Dean Haskell

DEAN HASKELL joined JMP Securities LLC in April 2003 as a Director and
Senior Analyst covering the restaurant sector. He has more than 17 years
of operational, financial and executive restaurant business experience.
From 1999 to 2002, Mr. Haskell served as President and Chief Executive
Officer at Real American Restaurants (RAR), a multi-concept restaurant
company based in Northern California. He succeeded in turning around the
struggling company, making it profitable within three years by focusing
on unit level operations, asset/liability restructuring and reductions
in G&A expenses. Before joining RAR, Mr. Haskell served as Senior Vice
President and Equity Analyst at First Union Securities for five years,
covering the restaurant industry. Prior to that, he served three years
as the assistant analyst at Morgan Keegan. Mr. Haskell received an MBA
in Finance from the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt
University, Tennessee, and a BBA in Finance and Economics from Kennesaw
State College, Georgia. He has been quoted in The Wall Street Journal,
Barron’s, Reuters, Fortune, Forbes, The New York Times, The Wall Street
Transcript, Nation’s Restaurant News, etc., as well as seen on CNBC’s
Kudlow and Cramer, CNN, CNNfn, Canadian Broadcasting Company and the
Nightly Business Report.