James P. Dowd is founder, CEO and Chief Compliance Officer of North Capital Private Securities Corporation (“NCPS”), a registered broker-dealer focused on origination, placement, and clearing of exempt securities (2011—present) and CEO and Chief Investment Officer of the Adviser (2008—present). Prior to forming the Adviser, Mr. Dowd, who has 33 years of experience in the global financial markets, including over twenty one years as a portfolio manager, was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Hedge Fund Advisory and Fund of Funds business at Bear Stearns. At Bear, he led the portfolio management team in advising clients and allocating capital to non-affiliate hedge funds. Mr. Dowd is a CFA charter holder and is a Certified Public Accountant registered with the State of Illinois. He is a registered principal with NCPS and has passed the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) Series 3, 7, 24, 57, 63, 65 and 79 exams. Before Bear, Mr. Dowd managed the Lodgepole Fund, a multi-strategy arbitrage fund, and was a proprietary trader with Tokai Asia Limited (Hong Kong), a subsidiary of Tokai Bank Group, where he was responsible for arbitrage strategies. He also spent nine years with Bankers Trust in New York, London and Tokyo where he was Managing Director and Head of Derivatives Trading for Asia, Branch Manager of BT Asia Securities Ltd. Tokyo, and a Partner of Bankers Trust. Mr. Dowd began his career with Samuel Montagu Capital Markets Inc., a boutique investment bank.

Michael Weaver is a Director-Principal at NCPS and at the Adviser (2015—present). He has over 10 years of experience in financial markets. Mr. Weaver has passed the FINRA Series 3, 7, 24, 57TO, 63 and 65 exams and is registered with FINRA. Mr. Weaver started his career in financial services in 2004 as an Analyst in the Fixed-Income Sales & Trading (“S&T”) Program at Banc of America Securities (“BAS”). At BAS, Mr. Weaver worked as an analyst, structuring Collateralized Debt Obligations and Collateralized Loan Obligations. Mr. Weaver was promoted to Associate in the Central Funding Group as BAS with specific responsibility for trading Agency Specials, Strips, TIPS, Off-the-run Treasuries and the on the run 30 year UST bonds in repo. Mr. Weaver also has experience as a Summer Analyst in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs, a Summer Associate in S&T at Deutsche Bank and was an Intern at MKP Capital Management in 2014. Mr. Weaver is a CFA charter holder.