Wilson G. Allen

Prior to Signature Capital, In 1996, Mr. Allen was a co-founder of Wind River Capital Company, a venture capital consulting firm with offices in Houston and Austin, Texas.
With Wind River Capital, he created capital investment strategies for development-stage and medium size businesses involved in medical technology; computer hardware and software; hospitality; oil and gas and consumer non-durable products.
Previously, Mr. Allen served as online content editor for Hoover's, a business-research publishing firm that provides a database of information on 2500 public and private companies.
He managed and edited company profiles appearing on various national online services including America Online, Bloomberg and Dow Jones.
He also established and wrote a weekly industry column appearing on the company's web site.
He worked, from 1990 to 1993, with Eagle Management and Trust Company, an investment advisory firm with $1.5 billion of assets under management.
At Eagle Management, he served as a senior equity trader and a member of the Equity Asset Allocation Committee.
He directed and administered all trades in U.S, Mexico, Brazil, Chile, France, Germany.
Spain, England, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden and the Netherlands.
Mr. Allen earned a B.A.
in economics from The University of Texas at Austin in 1989 and earned an M.B.A.
degree from Pepperdine University in 1995.