Mr. Finneran is a founding partner of EXOP Capital LLC. Six years prior to forming EXOP Capital, he was managing director of Wachovia Securities and, before that, he spent 30 years with CIBC Oppenheimer Corp., an investment banking and securities brokerage firm in New York, as a managing director. Mr. Finneran holds an honorary doctorate in commercial science from Villanova University, where he also earned his bachelor’s degree in economics. Mr. Finneran is chairman and CEO of Edison Control Corporation. He currently serves as vice chairman of the Partnership for Inner-City Education of the Archdiocese of New York and is a founding member of the board of directors for Sacred Heart School in Lake Worth, FL. He is a member of the MD Anderson Board of Visitors and the Anderson Assembly, and serves on the board of the Ireland-U.S. Council and as a director of the Palm Beach Civic Association. Mr. Finneran formerly served on the national board of Operation Smile in Norfolk, VA, and on the board of trustees at Villanova University. He also served as president of the Colony Beach and Tennis Association and on the board of directors of Covenant House for ten years.