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Bob Pattillo
President - Gray Ghost Fund
USA Atlanta, GA

In 2003, Bob established and funded Gray Ghost, a millionsocialinvestment portfolio focused in the field of microfinance. Bob's roleis as a "partner" to the enterprises he invests in and those who workwithin them, helping to emphasize the enterprise as a living, breathingprofessional community. Bob's role is also to invite others to coinvestin these enterprises, to find the personal fulfillment that comes withinvesting for both financial and social return.
Bob also chairs The Rockdale Foundation (RF), a charitable foundationestablished in 1995 with his wife, Katy. Grantmaking is focused oneducation and microfinance, a "business-like, market oriented, and selfsustaining" response to poverty, with a commitment to the MiddleEast/North Africa as a place where the needs are great and theresources are relatively thin. RF is the founding partner of the Arabmicrofinance network, SANABEL.
For the prior 20 years, Bob has headed property development businessesbased in Atlanta. In 1994, he founded Robert Pattillo Properties tofocus on the development of distribution centers across the UnitedStates and developed 12,000,000 SF over the life of the enterprise. Hewill complete the liquidation of the enterprise within 2004 to kdevotehis time and energies fully to Gray Ghost.
Bob is a graduate of Dartmouth College and the Harvard Owner/PresidentManagement Program, and a past participant in Leadership DeKalb,Leadership Georgia, and the Regional Leadership Institute.
COMMUNITY AND PROFESSIONAL INVOLVEMENT (start date):
° Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University
° YPO Microfinance Forum-(ask Sam to describe)
° CMFEI-(Ask Sam to describe)
° Gray Ghost is a founding investor in these enterprises:
1) Catalyst Fund
2) Bellwether
3) STLF
4) RLF (pidor phase)
Accion Investments - 2004 - Director - A microfinance investmentcompany providing equity and quasi-equity capital in Latin America, theCaribbean, and Africa. Bob is the only private investor on the board.
° Accion International - 2003 - Director; Leading microfinancenetwork and technical assistance provider; ACCION's partners operate in21 countries and have made .6 billion in microloans to 2.7 millionpeople over the last ten years.
° Deutsche Bank Microcredit Development Fund - 2001 - Director;DBMDF has invested nearly million in loans to some 30 MFIs in morethan 16 different countries.
° TheMIX.org- 2002 - Director, Founding funder in this web-basedmarketplace for information on the microfinance industry; spin-off fromthe World Bank;.
° MicroVest - 2003 - Director, privately capitalized; fundproviding debt, equity to microfinance institutions; vision is to buildcapital markets that work for the poor by becoming microfinance's firsttrue global intermediary.
° Jesse Parker Williams Foundation - 1993 - Trustee; charitablefoundation focused on healthcare for women, children in Atlanta
° Trinity Presbyterian Church - 1996 - Co-Chair CommitmentCampaign, Issues and Advocacy Committee
Past:
° Columbia Theological Seminary - 1992 to 2003 - Trustee, StudentLife Committee, Strategic Plan Chair
° Young Presidents' Organization - 1992 to 2003
° Robert Pattillo Properties, Inc. - 1994 to 2004 - Founder, CEO;An industrial development and management company specializing inregional and national distribution centers. RPP managed 7,000,000square feet of projects nationwide at its peak.
° Habitat for Humanity - 1999 - Capital Campaign Chair
° Frey-Moss, Inc. - Director - 1997 to 2003 - Manufacturer ofmodular commercial buildings
° Integrated Photonics - 2000 to 2003 Director, founding investor -manufacturer of fiber optic components
Georgia Center for Children-Founding board member; a center that helpskids that have been sexually abused
Fernbank Museum-Director