Executive Team

Chris Clark is the President and CEO of eMag Solutions, LLC. Chris is a results-driven executive with over 18 years in the conception, design, development, deployment, and sales of supply chain solutions. As a co-founder of the firm Procuri, his vision and leadership drove the development of on-demand solutions for this leading provider of on-demand supply management solutions. Earlier in his career, while at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Kurt Salmon Associates (KSA), Mr. Clark led numerous projects to implement supply chain solutions within global firms, such as Ralston, Home Depot and Jockey International. Mr. Clark graduated Magna Cum Laude with honors from the University of Missouri, with a Bachelor of Science in Economics and a Math minor.

As Chief Sales & Marketing Manager, Jim Burns is responsible for overseeing all of the company's service centers in the US and for directing the development team worldwide. He brings more than 25 years experience in information management, technology operations and executive leadership.

Before joining eMag, Jim spent 17 years in the National Intelligence Community, 3 years in the technology sector and the last 7 years as an executive leader in the legal technology space. He has been responsible for building commercial legal document repositories, electronic discovery processing systems, product management, sales and business development within the legal market. Most recently he was CTO for an electronic discovery service provider.

Jim received his bachelor's degrees in management of information systems from the University of Maryland, Europe.

As Managing Director for the European arm of eMag Solutions, Mike Davies is responsible for the overall business performance of eMag Solutions in Europe. He has been with eMag for the past 18 years and was named Managing Director of the UK's subsidiary in January 2007.

Previous positions held within eMag Solutions have included technical director, research and development director, process engineering and product management. Achievements have included the development of high capacity data cartridges, implementation of novel manufacturing techniques and the successful implementation of externally moderated quality systems. Mike has over 20 years experience in data interchange technologies coupled with a deep understanding of the different industry methodologies for the storage, backup and archive of corporate data.

Mike graduated in electronics engineering from Cardiff (Wales) and holds a master's of business administration from Durham University (England).

Ms. Tilton serves as Chief Executive Officer and sole Principal of Patriarch Partners, LLC and its affiliated entities ("Patriarch"), a private equity firm managing $7 billion in assets. Ms. Tilton is well recognized by TV and print media alike for her modern day industrialist efforts to rebuild America. Her labors, since the founding of Patriarch have saved over 200,000 jobs and more than 100 companies from liquidation. In 2009, she was honored with the prestigious Turnaround Atlas Leadership Achievement Award for her work in distressed investing.

Ms. Tilton has dedicated herself to being an advocate for rebuilding America's manufacturing base and a voice for small and middle-market enterprises (SMEs) and their employees. Concerned about the dearth of lending to SMEs, Ms. Tilton has proposed a public-private investment program to encourage lending to these companies. Ms. Tilton's SME Rescue Loans plan (www.smerescueloans.com), will save hundreds of thousands of jobs while helping to rebuild America's industrial base.

Ms. Tilton's career spans 28 years and encompasses private equity, distressed asset management, financial engineering, high yield loan sales and trading, investment banking and senior management. In addition to her role at Patriarch, Ms. Tilton currently serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MD Helicopters Inc., a leading manufacturer of commercial and military aircraft.

Ms. Tilton founded Patriarch Partners to develop innovative financial solutions and to manage and monetize the distressed portfolios of financial institutions. The platform later evolved toward fund investments focused primarily upon the acquisition of companies undergoing pervasive change and loan origination to those same companies.

Under Ms. Tilton's leadership, Patriarch has positioned itself as a proactive partner to companies during periods of operational, industrial and economic transformation. Patriarch provides liquidity, time and strategic support, frequently saving US companies and US jobs. Patriarch inspires management teams to rebuild, using creative structural solutions and add-on investments in order to enhance companies' long-term values.

Prior to founding Patriarch Partners, Ms. Tilton was an executive at Long Drive Management Trust ("LDMT"), a special situations investment fund and Executive Managing Director of Papillon Partners, Inc., a firm which she founded to offer customized research, valuation and execution services to sellers of bank loans and high yield bonds. Ms. Tilton began her career at Morgan Stanley in 1981. She also worked for Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Merrill Lynch as an investment banker until 1989.

Ms. Tilton earned a B.A. in American Studies from Yale University and an MBA in Finance from Columbia University.