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In Focus: Malon Wilkus, Bloomberg TV, June 27, 2007
Man in a Hurry, Forbes, April 5, 2007.

Malon Wilkus is the founder of American Capital and has been a director, Chief Executive Officer and President since the company's inception in 1986, and its Chairman since 1998.

Since the company’s inception in 2005, Mr. Wilkus has been the Chairman of European Capital (LSE: ECAS), a $2 billion publicly traded private equity and mezzanine fund.

Since the company’s inception in 2007, Mr. Wilkus has been the Chairman of American Capital, LLC, the fund management portfolio company of American Capital Strategies, LLC.

He has served on the board of over a dozen middle market companies in various industries.

Ira Wagner re-joined American Capital in October, 1997 as a Principal and has over 20 years of experience as an investment banker and entrepreneur. Prior to re-joining American Capital, Mr. Wagner was a Senior Vice President at MONY Capital Markets, a specialty investment banking firm which arranged private financing primarily for companies in the food industry. While at MONY Capital Markets he was responsible for arranging financing in excess of $200 million for numerous companies. In May 2001 Mr. Wagner was named Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer.

Prior to joining MONY Capital Markets, Mr. Wagner was employed by American Capital from 1986 to 1988, where he was responsible for the successful employee buyout of North Coast Brass.

Prior to earning his M.B.A. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1985, Mr. Wagner was the co-founder of a business which distributed imported auto parts in western New England from 1975 through 1982.

John Erickson joined American Capital as Chief Financial Officer in January of 1998. He has more than 15 years of finance and accounting experience in private and public company settings.

Mr. Erickson spent nearly eight years with Storage USA, Inc. (NYSE:SUS) and its related subsidiaries. He served as the Chief Financial Officer and managed Storage USA's capitalization growth from $30 million to more than $1 billion during his tenure. Mr. Erickson negotiated and structured in excess of $750 million in public and private debt and equity offerings for Storage USA including its initial public offering. In addition to his capital raising activities, Mr. Erickson developed the business plan, structured and served as President of Storage USA Franchise Corp., a subsidiary which provides franchise services to the self-storage industry.

Samuel A. Flax joined American Capital in January, 2005, as its Executive Vice President and General Counsel. He also serves as the company's corporate Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer.

 Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Flax was a senior partner in the corporate and securities practice group of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP. At Arnold & Porter, Mr. Flax was American Capital's principal external counsel since before the company's 1997 initial public offering. As outside counsel, Mr. Flax represented American Capital in raising more than $4.5 billion in debt and equity capital, advised the company on corporate, securities and other legal matters and represented the company in many of its investment transactions. At Arnold & Porter, Mr. Flax also represented a variety of other clients in a broad range of corporate and transactional matters including mergers and acquisitions, restructurings of sovereign and other debt, real estate investments and bankruptcy matters.

 Mr. Flax joined Arnold & Porter in 1985 and became a partner in 1990. He is a graduate of the Washington & Lee University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review, and received his undergraduate degree in industrial engineering from Georgia Tech. Following graduation from law school, he was a law clerk for the Hon. H. Emory Widener, Jr., of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit.