Erik N. van Nispen

Erik has over 20 years of experience providing investment and commercial banking services to financial institutions while at Merrill Lynch & Co., Ryan, Beck & Co., Sandler O'Neill & Partners, LLP, and ABN AMRO Inc., where he headed the North American Financial Institutions Group.

Mr. van Nispen has extensive experience advising banks, thrifts, insurance companies, asset managers, specialty finance companies and futures and securities firms, with over $10 billion in completed mergers and acquisitions. His capital markets experience is equally broad, assisting clients in their raising of more than $15 billion in public and private capital. He has worked extensively with small to mid-cap as well as large-cap clients.

Mr. van Nispen earned an MBA from Duke University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Georgetown University.

Elizabeth Marin

Elizabeth is a Managing Director in BMO Capital Markets' Financial Institutions Group, where she focuses on specialty finance companies. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Liz gained more than 12 years of investment banking experience covering financial institutions, including two years at Wachovia Securities in New York as a Director in its Financial Institutions Group. Previously, she was a Principal at Banc of America Securities, and a Vice President at Salomon Smith Barney. She began her career at Coopers & Lybrand in Boston. Liz joined BMO Capital Markets in 2007.

Liz has an MBA from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Finance from Fairfield University.