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E.C. "Pete" Peterson is a Managing Director of Merkel & Associates and has over thirty years of corporate finance experience. He is also President of Falls Capital Corporation, which he founded in 1993. Prior to founding Falls Capital, Pete was a Senior Vice President at Kemper Securities Inc. (now Wachovia Securities) in the Cleveland corporate finance department from 1991-1993 where he was involved in initial public equity offerings, public debt offerings, and mergers & acquisitions. From 1979 to 1991 Pete was a Vice President with First National Bank of Chicago (now J.P. Morgan Chase). For six years he headed the Cleveland office and managed all corporate lending activities in a three state area. For three years Pete was based in Hong Kong as business manager for the Asia-Pacific area, where he was responsible for all administrative activities, including financial planning, human resources, and real estate activities in seven countries. During that assignment, he also served as chief lending officer for CCIC Finance Ltd., a joint-venture merchant bank that First Chicago co-owned with Bank of China and The Industrial Bank of Japan. CCIC specialized in industrial and real estate joint ventures in China. For two years Pete was responsible for originating and structuring LBO and M&A transactions of middle-market companies in the Midwest. Pete began his career in 1970 with Irving Trust Company of New York (now Bank of New York). Pete holds a BS degree from Miami University and an MBA degree from Fordham University. He served as a computer programmer and operations officer in the U.S. Navy. | 