Mr. Hunter, Managing Director of Strategic Capital Allocation Group LLC, founded the firm on October 1, 2001. Mr. Hunter was with Prudential Securities from July, 1999 to September, 2001. Previously, he was with Morgan Stanley Dean Witter for four years and Smith Barney for ten years. He has built a unique corporate and institutional consulting practice that concentrates on achieving maximum capability for risk-controlled assets. Over $2 billion in client assets have been enhanced toward improved levels of efficiency through his state-of-the-art dynamic asset/liability strategies and patent-pending decision support systems. His clients include a renowned hospital system encompassing endowment, ERISA pension plan and funded depreciation account portfolios, foundations, trusts, and ultra high net worth individuals. In consultation with the Lehman investment banking division of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Mr. Hunter was instrumental in bringing a regional oil company public and in the design of a public conversion strategy for a regional bank. Also while at Smith Barney, he helped establish reorganization criteria that assisted the $3 billion SB Corporate Trust Company subsidiary to evolve toward a more responsive internal service organization. He also consulted to senior Smith Barney management to reconcile the firm's 401(k) business process with an emerging Corporate Services profitability model. Prior to his tenure at Smith Barney, Mr. Hunter's experience includes his own consulting firms for derivative portfolio management and international relocation policies and systems on behalf of multinational companies and professional service firms. Clients included McKinsey & Company, Otis Elevator, CE Lummus, Levi Strauss, United Parcel and Northrop. Mr. Hunter's initial consulting experience was in competitive strategy assignments while at the Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Company. He focused on market segmentation and merger and acquisition [M&A] issues for maximizing shareholder value. Mr. Hunter's strategy consulting expertise, enhanced by twenty-one intensive years throughout the financial industry have merged to generate his concept for reshaping competitive advantage in the M & A playing field. Mr. Hunter holds a B.S.E. degree in Aerospace and Mechanical Sciences from Princeton University where he also completed the Program for Science in Human Affairs. At Princeton, Mr. Hunter designed and initiated the Program for Science, Technology and Environment that combined curricula from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs and the Engineering School. Mr. Hunter received his M.S. in Urban and Policy Sciences from the State University of New York at Stony Brook where he was instrumental in developing and implementing systems solutions to complex public policy problems for New York City and the Nassau/Suffolk County Planning Commissions. Mr. Hunter serves as a Patron Councillor to The Atlantic Council of the United States, as a member of the British-North American Committee and on the Board of Associates of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He is also actively involved with alumni affairs for Princeton University. Mr. Hunter is also a CIMA-designated member of the Investment Management Consultants Association.