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Samuel Valenti III Chairman of Valenti Capital, Sr. Managing Director Heartland Ind. Partners

Samuel Valenti III, Global Strategist and Portfolio Manager, is Chairman of Valenti Capital, an investment firm located in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. Valenti Capital manages several hundred million dollars in hedge funds, venture capital funds, and other private equity transactions.

Mr. Valenti is a Senior Managing Director and General Partner of Heartland Industrial Partners. Heartland is a $1 billion private equity fund dedicated to industrial investments.

Mr. Valenti was formerly a senior executive, corporate officer and 30 year veteran of Masco Corporation, a Fortune 500 manufacturer of home building and home improvement products with sales approaching $8 billion. Mr. Valenti was the youngest person to be named vice president in the 70-year history of Masco. He was the leader for over 25 years of a team of investment professionals involved in a wide array of investment activities including stock and bond investment, commodity hedging, merger and acquisition analysis, and venture capital investing. He continues to serve as president of Masco Capital Corporation, the investment subsidiary of Masco Corporation, with assets of several hundred million dollars.

Mr. Valenti is the recent chairman and a 15-year veteran of the Investment Advisory Committee of the $50 billion State of Michigan Retirement System. He serves on the Harvard Business School Advisory Council for Global Corporate Governance, the Advisory Council at the University of Notre Dame and the Advisory Boards of Questor, Long Point, Doll Capital, Camelot and Enterprise Development Funds. In addition, he is a former member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of The Endowment Committee for the Center for Creative Studies and Chairman of the Investment Committee of the Cranbrook Educational Community. He was a member of the board of directors of Children's Hospital, Arbor Drug, and the endowment committee of the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Mr. Valenti holds a bachelor's degree, magna cum laude, from Western Michigan University, a master's degree with distinction in economics, and is a Harold Smith Patton Scholar. He has done additional advanced work at the University of Michigan.