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> Gil Partida, Co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors - Mr. Partida has over 20 years experience including working with the Hispanic communities in the U.S. and international markets in the areas of retail, trade, law and consumer finance. Mr. Partida spent 5 years developing an international business in emerging markets in Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean for a publicly traded company as its CEO.

> Allan Youngberg, EVP / CFO and Director - Mr. Youngberg (CPA) has 30 years of finance and accounting experience, most recently as CFO for two international based public companies.  Most recently, Mr. Youngberg managed the financing resulting from opening 30 stores in twelve countries where revenues increased from $80 million to $650 million in four year.

> Larry Cohen, Director - Mr. Cohen has over 30 years experience in the pawn business. He has owned (along with members of his family) 10 pawn shops in the greater Chicago metropolitan area. In 2005, he sold American Jewelry and Pawn to Cash America.

> Michael Herman, Director. Mr. Herman has more than 29 years of experience in leading high technology companies in both financial and asset management services. His functional areas of management responsibilities have included Executive management roles on a worldwide basis from division President to leading business operations and sales & marketing for specialized vertical business units. From 2002 to current Mr. Herman was the founder and has served as President of Babcock & Brown’s Technology group specifically focused on the Semiconductor industry. Prior to 2002, Mr. Herman was responsible for worldwide technology financial and equipment product & services for Comdisco as both a corporate Executive and Division President. Overall at Comdisco, Mr. Herman was responsible for over building and managing over $6 billion of corporate assets for Comdisco. Herman holds a BS in finance and economics with a minor in business law from Arizona State University in Tempe, where he graduated in 1978.

> Troy Otillo, Director - Mr. Otillio has over 22 years experience in technology and software where he has lead teams from inception to release of flagship offerings.   Currently, Otillio is a technology leader at Intuit Inc., where he heads development of teams focusing on social related offerings such as Live Community.  In 2002, Otillio founded Envisage Capital LLC, a venture capital and management firm, which holds interests in American Eco-Energy, LLC, and HedFirst Marketing.   During his Silicon Valley career, Otillio focused solely on early phase, venture-backed start-ups in which all ventures that he participated in experienced rapid growth in revenue and headcount.  While at Ariba, Inc., (NasdaqNM:ARBA), Otillio contributed to the Company’s historic success (from 1M/quarter in 1997 to 164M/quarter in 2000) and headcount (from 80 employees to over 2,500). Prior to Ariba, Otillio joined Documentum Inc. as its 15th employee and later served as manager of Server Engineering.  Otillio earned his B.S. degree in Computer Science from California Polytechnic San Luis Obispo, California.