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Mark Salter is the Founder and CEO of NCCP.  Mark has more than 25 years of investment banking experience, having financed and advised some of the world’s largest cybersecurity, digital media, and software companies.  Mark is also Founder and Managing Partner of El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in home services, outsourced services, SaaS software and cybersecurity companies.

Previously, Mark worked as Head of Investment Banking at Wedbush Securities, a nationally recognized investment bank, where he also served on the executive management committee and investment commitment committee.  Prior to that, Mark worked as a senior technology investment banker at Robertson Stephens, a global investment banking and asset management firm.  Mark has been twice-recognized as Most Influential in LA Finance by the Los Angeles Business Journal.

Mark received a BA in Engineering Sciences, cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and a BSEE from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College.  Mark received an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Scott Jenkins is President and Head of Investment Banking at NCCP.  He has more than 25 years of investment banking, private equity and equity research experience, having completed many corporate finance transactions, including public and private equity and debt financings, M&A advisory assignments and direct investments.  Scott is also a Partner at El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in home services, outsourced services, SaaS software and cybersecurity companies.

Previously, Scott was a technology investment banker at CIBC World Markets (Oppenheimer), a leading investment bank in the U.S. and Canada, and was an investment professional at Laurus Capital Management, a New York-based private equity firm.  Prior to that, Scott was an equity research analyst at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

Scott received a BBA in Finance from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia and an MBA from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Steve Loring is a Senior Advisor at NCCP and is a corporate development executive with more than 30 years experience as a financial and operational advisor to leading investment banking, private equity and research firms such as Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Gartner, Insight Partners and Temasek, among others. Also, Steve is an Operating Partner at El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in home services, outsourced services, SaaS software and cybersecurity companies.

Steve has led technical and operational due diligence for market leaders, including Microsoft’s acquisitions of Nokia, Skype and aQuantive, HP’s acquisitions of Compaq, 3PAR, Agilent and Network Equipment, Convergys’ acquisition of Apropos, Insight Partners’ acquisition of Recorded Future, and Temasek’s acquisition of Sygnia. In addition, Steve founded and was President of L&N Technologies, which exited to Siemens.

Steve received a BSEE in Computer Science from the University of California, Davis, and currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Pepperdine University.

Eric Helgeland is a Senior Advisor at NCCP and is a commercial banking and marketing executive with more than 40 years of experience as an operational, growth marketing, strategy, and M&A professional.  Also, Eric is the co-founder of two neobank startups and is an Operating Partner at El Toro Capital Management, a Santa Monica-based private equity firm focused on investing in outsourced and digital marketing services, cybersecurity and software companies.

Within financial services he has held senior executive positions in treasury management and payments, consumer banking, consumer finance, and money services businesses at JP Morgan Chase, Bank of America, HSBC, and SpeedyCash.  As a financial services consultant and advisor, he has served 12 of top 20 U.S. banks, numerous regional banks, investment banks, bank processors, government agencies, and corporate clients.  Within outsourced and digital marketing services, he led new business development for Fingerhut/Macy’s, one of the 25 largest credit card issuers in the U.S., having successfully acquired 11 companies, and advised Aptimus (NASDAQ: APTM) in the sale of the company.

Eric received a BA in Economics, with a minor in Industrial Engineering, from Northwestern University.