Management

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Christian L. Oberbeck

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Oberbeck has over 23 years of experience in leveraged finance, from distressed debt to private equity, and has been involved in originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring investments in these businesses. Mr. Oberbeck is the Managing Partner of Saratoga Partners and has served on its investment committee since 1995. Mr. Oberbeck is also the Managing Member of Saratoga and the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company. He also serves as a member of the Company's board of directors.

Prior to assuming management responsibility for Saratoga Partners in 2008, Mr. Oberbeck has co-managed Saratoga Partners since 1995, when he joined Dillon Read and Saratoga Partners from Castle Harlan, Inc., a corporate buyout firm. Mr. Oberbeck had joined Castle Harlan at its founding in 1987 and was a Managing Director, leading successful investments in manufacturing and financial services companies. Prior to joining Castle Harlan, he worked in the Corporate Development Group of Arthur Young and in corporate finance at Blyth Eastman Paine Webber. Mr. Oberbeck has been a director of numerous middle market companies while at Saratoga Partners and Castle Harlan.

Mr. Oberbeck graduated from Brown University in 1982 with a BS in Physics and a BA in Mathematics. In 1985, he earned an MBA from Columbia University.

Richard A. Petrocelli

Chief Financial Officer & Chief Compliance Officer

Mr. Petrocelli has over 20 years of experience including investment management, private equity and corporate reorganizations. Mr. Petrocelli is a Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at Saratoga Partners and has been involved in originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring middle market investments. Mr. Petrocelli is a Managing Director of Saratoga and the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Chief Compliance Officer of the Company. He also serves as a member of the Company's board of directors.

Mr. Petrocelli began his career as an accountant before transitioning to alternative assets at Gabelli Asset Management Company in 1993. Mr. Petrocelli's background brings financial expertise to the diligence and oversight processes, which is critically important when dealing in complex transactions. In addition to his involvement in originating, structuring, negotiating, consummating, managing and monitoring investments at Saratoga Partners, Mr. Petrocelli is currently the Chief Financial Officer of Saratoga Partners and is responsible for reporting and compliance. Mr. Petrocelli joined Saratoga Partners in 1998 from Gabelli Asset Management. At Gabelli, Mr. Petrocelli was a Vice President in the corporate finance department with a primary focus on the Company's alternative investment business. Prior to that, he was a senior accountant at BDO Siedman. Mr. Petrocelli has served as a director of a number of Saratoga Partners' portfolio companies.

Mr. Petrocelli graduated with a BSBA from Georgetown University in 1990 and earned an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 1999. He is a Certified Public Accountant.

Thomas Inglesby

Portfolio Manager

Prior to joining Saratoga, Mr. Inglesby was a Senior Managing Director at GSC Group. From September 2008 through July 2010, Mr. Inglesby was a senior managing director in the Recovery Investment Group at GSC, serving on the Investment Committee for the Recovery funds as an internal advisor on matters relating to the Firm's ongoing restructuring. From 2002-08, Mr. Inglesby served as the Head of the U.S. Corporate Debt Group. During this period, GSC raised and managed $5.6 billion in capital across 12 corporate credit investment funds. From 1997 to 2002, he served as a Managing Director at GSC focused on middle market buyouts.

Prior to joining GSC in 1997, Mr. Inglesby served as a Managing Director with Harbour Group from 1994 to 1997, where he focused on acquisitions of manufacturing companies in fragmented industries. From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Inglesby served as a Managing Director at the South Street Funds, a startup distressed debt investment fund founded by former partners at Goldman Sachs. From 1986 to 1990, Mr. Inglesby served as a Vice President in the Merchant Banking Department at PaineWebber.

Mr. Inglesby received a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, an MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, and a BS in Accounting with General Honors from the University of Maryland. He lives with his wife and three children in McLean, Virginia.

John F. MacMurray

Portfolio Manager

Mr. MacMurray, joined Saratoga Partners from Columbia Business School in 2005. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. MacMurray worked for EuroConsult, Inc., an independent investment banking firm, where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions and advisory assignments throughout Europe and North America in a variety of industries.

Mr. MacMurray's principal portfolio company responsibilities include oversight of Advanced Lighting Technologies, Inc., CEMA Lighting, EUR Systems, Inc., and STC Wireless Resources and general portfolio oversight with primary emphasis on transaction development and execution.

Mr. MacMurray graduated with an A.B. from Princeton University in 1998 and earned an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School in 2006.

Charles G. Phillips IV

Portfolio Manager

Mr. Phillips joined Saratoga in 1997 and currently focuses on originating and developing new investment opportunities for the firm. Mr. Phillips continues to be involved in transaction execution and oversight, with past portfolio company responsibilities including directorships of Datavantage Corporation, now part of Micros Systems, Inc. (NASD: MCRS), NAT, Inc., now part of DealerTrack Holdings, Inc. (NASD: TRAK), EUR Systems, Inc., and Equality Specialties, Inc., and oversight of Koppers Inc (NYSE: KOP).

Mr. Phillips joined Saratoga Partners from Harvard Business School. Prior to that, from 1993 to 1995, Mr. Phillips worked in Dillon Read's corporate finance department, where he was involved in mergers and acquisitions and advisory assignments in a variety of industries including cable television, packaged foods, energy, and consumer products. Past experience also includes McCown De Leeuw & Co., a corporate buyout firm.

Mr. Phillips graduated with an AB from Harvard College in 1993 and earned an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.