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GCG's working team of principals possess diverse exposure to the array of political, commercial and financial issues that businesses face
when operating internationally or when looking to expand into promising new markets overseas. The members of Global Capital Group bring a broad range of experience in finance, investment, and
project development in China and worldwide. As individuals they exhibit the highest possible standards of ethics, performance and professionalism, possessing broad multicultural skill and first-rate
educational background. GCG prides itself as a team of professionals capable of adapting a dynamic and flexible approach to a rapidly changing global business environment while working closely
with each client as their business needs change. A brief background on the key management team is described below:
Charles Snyder
Mr. Snyder is a Managing Director of Global Capital Group, located in San Francisco. He has held a range of senior executive positions, including corporate executive and financial management,
project development, project and structured finance, international banking, and investment management. This experience over 30 years has included a broad range of financing and investment
activities in the energy and infrastructure projects in the international market. His experience includes Managing Director and Global Head of Transportation for PricewaterhouseCoopers Securities,
Chief Financial Officer of Airport Group Int'l., Managing Director of BA Securities Project Finance Department, and a Managing Principal at Bechtel Investments Inc., serving as both Chief
Financial Officer and Managing Principal responsible for investment funds and for international investments. Mr. Snyder holds BA and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Jay Song
Mr. Jay Song, is a Managing Director of Global Capital
Group, leads China Business Development in Beijing. Mr. Song has 15+ years of experience and has held a range of senior executive management positions. Mr. Song immigrated
to the USA eighteen years ago for his PhD at the University of California. Mr. Song possesses extensive experience in public relations and private sector investment issues in Asia. Prior
to Global Capital he worked to establish sponsorship for private equity Funds in China, with conjunction work on investment projects, due diligence, project contracting, financing and development
coordination in China. He is highly linked to central and regional governments when he worked on different projects, including SoftBaz corporation, a high tech and VC venture firm in Shanghai
and Shen Zhen (China), NetAsia Corporation, a Manila (Philippine) based data communication company. Early in his career, he was a founder and Chief Executive Officer of J.S. Advanced Corporation
(JSA) since 1993. He also established Syscaching Corp. in 1996, which was in the system integration and Internet business. His assignments have included the investment in various projects
and cross-border transactions.
Denis Slavich
Dr. Slavich is a Managing Director who has more than thirty years of international experience in finance, marketing and sales, and project development. He has worked in engineering, construction,
energy and power development, and high technology companies. This experience has included over ten years of experience as a CFO for both public and privately owned companies ranging in size
from multi-billion dollar companies to start ups. Dr Slavich also has extensive experience in corporate and project finance. The companies he has worked for, as a Vice President, Sr. V.P.
or Executive V.P., include Bechtel, Fluor Daniel, Morrison and Knudsen, M W Kellogg, and BigMachines. For the last few years he has acted as a consultant with the primary focus of his activities
being China. He has worked for companies such as Fluor Daniels, InfrastructureWorld, and Far East Energy Corporation directing the China business development efforts. Dr Slavich has a BS
degree in electrical engineering from UC Berkeley, an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh, and a PhD in economics and finance from MIT.
Dennis Dolan Crook
Mr. Crook is a Managing Director at Global Capital Group and leads business development for the Middle East. He is an internationally recognized expert in the field of infrastructure finance
with expertise in the fields of energy, water and infrastructure development. He is one of the founders of CME International that developed, financed and joint ventured energy and infrastructure
projects around the world. He was on the team that established Whittaker Corporations operations in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, while increasing the market presence of 30 of Whittaker’s
70 companies in these regions. Dennis has lived in 4 other countries besides the USA in his 25 years of international business development. Mr. Crook was the key officer interfacing with
heads of state and senior foreign government officials while on state visits to the USA. He was recognized by the Economis Magazine, EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) as one of the top recruiters
in energy and finance in 2000 and 2001. He is a graduate of the University of Rhode Island with a BA in political science and BS in business. He holds a Masters degree from the American
University School of Advanced International Studies. He is fluent in French and has a very strong foundation in the Arabic language having spoken it for over 25 years.
Jeremy Goodwin
Mr. Jeremy Goodwin is a co-founder
of Global Capital Group and China
Diligizer and a Managing Partner with 3G Capital Partners. He has
served on the board of Pacificnet (NADAQ: PACT) as an Independent
Director since December 24, 2004. He began his career in 1995 at
Mees Pierson Investment Finance S.A. in
Geneva, Switzerland where he supported the fund private
placement/private equity finance team. Noteworthy transactions
executed by the group included assistance on the placements of the
$1.2 Billion Carlyle Partners II Limited Partnership. In 1997 he
went to work for the then parent institution, ABN Amro, in
Beijing, China where he established
the Global Clients desk representing the bank's multinational
clients to sovereign regulatory agencies and local financial
institutions while monitoring their working capital needs. During
his time there, the office was approved by the Central Bank of China
to operate as a fully licensed branch. Noteworthy transactions
executed by the group included assistance in the business
development and project management for the Royal Dutch Shell Oil
project and the Beijing Capital
International Airport listing on the
Hong Kong Stock Exchange arranged by the Hong Kong office of
ABN Amro Rothschild. He also assisted the
Singapore Debt Capital Markets team in the business
development origination of Sovereign Euro Debt Issuances for the
Ministry of Finance and the State Development Bank in
Beijing for the
People's Republic of China. In 1999,
He went to work for ING Barings in London
as an International Associate working directly for the buisiness
manager to the CEO. One of his primary assignments was in
Hong Kong with the ING
Beijing Investment arm of Baring
Private Equity Partners, a joint venture with the
Beijing Municipal Government
established in 1994 at the decree of then Chinese Premier Zhu Rong
Ji and widely considered the first domestic Chinese Private Equity
fund. Mr. Goodwin received his BS from
Cornell University in 1996 in conjunction with the Institute
of Higher International Studies in Geneva,
Switzerland. He later pursued his advanced degree with
Princeton University with a
concentration in Chinese affairs which he completed at the
prestigious Nanjing Chinese Studies Center of the Johns Hopkins
School of Advanced International Studies. Jeremy is fluent in
written and spoken Mandarin Chinese, French and has working
knowledge of Vietnamese.
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