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"In terms of capabilities, Chris Allen is a Top 5% person. He is a man of superior work ethic and absolute integrity, with consistently valuable insight into the market.

He does his homework and is fantastic to deal with. I have known and trusted Chris Allen since 1991, and he is my idea of what a high-level wealth investor should be."

Roger McNamee

Managing Director and Co-Founder of Elevation Partners

http://www.elevation.com

"I have known Chris G. Allen since 1980 when we worked together at Merrill Lynch, and in my experience, Chris is an excellent combination of intellectual curiosity, insight and integrity. In my view, as an advisor and fiduciary, Chris is someone that a customer organization can trust implicitly.

Michael C. Aronstein
President, Marketfield Asset Management

Wharton MBA Finance degreed, highly creative and innovative Senior Leadership Executive with a consistent history of creating successful business strategies in both for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.  Key areas of expertise in core strategies, resource allocation, stakeholder relationships, entrepreneurial management.

• Operating and Resource Strategy
• Negotiation
• Org Change Management
• Education
• Financial Structuring
• Competitor Analysis
• Human Capital Management

Turn-around Management

• Created new vision and revenue sources for two not-for-profit organizations.
• Identified and implemented strategies to "survive and thrive".
• Identified roadblocks to success and recommended structural changes to improve financial and organization flexibility.

Private Equity Management

• Developed investment policies and models for two private investment offices
• Developed sourcing, conducted due diligence on direct and indirect private equity investments, and directed internal fund of funds
• Developed innovative structures for wealth transfer between generations, an in-house money market mutual fund, and paid for all office and personnel expense through better management of cash and fixed income allocations

Alternative Investments Highlights

• Backed the original cross-over fund, Integrated Capital Partners, led by Roger McNamee and John Powell
• Developed the original securitization model for financing cellular communication towers which revolutionized the industry, creating billions of dollars of financing.  Personally secured over $1B in financing from Bear Stearns, Clarity Partners and others
• Backed BioNumerik Pharmaceuticals, original bio-tech firm responsible for computer modeling of therapeutic molecules
• Funded the first pan-european communications fund - Barings Communications Equity , the first European secondaries fund - ECUI, the first smart card company - GemPlus, and the first ultra-thin CRT company - Pixtech.

Investment Strategist

• Identified the decline in interest rates from 14% to 4% in the 1980's. Investment was government bonds at 12 - 14%
• One of first to predict long term value of large cap stocks and their benefit to mutual fund companies in the 90's. Investment was Amvescap which rose five-fold in 5 years
• Calculated the peak of AOL at $650 per share - sold short
• Foresaw the peak of the market in March of 2000. All US indexes for all time periods had gone parabolic. S&P flat for subsequent ten years
• Identified the opportunity in cell towers in 2002 - towers were then junk rated and are now rated investment grade - 7 years at 45%
• Clearly in front of technology stocks in 1992. Investment with Integral Capital - 15 years at 30%
• Correctly identified the value in Atlanta Peachtree St. real estate - prices rose over 10 fold in 6 years

Operations Strategy

• Created multiple operations manuals to provide training and accountability for various operations
• Enabled more rapid deployment of work for new employees and created better earnings visibility for management
• Found outsourced providers for various operating requirements, enabling lower cost operations and higher value add from management teams

Financial Operations

• Streamlined financial reporting, investment operations, data collection and publishing for decision makers. Managed internal investments for yield and tax efficiency