John M. Jacquemin is President and Founder of Mooring Financial Corporation, a private investment firm that specializes in the management of alternative assets for high net worth individuals and institutional investors. The firm manages four funds across different asset classes - distressed commercial loans, real estate tax liens, publicly traded equities and credit derivatives. Mooring Financial Corporation currently manages $400 million in assets and since inception has acquired and managed over $2 billion in financial assets.

Prior to founding Mooring Financial Corporation in 1982, Mr. Jacquemin worked for Coopers & Lybrand as a management consultant for two years. He subsequently became Chief Financial Officer of CFC Corporation in Pennsylvania, where he spent five years.

Mr. Jacquemin received a B.A. degree in General Arts & Science from Pennsylvania State University, and earned his M.B.A. degree from Dartmouth College at the Tuck School of Business Administration. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Penn National Gaming Inc., a NASDAQ-listed company headquartered in Reading, Pennsylvania, and the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. Mr. Jacquemin was appointed to the Board of Overseers of the Tuck School of Business Administration in 2005.

Mr. Jacquemin received the Ernst & Young Greater Washington Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006. He is President of The Jacquemin Family Foundation, which he established in 1997 to focus grants on organizations that provide educational and artistic opportunities for under-served children. Mooring Financial Corporation is a major sponsor of the Reston, Virginia Triathlon and a number of employees including Mr. Jacquemin compete annually. He resides in McLean, Virginia with his wife, Tracie, and their three daughters.

Dipesh Bhise joined Mooring Financial Corporation in 2001 after spending approximately 5 years in management consulting and financial consulting. In 2002, Mr. Bhise became Director, Financial Planning. He earlier worked as a Management Consultant with Mercer Management Consulting, a global strategy-consulting firm in their Washington DC office, and before that spent 3 years with KPMG Consulting, as a Senior Consultant. Mr. Bhise has consulted to several Fortune 500 companies on issues of importance to senior management. Mr. Bhise received his Bachelors degree in Commerce/Accounting from Sydenham College, Bombay and an MBA from the Tuck School at Dartmouth College.