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Since March 2007, Mr. Gross has served as chairman, chief executive officer and managing member of Solar Capital, LLC, a newly organized externally managed finance company focusing on debt and equity investments in leveraged companies, including middle-market companies. Mr. Gross has been the chairman, chief executive officer and secretary of Marathon Acquisition Corp. since April 2006. Since July 2006, Mr. Gross has been co-chairman of the investment committee of Magnetar Financial LLC, an investment manager with over $3 billion in assets under management, and a senior partner in Magnetar Capital Partners LP, the holding company for Magnetar Financial LLC. Between February 2004 and February 2006, Mr. Gross was the president and chief executive officer of Apollo Investment Corporation, a publicly traded business development company that he founded and on whose board of directors and investment committee he served as chairman from February 2004 to July 2006, and was the managing partner of Apollo Investment Management, L.P., the investment adviser to Apollo Investment Corporation. From 1990 to February 2006, Mr. Gross was a senior partner at Apollo Management, L.P., a leading private equity firm which he founded in 1990. In addition, from 2003 to February 2006, Mr. Gross was the managing partner of Apollo Distressed Investment Fund, an investment fund he founded. Mr. Gross currently serves on the boards of directors of Saks, Inc. and United Rentals, Inc. Mr. Gross is a founding member, and serves on the executive committee, of the Youth Renewal Fund, is the chairman of the board of Mt. Sinai Children’s Center Foundation, serves on the Board of Trustees of the Trinity School and on the corporate advisory board of the University of Michigan Business School. | 