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Mr. Mitchell recently joined Bridge Finance Group as Chief Audit Executive. His team performs intensive due diligence in Healthcare, Asset Based Lending and Rediscount portfolios. Mr. Mitchell has twenty eight years in the banking, secured lending, and structured finance fields serving middle-market companies. While in banking, Mr. Mitchell was Audit Manager for the Asset Based Finance Group, at Union Bank of California, meeting the due diligence needs of a portfolio of $2 billion of secured corporate loans with a staff of forty professionals. He led the due diligence efforts in Asset Based Lending, Leasing, Rediscount Lending, and Secured Branch Commercial Lines of Credit. Mr. Mitchell previously worked for the turnaround of Commonwealth Financial and was part of the senior management team that successfully reformed and restructured the company into Fremont Financial. This same team completed the first securitization of Asset Based Loans in the early nineties, with their first tranche at $275 million. As Audit Executive Mr. Mitchell led both the audit team and The Management Development Program for Fremont Financial. His group performed the due diligence effort for a portfolio of $750 million of middle-market Asset Based loans from $2 million to $20 million. His team was an integral part of the successful sale of Fremont Financial to FINOVA at a substantial premium. Mr. Mitchell was then invited to join the bankruptcy and liquidation team at FINOVA Capital Corporation. As Borrower Audit Manager, Mr. Mitchell led a team of eighty professionals performing due diligence for a portfolio of $14 billion in senior secured debt, mezzanine transactions, and equity positions. The team kept a forensic approach for the orderly liquidation of the portfolio for over five years in Equipment Leasing, Aircraft Leasing, Communications Finance, Resort Finance, Healthcare Finance, Rediscount Lending, and Asset Based Lending. The successful orderly liquidation brought a $2 billion gain to the purchaser of the senior secured debt of FINOVA within two years. The secondarypurchasers of the bonds also gained approximately $2 billion within five years. Mr. Mitchell is a Certified Fraud Examiner and a Certified Insolvency and Restructuring Advisor. | 