Mark Klein

Mr Klein has been a Director of GSV Capital Corp. since January 2011 and joined Pacific as a non-executive director in December 2011.

Mr. Klein also served as a director of New University Holdings Corp. (NUH), a capital pool company listed on the TSX Venture Exchange, from its inception in 2010 through August 2011, when NUH merged with ePals, Inc., the world’s largest K-12 learning network provider. Mr. Klein was also Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of 57th Street General Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, until it completed a merger with Crumbs Bake Shop. Mark currently serves on the Board of Directors of Crumbs.

Also in April 2010, Mr. Klein became a Managing Member and Majority Partner of M. Klein & Company, LLC, which owns the Klein Group, LLC, a registered broker dealer. Mr. Klein also maintains registration with the Klein Group, LLC as a registered representative and Principal. Between March 2007 and July 2009, Mr. Klein was the Chief Executive Officer, President and a Director of Alternative Asset Management Corporation (“AAMAC”), a special purpose acquisition company he helped form in 2007 and which completed a merger with Great American Group LLC in July 2009. Mr. Klein is also a registered representative at Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., a Portfolio Manager of the LTAM Titan Fund, a fund of funds hedge fund and was one of the Principals of Aldebaran Investments, LLC, a private fund which invested in special purpose acquisition companies.

From April 2007 until August 2008, Mr. Klein was the Chief Executive Officer of Hanover Group US LLC, an indirect US subsidiary of the Hanover Group. Prior to joining Hanover in 2007, Mr. Klein was Chairman of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., a leading underwriter of blank check companies, which is engaged in retail and institutional securities brokerage, investment banking and asset management services.

From March 2005 to September 2006, he was Chief Executive Officer and President of Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc., the parent of Ladenburg Thalmann & Co. Inc., and Chief Executive Officer of Ladenburg Thalmann Asset Management Inc., a subsidiary of Ladenburg Financial Services, Inc. Prior to joining Ladenburg Thalmann, from June 2000 to March 2005, Mr. Klein served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of NBGI Asset Management, Inc. and NBGI Securities, which were the US subsidiaries of the National Bank of Greece, the largest financial institution in Greece. Prior to joining NBGI, Mr. Klein was President and Founder of Newbrook Capital Management, Founder and Managing Member of Independence Holdings Partners, LLC, a private equity fund of funds company, and Founder and General Partner of Intrinsic Edge Partners, a long/short equity hedge fund.

Prior to the formation of Newbrook Capital Management and Independence Holdings Partners, LLC, Mr. Klein was a Senior Portfolio Manager for PaineWebber and Smith Barney Shearson. Mr. Klein also serves as a member of the board of directors of Great American Group, Inc.

Mr. Klein is a graduate of J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, with a Masters of Management Degree and also received a Bachelors of Business Administration Degree with high distinction from Emory University.