William L. Rogers

Prior to co-founding Halifax, Mr. Rogers was one of the founding limited partners of Colony Investors I, L.P.
and currently is a principal of Colony Capital.
Prior to Colony, he invested his personal capital in a number of successful real estate restructuring and leveraged corporate acquisitions.
From 1983 to 1988 Mr. Rogers was, along with David Bonderman and Tom Barrack, the initial "investment team" for the Robert M.
Bass Group.
Prior to 1983, he served as an owner and director of DCI, a specialty food processing company, which he recapitalized and merged with an entity controlled by Richard Rainwater and Bass Brothers Enterprises.
Mr. Rogers is a former Partner of KPMG Peat Marwick, and served as a coordinator of the original White House Conference on Small Business while on loan in 1979 from KPMG Peat Marwick to the White House.
He was invited to serve as controller for the President's re-election campaign.
Mr. Rogers received a B.S.
from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1969, where he was a Phi Beta Kappa graduate; and he received an M.B.A.
from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 1972, where he was a Vehon Scholar.
He is a member of the Kenan-Flagler Business School Board of Visitors at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and assists in the oversight of its Foundation's investments; and he is a former trustee of the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.
Mr. Rogers is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Waddell & Reed, a NYSE-listed asset manager of over $40 billion (principally mutual funds).