Mark is Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ClearLife.

Prior to founding ClearLife, in 2005 Mark established Mizuho International plc's Asset Finance Group, a principal investment team formed to focus on the life settlements market. Mark recruited and managed a team of six front office professionals and worked with Mizuho's support teams to build a bespoke information technology and operations infrastructure for life settlements. Through this process, Mark gained invaluable experience in designing and developing business workflow procedures, information systems and risk management tools tailored to the specific requirements of longevity and risk. He also initiated and maintained relationships with key service providers and counterparties in the life settlements market.

Over two years, Mark grew Mizuho's life settlements portfolio to over US$1.2 billion in face amount. While at Mizuho, Mark also founded the Institutional Life Markets Association ("ILMA"), which has become the leading trade association for institutional participants in the life settlements and premium finance markets.

Mark joined Mizuho in 2000 with two colleagues to co-found Mizuho's Structured Credit Products Group, which completed US$3 billion in synthetic US high yield CDOs. From 1993, Mark worked for Credit Suisse First Boston and Credit Suisse Financial Products and was based in Hong Kong, London, New York and Tokyo over this period, specializing latterly in credit derivatives and synthetic CDOs.

Mark holds a master's degree in law from Cambridge University and qualified as a barrister in 1990.

Thierry is Chief Technology Officer of ClearLife.

Thierry has extensive software and infrastructure experience and started working on the internet and the web in 1996. Before joining ClearLife, Thierry worked at Axa Investment Managers, working on a wide range of web based products, including fund management and other back office solutions. He was the technical lead on a major intranet project.

Thierry was previously part of an IT start-up working on an Enterprise Mailbox Management System subsequently acquired by a market leader.

Prior to this, Thierry worked at Thomson Financial (now Thomson Reuters) for 6 years. He worked mainly on real-time and snapshot market data components and feeds as well as a major retail financial web site. He was managing the infrastructure for a high-availability high-performance enterprise data delivery network.

Valerie is Vice President of ClearLife LP and is responsible for ClearLife's operations in North America.

Prior to joining ClearLife, Valerie was Director of Operations for Life Policy Dynamics, LLC where she pioneered the first industry study of transactions occurring in the U.S. life settlement market. While with Life Policy Dynamics, LLC, Valerie managed customized client services within the life settlement business work process for funding entities, providers, brokers and agents. These services included valuations, portfolio optimization, medical record and life expectancy retrieval, health status tracking and maturity management.

From 2004 to 2006, Valerie gained experience as Senior Investment Analyst with Secondary Life Capital, LLC, where she managed broker and institutional investor relationships, performed portfolio analyses, and developed pricing strategies for incoming contracts. Her responsibilities also included managing case processes, developing business guidelines and procedures and enhancing database structure and content.

From 2001 to 2004, Valerie worked for Pacific Life Insurance in the capacities of Underwriting and Insurance Accounting Analyst. Valerie's work at Pacific Life included maintaining relationships with broker/dealers, balancing department workflow and analyzing the cost of insurance and premium payments required to bring newly issued policies in force. While at Pacific Life, Valerie also earned a Series 6 Registered Representatives insurance license.

Valerie completed undergraduate work and research in China and earned a Bachelor's Degree from Brigham Young University.

Chris is Director and Pricing consultant.

Before joining ClearLife, Chris worked in the Asset Finance Group at Mizuho International, where he was responsible for developing pricing models for life insurance products. During his time at Mizuho, Chris also worked in the Structured Credit Products Group where he built the pricing and risk management infrastructure for trading credit derivative products.

Chris joined Mizuho in 2002 from Credit Suisse First Boston, where he spent time in London and New York, working in a number of quantitative research roles. During his time there, he developed complex pricing models for many different asset classes and markets, most recently working with trading and structuring desks on the modeling of securitization transactions.

Chris holds a master's degree in software engineering from Imperial College, London.