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Philip A. McNeill, Managing Member and Chief Investment Officer

Mr. McNeill serves as Chief Investment Officer for SPP Mezzanine Partners. Prior to joining SPP Mezzanine Partners, Mr. McNeill served as a Managing Director at Allied Capital Corporation where he was co-head of its Private Finance and Mezzanine activities and a member of its Investment Committee. Before joining Allied Capital in 1993, Mr. McNeill served as Vice President of M&T Capital Corporation, the SBIC investment division of M&T Bank. Prior to entering the private finance industry in 1988, he developed, founded, managed and owned a Boston-based retail and manufacturing company and was a founding director of City National Bank of Weatherford, Oklahoma. Mr. McNeill holds an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Finance, Accounting, and Law & Public Policy from Syracuse University.
Javier Aguirre, Vice President

Mr. Aguirre joined SPP Mezzanine Partners in 2007 as a Vice President. Prior to joining SPP Mezzanine Partners, Mr. Aguirre was with Lehman Brothers' Investment Management Division in New York, where he was responsible for strategic acquisitions as well as various organic growth initiatives for the firm's $175 billion institutional asset management business. Mr. Aguirre began his investing career at Darby Overseas Investments, a global emerging markets private equity and venture capital firm founded and led by former U.S. Secretary of Treasury Nicholas Brady. Prior to Darby, Mr. Aguirre was a financial analyst with Deutsche Banc Alex.Brown's mergers and acquisitions practice in Baltimore. Mr. Aguirre holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.