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  Mr. Howard Kaplan is Chairman of EBS, Inc. He holds a Juris Doctorate from Wayne State University Law School. He has a broad experience in real estate finance, site investment analysis, and commercial property income and expense analysis. Mr. Kaplan has successfully negotiated the acquisitions of commercial properties and institutional commercial loans throughout the United States for over 35 years.

Mr. Stephen Kaplan is the CEO of EBS, Inc as well as All American Property Management. He holds a B.A. in Criminal Justice with an emphasis in investigative research and a B.A. in Communications from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds a Real Estate Brokers license in California and has worked in the national commercial real estate industry since 1995. Throughout his career in this sector, Mr. Kaplan has been providing due diligence acquisition and negotiation and pre-closing due diligence for income properties totaling more than two hundred fourteen million dollars ($214,000,000.00).

Mr. Eric Kaplan is Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Equity Based Services as well as All American Property Management. He is a licensed Financial Advisor and has extensive property management experience. He holds a Series 7 Securities license, a Series 66 Financial Advisors license, a Managed Futures/Options license, and a Life Insurance license. Eric Kaplan also has a B.A. in Fine Arts and a Masters Degree in Fine Arts. Eric Kaplan negotiated the acquisition of and performed the pre-closing due diligence inspections for commercial real estate income properties totaling more than 200 million ($200,000,000). Eric Kaplan oversees all manners of operation for more than 50 commercial real estate properties throughout the United States.

Mr. Troy Downing is a Manager at EBS. Mr. Downing started his career in academia as a Research Scientist with the New York University Media Research Lab and eventually as an instructor in the NYU Information Technology Institute. During this time, Mr. Downing was also busy writing books that were published by IDG Books, McMillan and O’Reilly and Associates, among others. With a strong entrepreneurial drive, Mr. Downing left NYU to found a one-person technology company, WebCal, Inc. WebCal quickly grew from a one-person startup into a fast-moving technology company. After bringing a handful of colleagues and acquaintances together from NYU and other media companies, this small group of entrepreneurs merged WebCal with the fledgling Yahoo! Inc. in a mutually beneficial pooling of interests merger. During Mr. Downing’s time at Yahoo!, he began investing in Silicon Valley technology startups and eventually started hosting pitch sessions and performing technical due-diligence with small venture funds that placed seed-level financing with nascent startup companies. In mid 2001, Mr. Downing left the technology field to pursue personal interests in real estate investments. Deeply affected after September 11, 2001, Mr. Downing felt a need to give back to his Country and took time off to join the US Air Force / Air National Guard. After two tours to Afghanistan with a Search and Rescue Unit, 200 combat sorties, and 20 personnel recoveries, Mr. Downing once again turned his focus to Commercial Real Estate. Mr. Downing is a principal with Pilot Equity Partners, LLC and brought his experience with technology funds and applied it to Private Equity Commercial Real Estate Funds. Mr. Downing has been heavily involved in fundraising, deal structuring, due-diligence, and fund structuring and has closed more than $50 Million in Commercial Real Estate deals. In addition to his passion for Commercial Real Estate and Private Equity Funds, Mr. Downing is an avid aviator, golfer, and father of four. He spends his free time snowboarding, fishing, hiking and pretending to be a farmer with a small, 2,000 vine vineyard in northern San Diego County. Mr. Downing also is an active supporter of the MS Society, The Big Sky Institute, The Fragile X Foundation, The Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, and various other worthy causes.