Peter Rothschild, President and CEO Peter Rothschild has been involved in both investment and merchant banking for over 25 years. During this time, he has been engaged in over 100 transactions, including mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, restructuring, corporate advisory work and principal investing, aggregating several billions of dollars. On the agency side, Mr. Rothschild’s clients include publicly traded companies, private companies, financial buyers and mezzanine lenders. He has very close relationships with senior partners at many of the private equity sponsors, leading mezzanine lenders, hedge funds and other providers of capital. He has focused on industrial companies in the aerospace, apparel, automotive, building products, chemicals, distribution, energy, general manufacturing, paper and packaging and textile industries, and service companies including consumer, restaurants and financial services. Prior to founding Daroth Capital, Mr. Rothschild was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Leveraged Finance and Industrial Finance groups at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein and its predecessor Wasserstein Perella. At Wasserstein, he served as a member of the policy committee and the capital commitment committee. Mr. Rothschild was a Senior Managing Director and Head of the Natural Resources Group at Bear Stearns prior to Wasserstein, and was one of the founders of the firm’s Leveraged Finance and Financial Buyer Coverage groups. Mr. Rothschild was also a Managing Director and Head of the Industrial Group at Drexel Burnham Lambert. Mr. Rothschild has served on the board of directors of several companies and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Deerfield Triarc Capital Corp. (NYSE: DFR) and as a director of Wendy's International, Inc. (NYSE: WEN). Mr. Rothschild graduated from Tufts University, summa cum laude, with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering and from Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration with a Master’s Degree in Business Administration.

Andrew Bess, Corporate Finance and M&A During his career as an investment banker, Mr. Bess has participated in buy- and sell- side M&A transactions, private equity financings, restructurings and joint-venture negotiations. Most recently, Mr. Bess was with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, where he was a founding member of the Private Equity Advisory Group. His primary responsibilities in this position included advising growth-stage companies on private equity financing, completing sell-side M&A assignments and developing and maintaining relationships with the Financial Sponsor community. Mr. Bess holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration, with a concentration in international finance from Columbia Business School, and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Colby College. Mr. Bess has lived and worked in England, Belgium and Italy, and is fluent in Italian.

Haitham Wahab, Corporate Finance and M&A Haitham Wahab has worked in the investment banking industry for ten years. During this time, he has been involved in a broad range of transactions, including debt and equity financings aggregating over $4 billion, as well as M&A advisory mandates exceeding $80 billion in transaction value. Mr. Wahab’s transaction expertise has spanned a universe of clients ranging from small entrepreneurial companies to large cap public multinational companies, with a focus on the telecommunications and media sector. Prior to joining Daroth Capital Advisors, Mr. Wahab worked in the Telecom and Media Group at JPMorgan Securities. At JPMorgan, his transaction experience included providing strategic advisory services, raising private equity, and executing debt and equity financings for his North American and Latin American clients. Most recently, he served as a Vice President in the European Telecom and Media Group of JPMorgan Securities, where he led a team focused on providing corporate finance and strategic advisory services to cable TV and broadband connectivity providers. His experience included the structuring and execution of a $17 billion balance sheet restructuring for NTL, Inc., at the time the largest public restructuring to date. Mr. Wahab has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Wahab has lived and worked in the Middle East, Germany and the UK. He is fluent in Spanish, French, German and Arabic.

Haitham Wahab, Corporate Finance and M&A Haitham Wahab has worked in the investment banking industry for ten years. During this time, he has been involved in a broad range of transactions, including debt and equity financings aggregating over $4 billion, as well as M&A advisory mandates exceeding $80 billion in transaction value. Mr. Wahab’s transaction expertise has spanned a universe of clients ranging from small entrepreneurial companies to large cap public multinational companies, with a focus on the telecommunications and media sector. Prior to joining Daroth Capital Advisors, Mr. Wahab worked in the Telecom and Media Group at JPMorgan Securities. At JPMorgan, his transaction experience included providing strategic advisory services, raising private equity, and executing debt and equity financings for his North American and Latin American clients. Most recently, he served as a Vice President in the European Telecom and Media Group of JPMorgan Securities, where he led a team focused on providing corporate finance and strategic advisory services to cable TV and broadband connectivity providers. His experience included the structuring and execution of a $17 billion balance sheet restructuring for NTL, Inc., at the time the largest public restructuring to date. Mr. Wahab has a Bachelor of Science Degree in Economics from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Mr. Wahab has lived and worked in the Middle East, Germany and the UK. He is fluent in Spanish, French, German and Arabic.

Phil Mayer , Corporate Finance and M&A Phil Mayer works on M&A transactions and corporate finance projects in a variety of industries. Prior to joining Daroth, Phil worked primarily in management consulting to financial services clients. At Mercer Oliver Wyman, he advised Fortune 500 insurance companies on merger and acquisition strategies and international banks on compliance with Basel II risk capital requirements and the implementation of value-based management systems. Previously, in Mercer Management Consulting’s private equity group Phil provided transaction sponsors with acquisition due diligence support and portfolio company operational improvement recommendations. His experience also includes internal consulting positions at UBS, Bank Leumi, and Lehman Brothers. Phil Mayer joined Daroth Capital after receiving his Master of Business Administration degree from New York University’s Leonard N. Stern School of Business, where he was the recipient of the Peter G. Sachs academic scholarship. Phil graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics and minors in History and Mathematics. He has worked in England, Switzerland, and Israel and is proficient in Hebrew.