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John Joshi – Managing Principal and Business Strategist
Founding partner of CapitalFusion with responsibilities in Business Development, Portfolio
Management and oversight of all trading as well as strategic business initiatives. Previously, Mr.
Joshi was responsible for establishing and managing Countrywide Alternative Investments. As
Senior Portfolio Manager and Executive Vice President, Mr. Joshi was responsible for
Countrywide Alternative Investments’ developing the CDO business and other asset management
investment vehicles. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Joshi worked at Clinton Group where his most
recent responsibilities were Head of Pricing Risk, responsible for pricing, valuation risk
management and leverage modeling. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Joshi was a Portfolio Manager for
ABS and CDO products, responsible for ABS strategies for the general funds and CDO issuance
and management. Prior to joining the Clinton Group, Mr. Joshi was also a Managing Principal at
C.Held Inc. Mr. Joshi was a member of the quantitative research group at PaineWebber from 1990
to 1996 where he was involved in ABS and Whole Loan research. Mr. Joshi started his career at
Salomon Brothers developing MBS/ABS analytics in 1986. Mr. Joshi holds a BS Computer
Science and Economics (1985) from State University of New York at Stony Brook
Email : jjoshi@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 818-294-3381
Girish Nair - Director / Advisor
Mr. Girish Nair is an outside director / Advisor to CapitalFusion Partners LLC. Girish is
responsible for establishing and managing financial services practice at Computech
Corporation. He has more than 16 years in the information technology space with experience
in managing regional and branch operations of organizations like British Aerospace and HAL’s
software venture at London, and Intentia Asia Pacific’s regional operations. He has been with
Computech Corporation since 2002 and has successfully launched their financial services
practice and grew them into multi-million operations both onsite and offshore. He has a
Masters Degree in Business Management from Bombay and Bachelors degree in Electronics
Engineering from the University of Pune.
Email: Girish.Nair@finengines.com Direct: 248-640-7597
Rizwan Haider – Sr. Vice President, Business Development
Mr. Haider is a Partner at CapitalFusion with responsibility to develop US and International
clients. Prior to joining CapitalFusion Riz was involved in management consulting focused on
enterprise level IT solutions and offshore outsourcing. From 1995 to 2004, as an IT
entrepreneur, Riz, started two web-based services companies and an offshore outsourcing
marketing company. His experience ranged from fund raising thru startup process and
implementation of business plans in the roles of CEO, COO and CTO. Previously Mr. Haider
was the CIO of Transammonia, a global trading company, where he led the transformation of
its legacy applications and architecture to a web-based application environment. From 1970
to 1995 Riz worked in Wall Street as a technologist focused on trading, risk management and
back-office support systems for Bankers Trust Company, Salomon Brothers Inc. and Monchik
Weber Corporation. Riz holds a Masters degree in Political Science and a Bachelors degree in
Mathematics and Statistics from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Email: rhaider@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 818-294-3381
Mark Fontanilla -- Managing Director, Trading and Portfolio
Analytics
Mr. Fontanilla has more than 10 years experience in the mortgage and ABS industry including
trading, research/analysis, and originations/servicing. Most recently Mr. Fontanilla was a
senior ABS trader at RBC Capital Markets where he traded both real estate and consumer ABS
as well as CMBS. Prior to that Mr. Fontanilla was an Executive team member and Director of
Risk Management at Champion Mortgage, a Division of KeyBank NA where he was in charge
of risk and portfolio management for the company’s non-conforming subprime platform
including loss forecasting, risk adjusted profitability, disaster recovery planning, internal
controls, OCC compliance, loan pricing, product development, hedging,
financing/securitization, whole loan strategy, and competitive intelligence. He has also
worked in mortgages and/or ABS at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley.Mr.
Fontanilla holds a BS in Finance and an MBA in Finance and Economics from Pennsylvania
State University and is NASD licensed Series 7 and 63.
Email : mfontanilla@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 201-213-7168
Arjun Basu - Director, Risk and Analytics
Most recently, Arjun was a Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments for Capital One Financial
where he co-managed a $24+ billion multi-strategy investments portfolio since 2004. Prior to
that, while at Capital One, he was part of a team responsible for raising funding in excess of
$11 billion for the various lines of businesses in the asset backed and unsecured markets. He
also worked on due diligence and funding/investment for/in new business ventures using a
combination of asset backed funding and private equity. In 2000, Arjun co-founded and raised
venture capital funding for a South Asia centric financial services business. While at business
school, Arjun interned as a summer associate at Merrill Lynch where he was focused on
technology equity research. From 1993 to 1997, Arjun was Director, BAPL (holding company of
Engineers Combined/Build India Construction Limited), a South Asia centric engineering
consulting, infrastructure/real estate development and construction management firm. He also
worked on setting up and marketing of India's first visual effect studio business during his
work with leading media firms, including Plus Channel and Autodesk. Arjun received an MBA
in Finance from Northeastern University and a Bachelor in Engineering (Civil) from Mangalore
University.
Email: abasu@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 202-276-9075
Mr. Yuri Chumak - Director, Structuring and Portfolio Analytics
Mr. Chumak has more than 10 years experience in Structuring and Origination of Fixed Income
securitizations, backed by consumer ABS, commercial loans and emerging market debt. Most
recently Mr. Chumak was a transaction manager at Mizuho Securities, responsible for CDO
issuance and product management. Prior to that, he worked at Wachovia as a quantitative
structurer of CLO transactions. He has also worked on structured funding at Barclays Capital
and as a rating analyst at Standard and Poor’s. Mr. Chumak has also worked as a Fixed
Income trader at Moscow’s based Renaissance Capital, where he was responsible for
hedging local currency denominated debt and structured debt transactions. Mr. Chumak
received an MBA in Finance from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, and
MS in Mathematics from Moscow State University.
Email : ychumak@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 917-239-2043
Mr. Issac Kearney - Director / Advisor
Mr. Kearney is an outside director / Advisor to CapitalFusion Partners LLC. Mr Kearney is
currently a Vice President with R.W. Pressprich responsible for Structured Finance marketing
and distribution. Prior to R.W. Pressprich he was Director of Marketing for Clinton Group and
multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to Clinton group he worked at Bank of America and Prudential
Securities, marketing similar product groups and issued two Cash Flow CDO’s and one CDS
Synthetic CDO. Mr. Kearney’s account base, since 1990, has been primarily Hedge Funds.
He has also worked in Fixed Income Sales and Sales Management with Citi Bank, E.F. Hutton,
Bankers Trust, and UBS Securities specializing in Mortgage, Asset Backed, and Structured
Products. Mr. Kearney. Received his BS Textile Technology from North Carolina State
University. He was also a Captain, Division Commander with the US Air Force.
Founding partner of CapitalFusion with responsibilities in Business Development, Portfolio
Management and oversight of all trading as well as strategic business initiatives. Previously, Mr.
Joshi was responsible for establishing and managing Countrywide Alternative Investments. As
Senior Portfolio Manager and Executive Vice President, Mr. Joshi was responsible for
Countrywide Alternative Investments’ developing the CDO business and other asset management
investment vehicles. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Joshi worked at Clinton Group where his most
recent responsibilities were Head of Pricing Risk, responsible for pricing, valuation risk
management and leverage modeling. From 1997 to 2003, Mr. Joshi was a Portfolio Manager for
ABS and CDO products, responsible for ABS strategies for the general funds and CDO issuance
and management. Prior to joining the Clinton Group, Mr. Joshi was also a Managing Principal at
C.Held Inc. Mr. Joshi was a member of the quantitative research group at PaineWebber from 1990
to 1996 where he was involved in ABS and Whole Loan research. Mr. Joshi started his career at
Salomon Brothers developing MBS/ABS analytics in 1986. Mr. Joshi holds a BS Computer
Science and Economics (1985) from State University of New York at Stony Brook
Email : jjoshi@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 818-294-3381
Girish Nair - Director / Advisor
Mr. Girish Nair is an outside director / Advisor to CapitalFusion Partners LLC. Girish is
responsible for establishing and managing financial services practice at Computech
Corporation. He has more than 16 years in the information technology space with experience
in managing regional and branch operations of organizations like British Aerospace and HAL’s
software venture at London, and Intentia Asia Pacific’s regional operations. He has been with
Computech Corporation since 2002 and has successfully launched their financial services
practice and grew them into multi-million operations both onsite and offshore. He has a
Masters Degree in Business Management from Bombay and Bachelors degree in Electronics
Engineering from the University of Pune.
Email: Girish.Nair@finengines.com Direct: 248-640-7597
Rizwan Haider – Sr. Vice President, Business Development
Mr. Haider is a Partner at CapitalFusion with responsibility to develop US and International
clients. Prior to joining CapitalFusion Riz was involved in management consulting focused on
enterprise level IT solutions and offshore outsourcing. From 1995 to 2004, as an IT
entrepreneur, Riz, started two web-based services companies and an offshore outsourcing
marketing company. His experience ranged from fund raising thru startup process and
implementation of business plans in the roles of CEO, COO and CTO. Previously Mr. Haider
was the CIO of Transammonia, a global trading company, where he led the transformation of
its legacy applications and architecture to a web-based application environment. From 1970
to 1995 Riz worked in Wall Street as a technologist focused on trading, risk management and
back-office support systems for Bankers Trust Company, Salomon Brothers Inc. and Monchik
Weber Corporation. Riz holds a Masters degree in Political Science and a Bachelors degree in
Mathematics and Statistics from the University of the Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan.
Email: rhaider@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 818-294-3381
Mark Fontanilla -- Managing Director, Trading and Portfolio
Analytics
Mr. Fontanilla has more than 10 years experience in the mortgage and ABS industry including
trading, research/analysis, and originations/servicing. Most recently Mr. Fontanilla was a
senior ABS trader at RBC Capital Markets where he traded both real estate and consumer ABS
as well as CMBS. Prior to that Mr. Fontanilla was an Executive team member and Director of
Risk Management at Champion Mortgage, a Division of KeyBank NA where he was in charge
of risk and portfolio management for the company’s non-conforming subprime platform
including loss forecasting, risk adjusted profitability, disaster recovery planning, internal
controls, OCC compliance, loan pricing, product development, hedging,
financing/securitization, whole loan strategy, and competitive intelligence. He has also
worked in mortgages and/or ABS at Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, and Morgan Stanley.Mr.
Fontanilla holds a BS in Finance and an MBA in Finance and Economics from Pennsylvania
State University and is NASD licensed Series 7 and 63.
Email : mfontanilla@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 201-213-7168
Arjun Basu - Director, Risk and Analytics
Most recently, Arjun was a Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments for Capital One Financial
where he co-managed a $24+ billion multi-strategy investments portfolio since 2004. Prior to
that, while at Capital One, he was part of a team responsible for raising funding in excess of
$11 billion for the various lines of businesses in the asset backed and unsecured markets. He
also worked on due diligence and funding/investment for/in new business ventures using a
combination of asset backed funding and private equity. In 2000, Arjun co-founded and raised
venture capital funding for a South Asia centric financial services business. While at business
school, Arjun interned as a summer associate at Merrill Lynch where he was focused on
technology equity research. From 1993 to 1997, Arjun was Director, BAPL (holding company of
Engineers Combined/Build India Construction Limited), a South Asia centric engineering
consulting, infrastructure/real estate development and construction management firm. He also
worked on setting up and marketing of India's first visual effect studio business during his
work with leading media firms, including Plus Channel and Autodesk. Arjun received an MBA
in Finance from Northeastern University and a Bachelor in Engineering (Civil) from Mangalore
University.
Email: abasu@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 202-276-9075
Mr. Yuri Chumak - Director, Structuring and Portfolio Analytics
Mr. Chumak has more than 10 years experience in Structuring and Origination of Fixed Income
securitizations, backed by consumer ABS, commercial loans and emerging market debt. Most
recently Mr. Chumak was a transaction manager at Mizuho Securities, responsible for CDO
issuance and product management. Prior to that, he worked at Wachovia as a quantitative
structurer of CLO transactions. He has also worked on structured funding at Barclays Capital
and as a rating analyst at Standard and Poor’s. Mr. Chumak has also worked as a Fixed
Income trader at Moscow’s based Renaissance Capital, where he was responsible for
hedging local currency denominated debt and structured debt transactions. Mr. Chumak
received an MBA in Finance from Simon Business School at the University of Rochester, and
MS in Mathematics from Moscow State University.
Email : ychumak@capitalfusionpartners.com Direct: 917-239-2043
Mr. Issac Kearney - Director / Advisor
Mr. Kearney is an outside director / Advisor to CapitalFusion Partners LLC. Mr Kearney is
currently a Vice President with R.W. Pressprich responsible for Structured Finance marketing
and distribution. Prior to R.W. Pressprich he was Director of Marketing for Clinton Group and
multi-strategy hedge fund. Prior to Clinton group he worked at Bank of America and Prudential
Securities, marketing similar product groups and issued two Cash Flow CDO’s and one CDS
Synthetic CDO. Mr. Kearney’s account base, since 1990, has been primarily Hedge Funds.
He has also worked in Fixed Income Sales and Sales Management with Citi Bank, E.F. Hutton,
Bankers Trust, and UBS Securities specializing in Mortgage, Asset Backed, and Structured
Products. Mr. Kearney. Received his BS Textile Technology from North Carolina State
University. He was also a Captain, Division Commander with the US Air Force.
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