Andina Group (fka AAUI)

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Andrew B. Scherr has served as the Company’s Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and as a director since March 24, 2011 and has over 15 years of experience leading transactions as an investment banker, attorney, and structured solutions specialist. Since June 2010, Mr. Scherr has served as Chief Financial Officer of Foster Jennings, Inc., a financial services firm and the controlling stockholder of the Company. From February 2008 until January 2011, Mr. Scherr served as Executive Director, Head of Fund Derivatives-Americas, for Nomura Securities International and was responsible for Nomura’s structured fund products efforts in the Americas. From February 2006 until February 2008, Mr. Scherr was Director, Co-Head of Fund Derivatives structuring for Fortis Fund Solutions, and was responsible for building the structured products platform catering to the alternative investment industry for Fortis in the Americas. Earlier in his career, Mr. Scherr participated in a number of significant capital transactions and advised on numerous mergers, acquisitions and restructurings as an investment banker at Deutsche Bank and Salomon Smith Barney. Mr. Scherr also has experience in venture capital, management consulting and corporate law. Mr. Scherr holds degrees from The Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland and Yale University.




Scott W. Hartman has served as the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and President since March 24, 2011. Mr. Hartman has over 20 years experience in business and financial service industries. Mr. Hartman is a co-founder of Foster Jennings, Inc. a financial services firm and the controlling stockholder of the Company and has acted as its Chief Executive Officer since its inception in June of 2010. In 2004, Mr. Hartman co-founded and continues to serve as Managing Director of SeaView Mezzanine Fund, LP, a private equity fund based in New York City, that invests in profitable and established small and mid-size businesses. From August 2005 until July 2006, Mr. Hartman served as Chief Executive Officer and Director at WQN, Inc., a publicly traded online long distance calling service provider. From September 1994 to November 2003, Mr. Hartman co-founded and acted as Managing Director of Unique Partners, a leveraged buyout firm, based in Southern California. Mr. Hartman, as Chairman of the Board, led Hawker Pacific Aerospace, a Unique Partners portfolio company and an aviation services provider, through its NASDAQ public offering in 1996. From 1991 until 1993, Mr. Hartman was Chief Executive Officer and President of Nucor World Industries, a privately held investment firm that specialized in acquiring small businesses. From 1989 until 1991, Mr. Hartman was Vice President of Business Development of City National Bank. Prior thereto he worked in various executive positions for Emerson Power Transmission, a division of Emerson Electric Company, a Fortune 500 company, from 1987 until 1989. Currently, Mr. Hartman sits on the Boards of Directors of Genutec Business Solutions, Inc., a business to business technology provider, Symco Group, Inc., a service and hardware/software provider for imaging solutions to the financial services industry and the Greater New York American Diabetes Foundation. Mr. Hartman has a Bachelor of Science degree in Marketing from Indiana University.


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