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The CVF Team:

Mark Furman 

Mark is Managing Partner of CVF as well as the founder of VF Capital. Mr. Furman has over 25 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, and recapitalizations . Mr. Furman has completed successful financing transactions, valued at over $2 billion at Campell Vanderslice Furman LP, a private boutique, 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 CVF. Mr. Ellis has over 25 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 CVF. 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 CVF. 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