Jim Moglia

Jim is a Executive Managing Director and Group Head of the BMO Capital Markets U.S. Debt Products Group, where he manages a group of professionals focused on high yield finance, private placements, sponsor coverage and financial restructuring. He is based in New York and has completed approximately 275 financing transactions, involving over USD 77 billion during his career. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Jim was a Managing Director at CIBC World Markets where he focused on leveraged financings for clients in the U.S. and Canada. He was also a Managing Director and Head of PaineWebber's Leveraged Transactions Group including High Yield Banking, Capital Markets, Private Placements, Sponsor Coverage and Restructuring and Co-Head of the firm's High Yield Sales, Trading and Research Department. Prior to joining PaineWebber, Jim was a Managing Director, Founder and Co-Head of Kidder Peabody's High Yield Capital Markets Group, head of the firm's LBO Group and was a senior member of Kidder's Restructuring Department. Jim began his career in high yield and buyout transactions at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he was a Senior Vice President in the High Yield Structuring and Special Situations Group based in Beverly Hills. Jim joined BMO Capital Markets in 2001.

Jim has an MBA in finance (with distinction) from The Wharton Graduate School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and an undergraduate degree (Phi Beta Kappa) from Columbia College.

John Dillon

John is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Financial Sponsors Group. He is responsible for initiating and executing capital raising assignments for middle market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, John spent 10 years with Continental Bank in Chicago. Before that, he was a civilian contracting officer for the U.S. Department of the Navy, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command. John joined BMO Capital Markets in 1995.

John has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and German from Marquette University. He is a Director of the Duncan YMCA, a facility supporting the needs of residents of the Henry Horner and Rockwell Gardens public housing developments and other residents of Chicago's near west side.

Jed Duncan

Jed is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Financial Sponsors Group. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, he was a Managing Director covering financial sponsors in the Leveraged Finance Group at CIBC World Markets. Before that, Jed was with FleetBoston Financial where he was a Managing Director and Head of Acquisition Finance. He also spent seven years with UBS Capital, the merchant banking subsidiary of UBS Warburg, where he was Managing Director and Founding Partner. Jed has also worked at Bear Stearns in its Corporate Finance Group.

Jed has a Masters of Management degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Yale University.

Thomas S. Glover

Tom is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets U.S. Media, Communications & Technology Group and heads the Group's sponsor coverage business. Previously, he was a Managing Director and head of Telecom Leveraged Finance at Merrill Lynch & Co. There, he raised in excess of USD 11 billion in capital for the communications industry, including the wireless, data services, metro and long-haul wireline sectors. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Tom was Co-Head of Deutsche Bank's global high-yield origination efforts. He also spent 10 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in a variety of capital markets positions. Tom has originated and executed a wide range of financing transactions, including high-yield, mezzanine, syndicated loan and equity hybrid transactions for the media and communications sector, as well as other industries. He joined BMO Capital Markets in 2002.

Tom has an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) from the University of Virginia.

Dirk Leasure

Dirk is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Financial Sponsors Group. Based in New York, he is responsible for providing leveraged finance solutions to growth companies, financial sponsors and their portfolio companies, and companies undergoing transition. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Dirk spent 8 years with Goldman Sachs in its Leveraged Finance Group, including 2 years in London leading the group's efforts with financial sponsors. Prior to that, he spent 5 years with Kidder, Peabody in its High Yield Capital Markets, Leveraged Companies, and Mergers and Acquisitions Groups. Dirk also spent 5 years with various other firms focusing on middle market leveraged buyouts, financial restructurings, and general investment banking activities.

Dirk has an undergraduate degree from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.

Benjamin Rodman

Ben is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Equity Sponsor Group, engaged primarily in middle market mergers and acquisitions as well as advisory and capital raising assignments. He has over 15 years of M&A experience and has provided advisory services to clients in a variety of industries, including diversified manufacturing, consumer products, food, business services, chemicals and technology. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets, Ben was a senior associate at First Chicago Capital Markets where he was responsible for originating public debt issues and structured financings for a nationwide portfolio of companies.

Ben has an MBA in Finance and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from the University of Chicago.

John Smart

John is a Managing Director in both the BMO Capital Markets Financial Sponsors and the Business Services Groups. He is responsible for initiating and executing capital raising assignments for middle market private financial sponsors and their portfolio companies and is actively engaged in providing advisory services and capital to middle market education and business services companies.

John has an MBA in finance from Loyola University Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Kansas. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of St. Gregory Episcopal School, Chair of the Greater Chicago Food Depository Finance Community Luncheon, and as a member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs.

Ian L. Sylvan

Ian is a Managing Director in the BMO Capital Markets Financial Sponsors Group. He is responsible for initiating and executing merger and acquisition and investment banking transactions, as well as advisory and capital raising assignments for middle market private equity sponsors and their portfolio companies. Prior to joining BMO Capital Markets in 2000, he was the Managing Director responsible for the Mergers & Acquisitions Group for Banc One Capital Markets' Chicago office. Before its merger into Banc One Capital Markets he was a first Vice President and division head of the Mergers and Acquisitions Division of American National Bank of Chicago, where he had worked since 1987. Ian has over 20 years of M&A and investment banking experience and has been involved in numerous transactions across a broad range of industries.

Ian has an MBA in finance from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in business (cum laude) from Arizona State University.