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With over 30 years of work experience, Brian Hannan is a seasoned corporate finance professional and a co-founder and managing director of AGRA Capital, a Los Angeles-based investment & merchant banking firm. Brian Hannan began his financial career on the floor, of the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) for Lind-Waldock in 1993. In 1995, Mr. Hannan went on to become Director of Operations and started the foreign exchange spot and options clearing division of Midland, which generated daily volumes in excess of $100 million in trades. Mr.Hannan developed and created the first major digital forex trading platform in the world. He became the first registered Forex broker in the United States. In 1999, Mr. Hannan was the Senior Manager of a U.S. Fund of Funds Hedge fund for Rothschild Solomon, that focused on International arbitrage trading investments. In 2001, he founded Web Monopoly, an internet marketing agency and Ad platform specializing in customer acquisitions and traffic for the entertainment and Media industry, which he still sold in 2020. In 2008, Mr.Hannan co-founded the investment banking firm, Agra Capital. Mr. Hannan has serviced middle market clients, on a wide range of corporate finance transactions, including mergers & acquisitions, divestitures, institutional debt & private equity. He has considerable experience in a number of industries, specifically the entire range of health care, Minerals& Mining, Specialty & lender Finance, technology, energy, digital media and intellectual property. He has completed over 40 transactions totaling more than $2 Billion in value. At AGRA Capital, Mr.Hannan leads a group of experienced and dedicated professionals who provide a wide range of corporate finance services, including mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, institutional debt placements, mezzanine & private equity financings. We have considerable experience in a number of industries, specifically the entire range of healthcare, specialty and lender finance, metals and mining, hospitality, energy, fund finance, big data/AI, information technology, real estate, and intellectual property. Since co-founding the firm in 2008, he has completed over 60 transactions totaling more than $2 billion in value, leveraging my skills in financial analysis, deal structuring, negotiation, and execution.