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John S. Wehrle is a Managing Partner in Gryphon Investments and a Partner in Acartha Group, LLC. Gryphon Investments is the general partner of Gryphon Holdings, L.P. (1999) and Gryphon Holdings II, LLP (2000), St. Louis-based private equity funds focused on investments in development and market stage applied technology opportunities. Acartha Group, founded in 2003 as an alternative asset manager, was an investor and participant in the public offering of Kanbay International (Nasdaq: KBAY). Mr. Wehrle is a Director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of CD&L, Inc. (Amex: CDV), a New Jersey-based same day delivery and logistics concern and is a director of several Gryphon Investments investee companies. He was President and Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Capital Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based private equity fund, from 1997 to 1998. Mr. Wehrle served as Managing Director and Head of Mergers and Acquisitions for A.G. Edwards & Sons, Inc. from 1994 to 1997. From 1989 to 1994, he was a Vice President of The Dyson-Kissner-Moran Corporation, a New York-based holding company engaged in the leveraged acquisition and development of portfolio companies. Mr. Wehrle served as a Managing Director of the Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. from 1986 to 1989 where he led a structured finance group, participating in the majority of LBO transactions financed by Chase Manhattan Bank during this period. He was associated with Touche Ross & Co. (St. Louis) and Price Waterhouse (New York and London) from 1977 to 1986. Mr. Wehrle is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis and St. Louis University School of Law. | 