Daniel Shribman, our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has served as chief investment officer of B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY) and as president of B. Riley Principal Investments, LLC since September 2019 and September 2018, respectively. Mr. Shribman helps oversee the asset base of B. Riley Financial alongside chief executive officer Bryant Riley. This asset base consists of several cash flow generating operating businesses in addition to cash and investments of roughly $750 million. The investment portfolio includes bilateral loans and small cap equity positions in both public and private markets. In virtually all investments, B. Riley Financial is involved at the board level and active in business and capital allocation decisions. Mr. Shribman has served as a member of the board of directors of Alta (NYSE: ALTG) since February 2020, when it completed its business combination with BRPM, where Mr. Shribman was chief financial officer. Mr. Shribman brings experience in both public and private equity to us. Prior to joining B. Riley, Mr. Shribman was a Portfolio Manager at Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C., a special situation asset manager, from 2010 to 2018. During Mr. Shribman’s tenure at Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C., he led investments in dozens of public and private opportunities across the general industrial, transportation, automotive, aerospace, gaming, hospitality and real estate industries. These investments ranged from public equities and bonds to deeply distressed securities, par bank debt, minority owned private equity and majority owned private equity. Mr. Shribman worked in close collaboration with management teams and boards to maximize shareholder value in the form of both operational turnarounds, capital market financing and capital deployment initiatives. Prior to Anchorage Capital Group, L.L.C., Mr. Shribman worked at Tinicum Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and in the restructuring advisory group at Lazard (NYSE: LAZ).

Bryant Riley , has served as chairman and co-chief executive officer of B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY), since June 2014 and July 2018 respectively, and as a director of B. Riley Financial since August 2009. In addition, Mr. Riley served as the chairman of B. Riley & Co., LLC since founding the stock brokerage firm in 1997 until its combination with FBR Capital Markets & Co., LLC in 2017; chief executive officer of B. Riley & Co., LLC from 1997 to 2006; and as chairman of BRPM from April 2019 until the completion of its business combination in February 2020. Mr. Riley has served as a member of the board of directors of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: BW) since April 2019 and Select Interior Concepts, Inc. (Nasdaq: SIC) since November 2019. Mr. Riley also previously served on the board of directors of Franchise Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRG) from September 2018 to March 2020 and Sonim Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SONM) from October 2017 to March 2019. Mr. Riley received his B.S. in Finance from Lehigh University. Mr. Riley’s experience and expertise in the investment banking industry will provide our board of directors with valuable insight into the capital markets. Mr. Riley’s extensive experience serving on other public company boards is an important resource for the board.

Kenneth Young has served as President of B. Riley Financial (Nasdaq: RILY) since July 2018, and previously served as a director of B. Riley Financial from May 2015 to October 2016, during which he was chair of the audit committee and was on the compensation and governance committees. Mr. Young has served as chief executive officer of B. Riley Principal Investments, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of B. Riley Financial, which acquires, invests and operates companies across several verticals, including communications, media, construction and retail, with a focus on maximizing cash flows through operational expertise, since October 2016. Mr. Young served as the chief executive officer and as a director of BRPM from October 2018 until its initial business combination with Alta (NYSE: ALTG) in February 2020. Mr. Young currently serves as chief executive officer at Babcock & Wilcox (NYSE: BW) since November 2018. Mr. Young has served as a member of the board of directors of Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX) since 2017 and currently serves on the board of directors of Sonim Technologies (Nasdaq: SONM). He also served on the board of directors of Franchise Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: FRG) from August 2018 to March 2020 bebe stores, inc. from January 2018 to April 2019, Standard Diversified (NYSE: SDI) from 2015 to 2017, and Globalstar, Inc. (NYSE: GSAT) from November 2015 to December 2018. From August 2008 to March 2016, Mr. Young served as the president and chief executive officer of Lightbridge Communications Corporation. Mr. Young holds a Master’s in Business Administration from the University of Southern Illinois and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Sciences from Graceland University.

Patrick J. Bartels Jr. has been the managing member of Redan Advisors LLC, a firm that provides fiduciary services, including board of director representation and strategic planning advisory services, for domestic and international public and private business entities, since December 2018. Prior to founding Redan Advisors LLC, Mr. Bartels was a senior investment professional with 20 years of experience. From 2002 to December 2018, Mr. Bartels served as a Managing Principal at Monarch Alternative Capital LP, a private investment firm that focused primarily on event-driven credit opportunities. Prior to Monarch, he served as research analyst for high yield investments at Invesco Ltd. (NYSE: IVZ), where he analyzed primary and secondary debt offerings of companies in various industries. His professional experience includes investing in complex financial restructurings and process-intensive situations in North America, Asia and Europe in a broad spectrum of industries. Mr. Bartels has served as a director on numerous public and private boards of directors with an extensive track-record of driving value-added returns for all stakeholders through governance, incentive alignment, capital markets transactions, and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Bartels formerly served on the board of directors for WCI Communities, Inc. from 2009 to 2017, Parker Drilling Company from March 2019 to February 2020 and BRPM from April 2019 to February 2020. During his time as a director for Parker Drilling Company and BRPM, Mr. Bartels served on the Audit Committee and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Bartels currently serves on the board of directors of Arch Coal, Inc. (NYSE: ARCH), Hexion Inc., Brinks Home Security and Centric Brands Inc. (Nasdaq: CTRC); he serves on the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and the Audit Committee for Arch Coal, Inc. Mr. Bartels began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, where he was a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Bartels holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, and received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting with a concentration in Finance from Bucknell University.

Jamie Kempner has been president of LSH Partners since December 2016. Prior to this position, Mr. Kempner was president of Loeb Partners Corporation from 2014 to 2016. Mr. Kempner began his career at Lazard (NYSE: LAZ), in 1983 and was named a general partner in 1993. Mr. Kempner was involved in banking and capital markets transactions and managed Lazard’s Corporate Finance department from 1995-1998 and founded Lazard’s Logistics and Transportation group in 2000. His most recent role was as senior advisor in Lazard’s general industrials banking group, with emphasis on companies in the Transportation and Logistics industries. Mr. Kempner also served on the Underwriting and Private Placement Committees of Lazard. Mr. Kempner has extensive experience advising on a number of corporate transactions and initial public offerings. Mr. Kempner has been a member of the board of directors of Private Wealth Partners since September 2018, and served on the board of directors of BRPM from 2018 until the completion of its business combination in February 2020. Mr. Kempner received a B.A. from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Timothy Presutti currently serves as managing partner and chief investment officer of Woody Creek Capital Partners LLC, a private investment firm he founded in 2007 that specializes in private credit and special situation investing. Mr. Presutti has been the sole owner and managing director of Woody Creek Capital Partners LLC since 2006, Woody Creek Capital Management LLC since 2018 and Wocap II GP, LLC since 2017. Mr. Presutti additionally serves as senior advisor to the Bosarge Family Office based in Houston, TX. Mr. Presutti has nearly twenty-four years of finance experience, spanning investing, portfolio management, trading and capital markets. As co-founder of Broadbill Investment Partners, an investment management firm, Mr. Presutti oversaw all capital raising for two funds and a co-investment platform. He was a member of the Investment Committee and is now a senior advisor, minority owner and managing director to Broadbill Investment Partners since 2011. Mr. Presutti started his career at Bankers Trust, which was acquired by Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. in 1999; his last position there was managing director and head of High Yield trading from 2005 to 2007. Mr. Presutti served on the board of directors of BRPM from 2018 until the completion of its business combination in February 2020.

Robert Suss has been co-chief executive officer of UK Agricultural Finance, a company that provides underwriting to local farming communities in the United Kingdom, since 2016, and non-executive chairman of EG Capital Advisors, a London-based investment firm, since 2017. Mr. Suss has served on the board of directors of Kingswood Group PLC since 2019. Until 2015, Mr. Suss was a managing director at Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC where he worked for 18 years in the Investment Management Division. Mr. Suss served on the audit committees of the board of directors of Pace Holdings Corp. from 2015 until the completion of its business combination in March 2017 and TPG Pace Holdings Corp. from 2016 until the completion of its business combination in November 2019. Mr. Suss also served on the board of directors of BRPM from 2018 until the completion of its business combination in February 2020.