KPMG Corporate Finance LLC Names Jon Doehr as a Director in its Investment Banking Team

October 16, 2006

KPMG Corporate Finance LLC Welcomes Jon Doehr

Jon Doehr has joined KPMG Corporate Finance LLC’s Minneapolis, Minnesota office as a Director in its Investment Banking Team.  Mr. Doehr will work with Peter Gill, Managing Director and Head of the Financial Services Sector Group, and be responsible for providing corporate finance services to financial services companies. These services include providing advice regarding mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, buy-outs, financings, restructurings, fairness opinions, and other corporate initiatives.

Mr. Doehr has more than 15 years of corporate finance experience, including significant transaction experience in the financial services industry. Transactional experience includes sell-side advisory, buy-side advisory, strategic alternatives analysis, and fairness opinion and valuation engagements for publicly and privately held entities.  Prior to joining KPMG Corporate Finance LLC, Mr. Doehr was a Principal in the investment banking group of Manchester Companies, Inc. where he led the mergers and acquisitions group for four years.  Prior to Manchester, he gained additional investment banking experience at Greene, Holcomb & Fisher.  Mr. Doehr has also worked for 3M Company, Coopers & Lybrand and Merrill Lynch.

Mr. Doehr holds an MBA degree from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a BA degree from Colby College.

About KPMG Corporate Finance LLC

KPMG Corporate Finance LLC is a leading financial adviser serving domestic and international clients. KPMG Corporate Finance offers a full suite of investment banking and advisory services and the experience and depth of knowledge in global M&A and project finance to advise clients on mergers and acquisitions, sales and divestitures, buy-outs, financings, restructurings, fairness opinions, infrastructure project finance and other advisory initiatives. Operating in 52 countries, KPMG's Corporate Finance practice comprises more than 1,600 professionals who are able to meet the needs of KPMG's firms’ clients across the globe. In 2005, KPMG's Corporate Finance practice was ranked the number one financial adviser for completing the highest number of transactions globally (429 deals totaling US$40.3 billion), according to Thomson Financial’s global M&A league tables, and in 2006 it was named global financial advisor of the year by Infrastructure Journal.

Contact Information:
Jon Doehr
Director
KPMG Corporate Finance LLC
4200 Wells Fargo Center
90 South Seventh Street
Minneapolis, MN  55402

Tel: 612.305.5941
Fax: 612.465.3507
Cell: 612.810.7311
jdoehr@kpmg.com
www.kpmgcorporatefinance.com