Eb LeMaster

Managing Director Ponder & Co. 10 Cadillac Drive, Suite 440 Brentwood, TN 37027 Telephone: 615-690-5540 Facsimile: 615-613-0217

Mr. LeMaster has over 16 years of investment banking and corporate development experience. His corporate finance experience includes over 50 merger and acquisition transactions, public equity and debt offerings, and private placements totaling over $3 billion.

Prior to joining Ponder & Co., he was Vice President of Development for Ardent Health Services, a hospital management company with 12 acute care hospitals and over 2,100 beds. Ardent was also one of the largest providers of inpatient behavioral services with 20 hospitals and approximately 2,000 beds prior to the sale of the division in July 2005. At Ardent, he focused on acute care and behavioral acquisitions, worked extensively on the development of a physician joint venture hospital and the consolidation of two hospitals, and the purchase, sale and development of medical office buildings. Before joining Ardent, he spent eight years in investment banking most recently as a director with Robert W. Baird & Co. He focused on M&A transactions, public equity and debt offerings and private placements.

Mr. LeMaster holds Bachelors and MBA degrees from Vanderbilt University.

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