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Carl W. Hulick is a former Senior Vice President in the Los Angeles office of Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Inc. He was in the investment business with the same firm from1962 until his retirement in June 2002. He received his A.B. from Stanford University in 1956 and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School in 1962. He was a United States Navy officer on active duty in the Western Pacific region from 1956 to 1960.

During his career with Dean Witter, Carl spent the first eight years as an investment broker. He served the firm in management roles for the next twenty-nine years. At the time of the 1981 merger with Sears, Roebuck & Co., he was Executive Vice President and Director of National Marketing and was instrumental innovating the marketing of financial services in a retail environment. He was the manager of the firm's largest offices in Southern California, respectively Beverly Hills and Los Angeles. In that capacity, he recruited, trained and supervised several hundred Financial Consultants and the firm’s market share in Beverly Hills/Los Angeles more than doubled. Carl has been instrumental in the development and subsequent promotion of many people to senior management roles.

He is former Chairman of the Board of the Hillsides Home for Children and currently serves on the finance committee. He is a member of Stanford Associates, Hoover Institution Harvard Business School Association, and Associates of the Huntington Library and Gardens. He is a venture capital investor and has participated in various start-up or new businesses over the past twenty years. Carl is a founding board member of Bistro 45, a California/French gourmet restaurant in Pasadena, CA. The establishment has been successful for seventeen years and is currently noted by critics as a top destination both locally and nationally. He is a founding shareholder and member of the advisory board of Professional Business Bank. He is also an active member of Pasadena Angels.

During his eight-year tenure as Treasurer and/or Chairman of Hillsides, a strategic plan and capital campaign were implemented raising approximately $8 million. The funds were used to build new housing facilities for the children and a Learning Center. These major improvements were the first in over seventy-five years. He rejoined the Hillsides Board in 2006.

Thomas W. Hulick co-founded Tomahawk Partners in 2006 with Mark Ross as an outside investor with a passive ownership in the venture. He currently holds the position of Vice President / Private Client Advisor with Citizens Trust in Pasadena, California. From 2004 though 2007 he served as a Senior Vice President of Investments for UBS Wealth Management in Los Angeles, California. With demonstrated experience in the ultra high net worth marketplace, he offers advanced knowledge of comprehensive investments, credit, tax and estate planning, and private banking.

From 2002 to 2004, Tom worked for Bank of America Private Bank as a Senior Vice President-Private Client Advisor. During 1995 to 2002, he served as Senior Consultant and Associate Vice President for Morgan Stanley, Inc. At Morgan Stanley he developed and executed comprehensive wealth management strategies for high net-worth individuals, family groups, and foundations. From 1993 to 1995, Tom directed the day-to-day operations of Citibank’s San Gabriel Valley commercial loan portfolio and business deposit base for the Rowland Heights office. He began his career in banking with Wells Fargo in 1991 as a Business Banking Officer.

Tom holds an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (1996) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Tulane University (1989). He is also a graduate of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Aresty Institute of Executive Education, Senior Consultant’s Program, through which he received the designation of Certified Investment Management Analyst. In 1985, Tom graduated from Blair Academy Prep School in Blairstown, New Jersey. In addition, he holds a Series 7, 31, 63, 65, advanced options, and California insurance license.

Tom is the President of the Neighborhood Youth Association Board of Directors, which has served underprivileged children in the Venice and Mar Vista communities for 100 years. NYA is backed by the Los Angeles Episcopal Diocese. Tom was one of the founding members of the Hillsides Home for Children, Young Professional Group. He also served on the Blair Academy board of trustees from 1996 to 2002. In his spare time Tom is an active age group Triathlete. Tom and his family are active members of St. Edmunds Episcopal church in San Marino.

Jonathan S. Ross joined Tomahawk Partners in May 2007. He draws upon more than twelve years of comprehensive experience in project management, creative content development, marketing, and strategic business development within the Media / Entertainment, Technology and Lifestyle / Recreational industries. Since 2001 Jonathan has performed consulting assignments for a wide variety of clients in various industry verticals, founding Black Rock Consulting, a boutique business and communications consultancy, in 2003 to facilitate this work.

Prior to launching Black Rock Consulting, Jonathan served as Director of Digital Strategy for iFUSE, an original content provider targeted at 16-24 year-olds, where he was responsible for establishing the company’s production and creative departments and overseeing the launch of the company’s Web site before transitioning to a strategic development role. Previous to iFUSE, Jonathan held the position of Project Manager/Producer at Web consultancy iXL, where he oversaw the full life cycle development of Web sites and DVD menu interfaces for such clients as Knowledge Kids Network, Rioport.com, Warner Home Video, Disney and UCLA. Earlier in his career, Jonathan also worked in creative development, production and administrative capacities for Trilogy Entertainment, New Line Cinema and The Mount Film Group, among others.

Jonathan is an award-winning writer and is certified as an Instructor of Krav Maga (Israeli self-defense), currently affiliated with the International Krav-Maga Federation under the leadership of Eyal Yanilov. He is currently a student and instructor-in-training of Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu under Sifu Eric Oram, the highest ranking U.S. Instructor of Grandmaster William Cheung.

He earned an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinema-Television and a BA in Political Science and English from Duke University, where his regrettably prescient senior year graduate-level thesis (1992) focused on counter-insurgency operations and domestic counter-terrorism.

Mark R. Ross possesses over 30 years of hands-on experience, both as an entrepreneur and as a banker, leading companies to unprecedented growth. He is the current Vice-Chairman of Autobytel, Inc. [NASDAQ: "ABTL"], where he also serves as a member of the Board's Audit Committee and serves as a Managing Director of Mosaic Capital, LLC. He was also the founding investor and senior board member of AutoWeb [NASDAQ: "AWEB"], and spearheaded its merger in 2001 with Autobytel.

In 2001, Mark founded Cogito Capital, a corporate advisory company working with rapidly growing, emerging technology companies on their scalability, infrastructure and media/convergence strategies. Mark was also a Managing Partner of Westmont Capital LLC, a private equity firm dedicated to investing in the real time computing, business process management and web services sectors of information technology.

He was a Managing Director of Chatsworth Securities from 1997 until 2006, when he joined Mosaic Capital as a Managing Director. While at Chatsworth, he was the senior banker and advisor on over 25 transactions, with a combined value of over $500 million. Mark also served on the boards of advisors of many of these early stage growth companies, such as iCastle.com, Salon, Inc. [NASDAQ: "SALNC"], MoreDirect, Inc. and Mediaplex, Inc. [NASDAQ: "MPLX"].

As Founder (1983) and Chairman of On Word Information, a pioneering database/imaging company, he worked with such Fortune 500 companies as Motorola, Hewlett Packard, PACCAR and The World Bank. In 1995 Mark sold On Word to Motorola.

Mark received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA and pursued his graduate studies in education at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, MA and at Hofstra University in Hempstead, NY. He holds a Permanent Teacher's Credential for the State of New York as well as his NASD Series 7 and Series 63 licenses.

Mark, along with investor Thomas Hulick, a private wealth manager, co-founded Tomahawk Partners in 2006.