About Us
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OUR TEAM

We are venture capitalists and investment bankers with entrepreneurial backgrounds and mindsets. We
are agile, fast-paced, open-minded and flexible. At the same time, we have  deep understanding and
appreciation of what it takes in order to build long-standing legacies and thereby exercise prudent financial
control, perform careful due diligence, and work together with our partners and clients as a team.

Our Investment Team


        
                             Jeremy Almand
                             Managing Partner
& Chief Investment Officer (CIO)



As a managing partner, his responsibilities include investment evaluation, due diligence, business model
refinement and relationship development.

For the last four years, Jeremy has been President and Founder of Waterhouse Funding. His previous company
focused on distressed real estate investments including mortgages, land, single family and multi-unit
properties. Prior to that Mr. Almand served as acting CFO and member of the executive team of venture backed
NOCpulse which subsequently was acquired by Red Hat (NASDAQ: RHAT) in 2002. Mr. Almand is a Certified
Public Accountant (CPA) and has worked as an auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP in Sacramento and
the Silicon Valley, and was rated at the top of his class in both offices, where he had a wide and diverse client
base including development stage start-ups, mid-size, and public, private, and Fortune 500 clients among many
industry segments.  He was involved in mergers and acquisitions as well as public offerings.

Jeremy graduated from California State University, Chico while playing for one of the top Division II baseball
programs in the nation with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with options in Accounting and
Management Information Systems.  Jeremy is an avid golfer and lives with his wife Shannon who both love to
travel and scuba dive.  Related News:
Almands Joins as Chief Investment Officer.             



                             Edwin R. Yeh
                             Managing Partner
& Chief Executive Officer (CEO)



Edwin is a managing partner of St. John's Capital Group. His responsibilities include fund management, global
strategy, innovation of financial products and business advisory.

Previously and for five years, Edwin was a partner at DragonVenture (also known as DFJ Dragon), a Silicon
Valley based venture capital firm, and was the Managing Director of DragonFund II and DragonFund III (aka
VeryFund). While there, he served as a board director of Erlang Technology and Covault Corporation. Together
with Bobby Chao, chairman of DragonVenture and founder of Cadence (NASDAQ: CDN), Edwin led the
investment of and served as a board observer for Mobile365 (formerly known as InphoMatch) which was
recently acquired by Sybase (NYSE: SY) for $450MM. Together with Bobby, Edwin also served as investor and
board advisors for OSA Technologies which was acquired by Avocent (NASDAQ: AVCT) for $100MM.

In the community, he actively seeks to participate in fellowship and worthy volunteering opportunity. He is a
member of Bridges Community Church, participated in Habitat for Humanity. He is also an angel investor
(recent investment include pre-IPO Alien Technology (NASDAQ: RFID proposed) and volunteers time to help
Band of Angels pre-screening deals. He is also a founding investor/partner of a local community bank, Tri-Valley
Bank (OTCBB: TRVB) and a shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A and BRK.B) and has served as
advisor to Stanford University's Asia Technology Initiative (ATI) Program.

A US resident and a native son of Taiwan, he is a graduate  of Georgia Tech and CASE and has attended as
visiting scholar at Georgetown University in D.C., Yonsei University in Korea, and TU  Berlin, Germany. He lives
with his wife Patra and daughters Tifa and Fiana.  
Related News: Singtao Daily Reports of Edwin's SPACE2,
Edwin Speaking at Stanford University.


Our Operating Team



         
                            Trisha Bothum, CPA.
                            Venture Partner
& Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Marcil Group


Trisha brings more than 15 years of broad experiences with systems and business processes. She spent five
years at Oracle Corporation (NASDAQ: ORCL) at the Redwood City, CA headquarters. At Oracle, she served in
the finance group, was promoted four times in five years and became director of finance. She managed
employees in the U.S. and India. She was responsible for complex global forecasting and financial functions
that comprised over $400MM in annual revenue. Prior to Oracle, she was a financial analyst at Flour Daniel
(NYSE: FLR) which provide construction, engineering, and maintenance services in the U.S.

She also founded and sold a marketing/sales placement company Zip Research. She holds a B.A. in
accounting and lives with her husband Mike, daughter Olivia, and son, Maximilian.



                            Michael Marcil
                            Venture Partner
& Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Marcil Group



Michael is a visionary business developer who brings more than 17 years of experience in building innovative
business ventures. He is involved in the financing and management of more than 17 development partnership
that comprise more than 900 residential rental unit and over 300,000 sq. ft. of commercial space in California,
Louisiana, North Dakota, Minnesota, and South Dakota. Prior to that he served as the senior vice president of
business development and member of the executive team for Valassis Communications (NYSE: VCI). Prior to
Valassis, he served as the vice president of sales for GeoComm Systems, where he developed a national
sales force of 65 full-time sales executives that generated over $20MM in annual revenue and helped raised
over $135MM from Accel Partners, McDonald's Corp, and the The Chicago Tribune Venture Group.

Michael serves on the board of advisors of the Center for Innovation. In 1997, he was accepted into the Young
Entrepreneurs Organization (YEO) for entrepreneurs under 35 years of age whose companies achieved annual
sales in excess of $1MM. Michael received a Bachelor of Arts in political science from the University of North
Dakota. He currently lives with his wife, Trisha, and daughter, Olivia and son, Maximilian.
  Related News: The
Forum's Reports of Michael Marcil.     




                             Art Rosenberg
                            Venture Partner
& President, Marcil Group



Art is the President of Renaissance Ventures a regional venture capital fund since 1999.  Then in 2002, he
founded Davinci Management Group, a business finance consulting firm which recently merged with Marcil
Group having $50MM under management. It focuses on companies that are looking for funding, mergers and
acquisitions, real estate and financing. He currently serves on the board or advisor to Convexity, Linkup, Feed
Management Systems, and Composite America.

Art has also worked as Chief of Staff and Legislative Assistant for North Dakota House Majority Leader John
Dorso.  He was involved in passing several key pieces of economic development legislation including the
Renaissance Zone program and venture capital. He also served as Director of the Greater Tucumcari Economic
Development Corporation in Tucumcari , New Mexico .  He was focused on working with the community on
improving the funding sources and recruiting businesses to the area.  Prior to his move there he served the
community of Marquette , Michigan as the Deputy Director of the Marquette County Economic Development
Corporation. He worked with businesses through the Revolving loan fund and the redevelopment plan for the KI
Sawyer Air Force closure.

Art graduated from the University of North Dakota with a Bachelor degree in Business Administration majoring
in Management. He is a member of the Minnesota Venture Capital Association, Sigma Chi Fraternity and Rotary.
 He lives with his wife Mary and their daughter, Alexis.

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Investment Banking Team Members:

Josh, Hubert, Simon, Dr. Yeh, Shu-min, and Mandy.
Pictured above are members of our team, partners and our guests: from left to right: Jim, Art, Curt, Edwin,
Mike, Josh, Jeremy, Simon, Mandy, and Dr. Yeh. (Photo Credit: Senator Nick Hacker)
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