Mr. Hart is a highly seasoned executive with 30 years of diverse management experience in the industrial and specialty chemical industry. Although Mr. Hart has spent the majority of his career working in all key functional areas within large chemical companies (see Executive Profiles - John F. Hart), in early 2005 he acquired his own company (Chemtech Services, Inc.). Chemtech designs and manufactures chemical distillation systems and equipment, as well as providing contract distillation / recycling / chemical processing services at its manufacturing location in Joliet, Illinois. In addition to Mr. Hart's extensive contacts and relationships within the chemical industry, Mr. Toth also has a significant number of business relationships with owners of privately held middle-market companies in the chemical industry.

By leveraging Mr. Hart's and Mr. Toth's overlapping and complementary experience – and their combined base of chemical industry contacts – CAS brings unusual value to its chemical industry clients, including:

• Thirty years of technical knowledge and management experience within the chemical industry;
• A wealth of executive level chemical industry contacts that can open many doors;
• True middle-market M&A/investment banking capabilities with 30 years of experience in arranging complex corporate finance or acquisition / business sale transactions;
• Broad experience in structuring strategic alliances, licensing agreements, joint ventures and other creative business arrangements.

CAS truly understands both the M&A / corporate finance business and the industrial / specialty chemical industry. We are uniquely positioned to provide the highest level of investment banking service available specifically directed toward the chemical industry middle market.