First Mariner Bancorp (fka FMARQ)

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First Mariner investors: A look at their Baltimore roots.

The investment group that plans to buy First Mariner Bank and invest $100 million to recapitalize it includes a number of investors with Baltimore ties.

They include:

• Howard Feinglass, a Baltimore native and Gilman School graduate, who runs Priam Capital, a New York hedge fund:

• Boris Gutin, managing director of GCP Capital Partners. Gutin grew up in the Baltimore area and is a Johns Hopkins University graduate;

• Jennifer W. Reynolds, director of commercial real estate for Ward Properties. Reynolds is former vice chair and chief investment officer at Legg Mason Trust, and immediate past chair of the National Aquarium in Baltimore;

• James T. Dresher, CEO and principal of Skye Hospitality LLC, and chairman of the board of trustees at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center; and

• Josh E. Fidler, co-chairman and chief operating officer of Chesapeake Realty Partners and president of Chesapeake Realty Management Inc.

Other investors include:

• Patriot Financial Partners, a Philadelphia-based private equity fund that focuses on investing in community banks; and

• TFO Financial Institutions Restructuring Fund LLC





http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/news/2014/02/10/first-mariner-investors-a-look-at.html