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Thomas S. Ablum

With over 20 years experience in corporate finance, Mr. Ablum

has extensive expertise in private placements, leveraged buyouts, securitization, asset-based financing, work-outs, strategic planning

financial consulting, financial structuring, initial public offerings of debt and equity securities, and mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Before forming Ablum, Brown & Company in 1988, he was co-head of corporate finance at Rodman & Renshaw, Inc. There, he sourced deals, arranged financing for acquisitions and private placements, performed valuations and underwrote public securities. At Borg-Warner Acceptance Corporation, he was responsible for leveraged leasing and specialty leasing transactions, workouts of problem loans, establishing captive finance companies, the issuance of all debt and the direction of the $2 billion commercial paper program. Previously, he held various financial and analytical positions at Household International and at Walgreens Corporation. Mr. Ablum received an M.B.A. with a specialization in accounting from DePaul University and a B.S. in finance and marketing from the University of Illinois.

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