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Peter Holbrook | Holbrook & Company

Peter Holbrook advised EcoTimber as the company's investment banker on its recent preferred equity and working capital line of credit financings. He founded Holbrook & Company in 2002 and has executed numerous equity and debt financings, sell side M&A advisory assignments, and buy side M&A advisory assignments for emerging growth companies in the technology, consumer products, and sustainable business sectors while at the firm.

Throughout his career, Mr. Holbrook has provided strategic and financial advice to senior management teams and boards of directors regarding the most critical decisions facing their companies. As an investment banker with Holbrook & Company, Wasserstein Perella, Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Broadview Associates, and Dain Bosworth Incorporated, Mr. Holbrook has advised on over 50 transactions reflecting $4.0 billion in aggregate value. Mr. Holbrook's transaction experience includes buy-side and sell-side M&A transactions, public and private issuances of equity and debt, fairness opinions, tender offers, restructurings, and valuations for companies such as Time Warner, Texas Instruments, Medtronic, Central Garden & Pet, Merrill Corporation, BDM International, and the Pacific Exchange.

Prior to founding Holbrook & Company, Mr. Holbrook served as Chief Financial Officer of AudioBase, Inc., a leading provider of enterprise class streaming software and services to the Fortune 500. As CFO, Mr. Holbrook raised $30 million in equity and debt financing from strategic and financial investors including Bay Partners, Charles R. Schwab (personally), Hambrecht & Quist (now JP Morgan Partners), Lighthouse Capital Partners, Sony Music Entertainment, Texas Pacific Group, and TransCosmos USA. Mr. Holbrook structured and closed the sale of AudioBase in 2002.

Mr. Holbrook holds an MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He currently serves as a Director of EcoTimber, Inc. and Under the Canopy, Inc., as a Board Advisor to Vino Volo, and as a Trustee, Treasurer, and Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Marin Waldorf School. Formerly, Mr. Holbrook served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Andale, Inc.