OUR PEOPLE

Kyle Bradford joined American Capital in March 2002 and is a Principal in the Dallas Buyout Group. He is responsible for originating, executing and managing investments in middle-market companies across a variety of industry sectors, including healthcare services, life sciences, and consumer products, among others. Mr. Bradford currently serves on the board of directors of American Capital portfolio companies Future Food and The Meadows and is a board observer of Scientific Protein Laboratories.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Bradford worked in the Technology Investment Banking Division of Salomon Smith Barney in New York. At Salomon, Mr. Bradford specialized in equity and debt underwriting and merger and acquisition advisory assignments for companies in various technology sectors. Before Salomon, he worked in the Syndicated Finance Group of Banc of America Securities in New York.

Mr. Bradford received a Masters in Professional Accounting and a Bachelors of Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Managing Director Profile, Sponsor Finance Team

Bowen Diehl joined American Capital in October 2001 as a Vice President in the Dallas office, was promoted to Principal in 2004, and then promoted to Managing Director in January, 2007 where he is now responsible for the Sponsor Finance Group for the Western Offices for American Capital (Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco).  Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Diehl was a Vice President in Investment Banking at Merrill Lynch where he focused on mergers and acquisitions advisory assignments, as well as public debt and equity offerings for companies in the southwest United States. While at Merrill Lynch, Mr. Diehl gained experience working with companies in the exploration and production, oilfield services, natural gas pipeline, natural gas gathering and processing, homebuilding and semiconductor sectors. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Mr. Diehl was with Chase Securities, Inc. from 1995 to January 2000, most recently as a Vice President in the Global Oil and Gas Group. While at Chase, Mr. Diehl gained experience in mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, corporate restructurings, public debt offerings, as well as equity and mezzanine private placements. Mr. Diehl is currently Chairman of the Boards of Scientific Protein Laboratories, Meadows of Wickenburg and of ETG Holdings, Inc., serves as a member of the Boards of TestAmerica Holdings, Inc., Spring Air Company, and Forba (d/b/a Small Smiles), and serves as an observer on the Board of Creditcards.com.

Mr. Diehl holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University. Mr. Diehl also holds a Masters of Business Administration from The University of Texas at Austin.

Todd Friant joined American Capital in July 2005 as part of Energy Team in the Dallas office. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Friant was a Director at Hunt Resources, where he spent two years assisting in the build-out of Hunt Consolidated's (holding company for the oil and real estate businesses of Ray Hunt) energy-focused private equity initiative. While at Hunt, Mr. Friant originated, evaluated and managed a broad range of investments across all energy sectors. Prior to Hunt, Mr. Friant worked at Simmons and Company International in Houston, Texas where he specialized in merger and acquisition advisory assignments principally for oil field service companies. Before this, Mr. Friant worked at Salomon Smith Barney in the Financial Entrepreneur's Investment Banking Division in New York. At Salomon, Mr. Friant specialized in equity and debt underwriting and merger and acquisition advisory assignments for private equity groups across all industries. Mr. Friant's responsibilities included serving on the Boards of Directors of Consolidated Utility Services, Inc. and BPWest, Inc.

Todd earned a B.B.A. in Accounting and an M.S. in Finance, summa cum laude from Texas A&M University.

Douglas Kelley joined American Capital’s Dallas office in 2004 and is a Principal in the Sponsor Finance Group. He is responsible for originating, executing, and managing debt and minority equity investments in partnership with other financial sponsors. Mr. Kelley has made debt and equity investments in private companies within a range of industries including food, healthcare, technology, and energy services. Mr. Kelley serves on the board of directors or as board observer of several American Capital investments, including Corrpro, Hospitality Mints, CreditCards.com and Direct Mail Holding. He previously served on the board of directors of BPWest.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Kelley was an Associate at J.P. Morgan in its Los Angeles-based investment banking practice; was an Associate and founding member of the Los Angeles office of The Beacon Group, a New York-based merchant banking firm which managed over $2 billion of private equity capital and provided strategic advisory services to both middle-market and Fortune 500 clients; and was a Financial Analyst in the New York-based leveraged finance group of Credit Suisse First Boston.

Mr. Kelley holds M.B.A. and B.B.A. degrees from the McCombs School at The University of Texas at Austin.

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Managing Director Profile, Energy Group

Managing Director, American Capital Energy Kevin W. Kuykendall joined American Capital in April 2003. In January 2005, Mr. Kuykendall was placed in charge of building an energy investing effort for American Capital. Mr. Kuykendall was promoted to Managing Director in 2006 and now leads a team of seven energy-focused investment professionals and one operating professional based in Dallas, Texas.

Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Kuykendall was a Director in the Principal Investments Group of Enron Corp., where he spent seven years originating, executing, managing, and exiting a wide variety of energy-related investments, including leveraged buyouts, asset breakups, and early-stage direct equity investments in the exploration and production, oilfield services, coal, utility services, power, and power technology sectors. Mr. Kuykendall currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Innova-Extel Acquisition Holdings, Inc., and SunFuel Midstream, LLC, in addition to having served on twelve additional Boards of Directors over portions of the past thirteen years.

Kevin earned an M.B.A. with a Finance Concentration from the University of Texas at Austin and a B.B.A. in Finance, summa cum laude, from the University of Oklahoma.

Jeff MacDowell joined American Capital in April 2001 as a Principal in the Dallas office and was promoted to Managing Director in 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. MacDowell was Vice President - Finance and Corporate Development of Dynamex Inc., a publicly-traded same-day transportation company with $250 million in revenues. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. MacDowell was with BACE Industries, LLC, a private equity firm specializing in industry consolidations. During his tenure at BACE, Mr. MacDowell was Vice President of RentX Industries, Inc., an equipment rental industry consolidator.

Prior to joining BACE, Mr. MacDowell was with Banque Paribas from 1991 to 1996 as a Vice President in the Merchant Banking Group where he focused on senior debt financings primarily for private equity sponsors. While at Paribas, Mr. MacDowell was involved in financing commitments that totaled in excess of $800 million. Prior to Paribas, Mr. MacDowell was with CS First Boston in the Dallas Investment Banking group where he gained corporate finance experience in initial public offerings, public equity and debt offerings, private debt placements, M&A, and corporate restructurings. While at First Boston, Mr. MacDowell was involved in financings that totaled in excess of $1.8 billion.

Mr. MacDowell graduated magna cum laude from Southern Methodist University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering.

Kacy Moutray Ellis joined American Capital in September of 2002 and is a Vice President in the Energy Team located in Dallas. She is responsible for executing, managing and exiting investments in companies across the energy sector. Prior to American Capital, Mrs. Ellis worked at Salomon Smith Barney in New York in the Mergers and Acquisitions group. While at Salomon, she completed several M&A transactions for technology, energy, transportation and logistics companies. Following Salomon, she worked at Frost Securities in Dallas in the Investment Banking Group. While at Frost, she worked on M&A, debt and equity transactions of middle-market energy and technology companies.

Mrs. Ellis received a B.A. in Economics and a Minor in Business Administration from the University of Texas at Austin.

Diane Prier joined American Capital in October 2006. Prior to joining American Capital, Diane was President of Equitable Supply and responsible for the development, drilling and operations functions of a $500 million Exploration & Production business centered in the Appalachian basin. Before working with Equitable, Diane was President of Williams Alaska, which included marketing, operations, engineering and external affairs for both refinery and convenience store assets. She also served as Operations Vice President for the Rockies region of Williams’ Midstream business prior to her Alaska assignment. Diane joined Williams after working with Raytheon Design & Constructors, where she developed process designs for refineries and chemical plants. Diane started her career at Exxon with assignments in facility design and oil & gas plant operations.

Diane received her bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the Colorado School of Mines and earned an M.B.A. from the University of Phoenix. Diane resides in Dallas, Texas and works at the Dallas Office.

Fernando Ruiz joined American Capital in October 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Fernando held management positions in sourcing for the GE Consumer and Industrial Division in Puerto Rico and GE Appliances in Mexico. Fernando was responsible for leading and developing sourcing strategies to deliver 10%+ productivity goals on a material spend base of $280 million. Moreover, he simplified the supply chain process by consolidating the vendor base and reducing order to delivery lead-time to 5 days. He started his professional career as production engineer and ISO 9000 auditor at Mabe, which is a Mexican joint venture entity with GE Appliances. Fernando is certified Green Belt in Six Sigma.

Fernando received his MBA from a joint program between Thunderbird, The Garvin School of International Management (Glendale, Arizona) and Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Monterrey, NL. Mexico). He earned his B.S. Industrial Engineering from the Instituto Tecnologico de Queretaro (Queretaro, Qro, Mexico). Fernando lives in Plano, Texas.

Mike Schmitz joined American Capital in June 2007 and is a Vice President in the Dallas office. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Schmitz was a Senior Associate at Hunt Private Equity Group, the middle-market private equity group affiliated with Ray L. Hunt. At Hunt, Mr. Schmitz focused on sourcing, executing and managing buyouts of consumer-oriented product and services companies. Prior to Hunt, Mr. Schmitz was a Senior Associate at Austin Ventures where he focused on private equity investments in the business services, software and services and healthcare services verticals. Prior to Austin Ventures, Mr. Schmitz was an Analyst with Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York in the Communications, Media and Entertainment Group. While at Goldman, Mr. Schmitz completed several M&A transactions and public financings for media, telecom and communications equipment clients.

Mr. Schmitz received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and his BBA in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Jay D. Squiers joined American Capital in October 2007 as a Principal in the Dallas-based Energy Group where Mr. Squiers focuses on debt and minority equity financings in support of private equity sponsors, acquisitions, as well as direct financings for companies across the energy sector. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Squiers was a Managing Director at Fortress Investment Group, where he spent two years originating leveraged loans for the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Funds of Fortress. Prior to Fortress, Mr. Squiers worked in the Dallas office of Prudential Capital Group for nearly fifteen years. For his last nine years at Prudential, Jay headed a team charged with originating, executing, managing, and exiting a variety of fixed and floating rate investments, including senior and subordinated debt and mezzanine investments to a wide range of industries with an emphasis on energy investments in North America. While at Prudential, Mr. Squiers worked closely with companies in the exploration and production, oilfield services, coal, refining, marketing, pipeline and power sectors.

Jay earned a JD with Honors from the University of Texas School of Law at Austin and an AB, magna cum laude from Princeton University. Jay is also a Chartered Financial Analyst.

Adam Stern joined American Capital in May 2005 as an Associate in the Dallas office and was promoted to Vice President in January 2006. Prior to joining American Capital, Mr. Stern worked in Dallas at The Riverside Company, a New York-based private equity firm focused on the middle-market. Before The Riverside Company, he worked at two private equity firms in New York, Park Avenue Equity Partners and The Chart Group, and at the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers in the Natural Resources and Power Group.

Mr. Stern graduated with high honors from the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business, where he earned a BA in Accounting and a MPA in Taxation. He has passed all four parts of the certified public accountancy exam.