Paf Securities, Llc

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Benjamin S. A. Moody Co-Founder and Managing Director Ben Moody is Co-founder and Managing Director of PAF Securities and Pan American Finance. Ben has over 25 years of experience in investment banking, corporate finance and private equity, and has worked extensively with companies in Latin America, the Caribbean and the U.S. Hispanic markets. Ben possesses both transaction and operating expertise in the Media and Communications sector and has extensive transaction experience in the Retail, Tourism and Transportation sectors. From 1998 to 2001, Ben served as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Ibero American Media Partners ("IAMP"), a $500 million private equity fund jointly owned by the Cisneros Group of Companies and Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst. The fund made investments in the pay television, broadcast TV, radio and internet sectors: in 1998 acquiring the Cisneros Television Group, where Ben was Vice Chairman, and in 2001 merging with El Sitio to form Claxson Interactive Group (NASDAQ: XSON). Throughout his tenure at IAMP, Ben was responsible for negotiating, executing and integrating the fund's acquisitions along with performing his duties as CFO. Prior to IAMP, Ben served as Managing Director at Violy, Byorum & Partners, an investment banking firm focused on Latin America, and held positions with Citicorp Securities and Continental Bank. Ben currently serves on the board of directors of various private companies. He is a graduate of the University of Oxford. You can e-mail Ben at: ben@pafsecurities.com back to top Ralph von Specht Co-Founder and Managing Director Ralph von Specht is Co-founder and Managing Director of PAF Securities and Pan American Finance. During the last 35 years, Ralph has provided financial advisory services to companies and governments on several continents. He has extensive transaction experience in Consumer Products, Food and Beverage, and Industrials and Manufacturing sectors. In the seventies and eighties, he worked for J.P. Morgan in Europe, the United States and Latin America, managing and executing mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, project financings and corporate finance transactions such as debt and equity placements, bank refinancings, and loan syndications. He also served as J.P. Morgan's representative on the debt refinancing advisory committees for Argentina and Venezuela and led several large restructuring transactions, such as Aerolíneas Argentinas, Banco de la Nación de Argentina, Electricidad de Caracas, Toyota de Venezuela and General Motors de Venezuela. In 1988, Ralph founded an investment banking firm that became one of the leading corporate finance advisors in Venezuela. He also represented the interests of ING Bank in that country and became its joint-venture partner. Ralph maintains an extensive network of contacts with financial institutions, investors and multinational corporations throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States. He is an advisor in Latin America to Berenberg Bank (Germany's oldest private bank) and a board member of Venecredit Securities in Miami.

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