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The Millburn Team:

Presented below are summary biographies of the senior principals of Millburn Capital Group (please click on name to see bio):

Mark Furman 

Mark is Managing Partner of Millburn Capital Group as well as the founder of VF Capital and CVF Securities, a broker-dealer registered with the SEC and NASD. Mr. Furman has over 20 years of experience providing corporate finance and investment banking services to clients with an emphasis on private and public debt and equity transactions, leveraged buyouts, recapitalizations and IPO’s. Mr. Furman has completed successful financing transactions, valued at over $2 billion, as an investment banker at Campell Vanderslice Furman LP (CVF), a private boutique investment bank, CIBC Oppenheimer and The Chase Manhattan Bank.

Mark has a M.B.A from New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from the State University of New York at Binghamton.

Contact Mark at mfurman@millburncapital.com

David Ellis 

David is a Managing Partner of Millburn Capital Group. Mr. Ellis has over 15 years of experience in raising capital for companies in the private placement market at all layers of the capital structure, including senior debt, mezzanine debt and private equity. Transaction sizes have ranged from as small as $4 million to over $500 million, with the capital used to fund internal growth, acquisitions and other applications. Mr. Ellis has excellent relationships with both financial institutions and private equity funds, but also has successfully obtained financing from strategic investors. Mr. Ellis' industry experience includes transactions in technology, media, healthcare, retail and manufacturing. Mr. Ellis has previously been an investment banker with CIBC World Markets, Legg Mason and Dillon Read.

David has an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton Graduate School of Business and a BS degree in Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Contact David at dellis@millburncapital.com

Anthony (Tony) Valencourt

Tony is a Managing Director at Millburn Capital . Tony is an experienced banker specializing in all facets of the insurance industry and all of its related sectors ranging from finance and leasing companies to asset managers and funds. Tony brings extensive experience in capital structure management and capital raising, acquisition and structured financing, valuation, insurance-specialized private equity, restructuring, securitizations and derivatives, rating agency and refinancing advisory, other related forms of structured credit, and risk quantification and management. Prior to joining Gill and Roeser, Tony worked at  Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co. and Bank of New York Mellon, and, more recently, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and HSBC Securities where he established and ran these banks' insurance banking divisions.

Tony earned an International MBA from the University of South Carolina, a MA from the University of South Carolina and a BA from the University of Louisville.

Contact Tony at avalencourt@millburncapital.com

Albert Swanke

Albert is a Managing Director at Millburn Capital. Albert is an experienced financial executive who provides advisory and consulting services to insurance companies, insurance intermediaries, banks and other related financial institutions. He has extensive experience in the insurance and venture capital arenas and specializes in mergers and acquisitions, raising capital, restructurings, and developing and managing new businesses. He has been active in the development and management of new businesses, serving as a director to many companies that he helped sponsor. From 1992 to 1996, Albert was a Managing Director and member of the Executive Committee of the Firemark Group and was founder and principal of Insurance Venture Partners. Albert also served in executive and management positions with CIGNA (INA), American Express Bank and American International Group.

Albert holds a MBA from Columbia University and a BA from Yale University

Contact Albert at aswanke@millburncapital.com

Charles Black

Charles is a Managing Director at Millburn Capital. Charles has over 30 years of experience in risk management and insurance and reinsurance brokerage services having held senior positions at EWI Re (as CEO), Sedgwick Re, Towers Perrin Reinsurance, Madison Intermediaries, E.W. Blanch, John F. Sullivan and Insurance Company of North America.

Charles holds a BA from Saint Joseph's University and a supplemental certificate from the American Educational Institute as well as coursework in Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriting. Additionally, Charles holds the following insurance licenses in various states: Property and Casualty, Life, Accident, Health & HMO.

 Contact Charles at cblack@millburncapital.com

ADVISORS

External Insurance Advisory Board

Richard Sadowsky 

Richard is a Board Advisor to Millburn Capital Group and has over 20 years of experience providing legal and investment banking services to financial institutions, private equity funds and private and public companies with complex corporate and  financial structures.

Prior to joining Millburn Capital Group, Richard was a member of CIBC's Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking Group where he was involved in private placements, public offerings, and M&A transactions. Richard started his career as a corporate and securities lawyer at Rubin Baum Levin Constant & Friedman (now RubinBaum LLP) where he spent 10 of his 18 years as a partner.  At Rubin Baum, Richard specialized in mergers and acquisitions and financing transactions for a diverse client base, including manufacturers, retailers, media and telecommunications companies and financial institutions.  His work included serving as counsel to debtors, creditors and equity holders in both friendly and contested restructurings as well as Chapter 11 proceedings.

Richard has a BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in New York City.

 

Ellen Marshall 

Ellen is a consultant to Millburn Capital Group and has over 20 years of diversified experience providing financial, merchant banking, corporate banking, high yield and marketing services to public and private companies.

Ellen's past work experience includes CIBC World Markets, as a Managing Director in the Corporate and Leveraged Finance Group; Fleet Bank, head of a group responsible for managing a $1.2 billion portfolio in the specialty lending group; and NatWest Bank, as a regional Division Head, a Senior Credit Officer, and a Team Leader in the Media Department. During her years serving at these financial institutions, Ellen worked with companies in a variety of industries including CLEC's, ISP's, wireless providers, long-haul fiber providers, web hosting providers and other types of communication service providers as well as cable television, out-of-home media, broadcasting, paging and publishing companies working with investment banks, accounting firms and law firms.

Ellen has a BS from Lehigh University.