JOHN HUBBELL S CAREER

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1 JOHN HUBBELL S CAREER John Hubbell has had two overlapping careers for most of his working life, one of sport and one of business. First John Hubbell has participated in sport as an Olympic, International, national, regional and recreational level competitor, professional and amateur coach and sports administrator. His participation in sport started in 1958 and has lasted to the present. Secondly, John started his own business in 1972, and has been self-employed in entrepreneurial ventures up until In 1997, John Hubbell retired and sold his business in support of his wife s advancement of her career with a move to England. In England, he gravitated back to coaching and then as a third career, he now has entered the field of education, through teaching, then the study of teaching and provision through academics and now to a consulting business in education. Education Consulting In England, John entered the teaching profession, John has been teaching since He gravitated to the Social Emotional Behavioural Difficult student in the mainstream at school that he first taught. He was successful at this and decided to fully immerse him self in SEBD teaching. He did this by moving from mainstream to a SEBD special needs school from there he has been involved in active learning programs, and Pupil Referral Units. He also has undertaken a postgraduate study in the field of SEBD, earning a master in education at Kingston University studying the provision of SEBD. John is presently working on a business to set up private independent 14 to 18 special needs schools for the social emotional behavioural disabled student based on an educational system he has designed, that is based on an eight-year study of the SEBD educational system, and its provision. This investigation took the form of a practical employment experience, a rigorous academic study, and a three-year field study of best practice teaching situations. John also consults in Enterprise and Working Life Educational Curriculum, and gives lectures to students on business and life style related subjects. John has consulted with a venture capital firm in an acquisition of seven special educational needs schools where the capital raised was over 100,000,000. Business He started his business career as an owner-operator of a small manufacturing concern, his experience covered start-up, boom to bust, turn-around and divestiture. His experience as an owner-operator of a small manufacturing concern supplied him with an owner attitude and a well-rounded experience in running a small business. From manufacturing he moved to a business specializing in human and venture capital investments specializing in small business, which developed into a full service financial intermediary investment business. JOHN HUBBELL BUSINESS ACUMEN As a businessman, John Hubbell considers himself a "Corporate Coordinator of Business Services".

2 John Hubbell has a complete understanding of small to mid size business in all areas of the business operational spectrum, such as: Treasury, Administration, Sales, Marketing, Human Capital Investment, Production, Board Reporting, Financial Underwriting, Negotiating Skills, and Client Need Determination and Fulfillment. In Canada John Hubbell has an extensive and well-developed network of clients and contacts that came from the institutional, corporate, and small business sectors. As a licensed security, dealer and business underwriter John Hubbell has 25 years of experience in assessing the economic viability of commercial ventures, and business trends. He has extensive experience in matching the needs of business to institutional and private investor requirements, and experience in matching government, business assistance programs to investment vehicles. His highest level of success has come as a marketer and salesman. John has been demonstrated this throughout his career. BUSINESS EXPERIENCE BUSINESS UNDERWRITINGS In Canada John Hubbell held an Ontario Securities License that allowed him to do seed capital offerings and sophisticated investor offerings. In Canada John raised money in the private markets specializing in small capital deals from five hundred thousand to ten million dollars. As a business underwriter, he has had experience in assessing the economic viability of commercial ventures, and business trends. He has years of brokerage experience in matching the needs of business to institutional and private investor requirements. John Hubbell also had significant experience in matching governmental business assistance programs to investment vehicles. From 1982 to 1997 John Hubbell has been involved directly in over seventy-five private placements, raising over one hundred million dollars, (Cdn$) in equity capital, and combined with his mortgage and real estate activities has raised over one billion dollars, (Cdn$) in debt capital. As part of an underwriting team, he was involved in the completion of over a hundred and seventy five public offerings, raising over six hundred million, (Cdn$) in capital and managing over seven thousand investors. In his role as a licensed security dealer, John Hubbell covered the whole matrix of securities work from corporate underwriting to capital placement. HUMAN CAPITAL MANAGEMENT As a venture capitalist, in funding companies one of his main responsibilities was to do human capital assessments of the existing staff, and restructure the management components of companies and then do searches for the human resource needs of the target company. He has also negotiated contracts with executives, and designed job descriptions. He has placed executives in the financial industry in securities, banking, mortgage funding and real estate companies and in manufacturing in the automobile after-market, food industry, agricultural industry, and many others. BUSINESS ANALYST & DESIGNER OF BUSINESS PLANS John Hubbell has years of experience in financial forecasting and analysis for administrative and treasury purposes. As a financial underwriter John Hubbell has

3 designed his own business analysis vehicle, and has used this vehicle to scrutinize and / or author business plans in most areas of the business spectrum. CORPORATE COMMUNICATOR In his role as a venture capitalist, John Hubbell is well versed and experienced in communicating at board level with directors, investors and lenders. He has sat as a director of various companies and was a board of director of one of the largest sporting associations in the world and held many key positions in the organization. MORTGAGE FUNDING A great many of John Hubbell s underwritings combined a real estate investment with a business investment and John developed an expertise in real estate financing, and through a real estate license and mortgage license he provided what he called the total financing by combining the business, real estate and mortgage need. John developed a commercial expertise in prime to equity type loans, participating loans, bridge financing, construction loans and permanent take out financing. FRANCHISING John Hubbell had a nine-month assignment where he successfully launched a tile exporting business into the United States. His mandate was to act as interim president and set up offices in the United States, select warehousing sites, higher sales persons, establish distributors and manufacturing reps, establishing off shore credit facilities, over see marketing and sales programs, arrange for non-us staff to get working visas. He had to design and author all contracts, find and appoint US professionals, facilitate the set up of a branchise and franchise organization. Arrange all imports and expedite shipping, customs, duty and taxes. ASSET BASED LENDING AND LEASING John has had experience in Asset Based Lending and Leasing, this is the process of using a companies existing non-earning asset base, by releasing this capital to help establish internal growth. CONSULTING As a. financial intermediary, John Hubbell provided business consulting in corporate financial planning and business management. INSOLVENCY CONSULTING Many of the financings that John Hubbell worked on involved companies that were insolvent and needed restructuring proposals combined with new capital. John specialized in this kind of underwriting. PUBLIC SPEAKER John Hubbell is a competent public speaker. He has run conferences and training groups. PAST CLIENTS AND EXPERIENCE John Hubbell had a large network of clients and contacts that come from the institutional, corporate and small to mid-sized business sectors. -MAJOR & MINOR STOCK BROKERAGE COMPANIES. -MAJOR LIFE INSURANCE COMPANIES.

4 -MAJOR TRUST COMPANIES. -MAJOR & B BANK'S. -ACCOUNTING FIRMS. - TRUST COMPANIES. - FINANCIAL BOUTIQUE OPERATIONS. -FINANCIAL HOLDING COMPANIES. -CORPORATIONS. - PRIVATE BUSINESS COMMUNITY. Sport SPORT PERFORMANCE In England John set up Sport Performance, a sport consulting business; dealing with the coaching of strength and fitness and power aspects of sport. John has specialized in figure skating and ice hockey. He has also worked with Rugby Players, Skiers, and Triathletes. SPORT QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE Competitive History - Past Olympic Competitor 1972 Figure Skating and World Competitor 1972 Figure Skating. 50 years of uninterrupted organized hockey playing at all levels up to Canadian University Hockey. Member of four regional and 5 national championship teams. Member of World Champions Over 45 Recreational Ice Hockey Team 1996, World team qualifier in 45 and over Canadian triathlon 1997, Assistant captain and captain for GB Rec team at world championships in Prague and Helsinki. Presently Player/Coach, Secretary, and Vice President of Slough Tornados Ice Hockey Club Coaching History - Children and Adult Sport Coach for 40 years -Figure Skating Coach (Canadian Level IV), Ice Hockey (International Ice Hockey Federation Level III), Triathlon (Canadian Coaching Association Level I), Track and Field (Canadian Coaching Association Level II), and Fitness (Qualified YMCA Fitness Instructor ). Co-author of the psychology section of the Coaches Association of Canada Level 1 and 2 programs. Professional Power Skating Coach at all levels. Participated in Hockey schools From 1968 to the present coaching at Glen Slather Hockey School Banff Alberta, Bruce Hyland Hockey School Agincourt Ontario, Whitey Stapleton Hockey School Sarnia, Capilano Winter Club Power Skating School, US Hockey, Hockey Camp Lake Placid New York, Finish National Junior Camp Verimaki Finland, Guildford Flames Hockey School, Toronto Professional Hockey School. Past Professional Ice Hockey Fitness Coach for Guildford Flames and Basingstoke Bison. As an amateur Ice Hockey Coach at Guildford and Bracknell and Slough winning 8 national titles 6 national runner up titles in 12 years in junior, women s and recreational hockey.

5 Most Influential Coach Tom Watt at UofT. (Tom Watt 7 national Canadian University Titles (or more can t remember exact number), Head Coach Toronto Maple Leafs, Vancouver Canucks, Assistant Coach Calgary Flames, Assistant Coach and Scout Anaheim Ducks. Sport Management Director of the Figure Skating Coaches of Canada (FSCA), (1972 to 1982). FSCA representative director to the Coaching Association of Canada, Member of Olympic Club Canada. Canadian Figure Skating Association representative in the development of the National Skating Tests. BUSINESS QUALIFICATIONS Ontario Securities License / Ontario Mortgage Brokerage License / Ontario Life Insurance License / Ontario Real Estate License Qualification In Business Administration University of Toronto 1976 EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AscBsc Wayne State University 1969 BPhe University Of Toronto 1974 Qualification In Business Administration University of Toronto 1976 Master s In Education Kingston University 2006 OTHER Children Sport Coach for 40 years -figure skating, ice hockey, triathlon, track and field, fitness Mentoring (Ontario Big Brother for two relationships from 1975 to 1985) (2004 to 2009 mentoring two SEBD young adults) Past Olympic Competitor 1972 World Competitor in figure skating, ice hockey and triathlon English IIHF Level 3 Ice Hockey Coach, Guildford, Basingstoke, Bracknell, Power Skating Specialist Has played organized ice hockey for the last 52 years Interests Golf, Theatre, Art, Fitness