Thomas M. Dean, President, spent twenty-six years associated as an officer or partner with investment banking firms including Kidder Peabody; L. F. Rothchild; and Cowen & Co., Known for his short sale recommendations, Mr. Dean developed and cultivated numerous contacts in corporate finance, research and sales at firms throughout "The Street". In 1990, he joined Alaris Corp. as Senior Vice President, Investor Relations. In 1992, formed Innovative Research Associates, which is now a subsidiary of Murdock Capital Partners.

Luis J. Mejia, Managing Partner, brings extensive international marketing and financial services experience. In 1980 Mr. Mejia joined Trans Ocean Leasing & Finance, and in 1985 subsequently joined Triton International. In 1989 Mr. Mejia co-founded Geneva Capital Resources, Inc. and has been active in the investment banking field. Consecutively, he was Senior Vice President with Yorkville Corporation, an investment portfolio management company specializing in derivative products and managed futures. Mr. Mejia is a Registered Investment Advisor with the Securities and Exchange Commission and is Series 3 registered with the National Futures Association. He is Series 62 registered with the NASD.

Raymond H. Todd, Managing Director, brings substantial financial, operational and analytical expertise having spent the bulk of his career in commercial real estate finance. In 1985, after five years with Chase Manhattan Bank in their Commercial Real Estate Division, Mr. Todd joined Centennial Development Company in Northern Virginia and was involved in the financing and development of many signature buildings in Reston and Tyson’s Corner. In total, Mr. Todd spent 12 years as the CFO for two separate development companies and managed the financing and accounting activities for 35 different partnerships. Mr. Todd’s background also includes securitization, CMBS underwriting, due diligence and general corporate financial analysis. He was involved in one of the very first CMBS deals in 1993 in which 115 properties were simultaneously underwritten, refinanced, and funded in a new CMBS issue. In total, Mr. Todd has underwritten or analyzed over $8 billion of commercial real estate loans in 43 states and Canada.

 Simon Sjøthun, Senior Associate, joined Murdock Capital Partners in 2008.  Mr. Sjøthun is responsible for the execution of the firm\'s financial and capital markets advisory activities, as well as sourcing new deals and the structuring and raising of capital for existing clients.  He earned his B. S. in Business Administration from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration.

Yvonne Fong Yee is Senior Assistant and has significant business experience in human resources, business administration and management. In 1960, Miss Fong Yee joined Associated Merchandising Corporation where she was the assistant to the Vice President of Overseas Operations. Most recently, she was the Office Administrator Orion Royal Bank Limited from 1982-1987 and was at the Royal Bank of Canada, New York City from 1988 to 1993 as Personnel Liaison Officer of the Treasury Division. Miss Fong Yee is a graduate of the Durham Business College, Kingston, Jamaica and the Administrative Certificate Program of New York University.

Advisory Board

Bruce E. Balding, President of Balding & Company, Inc. a registered investment advisory firm. He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and Master\'s degree in 1954. From 1972 to 1985, Mr. Balding served as President of Controlled Equities, Inc., a New York based financial consulting concern. From 1980 to 1984, he was President of Hamilton Gregg Capital Corporation, an investment advisory firm in New York City. From 1970 through 1971, he served as President of Van Cleef, Jordan & Wood, investment counsellors. He is a Trustee of Davis & Elkins College and a Director of the National Institute of Social Sciences. Mr. Balding is also a senior security analyst and member of the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Financial Analysts Federation.

Roger K. Baumberger, Managing Director - Corporate Finance of Spencer Trask Securities, Inc. He has over twenty five years of corporate finance experience, focused principally on emerging growth companies throughout the United States. Prior to joining Spencer Trask, Roger Baumberger held senior corporate finance positions at Josephthal Lyon & Ross, Ladenburg, Thalmann & Co., the Equitable Life Assurance Society, BDO Seidman and Marine Midland Bank. He is a member of the New York Society of Security Analysts, Association for Investment Management and Research, and Executive Forum at New York University. He is a Director of Rx Technologies, Inc., a vaccine development company. Mr. Baumberger, a Chartered Financial Analyst, received an M.B.A. degree with distinction from the New York University Stern School of Business and has an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College.

Howard Butcher, IV, since 1957, had been associated in various capacities with Butcher & Company, Inc., and its predecessor firms, Butcher & Sherrerd, of which he was a General Partner, and Butcher & Singer, Inc. Butcher & Singer, Inc. was the leading Philadelphia based investment banking and brokerage firm in the Mid-Atlantic States, prior to its merger, in 1988, into WFS Financial, which was the parent of Wheat, First, Butcher, Singer. In February 1998, First Union Bank acquired Wheat First Butcher Singer for more than $400 million. Mr. Butcher last served the company as Executive Vice President and Director of Butcher Resources, Inc., which was the Energy and Natural Resource investment-banking subsidiary of Butcher & Company, Inc.

Mr. Butcher is President and CEO of Butcher International, Inc., a privately owned company that he founded in 1978. The company currently provides private investment banking and corporate advisory services to young companies across a wide range of industry. The company has provided advisory services to foreign and domestic investors seeking real estate, natural resource, energy and energy-related and other corporate opportunities in the U.S. The company has engaged in import and export transactions between the United States, Central and South America, Europe, Nigeria and elsewhere. Mr. Butcher has spent more than thirty years as an advisor or principal, in corporate finance, venture capital and investment and corporate management, across the full range of industry. He was especially active in the energy, natural resource and power generation industries in the 1980.  Mr. Butcher currently serves as a Director of Butcher Energy, Inc., Butcher International, Inc., and the Philadelphia Bourse, Inc. He is a past Chairman and Director of DRX, Inc., and formerly a Director of Coopersburg Handle & Tool Company, Distribix, Inc., Harrison Industries, PLC, Alexandra Mining, Ltd., Holmes Protection of Philadelphia, Frances Denny, Inc. and International Light & Power, Limited.

Norman M. Dean, Chairman of the Board of Miller Diversified Corporation, a publicly traded entity and former Chairman of the Board of New York Stock Exchange listed Alaris Medical Inc. ( acquired in 2004 by Cardinal Health). He is past president of the American Bankers Association and served on the Board of Directors of United Banks of Colorado. Over the past 40 years, Mr. Dean has been active in mergers and acquisitions in banking, food services medical devices and transportation.

Edward J. Dreger, is currently acting as Senior Asset Allocation Advisor to the Murdock Opportunity Fund, L.P. He spent four years as a Portfolio Manager in the Asset Management Division at Commerzbank AG in Frankfurt, Germany with extensive transaction and banking experience in foreign exchange, derivative products, asset management, commercial paper and credit analysis. Previously with Banker Trust Global Assets Division and a financial consultant at Merrill Lynch in Munich, Germany, he was also with Commerzbank AG in New York in corporate finance and managed and coordinated FOREX strategies and risks. He has a B. A. in German Literature and Economics from Fordham University.

Christopher D. Gee, Senior Advisor, Jade Pharmaceutical Inc., a former Apple Computer Inc. executive, Mr. Gee is a computer industry veteran with extensive IT and business operations management experience. He spent the last two years working on projects in the Peoples Republic of China including ERP implementations and management consulting for acquisitions. His background includes three years as a senior analyst (specializing in information systems, IT management, and emerging technologies) at New York University, Stern School of Business. Mr. Gee left NYU to manage business development and strategic partnerships for startup Kinetic Multimedia, a company specializing in mobile and wireless computing technologies. The new position brought him into contact with executives at top companies in the industry: Motorola, IBM, Qualcomm, and Apple Computer (which eventually recruited and hired him). While at Apple, Mr. Gee successfully managed various business development and enterprise computing projects. He strongly believes in efficient information technology as one of the cornerstones of any successful company. Mr. Gee received his Masters Degree from Kings College, University of London, and his B.A. from New York University.

A. Alex Porter, Founder of Porter, Orlin Inc. in 1976 and has been an investment advisor for the past 30 years and currently manages in excess of $2 Billion. In 1988 he co-founded Trust Company of the South which was acquired by Fiduciary Trust International in 1992. Mr. Porter is a graduate and trustee of Davidson College and a former Governor of the New York Athletic Club, and a member of the Board of Directors of The Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae).

William D. Priester, M.D., has been in the private practice of Internal Medicine and Cardiology since 1983. He has been the Medical Director of the Lenox Hill Physicians Hospital Organization in New York City and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Lenox Hill Health Network. Dr. Priester is also the President of Lenox Hill Cardiology Associates, P. C., which is a group of 16 physicians who interpret all non-invasive cardiology procedures at Lenox Hill Hospital. . Dr. Priester received a B. A. from Stanford University and his M. D. from the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He is board certified in Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Disease, and a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology.

Diane M. Smith, Principal - Ms. Smith joined Darby in December 2007, bringing nearly 20 years of experience in domestic and emerging market private equity investing, fund management and banking, including the launching and management of several new private equity and mezzanine investment businesses in both the U. S. and Latin America. Prior to forming her own firm to advise early stage entrepreneurs seeking private growth capital, Ms. Smith served as Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager for Electra Investment Trust PLC of the U. K., playing a key role in building the firm’s new U. S. principal investing business to over half a billion dollars in equity and mezzanine investments in a wide variety of industries. Joining Electra in 1991, Ms. Smith focused on growth financings and leveraged buyouts in middle market-sized companies in a broad range of sectors, with emphasis on consumer products and services, telecom and broadcast media, transportation operations and service providers, specialty industrial manufacturing and healthcare. In the late 1990’s, Ms. Smith spearheaded Electra’s expansion into South America, targeting infrastructure privatizations and related service providers as well as specialty manufacturers and consumer products and services. Prior to joining Electra, Ms. Smith was involved in building the new leveraged buyout business for a New York based thrift, as well as serving in international banking and corporate finance roles with Manufacturers Hanover Trust. Before joining MHT she spent several years in Spain developing export markets for Spanish producers of industrial and consumer products.