The Team

José Blanco brings over 26 years of experience in product management, operations, financial management, and direct investments to The Central Valley Fund. Formerly, Mr. Blanco served as a Regional Vice President and Chief Investment Officer at AIG Investment Corporation (AIGIC). Mr. Blanco has supervised direct investments into a variety of financial services businesses over the last 20 years, including mortgage lenders, foreign exchange broker-dealers, securities dealers, and asset management and leasing companies.

Dan Jessee has over 15 years of private equity investment and fund management experience, most of which is directly related to the types of investments that the Fund proposes to make. Mr. Jessee was a Principal with Stonehenge Partners. Stonehenge currently manages $475 million in committed private mezzanine and equity capital. Formerly, Mr.

Ed McNulty has over 27 years of corporate finance, investment, turnaround, and general advisory experience. He has held various senior level positions in merchant and investment banking at the Chase Manhattan Bank. While there, Mr.

Brad Triebsch has more than a 20-year record of proven entrepreneurial ability in taking companies from concept to profitability. Most recently, Mr. Triebsch served as a public finance investment banker for Westhoff, Cone and Holmstedt. Previously, Mr. Triebsch worked with former Los Angeles Dodger personnel on a successful turn around for a sports medicine company. Prior to that, Mr.

Brian Woodall is an Associate with the Central Valley Fund and is based in Davis. Mr. Woodall has over 10 years of experience in financial analysis, institutional investing, consulting, and entrepreneurship.

Nick Rich has over six years of experience in the area of investment research and analysis. Prior to joining the Central Valley Fund, Mr. Rich was a sell-side fixed income analyst for a small brokerage firm, Morgan Peabody, based in Los Angeles.

Bill Henderson has over 30 years of commercial banking experience, with a strong focus on middle market lending/credit in the California Central Valley. After 3 years at Union Bank, he became a commercial loan officer at Wells Fargo Bank and advanced to Executive Vice President and Division Head in the Central Valley. Headquartered in Fresno, he was responsible for all regional commercial banking offices, covering territory from Bakersfield to the Oregon border, Sonoma, Napa and Imperial counties. In 1997, Mr. Henderson assumed the additional territories of Arizona, Nevada and Utah.

Mark Burrell

Mark Burrell is a 25 year resident of Bakersfield. He came to Bakersfield to serve as the CEO for Farm Credit and then founded the Westmark Group in Bakersfield in 1988. The Westmark Group is a consulting and asset management firm with a broad specialization in agriculture and agribusiness.