company has a national network of offices across the country.

You can learn more about the company through their web site: www.capitalsource.com

William Polk
Managing Director
CapitalSource Finance, LLC

Bill Polk is a Managing Director of CapitalSource’s Security Lending Group and serves on CapitalSource’s Leadership Committee. With over $20 billion in financing commitments, CapitalSource (NYSE:CSE) is one of the leading commercial finance companies in the U.S., offering asset-based, senior, cash flow, and mezzanine financing and equity co-investments to middle-market borrowers. The company’s S ecurity Lending Group provides financing to companies who protect life, property and information in North America and Europe. The Group’s existing and target clients are firms that serve both the commercial and government markets and are engaged in technology development and manufacturing as well as the provision of a broad range of security services. Particular areas of the Group’s focus include physical security products and services, IT convergence and security integration services, surveillance, screening, and identity solutions, public safety and corrections, and the federal, state and local homeland security marketplace.

Mr. Polk has over 20 years of debt and equity investment experience and has been involved in over $1 billion of middle market security industry financings. Prior to joining CapitalSource, Mr. Polk was a co-founder of SLP Capital, a specialty finance company focused on security industry lending which was acquired by CapitalSource in 2004. Mr. Polk also worked in the Multinational Lending Group at Chemical Bank in New York and served as a Vice President of AAI, Inc., a Boston area-based management consulting firm.

 

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