Irving Levin, Director
George Alexander, Director
Alan Blank, Director
Stephanie Fowler, Director
James A. Gordon, Director
Gregory K. Jones, Director
Greg T. Mutz, Director
Kenneth M. Novack, Director

Irving Levin, Director

Mr. Levin is the Chairman and CEO of Genesis. A veteran of retail financial services, Mr. Levin founded Renaissance Holdings, Inc., and was the Chairman of Renaissance and its Orchard Bank subsidiary. He was also the founder of the country's first single-purpose credit card bank, First Consumers National Bank. Mr. Levin previously consulted for Arthur D. Little and Company, and held several management positions with Visa International.

He holds a number of board member and advisory positions with entrepreneurial companies and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Levin has a B.A. and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

George Alexander, Director

Mr. Alexander has over twenty years experience in credit card and consumer lending management. He previously held the position of Executive Vice President of Renaissance Holdings, Inc., a private sub-prime credit card issuer sold to Household International in 2000. He introduced and was responsible for risk management, information services, card processing platform management, and recovery card programs. Mr. Alexander was a founding member of the first single-purpose credit card bank, First Consumers National Bank and held senior management positions within the bankcard divisions of Citicorp and Bank of America. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Klamath Bird Observatory, and Morrison Child and Family Services Board Committee work.

Alan Blank, Director

Mr. Blank is a member at Stoel Rives LLP. Mr. Blank concentrates in the practice of general business law, including mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, securities, real estate and tax. He received his A.B. in 1978 and his J.D. in 1981 from Washington University in St. Louis.

Mr. Blank is a current member of the boards of directors of the Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, United Synagogue for Conservative Judaism and the Pacific Northwest Region of USCJ. He is also a member of the executive committee of the Community Relations Committee of Jewish Federation of Greater Portland, co-chair of the Annual Campaign for JFGP, and co-chair of the Capital Campaign for Congregation Neveh Shalom.

Stephanie Fowler, Director

Ms. Fowler is a well-known and award-winning journalist, and a psychologist. She is a graduate of Princeton University and is involved in a number of non-profit organizations and a trustee of The Renaissance Foundation.

James A. Gordon, Director

Mr. Gordon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Edgewater Growth Capital Partners (EGCP). He founded EGCP I in 2001. Prior to forming Edgewater, Mr. Gordon was President of Gordon Foods, Inc. and Gordon’s Wholesale, Inc. In 1982, Mr. Gordon engineered a leveraged buy-out of his personal and family interests in The Gordon Companies and in 1986 sold the company to a European multinational corporation. Prior to forming EGCP I, he was an active private equity investor, establishing a highly successful track record. Since 1982, he has completed over 150 private equity transactions.

Mr. Gordon serves on the boards of directors of numerous public and private companies. He also serves on the boards of The Whitney Museum of American Art as Treasurer and on the Investment Committee, The Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art as the Executive Committee of the Board and the Investment Committee, Northwestern Memorial Foundation Board of Directors and its Investment Committee, the Joffrey Ballet Board, the Museum of Science and Industry of Chicago Board of Trustees and the Investment Committee, Chicago Cares, the Commercial Club and the Big Shoulders Fund on both the Board of Directors and Executive Committee. He has also served on the boards of Grinnell College as head of the Investment Committee, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Bankers Trust Company, Methodist Medical Centers, Des Moines Art center where he served as President, Des Moines Ballet, Iowa Society to Prevent Blindness, Des Moines Metro Opera and other organizations. Mr. Gordon received his B.A. from Northwestern University.

Gregory K. Jones, Director

Mr. Jones is a Partner of Edgewater Growth Capital Partners. Prior to joining Edgewater, Mr. Jones was Chairman, CEO and co-founder of uBid, Inc. Mr. Jones led uBid through a highly successful IPO and subsequent sale for over $400 million. Prior to uBid, he was Senior Vice President of APAC Teleservices, Inc., which grew during his tenure from $100 million to $275 million and was the top IPO for Merrill Lynch in 1996. From 1990 to 1995, Mr. Jones was President and COO of reliable Corporation of Chicago, a $200 million direct mail seller of office products which was successfully sold to Boise Cascade.

Mr. Jones has received many business leadership awards, including the State of Michigan Leadership Award, the 1999 Ernst & Young and KPMG Entrepreneur of the Year Awards and inclusion in the 19999 Crain’s Chicago Business 40 Most Influential People Under 40 Business List, and is an inductee into the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Entrepreneur Hall of Fame. Mr. Jones is active in a leadership role with the Young Presidents Organization and is on the boards of the Miami University of Ohio Business School, the Illinois Math and Science Academy, Evanston Northwestern Hospital and several Edgewater portfolio companies.

Mr. Jones received his B.S. from Miami University of Ohio, and his M.B.A. from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Greg T. Mutz, Director

Mr. Mutz is Chairman of the Board and CEO of AMLI Residential Partners, LLC, a multi-family REIT and wholly owned subsidiary of PRIME Property Fund, an institutional real estate co-mingled fund managed by Morgan Stanley Real Estate, Inc. Mr. Mutz is also the Lead Director of ALICO, Inc (Nasdaq:ALCO), a Florida-based agribusiness company; and a Member of the Board of Directors for WAN S.A., a real estate company headquartered in Warsaw, Poland, and Suknip, S.A., a real estate company headquartered in St Petersburg, Russia. Mr. Mutz is the Lead Trustee for the Aston Family of Mutual Funds, a large group of mutual funds sponsored by Aston and Highbury Financial, Inc. Mr. Mutz serves on the University of Michigan Law School Campaign Steering Committee. Prior to founding AMLI, Mr. Mutz was an officer with White, Weld & Co., Incorporated, a New York investment-banking firm and was associated with the Chicago law firm of Mayer Brown L.L.P.

He received a B.A. from DePauw University in 1967 and a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School in 1973. Mr. Mutz served as an infantry lieutenant in Vietnam from 1968 to 1969.

Kenneth M. Novack, Director

Mr. Novack is Chairman of Schnitzer Steel Industries, Inc. (NASDQ: SCHN). He was formerly Chairman and CEO of Schnitzer Investment Corp. and Lasco Shipping Co. He also is the former Chairman of Liberty Shipping Group. From 1982 through 1991 Mr. Novack was a partner at Ball, Janik & Novack (now Ball Janik LLP). He received a B.A. from Claremont Men’s College in 1967 and a J.D. from the University of Southern California in 1970.

Mr. Novack holds and has held a number of board member and advisory positions with entrepreneurial companies and nonprofit organizations. He is on the Board of Trustees for Claremont McKenna College, Eisenhower Medical Center (Rancho Mirage, California) and the Schnitzer Novack Foundation.