Mark J. Grant

Born: 11/10/50

Resides: Fort Lauderdale, Florida or on his boat, "Wishes Granted"

Mr. Grant is a graduate of Occidental College and has been on Wall Street for thirty-seven years in various senior management positions. He has run Capital Markets for four Investment Banks and been on the Board of Directors of four Investment Banks. Mr. Grant was also the President of a public company in the telecommunications field and on its Board of Directors for several years while he continued his work on Wall Street. He currently works at a publically traded Investment Bank and is a Managing Director of the firm. He runs the Corporate Syndicate Department and also the Structured Finance Department. Mr. Grant also writes a commentary on the financial markets, "Out of the Box," that is only distributed to large institutions in money management and is published each day by MTN-I, a very respected operation geared towards structured finance out of London. Mr. Grant is the only market commentator for MTN-I. Mr. Grant is also quoted often in a number of prominent business publications and he can be found, with some regularity, on various TV and radio shows concerning the financial markets. The total distribution of Mr. Grant's commentary is approximately 5,500 financial institutions in forty-eight countries. Mr. Grant runs a team whose associations include a number of Sovereign Wealth Funds, Central Banks, Mutual Funds, Bank Trust Departments, major Insurance Companies and other money managers of various sizes.