Mark Thomas Crawley

Based in New York City, Ark Asset Management Co., Inc. offers investment management services to corporations, public retirement plans, jointly trusteed plans, insurance companies, endowments and foundations

PentAlpha Group LLC provides investment advice. Its services include corporate strategy, capital markets services, distressed situation optimization and litigation support. The firm also offers real estate products and asset-backed products. The company was founded by James Callahan in 1994 and is headquartered in Greenwich, CT.

Contrarian Capital Management LLC (Contrarian) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. The firm was founded in 1995 by Jon Bauer, Janice Stanton and Gil Tenzer. Contrarian provides advisory services on a discretionary basis to institutional investors and pooled investment vehicles.

Sutherland Asset Management Corp. is a real estate finance company, which engages in the acquisition, management, and financing of small-balance commercial loans. It operates through the following segments: Investment Activities, New Loan Origination, SBA Loan Origination and Servicing, and Real Estate Brokerage and Advisory Services. The company was founded in August 2007 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Waterfall Asset Management LLC (Waterfall) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and global alternative investment manager headquartered in New York City. The firm was co-founded by Tom Capasse and Jack Ross in 2005. Waterfall provides investment advice to private investment funds and other clients, which are generally insurance companies, state, municipal or corporate pension plans, sovereign wealth funds, endowments, foundations, or other institutional investors.

KLS Diversified Asset Management LP (KLS) is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund management firm founded in 2007 by Harry Lengsfield, Jeffrey Kronthal and John Steinhardt. Headquartered in New York City, the firm is a subsidiary of KLS Partners LLC. KLS provides discretionary investment advisory services (i) for private investment funds and separately managed accounts, (ii) to the manager of two registered investment companies sponsored by Principal Funds, Inc., and (iii) to a “sub-fund” of an undertaking for collective investment in transferable securities authorized in accordance with the UCITS Directive.