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hide allScott J. Ulm has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Vice Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, Head of Risk Management and a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Ulm has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Vice Chairman, Chief Investment Officer and Head of Risk Management of ARMOUR since November 2009. Mr. Ulm has been a Co-Managing Member of ARMOUR Residential Management, LLC, or ARRM, since March 2008. Mr. Ulm has 25 years of structured finance and debt capital markets experience, including mortgage-backed securities experience. Mr. Ulm has advised numerous U.S., European, and Asian financial institutions and corporations on balance sheet and capital raising matters. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Ulm was Chief Executive Officer of Litchfield Capital Holdings. From 1986 to 2005, he held a variety of senior positions at Credit Suisse both in New York and London, including Global Head of Asset-Backed Securities, Head of United States and European Debt Capital Markets and the Global Co-Head of Collateralized Debt Obligations, both cash and synthetic. While at Credit Suisse, Mr. Ulm was responsible for the underwriting and execution of more than $100 billion of mortgage- and asset-backed securities. At Credit Suisse, he was a member of the Fixed Income Operating Committee and the European Investment Banking Operating Committee. Mr. Ulm holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Amherst College, an M.B.A. from Yale School of Management and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
Jeffrey J. Zimmer has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Vice Chairman, President, Secretary and a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Zimmer served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer from June 18, 2012 until September 1, 2012. Mr. Zimmer has been the Co-Chief Executive Officer, Co-Vice Chairman and President of ARMOUR since November 2009. Mr. Zimmer served as the Chief Financial Officer of ARMOUR from November 2009 to September 2012. Mr. Zimmer has been a Co-Managing Member of ARRM since March 2008. Mr. Zimmer has significant experience in the mortgage-backed securities market over a 27 year period. From September 2003 through March 2008, he was the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Bimini Capital Management, Inc., or Bimini, a publicly traded REIT. From 1990 to 2003, he was a Managing Director at RBS/Greenwich Capital in the Mortgage-Backed and Asset-Backed Department where he held various positions that included working closely with some of the nation’s largest mortgage banks, hedge funds and investment management firms on various mortgage-backed securities investments. Mr. Zimmer was employed at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the institutional mortgage-backed sales area from 1984 until 1990. He received his M.B.A. in finance from Babson College and a B.A. in economics and speech communication from Denison University.
Daniel C. Staton has been the Non-Executive Chairman of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Staton has been the Non-Executive Chairman of ARMOUR since November 2009 and was the President, CEO and Director of Enterprise from its inception in July 2007 until its merger with ARMOUR in November 2009. Mr. Staton has more than 11 years of experience sourcing private equity and venture capital investments. Mr. Staton co-founded Barbican Capital REIT Fund LLC, a hedge fund dedicated to investing in publicly-traded real estate investment trusts in 2010 and has been the general partner of Barbican since its inception. Since 2003, he has been Managing Director of the private equity firm Staton Capital LLC, and has served as the Chairman and Co-Chairman of the Board of FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFN), a leading internet-based social networking and multimedia entertainment company, since 2004. Between 1997 and 2007, Mr. Staton was President of The Walnut Group, a private investment firm, where he served as initial investor and Director of Build-A-Bear Workshop, initial investor in Deal$: Nothing Over a Dollar (until its sale to Supervalu Inc.), and Director of Skylight Financial. Prior to The Walnut Group, Mr. Staton was General Manager and Partner of Duke Associates from 1981 until its initial public offering in 1993, and then served as Chief Operating Officer and Director of Duke Realty Investments, Inc. (NYSE: DRE) until 1997. Mr. Staton also served as Chairman of the Board of Storage Realty Trust from 1997 to 1999, when he led its merger with Public Storage (NYSE: PSA), where he continues to serve as a Director. Mr. Staton supplements his professional network by co-producing and investing in numerous Broadway musicals as well as with relationships with not-for-profit organizations. Mr. Staton majored in Finance at the University of Missouri and holds a B.S. degree in Specialized Business from Ohio University and a B.S. degree in Business (Management) from California Coast University.
Marc H. Bell has been a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Bell has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009 and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors and Treasurer of Enterprise from its inception in July 2007 until its merger with ARMOUR in November 2009. Mr. Bell has served as Chief Strategy Officer and Co- Chairman of FriendFinder Networks Inc. (NASDAQ: FFN), a leading internet-based social networking and multimedia entertainment company, since July 2012. Mr. Bell has served as Managing Director of Marc Bell Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm which invests in media and entertainment ventures, real estate, and distressed assets, since 2003, and also served as the Chief Executive Officer of FriendFinder Networks Inc. from 2007 to June 2012. Mr. Bell also served as the President of FriendFinder Networks Inc. until March 29, 2012. Previously, Mr. Bell was the founder and President of Globix Corporation, a full-service commercial Internet Service Provider with data centers and a private network with over 20,000 miles of fiber spanning the globe. Mr. Bell served as Chairman of the Board of Globix Corporation from 1998 to 2003 and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Bell was also a member of the Board of Directors of EDGAR Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: EDGR), an Internet-based provider of filings made by public companies with the SEC, from 1998 to 2000. Mr. Bell has also been a co-producer of Broadway musicals, and serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University and New York University School of Medicine. Mr. Bell holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Babson College and an M.S. degree in Real Estate Development from New York University.
John C. Chrystal has been a director of JAVELIN since July 2, 2012. Mr. Chrystal has been active in domestic and global financial markets for over 25 years, with extensive experience in risk management, structured finance, trading, credit, and derivative products. Mr. Chrystal has been an independent director of Morgan Stanley Derivative Products, a specialized derivative products company established by Morgan Stanley, since 2010 and has served as an independent director for funds managed by Ziegler Lotsoff Capital Management, LLC, including a long-short credit fund since 2010. Since early 2009, Mr. Chrystal has advised multiple companies concerning the restructuring of their credit derivative portfolios, including a successful restructuring of a multi-billion-dollar credit default swap portfolio managed by Primus Asset Management, a subsidiary of Primus Guaranty, Ltd. From 2005 through 2008, Mr. Chrystal was Chief Risk Officer and Head of Structured Products for DiMaio Ahmad Capital, an investment management firm specializing in credit-focused hedge funds and collateralized loan obligation funds. From 1993 through 2005, Mr. Chrystal held several senior positions in London and New York with Credit Suisse, Credit Suisse Financial Products and Credit Suisse Asset Management. These positions included Head of Credit Products Europe, Global Head of Structured Credit Products, and Global Head of CDO’s and Liability Management. Mr. Chrystal served as a member of several risk management and operating committees in both Credit Suisse and Credit Suisse Asset Management. Mr. Chrystal began his Wall Street career in 1985 at Bankers Trust Company, where he focused on derivative product development, including the first credit default swaps, and mortgage-related derivative products. Mr. Chrystal holds an M.B.A. in finance from the University of Chicago and a B.S. in agricultural business from Iowa State University.
Thomas K. Guba has been a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Guba has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009 and has been the senior executive or head trader of various Wall Street mortgage and government departments in his 35 years in the securities business. Since 2009, Mr. Guba has been employed by Auriga Securities, USA, performing broker-dealer transactions in mortgage-backed securities. From 2001 through 2008, Mr. Guba was President and Principal of the Winter Group, a fully integrated mortgage platform and money management firm. He was Managing Director of Structured Product Sales at Credit Suisse First Boston from 2000 to 2002, Managing Director and Department Manager of Mortgages and U.S. Treasuries at Donaldson Lufkin Jenrette, which was subsequently purchased by Credit Suisse First Boston, from 1994 to 2000, Executive Vice President and Head of Global Fixed Income at Smith Barney from 1993 to 1994, Managing Director of the Mortgage and U.S. Treasuries Department at Mabon Securities from 1990 to 1993, Senior Vice President and Mortgage Department Manager at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1984 to 1990, Senior Vice President and Head Mortgage Trader at Paine Webber from 1977 to 1984, and a trader of mortgage-backed securities at Bache & Co. from 1975 to 1977. Mr. Guba was also a Second Lieutenant, Military Police Corps, in the United States Army from 1972 to 1974. Mr. Guba holds a B.A. in government from Cornell University and a M.B.A. in finance from New York University.
Robert C. Hain has been a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Hain has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009 and a non-executive director of Bank Leumi (UK) Plc, a majority-owned subsidiary of Bank Leumi Le Israel BM, one of Israel’s largest financial institutions, since 2012. Mr. Hain has also been Chairman of City Financial Investment Company Limited since 2006, a director of Wittering Limited since 2005 and Kingswey Consultency since 2007 and a partner of Shadbolt Partners LLP since 2005, each of which is engaged in asset management in the United Kingdom and Europe. City Financial and its affiliates acquire, rejuvenate and grow mutual fund and similar investment management businesses, and provide strategic advice to a select group of owners of investment management firms. Previously, Mr. Hain was Chief Executive Officer of Invesco UK, a prominent British asset manager, from 2002 to 2004, and Chief Executive Officer of AIM Trimark, a Canadian mutual fund company, from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Hain was a member of the Executive Management Committee of Amvescap Plc (now Invesco Ltd) from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Hain’s career in financial services includes senior executive positions in marketing, private banking and retail financial services in North America and Europe, and has comprised major acquisitions, integrations, and product and service delivery innovations. In addition, Mr. Hain has served on the boards and committees of financial services, business, arts, health and social services organizations at the national and local levels in Toronto, Zurich, Winnipeg, Halifax and London. He holds degrees from the University of Toronto (Innis College) and the University of Oxford (Merton College).
John “Jack” P. Hollihan, III has been a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Hollihan has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009 and has over 26 years of investment banking and investment experience. Mr. Hollihan has served as the lead independent director of City Financial Investment Company Limited (London) and the Executive Chairman of Litchfield Capital Holdings (Connecticut) since 2005. Mr. Hollihan is also a director of American Financial Realty Trust and of Recondine Inc. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Hollihan was the Head of European Industry Investment Banking for Banc of America Securities (“BAS”), where he was a member of the BAS European Capital Committee and Board, and where he had responsibility for a loan book of $8 billion. Prior to that, from 1986 to 2000, Mr. Hollihan was Head of Global Project and Asset Based Finance and Leasing at Morgan Stanley and was a member of the Morgan Stanley International Investment Banking Operating Committee. In that capacity, he managed $45 billion in asset based and structured financings and leasing arrangements. He is a former trustee of American Financial Realty Trust (NYSE:AFR). Mr. Hollihan holds B.S. (Wharton) and B.A. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Stewart J. Paperin has been a director of JAVELIN since June 18, 2012. Mr. Paperin has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009 and served as a member of Enterprise’s Board of Directors from its inception in July 2007 to its business combination with ARMOUR in November 2009. Mr. Paperin has served as Executive Vice President of the Soros Foundation, a worldwide private philanthropic foundation, since 1996, where he oversees financial, administrative and economic development activities. From 1996 to July 2005, Mr. Paperin served as a Senior Advisor and portfolio manager for Soros Fund Management LLC, a financial services company, and since July 2005 has served as a consultant to Soros Fund Management LLC. From 1996 to 2007, Mr. Paperin served as a Director of Penn Octane Corporation (NASDAQ: POCC), a company engaged in the purchase, transportation and sale of liquefied petroleum gas. Prior to joining the Soros organizations, Mr. Paperin served as President of Brooke Group International, an investment firm concentrated on the former Soviet Union, from 2000 to 2003, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Western Union Corporation, a provider of money transfer and message services which was controlled by Brooke Group, from 1988 to 1990. Prior to Western Union Corporation, Mr. Paperin served as Chief Financial Officer of Timeplex Corporation, a telecommunications equipment provider, from 1986 to 1988 and of Datapoint Corporation, a computer equipment manufacturer, from 1985 to 1986. Prior to Datapoint Corporation, Mr. Paperin served as a financial officer of Pepsico Corporation from 1980 to 1985 and as a management consultant at Cresap McCormick & Paget from 1975 to 1980. Mr. Paperin also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Community Bankers Acquisition Corp., a blank check company formed to acquire an operating business in the banking industry (NYSE MKT LLC: BTC). Mr. Paperin holds a B.A. degree and an M.S. degree from the State University of New York at Binghamton. He is a member of the Council for Foreign Relations and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters by the State University of New York.
