Richard F. Allen has more than 30 years of experience as an investment banker in New York, London and Toronto. Prior to joining de Visscher & Co. in 1998, he was a managing director and head of the Merger and Acquisition Group with Toronto Dominion Bank (U.S.) following the purchase by the bank of Lancaster Financial, a private investment bank where, from 1990, he was president of the U.S. operations. Previously, he was a senior vice president at Dillon Read, an executive director at Credit Suisse First Boston and a director at Wood Gundy where he was also president of its U.S. subsidiary. He is a Partner in Family Capital Growth Partners, a private equity fund focused on making minority and majority equity investments in family-owned and closely held companies and is on the board of Blessing White and Olympia Chimney Supply, two of its investments. Mr. Allen holds a Bachelor of Commerce honors degree from McGill University and an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

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