BIOS/ MANAGEMENT
W. Clayton Stephens
CEO, Warren Capital Corporation and Executive Vice President, Wood,
Warren & Co.
W. Clayton Stephens is the founder of Warren Capital Corporation and
presently serves as the President and Director of the firm. Prior to
founding Warren Capital Corporation, Mr. Stephens held various senior
executive positions with Wheelabrator Frye, Inc. (a Fortune 500 public
company) from 1972 to 1984, including Corporate Vice President and Treasurer
as well as President of the finance subsidiary, Wheelabrator Financial
Corporation (Signal Capital Corporation). His last position at Wheelabrator
Frye was that of President and CEO of Trailmobile Finance Company, a
Wheelabrator subsidiary with total loans and leases in excess of $300
million. From 1969 to 1972, Mr. Stephens was a Corporate Vice President
of Genway Corporation, a major transportation leasing company and a
founding investor in Warren Capital Corporation. Mr. Stephens started
his business career in the management training program at Chase Manhattan
Bank where he advanced to a Second Vice President in commercial lending.
Mr. Stephens' specialty fields include: corporate and project finance,
asset based lending and equipment financing. Mr. Stephens is a graduate
of the University of Notre Dame with a degree in Economics, and also
holds an MBA in Finance from Stanford University. He is a member of
the Advisory Board of Sonoma State University Graduate Business School
and Sonoma National Bank. Mr. Stephens is a former Chairman of the Lessors
Committee of the UAEL (United Association of Equipment Lessors) and
a frequent speaker at their conferences and seminars.
J. Roger Wood
President, Wood, Warren & Co. and Executive Vice President, Warren
Capital Corporation
Mr. Wood has spent 25 years in investment banking and corporate finance.
His experience includes completion of a wide variety of investment banking
transactions including public and private equity and debt offerings,
initial public offerings, merger and acquisitions transactions and corporate
advisory assignments. Mr. Wood has advised companies ranging from those
in the start-up phase to some of the largest domestic based corporations.
During his career, Mr. Wood has been a senior participant in over $6
billion of equity and initial public offerings, over $3 billion of debt
financings, and over $4 billion in merger and acquisition transactions.
Prior to investing in Warren Capital Corporation and forming Wood, Warren
& Co., he was a Managing Director of Shearson Lehman Brothers, Inc.
from 1986 to 1990 where he was in charge of the San Francisco regional
office and had responsibility for the firm's corporate finance activities
in Northern California, the Pacific Northwest, and the Mountain States.
From 1978 to 1986, he was Vice President and Shareholder at Kidder,
Peabody & Company in charge of the firm's corporate finance group
in the West Coast area. From 1969 to 1978, Mr. Wood was Vice President
of Dean Witter Reynolds, Inc. in New York City. Mr. Wood served as an
aviation officer in the U.S. Navy during the Vietnam War. He is a graduate
of the University of Utah and holds an MBA from New York University.
Ted Levinson
Assistant Vice President of Operations, Warren Capital Corporation
Mr. Levinson is Assistant Vice President at Warren Capital Corporation.
He is responsible for operations, credit, debt placement and broker
funding programs. He is on the Board of Directors of SofTECH, a regional
trade association for the software and high-technology industries. In
1992 he received a Younger Scholars' Grant for the National Endowment
for the Humanities. Mr. Levinson is a graduate of Tufts University with
a degree in Economics.