Robert Martin is a co-founder and former Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer of Orchard First Source. He possesses over 25 years of corporate finance experience, in the areas of structured finance, leveraged acquisitions, corporate restructuring, merger and acquisitions, and the management of significant distressed loan portfolios. Prior to founding the predecessor to Orchard First Source in March 2001, and for the period from 1996 until mid 2000, Mr. Martin served as Chief Financial Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of FINSERV Healthcare Systems, Inc. a healthcare industry financial information systems company, and Carret and Company, Inc., a New York based asset management company, with in excess of $1.2 billion in assets under management. In those positions, he was directly responsible for the financial and operational restructuring of these companies. From 1993 until 1996, Mr. Martin served as Director of the Loan Asset Resolution practice within KPMG Barents Group, LLC, an international financial advisory subsidiary of KPMG. While in this position, Mr. Martin assisted in the restructuring and recapitalization of three major banks in Central Europe. A core component of these duties was the valuing and restructuring of the distressed loan portfolios of these banks, and the underlying obligors including their operational restructuring. From 1990 until 1993, Mr. Martin, as Treasurer and Senior Vice President, was one of two principal officers' of a private investment firm responsible for organizing a middle market senior loan asset management company and creating a fund for the purchase of performing and non-performing loans from banks and other institutional investors including the RTC. Prior to joining this private investment firm, Mr. Martin was Vice President and Area Head in the Leveraged Capital Division of Citibank, N.A. Prior to joining Citibank, NA, Mr. Martin formed and managed the Acquisition Finance Group of Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce ("CIBC") and as President of CIBC Capital Corp. was also responsible for managing CIBC's equity portfolio in the U.S. Additionally, while at CIBC, Mr. Martin was directly accountable for managing, restructuring and divesting the distressed and non-performing commercial and industrial loan portfolios of CIBC's wholly owned subsidiary, California Canadian Bank, totaling in excess of $1 billion. Mr. Martin received a BA from Pennsylvania State University.