Jacob Haar is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Haar has successfully conducted business in emerging markets and worked with international non-government organizations and for-profit companies on issues of sustainable economic development for over a decade. Since 2004, Mr. Haar has conducted due diligence on microfinance institutions and completed debt transactions with numerous microfinance institutions globally. Prior to joining Minlam, Mr. Haar worked with Azeri Star Microfinance, a microfinance institution in Azerbaijan. Mr. Haar received his M.A. from the University of Chicago's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, is a Fulbright Scholar and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with his B.A. from the University of Chicago

Michael Hokenson is a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Minlam Asset Management. Mr. Hokenson has been involved with emerging market entrepreneurial ventures and the microfinance industry since 1997. He has been published on the profitability of microfinance institutions in The Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid by C.K. Prahalad. Mr. Hokenson graduated from the Erb Institute of Global Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, earning an M.B.A. at the Stephen M. Ross School of Business and a M.S. in Environmental Science at the School of Natural Resources and Environment. He received his B.A. in Mathematics and Philosophy from St. John's College in Santa Fe, New Mexico.