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A Brief Summary of the Principals of Capital Alliance
We have carefully selected highly qualified, multi-skilled executives. The professionals of Capital Alliance bring over 500 years of working experience, in CEO positions, in a wide variety of technical and non-technical industries. Our primary selection criteria includes: the highest standards of ethical business conduct, senior level corporate operating experience, strong marketing skills, significant capabilities in financing, negotiating, communicating, and the ability to assimilate complex situations and propose meaningful solutions.
The result of applying this selection criterion is an organization of mature professionals that is unique in the industry. We are results oriented, senior operating executives geared to interact where the key merger and acquisition decisions are made – at the CEO level of corporations.
 Edward J. Dawson
Chairman, President, and CEO
Ed has been the officer in charge of merger operations for the firm since 1977. His extensive merger and acquisition experience includes successful repetitive interactions involving every major facet of multi-million dollar transactions in a wide variety of technical and non-technical industries. A frequent speaker on the subject of mergers and acquisitions, he is also the author of four books; including "How to Successfully Sell Your Corporation" and "Trust in Business and Other Transactions: Who and When." He spent nine years with Texas Instruments in key positions in finance, engineering, business planning, line marketing, and general management. This experience primarily involved developing, presenting, and implementing a large number of business plans for high growth electronic products and businesses. He has an in-depth computer background covering micro through large scale computers. Previous work experience includes IBM (marketing), Continental Illinois Bank (computerized portfolio analysis), and Whirlpool (engineering). He has served as Secretary, Chairman of the Technology Group, Vice President (twice), and President (twice) of M&A International, a very select international organization of investment banking firms. During this organization's annual meeting in Puerto Rico attended by 31 member firms, he was voted "Dealmaker of the Year" following 15 minute presentations by each of the six finalists to the competition. In conjunction with a joint program involving Bill McDonald of Capital Alliance, this award was won again following a presentation at the annual meeting in Amsterdam. He is a licensed Securities Broker/Dealer and a licensed Real Estate Broker. He holds an MBA with a major in finance from the University of Chicago and a BS from Carnegie Mellon University where he was selected for the Omicron Delta Kappa national scholastic/leadership honorary, serves on the Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, and is a visiting lecturer on the subject of mergers and acquisitions. He is on the faculty of the Business Leadership Center at the SMU
Cox Graduate School of Business where he teaches
"Power Negotiating in Merger and Acquisition
Transactions," "Deals 101," and "Deals 301." Based upon student evaluations, he has received
The Business Leadership Center's Teaching Excellence Award
thirty times, the largest number of awards
received by any instructor. He serves on the
Board of Directors of The World Services Group. His formal education includes 12 graduate level courses in finance. He has been quoted in Business Week articles, has provided expert testimony in the field of mergers and acquisitions, and he has been selected to be listed in Marquis' Who's Who in Finance and Industry since 1978 and Who's Who in the World since 1991.
 Robert R. Jensen
Senior Vice President and Principal
Bob's career in manufacturing, sales and service within the automotive, construction, insurance, finance and other industries spans over 25 years. He spent 14 years with ITT as President of various operations. His wide ranging background includes start-ups, expanding operations, new product implementation and business turnarounds. Bob tripled the cash availability and reduced bank lending significantly through stringent cash controls while with a manufacturing subsidiary of Tenneco. The start-up operations involved extremely high growth opportunities which needed experienced management to achieve their ultimate potential. Taking operations in a loss position to achieve acceptable rates of return has been his specialty. ITT Services was turned around and became the industry leader with a pretax income of 40% of sales. Bob has been CEO of firms doing business throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. He has been heavily involved in the direct sale of individual items valued at millions of dollars while with ITT International. With a financial education and a vast amount of managerial expertise, Bob has the ability to analyze financial, sales, and operational performance. He earned a BS in Accounting from Mankato University and has served on various boards and as an officer of various professional organizations.
 William L. McDonald
Senior Vice President and Principal
Bill is a leader within Capital Alliance's Technology Group, and has active involvement in a large number of complex, high technology transactions. As program manager on the firm's 14 USConnect transactions, he successfully negotiated record breaking valuations for his sellers. As a result, he and Ed Dawson were awarded "Dealmaker of the Year" in Amsterdam in a competition among the 35 worldwide investment banking firms in M&A International. He was co-winner with Tom Kuthy of the same award the following year at the M&A International meeting in New York. Over the span of his career, Bill has been involved in the creation, sale, or acquisition of companies in several industries, including computer software, energy, publishing, and insurance/risk management. He has been President/CEO of two companies: American Financial Alternatives, Inc. and Interactive Training Solutions, Inc., and has had experiences which have given him a direct understanding of the challenges and frustrations of the shareholders and managers involved in the sale of a company. He spent six years with Hall Financial Group in Texas and California where he was a key manager involved in the sale and marketing of real estate investment funds, as well as the acquisition, disposition, and management of investment-grade office and multi-family properties. He also spent three years with Merrico Investments Corp. where he researched and analyzed the real estate portfolios of many insurance companies and savings & loans for acquisition. He is a published author and has served as an expert product advisor in the property/casualty insurance industry. He is an honors graduate of Southern Methodist University, and has done graduate studies at the University of Texas at Dallas.
 Lawrence L. Purcell
Senior Vice President and Principal
Larry has extensive contract, finance, and banking experience. He spent eight years with the U.S. Army as an infantry platoon leader, company commander, and intelligence officer in Vietnam, and as a contracting officer for the Army Electronics Command. He then joined Bell Helicopter Textron, where he worked on advanced systems procurements and international program/market development. These programs included the tilt-rotor predecessor to the V-22 Osprey and the Cobra attack helicopter. After four years, he moved on to Texas Instruments, where he successfully negotiated international contracts for the company's air traffic control radar systems. He later moved to TI's corporate treasury, where he managed the cash flow and financing of their international subsidiaries, as well as handling the company's domestic and international banking relations. The Bank of Boston lured Larry away to work with their international lending activities. He later worked with the bank's divisions involved in their domestic customers' refinancings, acquisitions, and leveraged buy-outs. This included work with asset based lending. Larry then was hired by Barclay's Business Credit where, as Senior Vice President and Marketing Manager in the Southwest, he provided over $400 million in loan commitments for company refinance and LBO transactions. During the banking part of his career, Larry managed over 25 successful leveraged buy-out and acquisition transactions. With a BA from the University of Illinois at Urbana, an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MA in International Management from the University of Texas at Dallas, plus his considerable financial background, Larry was a natural for Capital Alliance. Larry is a retired Colonel, Military Intelligence, United States Army Reserve. He served in Vietnam and Operation Desert Storm/Desert Shield. His awards and decorations include the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Bronze Star and the Legion of Merit.
 Bradley S. Buttermore
Vice President/CFO/Treasurer
Brad
has more than twenty years experience in mergers
and acquisitions, serving in senior officer
positions in finance and accounting with a
variety of manufacturing, financial services and
real estate lending companies. Brad has sourced,
managed and closed several M&A and financing
transactions during his tenure at Capital
Alliance, primarily in the business services
space, which includes logistics services,
temporary staffing, and human resource
outsourcing companies. Prior to Capital Alliance
Corporation, he spent 14 years with the Lomas
Financial Group in Dallas, where he managed the consolidated accounting and public reporting in the early
1980s. Brad worked on many of Lomas’s
acquisitions and spin-offs, and later functioned
as the Chief Financial Officer of Lomas’s
construction lending group that originated
and managed a portfolio of construction loans in
excess of two billion dollars. Brad was the
Senior Vice President and Treasurer of Liberté
Investors, an NYSE real estate investment trust
(REIT). He also served as Co-Founder and Chief
Financial Officer of a private REIT, where he
helped raise private equity and credit support
in excess of $100 million. Brad is originally
from Detroit, Michigan,
where he obtained his degree in Finance from Wayne State
University. He is also a
member of M&A International, Inc., The American
Financial Association, The World Services Group,
the
Institute
of Management
Accounting’s Small
Business Council, NAPEO and PACE.
 Thomas K. Dickens
Vice President
Tom’s 30 year career includes both small
business and Fortune 1000 experience.
Partnerships in various start-up and work-out
commercial real estate, high tech and service
driven companies have given him a broad
background. Tom has extensive experience in
investment banking, corporate finance and sales
training and management. His career includes working
in the management of many merged or acquired
companies including a single Fortune 1000
financial services company that sold three times
in three years, with the final sale to CIT. His
international experience includes three years in
management with Tokai Bank, Japan. For five
years he was a Vice President with AT&T Capital
managing the national medical/scientific lending
for the firm with a sales staff of 15. This was
the “Road Warrior” period of his life, achieving
“Million Mile Status” with American Airlines. In
this capacity, he managed a captive portfolio of
medical equipment loans between Abbott
Laboratories and AT&T Capital. Denitech, a high
tech service company, engaged Tom as a partner
to increase the sales of the company to ready it
for acquisition. After Denitech sold, Tom
received a contract to stay on and transition
the new company, Imagine Technology Group. He
also spent a year helping American Express
package the Business Finance group for sale to
Key Bank. Southwest Adventures and Dino
Hospitality are LLC’s Tom set-up to develop
secondary markets for second home/leisure real
estate development. The Board of Commerce and
Industry in Wichita Falls, Texas chose Tom as
“Small Business Person of the Year” in 1986 at
the age of 32. Tom received a BBA in Finance and
a Private Pilot’s license from The University of
Oklahoma where he also taught Marketing Concepts
as a graduate assistant.
 Roderick G. Kish
Vice President
Rod has over 30 years experience in the
electronics industry, with both domestic and
international experience in commercial and
government business. Prior to joining Capital
Alliance, he was with Texas Instruments and has
considerable experience in strategic planning,
business development, contract negotiations,
product design & development, program
management, operations, and business
turnarounds. His earliest efforts involved
design and development of air traffic control
radar systems for the FAA, and later moved into
foreign sales and military versions of those
systems. A wealth of experience was gained over
the years negotiating government agency,
military and international contracts and
technical agreements. He then served as deputy
program manager on a $400M USAF radar program
for a fighter aircraft where he led the proposal
and negotiations effort on the production
contract. He also managed the development of one
of the subsystems and proposed the foreign
military sale, as well as negotiated the
contract including offsets agreement. Rod then
moved into the machine tool business where he
managed development and building of large
complex machine tools and successfully led the
turnaround of the business group. He held profit
and loss responsibility for the business –
turned it from a money losing operation to one
with 50% gross margins in three years. The
highlight was the management of the program that
developed and built large machine tools for the
alignment and assembly of a jumbo jet. The
system included laser measurements, positional
alignment, control systems interfaces and data
collection and included significant software
development as well as hardware design and
systems interface. All the equipment was
successfully built, installed and checked out on
schedule and exceeded the customer’s
expectations. Rod then joined the management
team of a startup venture to exploit digital
light processing for projection displays and
electro-photographic color printing
applications. He drove the design for
manufacturability and design for assembly and
successfully integrated suppliers into the
design team and managed the DTC model that
resulted in a 30% cost reduction in the first
design turn. As operations manager, he managed
the production preparation initiative, including
tooling, subsystem suppliers, and factory
planning. Commercialization of this technology
led to DLP portable projectors, theater
projection systems and televisions. Rod’s most
recent efforts involved building the
subcontractor network for semiconductor
manufacturing in the Pacific Rim countries and
negotiating technical and service agreements. He
has been involved with wafer fabrication, as
well as assembly and testing of completed
devices and developing offshore supply chain
networks for the complete manufacturing
operation. Rod holds a BS in Electrical
Engineering from the University of Arkansas and
an MBA from Southern Methodist University.
 Bryan
Livingston
Vice President and Principal
Bryan has over 20 years of broad business experience, concentrated in business-to-business sales and
marketing and startup ventures. He has provided
executive leadership in both small and
middle-market enterprises engaged in federal
government acquisition programs (including
shipbuilding and major shipyard alterations and
maintenance); commercial office furniture,
fixtures and equipment (FF&E); healthcare
facility (acute and alternate site) construction
and outfitting; and hospitality construction and
renovation. He founded and operated two
successful interior construction product
companies (Direct Path Corp. and Novawall
Systems Inc.) over a period of 10 years. Both
companies achieved strong growth and
profitability, largely due to Bryan’s three
utility patents and the North American
distributor network that he established. At
Designtex, the textiles and wallcovering arm of
office furniture industry leader Steelcase,
Bryan provided line sales management and
marketing leadership before being named Vice
President of National Accounts. Bryan led
Designtex sales and promotion efforts in the
government, healthcare and hospitality sectors.
He was also the lead negotiator for major
purchasing pool supplier and manufacturing
client deals. A 1978 graduate of the United
States Naval Academy, Bryan completed Navy
Nuclear Propulsion training and served in
submarines, retiring from the Naval Reserve. He
was twice awarded the Navy Achievement Medal.
After leaving active duty, he worked as a
consultant on Navy submarine shipbuilding
programs, including the Ohio and Seawolf
Classes. Technical publications to his credit
include the 1993 revision of the U.S. Navy
Nuclear Submarine Atmosphere Control Manual and
a paper on submarine self-noise monitoring
accepted by the American Society of Naval
Engineers. Bryan holds an MBA in Marketing from
George Washington University.
 Rick G. Plonka
Vice President
Rick has over 25 years of experience in a
variety of sales management, sales, technical,
and consulting roles. He has developed broad
experience in computer hardware/software,
telecommunications, system integration,
financial, and outsource manufacturing
industries. Prior to Capital Alliance, he was
the Regional Sales Manager at GNP Computers.
While there, he opened the Central Division
Sales Office and positioned GNP as the primary
system integrator for both a large network
equipment provider and an industry-leading
military corporation. During the five year
period, he increased sales by twenty-fold and
developed a strategic sales plan, later adopted
as the company model. He is an experienced and
well-tested manager spending 16 years with
Tandem Computers where he earned several awards:
Employee of the Year, Tandem Outstanding
Performer, and Most Significant Telecom Win. He
also opened the Telecom Division in Dallas which
produced annual revenues of $20M+ by the third
year. Rick played a crucial role to pioneer and
coordinate the efforts to prove Local Number
Portability was not only possible, but viable.
This initiative resulted in the
Telecommunications Act of 1996 for Equal Access
being passed into law by Congress. This Act
revolutionized the telecommunications industry
and was the first major overhaul in the
telecommunications law in almost 62 years. Rick
also worked for Texas Instruments, Compaq, and
Touche Ross & Company. Rick, a scholarship
recipient, holds a BS in Computer Science and an
MBA from Pennsylvania State University.
 Paul K. Puri
Vice President and Principal
Paul
heads the Energy Group of M&A International, a
multi-national group of energy investment
bankers across some 35 countries. His group has
been responsible for several billion dollars of
energy transactions in such areas as energy
equipment and services, oil and gas production,
power, refining and infrastructure, renewable
energy and wholesale and retail. Paul also has
over 10 years of experience in sales,
engineering, operations, and consulting within
the telecom-munications sector. Before joining
Capital Alliance, he served as Director of
Strategic Alliances at NetworkTwo Communica-tions
Group, a telecom firm focused on the financial
sector. He managed and executed
deals with a number of Fortune 100 companies in
the form of distribution alliances, product and
manufacturing joint ventures, and strategic
investments. He also founded Vistec Network
Strategies, a management consulting firm, and
secured contracts with two of the largest
Bell
operating companies. In this capacity, Paul
succeeded in building new application services,
reengineering operational processes, and
streamlining product delivery. In his prior
seven years at Verizon and Cisco Systems, he
held positions in sales management, technical
management, and strategy development. He has
developed broad experience in data and wireless
services, operations and supply chain
outsourcing, and communication infrastructure.
Paul holds a BS from
Cornell University and an MBA from Southern
Methodist University.
 Erik L. Slockers
Vice President and Principal
Erik has over 20 years experience in a number of industries. His career spans from international marketing to planning, logistics, software implementations, energy procurement and finance. As Vice President and Controller at Terra Nitrogen Corporation, a fertilizer and methanol manufacturer, he was involved in many acquisition, expansion and divestiture projects, the largest of which was a $300 million chemical acquisition in Europe. In this position he also acted as the CFO of Terra Nitrogen Company LP and was responsible for all accounting, finance and MIS operations. Prior to that Erik was Vice President of Supply and Distribution for Agricultural Minerals and Chemicals, Inc. In 1990 he was one of the six top managers and investors involved in a $250 million LBO of the nitrogen operations from Freeport-McMoRan. In 1994 management sold its equity interest to Terra Industries. As Vice President of Marketing Administration and as Director of International Marketing, Erik has conducted business on six continents. He has developed new export markets in South America and Australia, and led complex contract negotiations in the Far East and Europe. His unique combination of operational, marketing and financial experience allows him to understand and value companies rapidly. Erik grew up in the Netherlands and holds a business degree from University Nyenrode in the Netherlands, a BBA and an MBA with honors from Texas Tech University.
 Michael F. Stengle
Vice President and Principal
Mike
has spent over 25 years
developing successful business relationships in
M&A, financial planning, tax consulting and
outsourcing. At Capital Alliance, Mike heads the
Renewable Energy Division, and is also active in
the areas of manufacturing, electronics, and
professional services. He was recently awarded
the Energy Industry Group Deal of the Year by
M&A International. Prior to joining Capital
Alliance, Mike was the National Sales Manager at
Webb Cooley Company, where he helped Webb Cooley
make the transition from local tax consulting
firm to nationally prominent team of over 150
tax professionals. This was accomplished by
developing solid client relationships with
companies like Wells Fargo, Wachovia Bank, Bank
of America, American Express and Johnson &
Johnson. His efforts resulted in a tenfold
increase in revenues during a five year period.
He also spent twelve years at CNA Financial,
where he focused on financial planning as it
related to buy-sell agreements, executive
compensation, and business continuation plans.
Mike has a BBA in Finance from The University of
Texas at Austin, and is an avid
golfer.
Capital Alliance Corporation - International Division
The scope of the Capital Alliance International Division is global. Our people are highly experienced in international business and finance activities and speak several languages.
 Raul
Corpion
Vice President and Principal
A native of Cuba, Raúl became an American
citizen upon completing college. His educational
background includes a degree in finance from the
University of Texas at Arlington. He has also
completed certification at the Institute of
Financial education, graduated from the School
of Executive Development at the University of
Washington in Seattle, and received an Appraisal
designation from the Appraisal School at the
University of Oklahoma. Upon completing his
studies, Raúl served as Vice President and
Branch Coordinator of Farm & Home Savings
Association in Dallas for nine years in the
areas of real estate and operations. He joined
Commercial Credit Company where he became
Regional Director of secondary marketing for the
southwest division and interacted extensively
with financial institutions across the U.S. He
became President of Parkway Mortgage Corporation
in Dallas and transformed the company into a
highly profitable commercial mortgage lending
institution. He founded Sunrise Capital
Corporation where he served as Chief Executive
Officer and founded Interamerican Commercial
Services, Inc. As President of Interamerican,
Raúl was instrumental in originating over $140
million in business. His extensive experience in
the financial services business provides him
with the ability to achieve success in financing
international projects. Fluent in English and
Spanish, Raúl has experience living and doing
business in Latin America and Spain.
 C. Antoine Marchand
Vice President
Antoine has extensive experience in strategic alliances, corporate banking and finance. His expertise includes structuring cross-border alliances and financings for middle and large companies in various industries. He began his career as an entrepreneur at the young age of 20 years when he created a successful textile importing company in Mexico City, securing several exclusive sales agreements with U.S. manufacturers. After selling his business to a large retailer in Mexico he joined Banco Nacional de Mexico where he strengthened his management, operational and corporate finance skills. His career with Banco Nacional de Mexico lasted 13 years with a solid record of achievement which included opening international offices for the bank, structuring and implementing international money and capital markets instruments to fund Mexican companies during the late 1980s. Antoine was then selected to become part of the senior staff of the bank’s President where he closed key strategic acquisitions, joint ventures and the creation of a new company to provide IT services to customers of the bank. In 1995 he was invited by Comerica Bank to launch a new strategic initiative in the United States Southwest. Antoine then re-located back to the U.S. where he directed the initiative of providing corporate finance solutions to foreign owned companies established in the U.S. Due to his achievements, he was rapidly promoted to First Vice President.
A native of Mexico, his educational background includes an Economics degree from the prestigious school Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico and a Masters Degree in Corporate Finance from the University of Dallas, where he graduated with highest honors. He founded Integrated Global Financial Corporation where he serves as Chief Executive Officer. His extensive experience in international corporate finance and the formation of key strategic alliances provides him with the ability to achieve success in adding value to companies doing business worldwide.
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