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Jared Belnap: President and Chief Executive Officer

Jared Belnap began his career in sales within the automotive industry and earned distinction as salesman of the year his first year. He quickly ascended sales leadership roles to sales manager and customer relations manager where he was immersed the breadth and depth of transactional finance and back office sales processes.

In 1998 he transitioned his consumer sales foundation to Matrix Funding Corporation as an account executive and closed more than $30 million in new lease originations over his first three years. Jared was promoted to senior sales manager in 2001 and soon after to Vice President of Sales in 2002. Ultimately, he led his team to the top producing group in lease originations within the company and was offered the Executive Vice President position prior to his departure. During his tenure in the leasing industry Jared has personally closed over $150MM in lease transactions and has garnered extensive experience in credit, syndication, sales, legal, documentation, and executive management.

Jared started with Mazuma as a co-founder and private investor and served as Vice President of Sales/Corporate Secretary through December 2007. His performance and experience have been invaluable in the formation and implementation of Mazuma’s infrastructure, website development, marketing, documentation, sales and sales management, formation of key relationships and other important functions within Mazuma’s framework. Jared has served as President of Mazuma since January of 2008.

Michael Smith: Executive Vice President of Strategic Development and Marketing

Michael Smith is a director and private investor to the Company. He was the founder of Seaworthy Investments, LLC, and general partner of the Outrigger Funds, LP, a private hedge fund. Mr. Smith was formerly the founder of Harbor Capital Partners, LLC, and general partner of Harbor Real Asset Fund, LP. Michael helped grow the company’s real estate bridge loan portfolio and generated returns greater than 50% above benchmark indices.

Michael has a best-selling video “Effective Short Selling: Profiting in Bull and Bear Markets” and was educated at Brigham Young University in Humanities with an emphasis in English. He has participated in the university’s Baccalaureate and Masters English programs.

Previously, Michael founded software company Ten Bagger, Inc., publishers of investment software BigEasy investor voted “Best of the Web” by Forbes Magazine for Technical Analysis and Charting. After substantially growing their user base to more than 160 countries, Michael secured an acquisition agreement to merge their company with Ameritrade Holdings, Inc., in 2000. Ameritrade now markets BigEasy Investor under the brand Ameritrade Advanced Analyzer.

Paul Pearson: Chief Operating Officer

Paul is chief operation officer for Mazuma Capital. Paul Pearson was co-founder and CTO of Seaworthy Investments, the general partner and manager of a family of hedge funds known as Outrigger Funds. As CTO, Mr. Pearson is responsible for all technology aspects of the fund’s management. Proprietary software and tools developed by Mr. Pearson have provided the foundation for investment returns more than doubling market averages since 2004. Mr. Pearson also serves as fund manager and a trading advisor to the Outrigger funds.

Previously Mr. Pearson led development for Ameritrade Holding, Inc. as the senior architect over Advanced Analyzer: a decision support tool for private and institutional investors offering technical and fundamental analysis and streaming real-time data. Mr. Pearson was also a key member of Ameritrade’s core architecture and infrastructure team. Prior to Ameritrade, Mr. Pearson was a senior software architect for Folio Corporation, publishers of text retrieval search engine software. Mr. Pearson has a BS in Computer Science from Brigham Young University and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Douglas Petty: Executive Vice President of Credit and Syndication

Douglas Petty is vice president of credit and syndication and corporate secretary to Mazuma and has been in the equipment leasing and banking industries for over 27 years. Prior to assuming responsibilities at Mazuma he served as the chief credit officer at Applied Financial, LLC. He has managed credit and syndication departments in companies such as Greyhound Capital Corporation, Bell Atlantic Systems Leasing, Matrix Funding Corporation, and Applied Financial, LLC.  In the banking industry Doug worked at First Interstate Bank of Arizona in the International Lending division, and at First Security Bank of Utah in both commercial and installment lending. He received a Master’s of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management (Thunderbird) in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nancy Eggan: Executive Vice Presidentof Operations and Documentation

Nancy Eggan is vice president of operations and documentation and has over 30 years of experience in the leasing industry. Prior to assuming responsibilities at Mazuma she served as vice president of operations/documentation at Applied Financial, LLC and has worked for other companies such as Matrix Funding Corporation, Cottonwood Thrift and Loan, and FMA Leasing Company. In addition to her extensive experience in the lease and loan documentation of equipment such as computer hardware and software, material handling, furniture and fixtures, helicopters, mining equipment and heavy machinery, she is well versed in all facets of daily operations. Her experience and input in other departments includes accounting, credit analysis/syndication, remarketing, re-sale of used equipment, asset tracking, and information services.

Matt Burrows: Executive Vice President of Sales

Matt Burrows attended school at Snow College and Southern Utah University. He played strong safety and linebacker on the football teams at both schools.

Out of college, he completed NASD series 6, 63, & 65. As a registered representative of Washington Square Securities, he worked as a financial advisor to over 5,000 employees within the largest PEO in the state of Utah. Matt parlayed his experience in sales to become one of the tope producing distributors with a world wide producer of healt products. After joining Mazuma Capital in early 2006 as account executive, Matt’s talents were quickly recognized and he was promoted to manager, vice president, and now serves as Mazuma’s executive vice president of sales.

Buddy Zarbock: Vice President of Vendor Programs

Buddy R. Zarbock holds a B.S. degree from the University of Utah in Business and a M.B.A. from Westminster College. He started his career with IBM. Mr. Zarbock then joined the Plumbers Supply Company (PSC) as Sales Manager and Owner. During his career there, PSC became one of the largest independent plumbing supply wholesalers in the U.S. He was heavily involved with the American Supplyhouse Association and their national executive team. PSC was sold to Wolseley (WOS) Company, the world’s largest plumbing supply wholesaler. As a Market Manager for Ferguson, a WOS subsidiary, he opened several profitable branches. He has been with Mazuma since April of 2006. While here has served as Account Executive, Marketing Manager, and now as Vice President of Vendor Programs. Mr. Zarbock has been instrumental in sales, sales development, vendor relations, and key strategic projects.

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