Jeffrey A. Gugick has over 20 years experience as a banker and investor specializing in structured and corporate finance, private equity and commercial real estate. He currently serves as a Managing Director of Reason Capital Group LLC, a private equity firm and Valhalla Financial Inc., an opportunistic investment firm. Jeff previously was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer for the Utendahl Group ("Utendahl"), which included Utendahl Capital Partners, L.P., an investment bank, broker/dealer, Utendahl Capital Management, L.P., a $2.4 billion fixed income focused asset management company and private equity funds. In that role, Jeff created and managed the private equity fund operations at Utendahl. This included, creating innovative business models, initiating acquisition plans and implementing programs including the raising of over $300 million of institutional capital for three first-time private investment partnerships in commercial real estate (UrbanAmerica LP), private equity (United Enterprise Fund, LP) and mezzanine debt (Praesidian Capital). Jeff has also managed multiple commercial and residential mortgage and asset backed asset sales aggregating over $2.5 billion resulting in record recoveries for clients. Prior to Utendahl, Jeff held workout/restructuring positions at Greenthal Harlan Realty Services Company, (an affiliate of Castle Harlan, Inc.), the Dime Savings Bank (now Washington Mutual) and Citicorp/Citibank. Jeff has his BS degree from Syracuse University, his MBA degree in Finance from Emory University's Goizueta Graduate School of Business Administration, and has also completed the Citicorp Institute for Global Finance executive credit training program. Mr. Gugick holds the following licenses: General Securities Principal (Series 24), General Securities Representative (Series 7), Uniform Securities Agent State Law (Series 63) and New York State Real Estate Brokers License.