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Mr. Martinez manages all aspects of due diligence, direct fund management, financial reporting and mergers & acquisitions for GHV Fund, LP as well as the firm's Global Private Wealth Management group. Prior to GreenHills Ventures, Mr. Martinez was directly involved with the $125 million sale of Sixdegrees.com to YouthStream Media Network ("YSTM") and the $150 million sale of E@wonders to BuyItNow. From 1993 through 2001, Mr. Martinez was an active private investor and financial manager performing a myriad of financing transactions on behalf of several high-net-worth individuals and family trusts investing in companies which include sixdegrees, E@wonders, Inlumen, Dial Corporation, Seagram's Beverage Corporation, and Olsten Financial Services. From 1985 through 1993, Mr. Martinez held several senior management level positions including Managing Director for Mergers & Acquisition for Citibank, NA and Vice President of Finance for American Express Corporation. Prior to Citibank, Mr. Martinez was involved in Coastal Oil's $1.7 billion acquisition of American Natural Resources. Mr. Martinez is on several advisory boards including the Sandy Weill Institute, the High School of Economics and Finance and E-POL, Inc. (an intelligence and securities company for which he is a Co-Founder and Chief Financial Officer). In 1994, Emanuel was appointed by the Governor of Georgia, Zell Miller, to be a member of Operation Legacy Project whose mission was to attract major corporations to relocate their headquarters to Atlanta in preparation for the 1996 Centennial Olympics Games. Mr. Martinez holds a M.B.A in Finance and a B.A. in Accounting fromSt. John's University and he completed the Harvard Business School Executive Program in Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance. Mr. Martinez is also a Certified Public Accountant from New York State and speaks Spanish, Italian and Hebrew. | 