325 Five Acre Road

Alpharetta, Georgia 30004

ph: 678-366-9382

fax: 678-366-9381

The principals in Outdoor Finance, LLC have decades of combined experience actively investing in small businesses with both debt and equity capital for growth and acquisitions. Further, the principals have extensive experience in the direct management of outdoor advertising companies. We understand Outdoor Advertising. Our goal is to combine our experience in small business finance and our experience in outdoor advertising for YOUR benefit. Our job is to help you grow!

Derick Cooper, President, founded and operates a billboard operating company in Florida. Through that experience, he understands the issues facing the outdoor advertising industry. Derick has a background in investment banking, mergers and acquisitions and venture capital with The Robinson-Humphrey Company in Atlanta as well as with Sirrom Capital, formerly the largest mezzanine lender/VC firm in the US. That background allows him to leverage his knowledge of the outdoor advertising industry in a way to help structure financing to address the needs of individual customers. Derick also has operating and acquisition experience with CooperSmith, Inc., formerly the largest independent baked-foods company in the US and with the Park City Group, Inc., a software development company.

Chad Ward, Sales Manager, has 10 years of direct operating experience in the outdoor advertising industry with Viacom running a $4.3mm plant in Utah and Nevada as well as with Young Electric Sign Company (YESCO) in Utah, with responsibility for its outdoor advertising assets (approximately 180 structures). Chad’s broad operational experience in the outdoor advertising industry complements the financing experience of the other principals in ways to help us tailor our products to the industry’s needs.

William Bryant, Vice President, has broad experience with small business planning, growth and development and in assisting small to medium sized businesses in financing that growth. He has practiced as a CPA for ten years and as an attorney for over 15 years, specializing in business financing, growth and management and in mergers and acquisitions transactions. He was a member of the management team of CooperSmith, Inc., assisting in its aggressive acquisition program as well as its daily operational needs. William brings his background and experience together through an understanding of financing, of the business and legal issues facing billboard companies, and of how to structure transactions that work.