Mr. Akers has been involved in all aspects of the thoroughbred industry for over 25 years after attending the University of Kentucky. Prior to forming Dapple Bloodstock, Mr. Akers and his wife, Sherry, created and built Dapple Advertising, specializing in promotional and gift products for companies of all sizes. During this time, Mr. Akers dedicated himself to pedigree and conformation analysis, equating his evaluations to economic value in the thoroughbred marketplace. His activities included thoroughbred portfolio management, bloodstock appraisals, consulting on bloodstock purchases and sales for clients to race and breed and stallion season management. As the industry surged during the 1990's, Mr. Akers founded Dapple Bloodstock to create racing syndications and to formalize his portfolio management, consulting, appraisal, rate of return products and purchase and sale activities. At the same time, Dapple acquired interests in broodmares and stallion seasons with the intent of owning and managing bloodstock alongside its growing client base.

Mr. Zeller is currently with Black Rock Financial Institutions Group at their headquarters in New York. He has been a Thoroughbred owner since 1998 as an investor in racing syndicates, broodmares, foals and stallions. He is actively engaged as an owner of Dapple Bloodstock and Dapple Stud. Mr. Zeller graduated from Indiana University in 1976, then began a successful career in the asset management industry with firms such as Scudder, Stevens & Clark, Inc. (acquired by The Zurich Financial Group in 1998 and subsequently acquired by Deutsche Asset management in 2002), and Asset Allocation & Management Company in Chicago, IL.

Ms. Brown, a Lexington native raised with riding horses, graduated from Lexington's Transylvania University in 1990. Her subsequent work in broadcast advertising eventually opened an attractive opportunity to market and develop programs in the Thoroughbred industry. In 1996 she was named Director of Marketing for the Thoroughbred Owners and Breeders Association in which she traveled to race venues executing the non-profit New Owners Seminar Programs she marketed throughout the year. In 1998 Ms. Brown accepted an offer from Dapple Bloodstock with purpose marketing the various Dapple partnership opportunities and cultivating the new partnership clients.

Mark moved to Lexington in 1997 with the expressed goal of working in the horse industry. Given that chance by Ben Walden, Jr. at Vinery, he eventually became Controller in 1999. Most recently he spent 4½ years at Pope McLean's Crestwood Farm.

His experience at two leading Kentucky horse farms gives Mark a chance to maximize his unique skill set with the recent acquisition of Dapple Stud. He manages all aspects of farm accounting in addition to 10+ LLC investment programs for Dapple.

A horse racing fan since the mid-'80s, Mark became interested in the breeding side from his weekly subscription to The Blood-Horse.