James Chin - Portfolio Manager/Trader

James Chin is a Principal of Strategic Equity Capital, LLC. Mr. Chin has been a portfolio manager since 1987. His asset management experience includes analyzing and investing in the U.S. capital markets utilizing technical and fundamental analysis. From 1997 to 2000 he worked at HSBC Holdings, Plc, overseeing more than $750 million in assets. His primary duty was co-managing two internal equity funds while also running private client assets and utilizing options to hedge holdings when appropriate. Prior to joining HSBC Mr. Chin worked at Barclays Global Asset Management. At Barclays, he managed $200 million in discretionary global equity and balanced portfolios for Private Banking Clients who were primarily of South American origin. He oversaw investments in global equities, fixed income, and currencies. Prior to that, from 1987 to 1996 Mr. Chin was a Portfolio Manager at Prudential Securities Inc. While overseeing more than $200 million in wrap-account assets, he managed growth, value, balanced, flexible-balanced, and equity income portfolios. Investments were made in mid-to-large capitalization U.S. equities and fixed income instruments based on technical and fundamental analysis. His tenure at Prudential Securities included positions as a Research Analyst as well as an Equity Trader in which he had discretion to fill large block orders based on intra-day technical patterns. Mr. Chin graduated from the New Jersey Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

John Chin - Portfolio Manager/Trader

John Chin is a Principal of Strategic Equity Capital, LLC. Mr. Chin has been an equity trader since 1993. From 1997 to 2000 he worked at ABN Amro utilizing technical analysis to seek and initiate equity and stock option transactions. He had discretion for the completion of directed orders and the generation of new trading ideas for institutional clients. Prior to that, from 1995 to 1997 Mr. Chin worked at Peregrine Brokerage where he traded U.S. stocks on directed institutional orders and utilized technical analysis to implement additional recommendations. In 1993 Mr. Chin joined MeesPierson Inc. as a Junior Equity Trader. His duties included assisting the head trader in executing and clearing orders as well as maintaining and reconciling the proprietary trading portfolio. From 1987 to 1993 Mr. Chin worked at the New York City Department of Finance as a Real Estate Tax Analyst. Mr. Chin graduated from New York University in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics.

Catherine Avery - Portfolio Manager/Trader

Catherine Avery is an investment professional with more than 25 years experience managing investment portfolios on behalf of private and institutional investors. Her investment career and credentials are broad; she has worked for a number of leading U.S. investment firms, including Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley, Shearson Lehman Hutton and Prudential Securities, but more importantly has portfolio management experience spanning a wide range of asset classes. In today's investment world, where portfolio managers are so often narrowly focused on managing one asset class, the breadth of Catherine's investment experience is increasingly rare.

In her more than 25 years as a portfolio manager -- investing in both domestic and international securities markets -- Catherine has managed customized private client portfolios, wrap accounts, a natural resources fund, mid and large cap portfolios, an equity income fund (which involved her in fixed income markets and real estate investment trusts), and a global fund. In managing these various portfolios and assets, Catherine has carried both individual and team responsibility for the investments she has made and managed. On an individual basis, she has been personally responsible for portfolios totaling more than $750 million -- while as a member of a larger portfolio management team, she has shared responsibility for managing more than $14 billion on behalf of investors.

Catherine has a degree in Finance from New York University. She is also a member of the CFA Institute, the New York Society of Security Analysts and the Stamford CFA Society.

Simone Crighton - Associate

Simone Crighton has over 11 years of experience in Investment Banking, Corporate Banking, and Multinational Conglomerates. Ms. Crighton has held numerous titles as Investment Associate/Financial Analyst at the Asset Management Division of Societe Generale, Senior Investment Associate at GE Capital, and Senior Associate Business Controller at Coty Inc, the world's leading cosmetic company. Her diverse financial experience has assisted her in establishing relationships with different financial institutions and multinational conglomerates where her experience ranged from capital structure integration during M & A activities, to debt offerings of the company. Ms. Crighton holds a B.A. in Accounting from Queens College in New York.