Brian Clancy has 16 years of experience in strategic consulting. Mr. Clancy has advised clients on a wide range of strategic issues including: business strategy, mergers & acquisitions, customer segmentation, price elasticity, network strategy, capital investment decisions and operational improvement. He has worked with numerous clients in the air freight, small package, less-than-truckload, container shipping, logistics and transportation infrastructure industries. Mr. Clancy co-founded MergeGlobal, Inc. in 1993. Previously, he was an engagement manager at an aviation consulting firm in Washington, D.C.

David Hoppin, a co-founder of MergeGlobal, Inc., has 16 years experience in strategic consulting for clients in the airline, air freight, containership and freight forwarding/logistics industries. He has directed a wide variety of consulting engagements, from commercial strategy (customer and market selection) to fleet and network planning to supporting clients involved in alliance or merger/acquisition negotiations. Before co-founding MergeGlobal, Mr. Hoppin was an engagement manager for an aviation consulting firm in Washington, D.C. and an analyst for Bankers Trust Company in New York.

John Moses joined MergeGlobal in early 2005 from JP Morgan Securities where he was a Managing Director in their Leveraged Finance business. Mr. Moses has over 24 years of transportation and financial sponsor related investment banking experience, principally at Bankers Trust/Deutsche Bank where he was a Managing Director in its Leveraged Finance business, ran their air transport practice and headed their Financial Sponsors Coverage unit in Chicago during his long tenure there. In the past two decades, Mr. Moses has led over 100 major M&A advisory and financing assignments with a total transaction value in excess of $25 billion. Notably, he played a key role in 1989 leveraged buyout of Northwest Airlines and was the lead banker to Atlas Air during its rapid expansion and development in the air freight ACMI business in the 1990’s.

Jim Westphal has 20 years of professional experience in investment banking and corporate strategy. Prior to joining MergeGlobal, he spent 13 years as an M&A and transportation specialist at Salomon Brothers, UBS, and Deutsche Bank. At UBS he started and ran the North American Transport Group and the Global Logistics Group. At Deutsche bank he was Managing Director and head of the US Transportation Group. From 2002 to 2004, Jim served as interim head of corporate development at Atlantic Aviation where he led the acquisition of several FBOs, a recapitalization, and the company's ultimate sale to Macquarie Bank. Prior to his career in investment banking he was a consultant at Monitor Company.