Laurence S. Levy - Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Levy has been our chairman of the board, president and Chief Executive Officer since October 2002.  In June 1986, Mr. Levy co-founded Hyde Park Holdings, Inc., a private investment firm specializing in leveraged buyouts and has been its chairman of the board since that date.  In March 1991, Hyde Park acquired Warehouse Associates L.P., a private logistics provider, and Mr. Levy has served as its chairman of the board since that time.  In January 1997, Hyde Park acquired Detroit & Canada Tunnel Corporation, a publicly traded company that operates the toll tunnel between Detroit and Windsor, Canada, in partnership with John Hancock Financial.  Mr. Levy served as its chairman of the board until January 2001 when the company was sold at a significant gain.  In April 1999, Hyde Park and John Hancock Financial established PFI Resource Management LP and Mr. Levy has served as its manager since that date.  PFI Resource Management is an investor in the Private Funding Initiative program in the United Kingdom which is privatizing state infrastructure assets and has acquired over $1 billion of assets.  In October 1999, Hyde Park in partnership with Credit Suisse, formed a predecessor of Ozburn-Hessey Logistics, LLC and built the company by closing seven acquisitions.  Since that time, Mr. Levy has served as a director of Ozburn-Hessey Logistics which is an independent logistics company operating over 33 million square feet of warehousing and is one of the largest independently owned logistics companies in the United States.  In January 2000, Hyde Park in partnership with John Hancock Financial, acquired Derby Industries LLC, a leading sub-assembler to the appliance industry.  Since that time, Mr. Levy has served as chairman of the board of Derby Industries LLC.  During 2005, Hyde Park acquired John Hancock’s interest in Derby. In November 2004, Mr. Levy formed Rand Acquisition Corporation, a publicly listed vehicle, in which he raised $24 million. In March 2006 Rand acquired a shipping company on the Great Lakes. Rand has made two additional acquisitions since that time and is the dominant provider of River Class shipping on the Great Lakes. In March 2007, Mr. Levy raised $100 million of equity in a new publicly listed company named Hyde Park Acquisition Corporation. Hyde Park acquired Essex Crane Rental Corp., the leading owner and renter of crawler cranes in the United States for $210 million. Mr. Levy joined the board of Sunbelt Holding, Inc., a leading distributor of fine wines and spirits, in March 2010. 

Mr. Levy received a Bachelor of Commerce degree and a Bachelor of Accountancy degree from the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, and an M.B.A. from Harvard University and where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.  He is also a Chartered Accountant (South Africa).