Prior to joining HT Capital Advisors as President in 1989, Mr. Lomas was a Managing Director and co-head of investment banking at Gruntal & Co. During his five years at Gruntal, Mr. Lomas created the mergers and acquisitions and bankruptcy departments of the firm. Before his affiliation with Gruntal, Mr. Lomas spent 10 years with Deloitte & Touche where he ran the international merger and acquisition consulting department. In 1994, he was elected non-executive Chairman of Rexel, Inc. a Fortune 1000 company and one of the oldest companies on the NYSE, and served until its acquisition in February 1998 by Pinault-Printemps-Redoute, S.A. Mr. Lomas began his career on Wall Street with the firm of Troster, Singer & Co. where he was involved in various facets of corporate finance and securities trading. Mr. Lomas has initiated and orchestrated hundreds of successful investment banking assignments.

Representative transactions include: the sale of GoodMark Foods to ConAgra; sale of Rexel, Inc.; management's acquisition of GoodMark Foods from General Mills and subsequent financings and Initial Public Offering; Ezaki Glico Co.’s divestiture of Harmony Snacks and Price Candy; the acquisition of Southern Electric Supply Co., Inc. by Compagnie de Distribution de Materiel Electrique; the acquisition of Very Important Products Corp. (Armor All) by McKesson, Inc.; and the merger of Honeybee, Inc. with Spiegel. Mr. Lomas was the advisor to the unsecured creditors of Grossman's, Inc. during its bankruptcy proceeding and advisor to Official Committee of Equity Holders in the reorganization of the LTV Corporation, one of the largest, most complex bankruptcies in United States history.

Mr. Lomas holds a B.S. Cum Laude in Business from Long Island University, an M.B.A. from the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He has completed several advanced management study programs including Harvard’s AMP on Corporate Governance. He was in the USNR and is a Vietnam Veteran. He has served on several public and private Boards, including GoodMark Foods, Inc., the largest meat snack company in the United States, and as Chairman of Precision Optical Systems, a leading manufacturer of precision plastic optical components. Mr. Lomas is a member of the: NY Society of Security Analysts; National Association of Corporate Directors; Association for Corporate Growth; Turnaround Management Association and CFA Institute.