Welcome to Exim Antigua Inc.

COMPANY LEADERSHIP BIO

President & CEO

Vaughn M. V. Murphy has an extensive background in financial analysis including company valuation and risk analysis. While working at the ninth largest Commercial Banking institutions within the U.S. Mr. Murphy developed expertise in commercial, corporate and investor real estate financing. In this role he was involved in credit risk analysis including, business and real property cash flow analysis, real estate market research, property evaluation and appraisals, and risk identification, mitigation or management. In addition Mr. Murphy was involved in loan structuring, loan pricing, loan monitoring and debt instrument selection. He has managed an $80 million dollar debt portfolio and has been involved in the underwriting of $150 million dollars worth of real estate debt.

As founder of Exim Antigua Inc., Mr. Murphy has developed an in debth knowledge of branding, marketing and merchandising to the extent that he has led initiatives assisting U.S. companies with new and innovative products and services in penetrating and developing new markets as well as to access multinational big box merchandisers the likes of Wal Mart and Home depot stores.

Academically, Mr. Murphy holds a Bachelors of Art in Finance and Business Management from Florida Atlantic University and an MBA with a concentration in Finance also from Florida Atlantic University.

In 2007 Mr. Murphy was awarded the 2006 Florida Business Man of the Year by the U.S. National Republican Congressional Committee. In that year, he was also awarded a Congressional Medal of Distinction. He currently sits as the Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council of this congressional committee.

Managing Director

Rainford M. Knight, Ph.D. has over 15 years practical experience in financial analysis including: mortgage analytics, mergers and acquisitions, strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting and venture capital. Dr. Knight has held M&A positions performing valuations on a range of companies including banks, mortgage companies, hospitality companies and real estate technology companies. He has been a valuation consultant to the venture capital industry working with individual start-ups, as well as an incubator/accelerator. Dr. Knight is currently a mentor to the Enterprise Development Corp. (EDC) – an organization that provides strategic business development assistance to science and technology-based companies in South Florida.

Dr. Knight has advised CEOs of small to mid-sized companies on a range of financial issues and has had papers published and accepted in academic and industry journals. He has co-founded/acquired or has been a partner in several companies in industries as diverse as software development, real estate distressed debt, hospitality and educational training.

Internationally, Dr. Knight spent 6 months as part of a consulting team advising a government on the restructuring of its financial sector after a financial crisis – failure of the banking and insurance sectors. He helped to manage the sale of a $1 billion non-performing loan portfolio. To date, this is the largest loan sale transacted in the Caribbean. Dr. Knight has also made presentations regarding financial sector restructuring to central banks and state owned banks in Latin America and the Caribbean including world organizations such as the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Recently, Dr. Knight has had an instrumental in role in the development of a Wall Street-style trading room for equity and debt securities for a local university.

Dr. Knight is an adjunct professor of finance at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami, where he teaches at both the undergraduate and graduate (MBA/Executive) level in the areas of investment analysis and management and corporate finance. Dr. Knight holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Florida Atlantic University with a doctoral thesis in the area of initial public offerings (IPOs).

Dr. Knight has been chosen to Who’s Who in Finance and Industry; he is a member of the Financial Management Association International and a member of the Society of Quantitative Analysts.

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