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Ian Dunn is one of the founding principals of DJ&Co. As such, he is involved in the oversight of all aspects of the company's business. Prior to founding the company, he was President of Samuel Montagu Inc., the US subsidiary of Samuel Montagu & Company Ltd. of which he was also a director. He was also a member of the Executive Committee of the US operations of Midland Bank plc, in turn, also a subsidiary of the Hongkong Bank Group. At Samuel Montagu he was responsible for all US corporate finance activities which were primarily providing merger and acquisition advice to European companies investing in the US and to US corporations investing in Europe, but also included arranging finance, advising on restructurings and arranging leveraged transactions. He also had responsibility for managing the firm's Latin American corporate finance advisory business, which he founded. Prior to joining Samuel Montagu in 1985, Mr. Dunn was a Vice President with Citicorp which he joined from business school in 1973. At Citicorp he had seven years of lending experience in the UK and the US in a wide variety of industries including real estate and dealing with multinationals in the oil sector and other industries. During this time he established the "European Desk" for the bank in N.Y. and subsequently joined Citicorp Investment Bank where he spent 6 years serving the M&A needs of its European clients in the US and Canada. From 1965 to 1972 Mr. Dunn worked in the chemical and textile industries in the UK, the US and Italy and held a number of positions in research and development, sales and marketing. Mr. Dunn received his primary education in the UK and in the US, before attending Kings College, University of Durham where he received a B.Sc. degree in physics and chemistry. In 1973 he received an M.Sc. degree in management and business studies from the University of Warwick. He is proficient but not fluent, in Italian, French, German and Spanish. Mr. Dunn, who was born in the UK, is a naturalized American citizen and lives in Rye, New York. He is married and has three children. His non-business interests include golf, all water sports and flying light aircraft. | 