Francis P. Jenkins, Jr., Managing Partner: Francis Jenkins, Jr. is a Managing Partner at Shermen Group. Francis served as the Chairman of the Board and CEO of Royster-Clark, Inc. from 1994 to 2006, and from 1988 until 1994 Mr. Jenkins served in various capacities on the Board of Royster-Clark. From 1979 to 1988, Mr. Jenkins was employed by The First Boston Corporation where he was one of the four members of the Executive Committee, co-managed First Boston's Equity Capital Investments and was the Principal Financial Officer. Prior to that position, Mr. Jenkins held positions as a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee at First Boston. Mr. Jenkins currently serves on the Board of Trustees of his alma-mater, Babson College.

G. Kenneth Moshenek, Senior Partner: Ken Moshenek serves as a Senior Partner at Shermen Group. Mr. Moshenek served as the President and COO of Royster-Clark, Inc. from 1997 to 2006. Prior to that Ken held various positions at Royster-Clark, including Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Vice President and Divisional Sales Manager and Division Manager. Ken has been in the agriculture business since 1976. He formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Fertilizer Institute and was a member of the Board's Executive Committee and served as chairman of the distributor's council. He also formerly served on the Board of Directors of the Agricultural Retailers Association, the Foundation of Agronomic Research and the Fertilizer Roundtable.

Francis P. Jenkins III, Partner: Francis Jenkins, III founded Shermen Group in 2005 primarily as a real estate development firm and cultivated that group to manage more than 500,000 s.f. of projects with offices in Boston and Orlando. The group expanded into agricultural investing when Francis P. Jenkins, Jr. joined in 2006. Prior to that, Francis worked as a Vice President at Lexin Capital in New York and as a Director of Business Development of Leggat McCall in Boston. He received his MBA from the University of London with a Bachelors Degree from Suffolk University. Currently he resides in Rye, New York with his wife of 11 years and 2 daughters.

Jason E. B. Miller, Partner: Jason Miller joined Shermen Group as a Partner after seventeen years on Wall Street. Jason has significant experience in equity and debt financings, private placements, and hedge fund and private equity coverage. Most recently, Jason was Managing Director in the Global Markets group at Banc of America, responsible for Senior Relationship Management with the firm's top hedge fund clients. Prior to joining Banc of America Jason worked at Credit Suisse as a Senior Relationship manager for Hedge Funds and Asset Managers. Jason also led the West Coast International Equity Distribution for Credit Suisse and Morgan Stanley based in San Francisco. Jason began his career at Citigroup. He is a graduate of Riverdale Country School and Hobart College and is married with two daughters.

Scott Aden, Vice President of Real Estate Development: Scott. Aden has been involved in many different facets of commercial real estate for the past two years. Previously residing in Fort Lauderdale, he worked for one of the nation’s top retail real estate developers as a project manager. Now with the Shermen Group, he works out of the New York office and facilitates construction, financing and leasing. Scott holds degrees in Industrial Engineering, Finance and a Masters of Construction Management.

Andrew Kriss, Analyst: Andrew joined the Shermen Group in 2009 as an analyst. Before joining the Shermen he worked for 6 year in many facets of the commercial real industry from development and leasing, to construction management.