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Charles W. Robinson III, CFA is a co-founder, principal, and manager of the Trading Advisor. He is responsible for the overall direction of the Trading Advisor, and shares responsibility for the management of the Trading Advisor and its trading decisions with T. Matthew Trump, CMT. In addition to his responsibilities with the Trading Advisor, Mr. Robinson is a co-founder, principal, and manager of The Bensboro Company, LLC, a commodity pool operator (“CPO”) that serves as General Partner to Bensboro Seasonal Futures Fund, L.P. Mr. Robinson also serves as a managing principal of Robinson Value Management, Ltd. ("RVM"), a registered investment advisory firm that he founded in 1997. As a managing principal at RVM, Mr. Robinson focuses his efforts on the discretionary management of client assets pursuant to defined investment strategies. Mr. Robinson began his financial services career as a runner and phone clerk for Rufenacht, Bromagen & Hertz ("RB&H") on the floor of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, before serving as a commodities broker (Associated Person) at W.D. Gann Trading Company, an Introducing Broker in Chicago. Since then, he has worked for a variety of firms, both SEC- and CFTCregistered, where he gained the experience enabling him to organize and operate the Trading Advisor and other companies of which he is currently principal. Among these, he was a portfolio manager in the private client/trust division of NationsBank, Texas, an analyst and portfolio manager with Leavy Investment Management, Inc., and an analyst at Ventex, a venture capital firm. Mr. Robinson taught Portfolio Theory and Computer Applications in Finance at the University of Texas San Antonio, became a CFA Charterholder in 1993 and is past president of the CFA Society of San Antonio. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at San Antonio (1991) and a BA in Economics from Davidson College (1984). Mr. Robinson is an elder at First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio, a member of Conopus, the Merry Knights of King William, and the Order of the Alamo. He lives in San Antonio with his wife Amy and their two children. T. Matthew Trump, CMT is a co-founder, principal, and manager of the Trading Advisor. He shares responsibility with Charles W. Robinson III, CFA for the management and trading decisions for the Trading Advisor. Along with Charles W. Robinson III, Mr. Trump is also a co-founder, principal, and manager of The Bensboro Company, LLC. The Bensboro Company, LLC is a registered CPO, which serves as General Partner to the Bensboro Seasonal Futures Fund, L.P. Mr. Trump has worked for a variety of SEC and/or FINRA registered financial services firms. He has served in the capacity as a registered representative at both Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc.and Chapin Davis, Inc., a registered principal with Raymond James Financial Services, Inc., an investment advisor representative with Calvert Investment Counsel, and a regional vice president with ProFunds Distributors, Inc. He obtained his Chartered Market Technician (“CMT”) designation in 2008, founded and chaired the Market Technicians Association's Baltimore chapter, and is currently co-chair of their Dallas chapter. His experience in portfolio management includes equities, derivatives, and foreign exchange (“Forex”) markets. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama, where he was awarded a bachelor of science in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance in 1996. Mr. Trump is a United States military veteran who received 10 medals and ribbons for his honorable service as a United States Marine during the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Upon his return, he became the Nuclear Biological and Chemical Warfare NCOIC for the 4th Combat Engineer Battalion, 4th Marine Division, Engineer Support Company in Baltimore, Maryland. Later he held the same position for the 4th Battalion, 14 Marines, in Bessemer, Alabama. Currently Mr. Trump lives in the Dallas/Fort Worth area with his wife Elizabeth and their three young boys. There have been no administrative, civil, or criminal actions, either pending, on appeal, or concluded, against the Trading Advisor or its principals.
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