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William R. Hurt

Mr. Hurt provides wealth management and investment advisory services to high net worth clients, family offices and institutional investors. He oversees the Capital Management Group, a team of wealth management advisers located in Houston and Colorado Springs with assets under management in excess of $400 million. He personally manages $150 million for clients. He also manages the Sanders Morris Harris Sports Group, which provides investment management, contract representation and marketing services to professional athletes.

He holds a Series 7 (General Securities Representative) License, a Series 24 (General Securities Principal), a Series 63 License (Uniform State Law), and a Series 65 License (Investment Advisor). Prior to joining Sanders Morris Harris in May 2001, Mr. Hurt was a Senior Vice President at the JPMorgan Chase Private Bank in Houston, Texas. From 1990 until 1998, he was an institutional oil and gas fund manager for JPMorgan Investment Management involved in purchasing and managing a portfolio of direct investments in domestic oil and gas properties. He started his career in the financial services industry with Texas Commerce Bank in 1981, where he worked with companies involved in the energy industry and became Vice President & Division Manager of the Energy Group. From 1982 until 1995 he was also responsible for the management of a family owned oil and gas exploration company founded in 1952.

Notable transactions include structuring and leading the debt facility to finance the expansion franchise NFL Houston Texans in 2001, negotiating the sale of assets of the JPMorgan Petroleum Fund for 150% of the value of the fairness opinion in 1998 and structuring the receipt and payment of $3 billion settlement from Texaco to Pennzoil through Texas Commerce Bank in 1987 during the same period in which three of the four major banks in Texas failed.

Mr. Hurt is a graduate of the University of Virginia and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Houston. He serves as President of the Board of Directors of Communities In Schools-Houston, a nonprofit dropout-prevention program active in over 95 Houston area public schools serving 35,000 at-risk children, Chairman of the Houston Texans Charity Golf Classic, Vice President of the UVa Houston Alumni Club and Vice President of the Board of Directors of River Oaks Country Club.

Sanders Morris Harris Group (Nasdaq:SMHG) is a financial services holding company headquartered in Houston, providing a broad range of services through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries, including Sanders Morris Harris, Inc.

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