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Jay M. Ford has been President and CEO of Crest Savings Bank since 1993. He has worked in the financial services industry for more than forty years in the southern New Jersey market place. A graduate of Marquette University with a degree in accounting, he is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New Jersey Society of CPA's. Crest Savings Bank has been servicng the deposit and lending needs of Cape May County, NJ since 1919. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, a $100 billion Congressionally Chartered wholesale bank. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board Audit Committee

Douglas K. Bratton is Founder, Chief Investment Officer and majority owner of Crestline Investors, Inc., the general partner of Crestline Management, L.P., the manager of a diversified family of investment products. He is the Chair of the Investment and Management Committees. Mr. Bratton has been an investment professional with organizations utilizing alternative asset strategies since 1983. He has extensive experience in hedge fund management, credit strategies, private equity and venture capital. Since 1989, Mr. Bratton has managed portfolios using these strategies on behalf of organizations associated with the Bass family. During this period, he also negotiated alternative asset related purchases and joint ventures for Bass and Crestline entities. These include: lift-outs of proprietary trading groups, seeding of asset managers and the acquisition of investment management organizations. Mr. Bratton has been President of Crestline Investors, Inc. since 1997. Prior to founding Crestline Investors, he spent six years with Taylor & Company, an investment organization associated with members of the Bass family. From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Bratton was a partner of the Airlie Group, L.P. where he managed the merger arbitrage and special situation portfolio. From 1988 to 1989, Mr. Bratton was employed by Investment, L.P. as a partner in the Merger Arbitrage group. From 1984 to 1988, Mr. Bratton served as Vice President in the Merger Arbitrage group for Smith Barney Harris Upham and Company. Mr. Bratton received a BS from North Carolina State University in 1981 and a Masters of Business Administration with Honors from Duke University in 1984.