Joseph W. Ferrigno III

Joseph Ferrigno is Managing Partner of AMCG. He has been a leader and pioneer in the investment management and banking businesses in the Asia region since 1984. Mr. Ferrigno has been principally involved with private equity/mezzanine fund management and with the development and financing of infrastructure, energy, telecom and Internet businesses while at Lehman Brothers, Ferrigno & Associates, the Bechtel Group and Prudential Financial of the United States. Earlier, he was with the Chase Manhattan Bank and Bankers Trust Company in New York and London after earning a B.Sc. in Economics from the Wharton School.

In 1990, Mr. Ferrigno initiated the establishment of a specialist infrastructure private equity fund management company owned by Ferrigno & Associates, Peregrine Capital, the Asian Development Bank, the International Finance Corporation, Frank Russell & Co. and the Soros Group. It launched and managed the US$780 million Asian Infrastructure Fund and the US$160 million Asia Telecom Fund, the first of their kind.

In 1996, Mr. Ferrigno initiated and co-founded Prudential Asia Infrastructure Investors Limited (PAII) with Prudential Financial of the U.S and in 1997 led the launch of the first Mezzanine Capital fund in Asia, the US$ 246 million Asian Infrastructure Mezzanine Capital Fund, for which Prudential Financial acted as Sponsor and the Asian Development Bank is a Core Investor. He was Chairman of its Investment Committee. AIMCF is fully invested in companies active in the power, telecom, internet and transportation industries located in China, India, Korea, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and the Philippines. In March 2002, PAII was purchased by Darby Overseas Investments Ltd., a specialist Latin American emerging markets investment management firm based in Washington, D.C., which was purchased by Franklin Resources, Inc. in October 2003. Mr. Ferrigno resigned from Darby in July 2003.

David Bussmann

David Bussmann is a Partner, and previously worked for Prudential Asia as a senior investment professional focused on mezzanine investing. Mr. Bussmann has more than 20 years of finance and investment experience, including equity and debt financing for a wide variety of industries, projects and companies. His experience includes debt, equity, and mezzanine investing, early-stage growth companies, financial restructurings, corporate governance, and Asia.

Mr. Bussmann previously worked for seven years in investment banking at Salomon Brothers in Japan and Hong Kong, and seven years in commercial banking, principally with Citicorp in Tokyo and New York, in positions that included capital markets, debt private placements, and corporate lending. In addition, he has served as an independent director of various Asia-focused companies listed on the NYSE, NASDAQ, and the Hong Kong stock exchange. He has a BA in Economics from Georgetown University.

Mr. Bussmann speaks and reads both Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, which he initially learned in his youth.

Jon Robinson

Jon Robinson is a Partner of AMCG and previously worked for Deutsche Bank AG in Hong Kong first as co-Head of the Asian Debt Products business (Deutsche Bank's leveraged finance practice) and then as Head of Financial Sponsors coverage. Mr. Robinson has more than 10 years of finance experience, and has been involved in arranging and structuring equity and debt financing for a wide variety of industries, LBOs and companies. His expertise includes debt origination and structuring, IPO origination and structuring, risk assessment, advising on M&A sellside and buyside assignments and debt restructurings. He has completed transactions in debt and/or equity transactions in India, Singapore and Korea while advising on transactions in Korea, Japan, China, and Singapore.

Including his tenure at Deutsche Bank in New York, Mr. Robinson has extensive experience in leveraged finance, including more than a decade of structuring and financing LBOs for many of the leading global private firms. Before Deutsche Bank, Mr. Robinson previously worked for three years in consulting for Strategic Planning Associates (later acquired by Mercer Management Consulting) in Washington, DC. He has a bachelor of arts degree magna cum laude from Harvard College and an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in the top of his class as a Palmer Scholar.

Stephen Temple

Stephen Temple is a Partner of AMCG and previously worked for PAII and Darby Asia Investors Limited, the private equity and mezzanine finance division of Franklin Templeton, from 2001 to 2006.

Prior to this appointment, he held several executive positions since 1988 at the international investment company Brierley Investments Limited. Mr. Temple was based in Hong Kong for most of this period as a Director of BIL Asia Holdings Limited responsible for the origination, structuring, and monitoring of investments in the Asian region. Mr. Temple was also Managing Director for BIL Asia Group Treasury Limited, the international financing vehicle for the Group, and a major issuer in the Asian capital markets. During his employment with BIL, Mr. Temple was Chairman of Asia Power Developments Limited, a company that was established in 1993 to originate, develop and operate geothermal and hydro power projects in Asia.

Mr. Temple received a BA in Political Science from FIU, a Masters in International Management from Schiller International University, Heidelberg and was a graduate in the CSEP program from Columbia University.

Phillip Yang Wu, CFA

Phillip Wu is Senior Advisor of AMCG and currently focuses on investments in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. He is a private investor in real estate, global equities, and start-up companies and advises foreign companies on setting up their Chinese operations. Mr. Wu has had extensive experience in investing in domestic and international debt and equity securities and in direct investments in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan with Credit Suisse since 1995. From 1997 to 2002, he was Managing Director and a shareholder of Shanghai Sundial Investment Management Co., Ltd. In Shanghai and Capital Growth Investment Management Inc. in Hong Kong. From 2002 to 2006 he was Chief Financial Officer of Novel Investment Holdings (NIH), Hong Kong and Shanghai and is currently Advisor to the Chairman. NHI is a holding company with assets including Dragon Airline in Hong Kong, real estate development & investment in China, TV tube & optical instruments manufacturing, and department store retailing.

Mr. Wu has been a leader and pioneer in the modernization of the Chinese enterprise system and its financial markets. In 1993 he became the first CFA Charter Holder from Mainland China, and in 1998 was appointed the China Advisor of the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute. Mr. Wu is a member of the Asian Executive Board of the Wharton School, is Managing Director of the Wharton Shanghai Office and is President of the Wharton Alumni Club in Shanghai. He is a member of the Finance Committee of the Shanghai American School. Mr. Wu holds an MBA from The Wharton School and a BBA from the University of Houston.

Patrick Chovanec

Patrick Chovanec is a Vice President of AMCG. Prior to joining AMCG, he worked as investment officer for SEAF's Sichuan SME fund (sponsored by New York Life and the International Financing Corporation) in Chengdu, China and as the Business Development Director at Redgate Media, where he managed strategic acquisitions in China's media sector. Before that, he worked for Institutional Investor magazine as Director of the Asia-Pacific Institute and later the Global Fixed Income Institute. He has served as a senior U.S. Congressional aide and as an Army officer.

Mr. Chovanec has a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated in the top of his class as a Palmer Scholar.

Stephen Yeung

Stephen Yeung is a Vice President of the Asia Mezzanine Capital Group. He was formerly a management consultant at the Hong Kong office of McKinsey & Company. He also previously held positions with the Asia Pacific Credit Research team of UBS and with the Asia Ratings Advisory team of UBS Investment Bank, both based in Hong Kong. He received his Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of British Columbia in Canada and holds an MSc. in Accounting and Finance degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and an MPhil. in Finance degree from the University of Cambridge, both with distinction standings. Stephen is a CFA Charterholder, and is a holder of the United States CPA Certificate (CPA-Inactive) issued by the Washington State Board of Accountancy.