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Stephen Bellotti

stephen bellotti - Chairman

Mr. Bellotti takes a non exec role assisting with the vision, strategy and investment activities of Blue Sky Capital as Chairman of the group. He is Managing Director, Global Financial Markets at ANZ in Sydney and was the Managing Director and Global Head of Capital Markets at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein in London (2004-6). Over the course of 15 years prior to that he managed a number of divisions within Merrill Lynch in nine successive Managing Director positions in Sydney, New York and London. Previously he worked for JP Morgan. In 2000 he started his own property development and investment business - Aspen Blue Sky Holdings - and he has personally invested in and managed real estate projects since the early 1980s. Having spent over 20 years in senior investment banking positions on Wall Street and in the City of London and through his experience in running his own property development and investment business, Mr. Bellotti is a leader of the highest calibre who brings the necessary experience of real estate and capital markets to make high end real estate developments a reality.

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Matthew Spence

Matthew Spence Director, Head of Investments EMEA

Mr. Spence heads up investments across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Mr. Spence has established excellent relationships with leading international real estate developers, resort operators and hotel groups. In the last 10 years he has sourced over US$ 1 billion of real estate investments across the world and has built up a number of strategic relationships with key developers, hotel operators and sales/marketing firms in so doing. Prior to Blue Sky Capital, Mr. Spence was the founder and CEO of K2 Capital, a niche private equity company specialising in residential, resort and hotel real estate. Mr. Spence successfully built up K2 Capital over four years and opened offices in the UK and USA, where he oversaw the implementation, operation and sale of a number of small sized real estate investment vehicles. Mr. Spence has owned and run his own real estate businesses in both the UK and Europe for 12 years and prior to this his career began working through the ranks to a management role in sales and marketing for Imperial Tobacco, Colgate Palmolive and Coca Cola.

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Brooke Peterson

Brooke Peterson / Director, General Counsel & Special Projects

Mr. Peterson oversees Blue Sky Capital’s interest in the Residences at The Little Nell development in Aspen on a day to day basis and is involved in all projects in the USA. He also steers the group on all legal matters as well as the implementation of high end co-ownership developments that group invests in. A former Director in the Aspen law firm of Kaufman & Peterson, Mr. Peterson has specialised in real estate law, entitlements and related business matters in resort communities for 30 years. Having represented Mr. Bellotti for 15 years, Mr. Peterson joined him at Aspen Blue Sky Holdings in 2002, and since then has headed up project management for their US real estate business. Mr. Peterson has overseen the creation of the ownership structure and all sales and marketing efforts for The Residences at The Little Nell. He also established and is the manager of RLN Realty, an independent real estate brokerage operation for the project. Mr. Peterson has been engaged in the residential and commercial development business as a principal for over 20 years. He is a member of the Colorado Bar Foundation, a group of lawyers selected by their peers for their outstanding professionalism and ethical standards. He also holds the highest possible rating from Martindale Hubbell and is rated as one of the outstanding real estate attorneys in the United States.

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Dave Coffin

Dave Coffin / Director, Head Of Investments North America

Mr. Coflin heads up US and North America investments for Blue Sky Capital with his focus being on the financial structuring of all investments in the region. He also overseas debt financing for the group's projects worldwide. Mr. Coflin has served in various executive banking positions in Colorado and the mid-Atlantic region of the US. Prior to Blue Sky Capital, he worked with Mr. Bellotti and Mr. Peterson as a partner at Aspen Blue Sky Holdings since 2004. Prior to this, Mr. Coflin served as Division President of WestStar Bank overseeing all banking activities in the Aspen and Vail markets. He brings more than 20 years of real estate finance experience and 12 years of resort banking experience. His area of expertise is project finance, acquisitions analysis, and asset management.

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James Walker

James Walker / Director, Head Of Investments Asia Pacific

Mr. Walker heads up Blue Sky Capital's investments in Asia Pacific. He is directly involved with the group's capital investment sources, real estate procurement team and sales and marketing team and is responsible for the project management of investments in the region. Mr. Walker previously worked extensively across fund structuring and development within the group and has developed a range of real estate investment vehicles. Prior to Blue Sky Capital, Mr. Walker was the commercial director at K2 Capital, the real estate investment group headed up by Mr. Spence. Before joining K2 Capital, Mr. Walker worked as the real estate business development analyst for Mr. Bellotti at Aspen Blue Sky Holdings in Aspen, USA. Prior to his involvement in real estate, Mr. Walker successfully built up his own business consulting company in London before selling it to a public company in 2001. Mr. Walker started his career in management consultancy with Andersen Consulting (now Accenture).

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Anthony Wild

Anthony Wild / Director, Fund Management & Administration

Mr. Wild heads up accounting, compliance and financial management at Blue Sky Capital and oversees the operation and administration of the group's investment vehicles through their lifecycle. Mr. Wild also manages the day to day financial operations of the group. Mr. Wild joined Blue Sky Capital from K2 Capital where he was the finance director and headed up the financial implementation, accounting, auditing and financial reporting for all the group's real estate investment vehicles. Prior to this, Mr. Wild was at Umbro Plc where he was responsible for internal and external financial planning. Whilst at Umbro, Mr. Wild was heavily involved in their successful flotation on the London Stock Exchange. He also worked closely with a private equity bid for this public company. Mr. Wild completed his financial training at KPMG, one of the world's top four accountancy firms where he gained his Chartered Accountancy qualifications.

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Gunnar Sachs

Gunnar Sachs / Director, Investment & Business Development

Mr. Sachs is responsible for business development as well as institutional fund raising at Blue Sky Capital. As part of this role Mr. Sachs is involved in the analysis of both existing and potential deals that are being assessed. He joined Blue Sky Capital from Colorado, where he completed his extensive MBA studies with honors, while having simultaneously built up a successful business in Aspen. Mr. Sachs has eleven years experience working for Galaxar, a private family office, as the Head Financial Asset Manager. In this role he completed several large commercial real estate purchase and sale negotiations as well as making both direct investments and managing a large portfolio of Private Equity, Venture Capital and Hedge funds.

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Matteo Sanguinetti

Matteo Sanguinetti / Director, Special Projects

Mr. Sanguineti is responsible for early stage and special projects at Blue Sky Capital. He also oversees risk management and financial analysis relating to Blue Sky Capital's investments. After having spent more than two years as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company in Italy, Mr. Sanguineti earned his MBA degree at the London Business School, where he majored in finance. Prior to joining McKinsey, Mr. Sanguineti was a managing partner in a small information and communication technology company. During his consulting career Mr. Sanguineti built a broad and diversified curriculum, contributing to the success of multiple projects and matured significant expertise in financial modelling and analysis. Mr. Sanguineti initially qualified with a Master Degree with honours in Engineering from the University of Genoa.

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Dalit Nuttall

Dalit Nuttall / Advisor, Investment & Business Development

Mrs. Nuttall advises on institutional fund raising and works closely with Blue Sky Capital's strategic partners and investor base. She brings over 13 years of extensive institutional investment and fundraising experience to the Blue Sky Capital management team. Prior to Blue Sky Capital, Mrs. Nuttall worked for Wachovia Securities as MD, Head of Fixed Income and Alternative Investment Distribution to Europe and the Middle East. She built a successful sales force that sold fixed income securities and structured products backed by cash flows from corporate loans, real estate loans, asset backed securities, private equity and hedge funds to institutional investors in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to this role, Mrs. Nuttall worked at Merrill Lynch where she headed up the Nordic Strategic Credit Solutions desk when she also worked closely with the private equity sales force on Joint Venture projects. Mrs. Nuttall began her career in finance at Morgan Stanley within the derivative solutions and credit sales area.

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