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Barry B. Conrad
Founding and Managing Member of Independent Capital Management, L.L.C., and Founder of Independent Bankers Capital Fund, L.P., has been involved in investment banking and operational management since 1966. From 1988 to 1998, he was a Founding and Managing Partner of Conrad/Collins Merchant Banking Group Ltd., a boutique merchant banking firm sponsoring lower-middle-market buyout and recapitalization transactions. From 1983 to 1988, he served as Senior Vice President and Manager of the Corporate Finance Department at Rauscher Pierce Refsnes, Inc., a Dallas-based regional investment bank. From 1974 to 1983, he was C.E.O. of Hart Delta, Inc., a Baton Rouge, Louisiana-based pharmaceutical manufacturing company. Prior to that time, he was a partner at Howard, Weil, Labouisse, Friedrichs & Company and a predecessor company, Viguerie Hayne & Chaffe, Inc., both of which were New Orleans-based regional investment banking firms. In these capacities, he has been involved in a substantial number of public offerings, private placements, mergers, acquisitions, and other investment banking transactions. Mr. Conrad holds an AB degree from Marshall University.



Thomas B. Hoyt
Managing Member, joined Independent Bankers Capital Fund, LP in 2001. Mr. Hoyt has been involved in the investment banking and private equity business since 1974. Since 1997, Mr. Hoyt has served as President & Investment Manager of Hibernia Capital Corporation, an SBIC, which is the private equity investment subsidiary of Hibernia Corporation. Mr. Hoyt serves as a founding member of the general partner group of Audubon Capital Fund I, a third-party mezzanine fund. From 1996 to 1997, Mr. Hoyt was a Principal of a New York-based, Japanese cross border investment and acquisition consortium comprised of 35 industrial and technology customers of TOKAI Bank, Ltd. From 1994 to 1995, Mr. Hoyt was a Managing Director in the New York office of the investment-banking firm of Rodman & Renshaw. During the period from 1991 through 1994, Mr. Hoyt was one of five Principals in Prudential Investment's Private Equity Group. From 1988 to 1991, Mr. Hoyt was the Regional Vice President of Prudential Capital Corporation in New York, responsible for originating, structuring and investing in private placements of private equities, senior and subordinated debt, and new classes of securitized assets. From 1980 to 1988, Mr. Hoyt was employed by The First National Bank of Chicago (FNBC). Mr. Hoyt initially joined FNBC's Dallas-based Petroleum & Minerals Division. In 1984, he established and managed the New York Office of FNBC's Petroleum & Minerals Division. In 1987, he established the Bank's Specialized Finance Group's office in New York, where he managed and participated in a large number of leveraged finance transactions. Mr. Hoyt began his career with Crestar Financial Corporation. Mr. Hoyt graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics with additional concentrations in Finance and Accounting. He has pursued additional graduate level studies in Finance at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University.



Meg Taylor
Chief Financial Officer of Independent Capital Management, L.L.C., has been in the venture capital and investment banking industry since 1990. From 1995 to 1999, she was Controller of Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated, a Dallas-based investment firm specializing in leveraged acquisitions and private equity investments. From 1994 to 1995, she was Assistant Controller of Nickels & Dimes Incorporated, a Dallas-based, privately held company, which owns and operates over 200 video amusement centers in the United States. From 1990 to 1994, Ms. Taylor was Assistant Controller of Sunwestern Investment Group, a Dallas-based venture capital company. From 1987 to 1990, she was employed by Ernst & Young in the audit division. Ms. Taylor is a Certified Public Accountant, and has a BBA in Accounting from Texas Tech University.


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