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Mr. LaVersa has 25 years of industry experience and oversees Gramercy’s Business Development and Investor Relations teams. He is responsible for developing relationships with prospective investors, consultants and clients in the United States and Europe.

Prior to joining Gramercy in February of 2011, Mr. LaVersa was Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Tower Lane Partners, an outsourced business development firm that specializes in the alternative asset management business. Prior to his tenure at Tower Lane Partners, he spent nearly six years at FrontPoint Partners, most recently as Managing Director, Co-Head of the Client Advisory Group. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. LaVersa was a Vice President in the Asset Management group at Goldman Sachs. He began his career at Federated Investors where he worked from 1987-1997.

Mr. LaVersa received a BA in Economics and History from Denison University.

Mr. Griffin has over 11 years of industry experience. At Gramercy, he focuses on new business development across a diverse set of institutional investors, including endowments/foundations, pension plans, fund of funds and high net worth investors such as private banking platforms, family offices.

Prior to joining Gramercy in September 2009, Mr. Griffin was employed by Lazard Asset Management for nine years where he was a Senior Vice President in the Institutional Marketing Group. He was responsible for developing new relationships and servicing existing clients in the corporate pension market segment.

Mr. Griffin received a BA in Economics from Wesleyan University in 2000.

Ms. Griffin has over 23 years of industry experience. At Gramercy, Ms. Griffin focuses on marketing and investor relations, specializing in capital raising for Gramercy’s alternative products.

Ms. Griffin joined Gramercy in June 2011 from Diamondback Advisors, a multi-strategy hedge fund, where she was part of a two person marketing team focused on raising assets and speaking with investors about portfolio performance and construction. Prior to Diamondback, Ms. Griffin was an Executive Director of UBS Securities’ Capital Introduction Group for over three years where she was responsible for customized coverage of over 70 investors and also the lead relationship manager for over 20 hedge fund clients. Before UBS, Ms. Griffin was a Managing Director of Ernst & Young Corporate Finance LLC, where she spent ten years specializing in corporate financial restructuring advising senior management, bondholders and unsecured creditors as to the appropriate capital structure – effectuating the transaction through either a formal Chapter 11 proceeding or in-an-out of court workout situation.

Ms. Griffin received her MBA in Finance from the Babson Graduate School of Finance and a BA in Economics from Lake Forest College.

Mr. Koenigsberger has 14 years of experience as a high achieving business development professional with a proven track record of opening and developing new territories. At Gramercy, Mr. Koenigsberger focuses on developing relationships with prospective investors, consultants and clients, specializing in capital raising for Gramercy’s long-only equity products.

Prior to joining Gramercy in February 2011, Mr. Koenigsberger developed a sales team targeting Fortune 100 companies for Sealed Air Corporation, where he accounted for a large portion of the business developed while earning the President’s Club Award in multiple years. Prior to his seven year tenure at Sealed Air Corporation, Mr. Koenigsberger worked for Reynolds & Reynolds for seven years as a Regional Account Manager. At Reynolds & Reynolds, he consistently placed in the top 10% of company sales nationwide and was also named Rookie of the Year in 1997.

Mr. Koenigsberger received a BS in Biological Science from California Polytechnic State University.

Mr. Williams has over 27 years of industry experience. He is responsible for developing relationships and portfolio solutions for prospective investors, consultants and clients in Asia and the Middle East.

Prior to joining Gramercy in January 2011, Mr. Williams spent 10 years with J.P.Morgan where his final position was as Managing Director and Head of Sovereigns within the Asset Management group. In that role, he was responsible for relationship management and product delivery for sovereign wealth funds and central banks globally (with a specific Asian client focus, based in Singapore). At the beginning of his career, he spent 15 years working for Midland Bank/HSBC in London, Hong Kong, Bahrain and Geneva mostly within the private banking business covering the Middle East.

Mr. Williams received a BSc Hons in Banking and International Finance from Cass Business School (UK).

Mr. Woolworth has over 35 years of industry experience. In his Senior Advisor capacity, Mr. Woolworth focuses on marketing and investor relations, specializing in capital raising for Gramercy’s products.

Prior to joining Gramercy in July 2008, Mr. Woolworth was a Managing Director of Aetos Capital, where he was a senior member of the firm’s marketing and client related activities. Prior to Aetos he was with Morgan Stanley for 23 years. Mr. Woolworth was a Managing Director and served as Head of the U.S. Institutional Coverage Group in the firm’s investment management business, as well as was responsible for many of the firm’s large clients. In the earlier part of his career he was a member of the Investment Banking Division, involved in capital raising and merger and acquisitions. From 1977 to 1982 Mr. Woolworth was a Vice President at Dillon Read & Co., where he was responsible for the firm’s private placement activities and was engaged in other investment banking activities. From 1974 to1975 he was a Teaching Fellow at Philips Academy (Andover).

Mr. Woolworth received an MBA from Stanford and a BA from Dartmouth College where he graduated magna cum laude.