CHARLES M. ROYCE
Mr. Royce became President, Chief Investment Officer and member of the Board of
Managers of Royce & Associates (including its corporate predecessor) in 1972 and
has served in those positions for more than 30 years. He also manages or
co-manages five of Royce & Associates' funds. He received a Bachelor of Arts
degree from Brown University and a M.B.A. from Columbia University. Royce &
Associates is a non-managing member of TICC Management, LLC. Royce &
Associates is registered as an investment adviser under the Advisers Act. As of
December 31, 2006, Royce & Associates had $28.2 billion in assets under
management. Substantially all of Royce & Associates' client accounts are managed
as small and micro-cap investment products.
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STEVEN P. NOVAK
Mr. Novak has 30 years of experience in securities investment and finance. Mr.
Novak currently serves as President of Palladio Capital Management, LLC and as
the Principal and Managing Member of the General Partner of Palladio Partners,
LP, an equities hedge fund that commenced operations in July 2002. Mr. Novak is
also currently a Director of two private companies. Prior to founding Palladio,
Mr. Novak was a Managing Director of C.E. Unterberg, Towbin from February 1993
through December 2001. During his tenure at Unterberg, Mr. Novak founded and
served as President and Portfolio Manager of Unterberg Harris Capital Management
(now Unterberg Towbin Capital Management), a registered investment adviser,
where he managed discretionary accounts, and Unterberg Harris Capital Partners
I, a hedge fund. Mr. Novak subsequently served as Director of research at C.E.
Unterberg, Towbin, the adviser's parent company, and founded the Internet
Practice within Unterberg's Corporate Finance Department. While at Unterberg,
Mr. Novak also directed private equity investments on behalf of limited
partnerships managed by Unterberg. Prior affiliations included Sanford C.
Bernstein & Company, Inc., where Mr. Novak was a Partner, member of the
Investment Policy Committee and Senior Portfolio Manager, and Harris Bankcorp,
where he served as a Vice President and managed a $175 million fund of employee
benefit assets that invested in small and medium-sized companies. Mr. Novak
received a Bachelor of Science degree from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from
the Harvard Business School. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst.
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G. PETER O'BRIEN
Mr. O'Brien has 28 years of experience in the securities industry. Mr. O'Brien
retired as a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch & Co. in 1999 after working in
the Equity Capital Markets area since he joined Merrill Lynch & Co. in 1971,
during which time he created the Equity Transaction Group in 1985, helped launch
Merrill Lynch's London-based Equity Capital Markets Group and had primary
responsibility for the pricing of all equity and convertible issues managed by
Merrill Lynch. Mr. O’Brien was a member of the Board of Trustees of Colgate
University from May 1996 to May 2005. He is currently a member of the Board of
Directors of Hill House, Inc., a congregate care facility for low income elderly
residents in Riverside, Connecticut, and a member of the Board of Directors of
the Bridges School. Mr. O’Brien serves on the Board of Directors of the Legg
Mason Family of Mutual Funds and The Royce Funds. Mr. O'Brien received a
Bachelor of Arts degree from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from Columbia
Business School.
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TONIA L. PANKOPF
Ms. Pankopf is managing partner of Pareto Advisors, LLC. Previously she was a
senior analyst and managing director at Palladio Capital Management from January
2004 through April 2005. From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Pankopf served as an analyst and
portfolio manager with P.A.W. Capital Partners, LP and was a senior analyst and
vice president at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1999 to 2001 and at Merrill Lynch &
Co. from 1998 to 1999. She was an associate director in corporate finance at
Deutsche Bank in the Technology Group’s London office from 1997 to 1998 and
began her career in investment research in 1995, working as a sell-side Internet
and software analyst at Salomon Smith Barney. Ms. Pankopf currently serves on
the Board of Directors of the University System of Maryland Foundation. She is a
member of the National Association of Corporate Directors and holds an ISS
Accredited Certificate of Director Education. Ms. Pankopf received a Bachelor of
Arts degree summa cum laude from the University of Maryland and an M.S. from the
London School of Economics.
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Professionals
JONATHAN H. COHEN
Mr. Cohen is the Chief Executive Officer of TICC Capital Corp. Previously, Mr.
Cohen managed technology research groups at Wit SoundView from 1999 to 2001. He
has also managed securities research groups at Merrill Lynch & Co. from 1998 to
1999, UBS Securities from 1997 to 1998 and Salomon Smith Barney from 1993 to
1997. Mr. Cohen has more than 15 years of experience in technology-related
equity research and was named to the Institutional Investor "All-American"
research team in 1996, 1997 and 1998. Mr. Cohen received a Bachelor of Arts
degree in Economics from Connecticut College and an M.B.A. from Columbia
University.
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SAUL B. ROSENTHAL
Mr. Rosenthal is the President and Chief Operating Officer of TICC Capital Corp.
Previously, Mr. Rosenthal served as President of Privet Financial Securities, a
broker/dealer providing advisory services to smaller technology companies. Prior
to that, Mr. Rosenthal led the private financing/public company effort at
SoundView Technology Group (2000-2002) and previously was a vice president and
co-founder of the Private Equity Group at Wit Capital (1998-2000). Prior to
joining Wit Capital, Mr. Rosenthal was an attorney at the law firm of Shearman &
Sterling LLP. Mr. Rosenthal is a member of the Young Presidents’ Organization
and serves on the board of directors of T2 Income Fund Limited (LSE AIM: T2I)
and Algorithmic Implementations, Inc. (d/b/a AI Squared). He received a Bachelor
of Science degree magna cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of
Pennsylvania, a J.D. from Columbia University Law School, where he was a Harlan
Fiske Stone Scholar, and a L.L.M. (Taxation) from New York University School of
Law.
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PATRICK F. CONROY
Mr. Conroy is the Chief Financial Officer of TICC Capital Corp. Mr. Conroy is
the former chief financial officer of Nymex Holdings, Inc. and its operating
subsidiary, New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., the largest physical commodities
futures exchange in the world. He has extensive experience with SEC reporting
issues, including securities registration, periodic reporting requirements, and
Sarbanes-Oxley. From 1987 to 1993, Mr. Conroy was the senior vice-president of
finance for the American Stock Exchange, where he was responsible for all
financial functions, including controllership and treasury. Mr. Conroy's
professional career began at KPMG Peat Marwick, serving clients in the financial
services industry, primarily broker/dealers, mutual funds and diversified
financial institutions. Mr. Conroy serves on the board of directors of T2 Income
Fund Limited (LSE AIM: T2I). Mr. Conroy received his Bachelor of Science in
Accounting summa cum laude from St. John's University and did graduate work at
Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. He is a certified
public accountant in New York and New Jersey, and a member of the American
Institute of Certified Public Accountants.
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BRUCE L. RUBIN
Mr. Rubin is the Controller of TICC Capital Corp. He is the former Assistant
Treasurer & Director of Financial Planning of the New York Mercantile Exchange,
Inc., the largest physical commodities futures exchange in the world and has
extensive experience with Sarbanes-Oxley, treasury operations and SEC reporting
requirements. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Rubin was a manager in financial operations
for the American Stock Exchange, where he was primarily responsible for
budgeting matters. Mr. Rubin began his career in commercial banking as an
auditor primarily of the commercial lending and municipal bond dealer areas. Mr.
Rubin received his BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University where he also
obtained his Masters of Business Administration in Finance.
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DARRYL M. MONASEBIAN
Mr. Monasebian is the Senior Managing Director, Head of Portfolio Management of
TICC Management, LLC, the advisor of TICC. Previously, Mr.
Monasebian was a Director in the Merchant Banking Group at BNP Paribas, and
prior to that was a Director at Swiss Bank Corporation and a Senior Account
Officer at Citibank. He began his business career at Metropolitan Life Insurance
Company as an Investment Analyst in the Corporate Investments Department. Mr.
Monasebian has more than 20 years of banking and investment management
experience. Mr. Monasebian received a Bachelor of Science degree in Management
Science/Operations Research from Case Western Reserve University in 1984 and a
Masters of Business Administration from Boston University’s Graduate School of
Management in 1986.
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BARRY A. OSHEROW
Mr. Osherow is a Principal of TICC Management, LLC, the advisor of TICC. He has more than 10 years of experience in financing companies. Mr.
Osherow was previously vice president of Privet Financial Securities, a
registered broker-dealer and financial consultant to small to medium-sized
private and public technology companies. Prior to that, he was at SoundView
Technology Group from 2000 to 2002, where he was most recently employed as an
associate in the Private Equity Group, which he co-founded. Mr. Osherow was a
founding employee of Wit Capital in 1996 and worked on developing several
business units, including brokerage, public relations, investor relations,
equity sales and marketing. Prior to Wit Capital, he was vice president of
Spring Street Brewing Company, where he was in charge of investor relations,
sales, marketing and merchandising. He began his career at Lehman Brothers. Mr.
Osherow serves on the board of directors of Algorithmic Implementations, Inc.
(d/b/a AI Squared). He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Babson College
in 1994.
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HARI SRINIVASAN
Mr. Hari Srinivasan is a Principal and Portfolio Manager of TICC Management,
LLC, the advisor of TICC. Previously, Mr. Srinivasan was a
Credit Manager focusing on the restructuring and monetization of distressed
assets in Lucent Technologies' vendor finance portfolio, and credit analysis of
several of Lucent’s telecom customers. Prior to that, he was an analyst in Fixed
Income with Lehman Brothers. Mr. Srinivasan began his career as a Computer
Science engineer. He has a BS in Computer Science from Poona University, India
and an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business.
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SUNIL ABRAHAM
Mr. Abraham is a Vice President of TICC Management, LLC, the advisor
of TICC. He has more than 8 years of experience in financing companies. Mr.
Abraham was previously an investment banking associate at Thomas Weisel
Partners. Prior to that, he was an investment banking associate and analyst at
Banc of America Securities. He received a BA in Computer Science and Economics
from the University of Rochester.
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DEBDEEP MAJI
Mr. Maji is an Associate of
TICC Management,
LLC, the advisor of TICC. He graduated from the
Jerome Fisher Program in Management and Technology at the University of
Pennsylvania where
he received a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School
(and was designated a Joseph Wharton Scholar) and a Bachelor of
Applied Science from the
School
of Engineering.
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