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Management
Team
Corporate
Edward
E. Cohen
Edward E. Cohen has been Chairman of the Board of Resource
America, Inc. since 1990 and has been a member of its
Board of Directors since 1988. He was Chief Executive
Officer from 1988 to 2004 and President from 2000 to
2003. Mr. Cohen was Chairman of the Board of Resource
Capital Corp. (a publicly-traded real estate investment
trust managed by Resource America, Inc.) from its formation
in 2005 to November 2009 and has been a director since
November 2009. Mr. Cohen has also been chief executive
officer and president of Atlas Energy, L.P. since February
2011. He served as chairman of the board of directors
from January 2006 until February 2011 and as chief executive
officer of Atlas Pipeline Holdings, L.P. from January
2006 until February 2009 and has served on the executive
committee of the board of directors since 2006. Mr.
Cohen was chairman of the board of directors and chief
executive officer of Atlas Energy, Inc. from September
2000 until February 2011. Cohen served as president
of Atlas Energy, Inc. from September 2000 until October
2009. Cohen served as chairman of the board of directors
and chief executive officer of Atlas Energy Resources,
LLC from June 2006 until February 2011. Cohen has been
chairman of the managing board of Atlas Pipeline Partners,
L.P. since 1999 and was chief executive officer of Atlas
Pipeline Partners, L.P. from 1999 until January 2009.
He was Chairman of the Board of Brandywine Construction
& Management, Inc. (a property management company) since
1994.
Jonathan Z. Cohen
Jonathan Z. Cohen has been Chief Executive Officer of
Resource America, Inc. since 2004, President since 2003,
and a Director since 2002. Previous roles include Chief
Operating Officer from 2002 to 2004, Executive Vice
President from 2001 to 2003 and Senior Vice President
from 1999 to 2001. He is also the Chief Executive Officer,
President and a Director of Resource Capital Corp. since
its formation in 2005. He has been chairman of the board
of directors for Atlas Energy, L.P. since February 2011.
Cohen served as vice chairman of the board of directors
for Atlas Pipeline Holdings, L.P. from January 2006
until February 2011 and has served as chair of the executive
committee of the board of directors since 2006. Cohen
was vice chairman of the board of directors of Atlas
Energy, Inc. from September 2000 until February 2011
and chairman of the board of the executive committee
of Atlas Energy, Inc. from October 2009 until February
2011. Mr. Cohen received his Bachelor of Arts degree
from the University of Pennsylvania in 1992. He received
a Juris Doctor from American University School of Law.
Jeffrey
F. Brotman
Jeffrey
F. Brotman has been Executive Vice President of Resource
America since June 2007. He has been an Executive Vice-President
of Resource Capital Corp since 2009. Mr. Brotman was
a co-founder of Ledgewood, a Philadelphia based law
firm concentrating in financial, corporate, real estate
and other business matters and was affiliated with the
firm from 1992 until June 2007, serving as its managing
partner from 1995 until March 2006. He was the Chairman
of the Board of Directors of TRM Corporation (a publicly
traded consumer services company) from September 2006
to September 2008 and was TRM’s President and Chief
Executive Officer from March 2006 through June 2007.
Mr. Brotman is also a certified public accountant and
an Adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania
Law School. Mr. Brotman received a B.S. from Lehigh
University, summa cum laude, in 1985 and a J.D. from
University of Pennsylvania Law School, summa cum laude,
in 1989.
Thomas
C. Elliott
Chief Financial Officer since December 2009 and Senior
Vice President since 2005. Senior Vice President - Finance
and Operations from 2006 to December 2009. Senior Vice
President - Finance from 2005 to 2006. Vice President
- Finance from 2001 to 2005. Chief Financial Officer
of Resource Financial Fund Management, Inc. (a wholly-owned
asset management subsidiary of Resource America, Inc.)
since 2004. Chief Financial Officer, Chief Accounting
Officer and Treasurer of Resource Capital Corp. from
2005 to 2006 and Senior Vice President - Finance
and Operations since 2006. From 1997 to 2001, Mr. Elliott
held various financial positions at Fidelity Leasing,
Inc., our former subsidiary, including Manager of Financial
Planning, Director of Asset Securitization and Treasurer.
Tom has a BS in accounting from Gwynedd Mercy College.
Michael S. Yecies
Senior Vice President since 2005 and Chief Legal Officer
and Secretary since 1998. Vice President from 1998 to
2005. Senior Vice President since 2007 and Chief Legal
Officer and Secretary of Resource Capital Corp. since
2005. Attorney at Duane Morris LLP (an international
law firm) from 1994 to 1998.
Purvi
Kamdar
Director
of Marketing and Investor Relations. Ms. Kamdar is responsible
for coordinating fundraising and investor relations for Resource
America, Inc. and its affiliates. Before joining Resource
America, Inc., Ms. Kamdar worked with Sigma Capital, an S.A.C.
hedge fund, and prior to that she worked at Bear, Stearns
& Company. She received both an M.B.A. and B.S. in economics,
magna cum laude, from The University of Pennsylvania’s
Wharton School of Business.
Resource
Real Estate, Inc.
Alan F. Feldman
Senior Vice President RAI since 2002. Chief Executive
Officer of Resource Real Estate, Inc. (a wholly-owned
subsidiary) since 2004. Vice President at Lazard Freres
& Co. (an investment bank) from 1998 to 2002. Executive
Vice President at PREIT-Rubin, Inc., the management
subsidiary of Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
(a publicly-traded real estate investment trust) and
its predecessor, The Rubin Organization, from 1992 to
1998.
David E. Bloom
Senior Vice President RAI since 2001 and President of
Resource Real Estate, Inc. since 2001. Prior to joining
Resource America, Mr. Bloom was Senior Vice President
at Colony Capital, LLC (an international real estate
opportunity fund) from 1999 to 2001. Before that, he
was Director at Sonnenblick-Goldman Company from 1998
to 1999. Mr. Bloom began his career as an attorney at
Willkie Farr & Gallagher from 1996 to 1998.
Kevin M. Finkel
Vice President of RAI since 2006. President of Resource
Capital Partners, Inc., the general partner of real
estate private equity funds, since 2006 and Excecutive
Vice President, Director of Acquisitions of Resource
Real Estate since 2004. Prior to joining Resource America,
Mr. Finkel was an Associate at Lehman Brothers in 2000.
Mr. Finkel was an Associate at Barclays Capital in 1999
and Deutsche Bank Securities from 1994 to 1998.
Resource
Financial Fund Management, Inc.
Jeffrey D. Blomstrom
President of Resource Financial Fund Management (RFFM),
a wholly-owned subsidiary of Resource America, since
2003, and Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of
Trapeza Capital Management, LLC, since 2002. Mr. Blomstrom
also serves as the head of collateral origination and
as a member of the credit committee for Trapeza Capital
Management. From 2001 to 2003 Mr. Blomstrom was a Managing
Director at Cohen Bros. and Company, an investment bank
specializing in the financial services sector. From
2000 to 2001 he was Senior Vice President of iATMglobal.net,
Inc., an ATM software development company. Mr. Blomstrom
was, from 1999 to 2000, an associate at Covington &
Burling, a law firm, where he focused on mergers and
acquisitions and corporate governance.
Resource
Capital Corp
David J. Bryant
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since
June 2006. Mr. Bryant brings twenty five years
of real estate industry accounting and SEC financial
reporting experience to RCC. Prior to joining
RCC, Mr. Bryant was Senior Vice-President, Real Estate
Services, at Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust
(PREIT) for one year. Before that Mr. Bryant served
as Senior Vice-President and Treasurer at PREIT for
five years. Prior to that he served as Vice-President,
Financial Services, at PREIT Rubin, Inc., and The Rubin
Organization, Inc.
Resource
Financial Institutions Group, Inc.
Shivan Govindan
Senior Principal of Resource Financial Institutions
Group, Inc. (RFIG) since 2005, and Senior Vice President
of (RFFM) since 2004 and Managing Director and Portfolio
Manager of Trapeza Capital Management, LLC, since 2005.
Prior to joining Resource America, Mr. Govindan was
Principal of Beehive Ventures, LLC, a Deutsche Bank-seeded
early stage private equity firm investing in companies
providing products and services to the financial services
industry. Prior to that, he served as Director of Corporate
Development for IQ Financial Systems, Inc., a DB Ventures
portfolio company. Mr. Govindan began his career structuring
and selling fixed income derivatives at Bankers Trust.
LEAF
Financial Corporation
Crit S. DeMent
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive
Officer of LEAF Commercial Capital, Inc., a small ticket
equipment leasing and finance company based in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania, USA. LEAF is a vendor, leasing platform
that has originated over $3.2 billion in leases and
loans since 2003. Before joining LEAF Mr. DeMent was
President of Fidelity Leasing, Inc. and its successor,
the Technology Finance Group of Citi-Capital Vendor
Finance from 1996 to 2001. Mr. DeMent was Vice President
of Marketing for Tokai Financial Services from 1987
through 1996. He has served the US based Equipment Leasing
and Finance Association in various capacities where
he is currently the Chairman for 2012.
Directors
Michael J. Bradley
Co-owner and Managing Director of BF Healthcare, Inc.
(a supplier of physician services to hospitals and assisted
living facilities) since 1999. Director of The Bancorp,
Inc. (a publicly-traded bank holding company) since
2005. Managing Board Member of Atlas Pipeline Partners
GP, LLC from 2004 to 2005. Chairman of the Board of
First Executive Bank from 1988 to 1998. Vice Chairman
of First Republic Bank from 1998 to 2003.
Carlos C. Campbell
President of C.C. Campbell and Company (a management
consulting firm) since 1985. Assistant Secretary of
Commerce for Economic Development with United States
Department of Commerce from 1981 to 1984. Director of
PICO Holdings, Inc. (a publicly-traded diversified holding
company) since 1998. Director of Herley Industries,
Inc. (a publicly-traded RF/microwave solutions company)
since 2005.
Jonathan Z. Cohen
(see bio above)
Edward E. Cohen (see bio above)
Donald
W. Delson
Senior Advisor at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc.
from February 2009 until August 2011. Managing Director,
Corporate Finance Group at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods,
Inc. from 1997 to February 2009. Managing Director in
the Corporate Finance Group at Alex. Brown & Sons
from 1982 to 1997. Member of the Board of Directors
of WSFS Bank since February 2009. Member of the Board
of Directors of Atlas Energy, Inc. from February 2004
until its sale in February 2011. Member of the Managing
Board of Atlas Pipeline Partners GP from June 2003 until
May 2004. The Board concluded that Mr. Delson should
be nominated to our Board of Directors due to the depth
and breadth of his experience in investments, operations
and finance, his understanding of complex financial
transactions and products and his experience as a board
member of public companies.
Hersh Kozlov
Partner at Duane Morris LLP (an international law firm)
since 2009. Partner at Wolf, Block, Schorr and Solis-Cohen
LLP (a law firm) from 2001 to 2009. Presidential appointee
to national Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and
Negotiations from 2002 to 2004.
Robert Lerner
Managing Director at DPT Capital Management, LLC, an
investment firm, since March 2011. He currently serves
as the Chairman of Bridgeton Fund Management Corporation
(previously known as Ruvane Fund Management Corporation),
a developer and sponsor of private futures funds primarily
for high net-worth individuals, which he co-founded
in 1991 and served as CEO from January 2007 until March
2011. He also co-founded Partners Capital Investment
Group, Inc., a private investment office, and was a
member of its External Investment Committee for eight
years ending December 2011. Mr. Lerner also is a co-founder
of Mount Lucas Management Corporation, a provider of
innovative investments to institutional and high-net-worth
investors, and of WoodAllen Capital Management, a global
macro hedge fund and commodity trading advisor. Previously,
Mr. Lerner was employed as Associate General Counsel
and Trading Development Manager by Commodities Corporation
(an investment company that was acquired by Goldman
Sachs). Mr. Lerner holds a J.D. from Boston University
Law School and a B.A. from Cornell University.
Andrew M. Lubin
President of Delaware Financial Group, Inc. (a private
real estate and investment consulting firm) since 1990.
Director of Real Estate for the University of Delaware
since 2010.
John S. White
Mr. White has been an independent financial advisor
offering private wealth management services to individuals
and corporations since 2009. Executive Director of the
Investment Program Association (a national trade association)
from 2008 to 2009. Consultant in the financial services
industry from 2006 to 2007. Senior Vice President of
Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. (an independent broker/dealer
subsidiary of American International Group, Inc.) from
2002 to 2006. Chief Executive Officer and President
of DCC Securities Corporation (a securities brokerage
firm) from 1989 to 2002.
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