Scott D. Kauffman

Founded in 2003, Castine Capital Management LLC is a hedge fund manager located in Boston, Massachusetts. The firm provides investment management services on a discretionary basis to privately-offered pooled investment vehicles, two of which qualify for exemption under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended. The third fund, an offshore fund, is a Cayman Islands exempted company. Investors in the funds include, but are not limited to, endowments, other funds, high net-worth individuals, family offices and charitable institutions.

FBR & Co. provides investment banking, merger and acquisition advisory, institutional brokerage and research services through its subsidiaries. The company operates through two segments: Capital Markets and Principal Investing. The Capital Markets segment includes investment banking, institutional brokerage and research. It also provides investment banking services, including capital raising and financial advisory services for its corporate issuer clients, and institutional brokerage services including sales, trading, research, and securities lending services to its institutional investor clients. The Principal Investing segment activities consist primarily of investments in merchant banking and other equity investments, investment funds and corporate debt investments. The company was founded in June 2006 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Gillson Capital LP is a SEC-registered investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2015 and is a subsidiary of Gilson Capital (GP) LLC. Gilson Capital provides investment advice to private funds; both its own sponsored private Funds and other third-party investment advisers’ private funds.