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Mr. Cortez has been a principal at KCL Development, LLC since 2003, where he provides business consulting and financial advisory services, primarily to growth companies and new business ventures. Prior to KCL Development, Mr. Cortez spent over twelve years in investment banking, focused primarily in the environmental industry. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Cortez was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, and prior to that he worked at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, Alex. Brown & Sons Incorporated and Morgan Stanley International. He completed dozens of capital raising and mergers & acquisitions transactions for environmental companies, including Allied Waste, American Disposal, Casella Waste, Chem-Nuclear Services, Envirofil, ReSource NE, Sanifill, Stericycle, Superior Services, Synagro, United Waste, USA Waste, and Waste Management. Mr. Cortez received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from UC Berkeley. | 