James N. Hauslein has served as our Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since our inception. Mr. Hauslein has served as the President and Managing Director of Hauslein & Company, Inc., a private investment firm, since 1991. In February 2015, Mr. Hauslein led the recapitalization/acquisition of Big Time, a leading supplier of workplace hand protection and related products into consumer DYI/Pro retail stores, with Big Time’s co-founders and three institutional investors. Mr. Hauslein served as Big Time’s Executive Chairman from February 2015 to September 2018 and Chief Executive Officer from November 2017 to September 2018. Under Mr. Hauslein’s leadership, Big Time completed its first add-on acquisition in August 2015 and its second add-on acquisition in May 2016. In October 2018, Big Time was sold to the Hillman Group (a portfolio company of CCMP). In 1991, Mr. Hauslein led the buyout of Sunglass Hut (formerly NASDAQ: RAYS). Mr. Hauslein served as Chairman of Sunglass Hut from 1991 to 2001 and served as Chief Executive Officer from May 1997 to January 1998 and January 2001 to April 2001. During Mr. Hauslein’s involvement with Sunglass Hut, the company increased its revenue through organic growth and acquisitions from approximately $37 million in 1987 to approximately $680 million in fiscal 2000 prior to its sale to Luxottica Group SpA (Milan and formerly NYSE: LUX). While at Sunglass Hut, Mr. Hauslein presided over numerous add-on acquisitions in the United States and Australia as well as organic growth in North America, the Caribbean, and Europe and a joint venture in Singapore. At the time of Luxottica Group’s acquisition, Sunglass Hut operated approximately 2,000 company-owned Sunglass Hut, Watch Station, Watch World, and combination stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. Mr. Hauslein was the primary sponsor and Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp., a $200 million SPAC that completed its initial public offering in 2008. Mr. Hauslein has also served on the board of directors of Freedom Acquisition Holdings (formerly AMEX: FRH), a $528 million general purpose blank check company that initially completed a business combination with GLG Partners (formerly NYSE: GLG) in a transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion, GLG Partners, a $25 billion in asset alternative asset manager sold to the Mann Group in October 2010, Liberty Acquisition Holdings Corp. (formerly NYSE AMEX: LIA), a $1 billion SPAC that merged with Grupo Prisa in an $8 billion merger completed in November 2010, Elephant Capital LLC, a publicly traded private equity investment firm headquartered in Delhi, India, and Easterly Acquisition, a $200 million SPAC. Mr. Hauslein is currently a member of the board of directors of the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association and the American Swiss Foundation, and was formerly a Trustee of the Pine School and a director of The Jamestown Foundation. Mr. Hauslein is also a Director for Brookline Capital Acquisition Corp., a SPAC focused on the life sciences industry currently in the process of completing its initial public offering. Mr. Hauslein received a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management in 1984 and a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1981. He was previously a member of each of the Advisory Council of Cornell’s Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise program, The Johnson Graduate School of Management, the Athletics Advisory Council and the Engineering College Advisory Council.

Louis G. Zachary, Jr., our President, has agreed to serve on our board of directors. Since July 2016, Mr. Zachary has been a Co-Managing Principal at Methuselah Advisors, a mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory firm focused primarily on the media, technology and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Zachary was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group and Senior Advisor at Lazard from 2002 to April 2016. Prior to Lazard, Mr. Zachary was a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Global Media Group at Merrill Lynch & Co. from 2000 to 2002 and served on the Fairness Opinion and Equity Valuation Committees of the firm. From 1985 to 2000, Mr. Zachary worked at Credit Suisse First Boston (and its predecessor company, The First Boston Corporation) in various capacities, including Co-Head of the Global Media & Telecommunications Group and member of the Management Committee of the investment banking unit. Mr. Zachary has previously served as a member of the Board of Directors of United States Satellite Broadcasting Corporation (which merged with Hughes Electronics Corporation (DirecTV), now a part of AT&T Corporation) and the Supervisory Board of Agora S.A., one of the largest media company in Poland. Mr. Zachary received a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College in 1981 and a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1985.

John G. Chachas, our Chief Operating Officer, is the Founder and Co-Managing Principal of Methuselah Advisors, a mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory firm focused primarily on the media, technology and telecommunications sectors. Previously, Mr. Chachas served as Managing Director of the Media Group at Lazard from 2002 to 2010. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Chachas was a Managing Director of Merrill Lynch & Co., and from 1990 to 2000, Mr. Chachas was a Managing Director in the Media & Telecommunications Group at Credit Suisse First Boston (and its predecessor company, The First Boston Corporation). In his career in banking, he has provided extensive advisory services to a variety of media and digital companies, including the E.W. Scripps Company, The Hearst Corporation, Walt Disney, Gannett Company, Tribune, and many others over 30 years. Mr. Chachas ran for United States Senate in the state of Nevada in 2010. He and his family are the principal owners of Gump’s, a 159-year-old boutique luxury retailer located in San Francisco. He serves as a Trustee and member of the Investment Committee responsible for the endowment of the American College of Greece in Athens, Greece. Mr. Chachas received his Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University and his Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

C. Blake Saunders, our Vice President of Strategy & Development, has been a Principal at Methuselah Advisors, a mergers & acquisitions and corporate advisory firm focused primarily on the media, technology and telecommunications sectors, since 2011. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Saunders was a Financial Analyst in the Global Healthcare Group of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Investment Banking Division. Mr. Saunders serves as a senior advisor to several high-growth digital media companies, including Tiny Horse (recently acquired by Whistle Sports Inc.), American Songwriter and Rebel Girls. Mr. Saunders received a Bachelor of Science in Management from Purdue University in December 2008.

Robert A. Knox, has agreed to serve on our board of directors. Mr. Knox is the Senior Managing Director of Cornerstone Equity Investors, L.L.C., a private equity firm which he founded in 1984. The investment principals of Cornerstone have funded over 120 companies through middle market buyouts and expansion financings since 1984, including Dell Computer, Health Management Associates, Linear Technology, Micron Technology, Centurion, Team Health Corporation, Comdata and Sunglass Hut. Cornerstone manages the capital of its founding general partners and does not manage institutional investments. Prior to the formation of Cornerstone, Mr. Knox was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Prudential Equity Investors, Inc., the private equity subsidiary of Prudential Financial, where he designed and executed the initial Alternative Asset investment strategy at Prudential. During his investment career, Mr. Knox has served on the boards of more than 25 private and public companies, including as the lead independent director and chair of the compensation committee of Health Management Associates, Inc. (NYSE: HMA) prior to its acquisition by Community Health Systems. Mr. Knox has also been a trustee of Boston University for 20 years, serving as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees from 2008 to 2016. Mr. Knox received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Boston University in 1974, a Master of Business Administration from Boston University in 1975 and an Honorary Degree from Boston University in 2017. We believe Mr. Knox is well qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his extensive leadership and business experience, including his service on numerous corporate boards, expertise in the healthcare sector and broad experience in technology and consumer product companies.

William Pate, has agreed to serve on our board of directors. Since October 2015, Mr. Pate has served as President and Chief Executive Officer, and since December 2014, as a member of the Board of Directors, of Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR), an energy holding company. Mr. Pate was previously Co-President, from March 2012 to October 2015, of Equity Group Investments, Inc., a private investment firm based in Chicago, Illinois and founded by Sam Zell, where he held various other positions since March 1994. Mr. Pate also served as a director of Covanta Holding Corporation from 1999 to May 2016 and was the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Covanta from October 2004 through September 2005. Mr. Pate has previously served on the boards of directors of several other public companies, including Exterran Holdings, Inc., Adams Respiratory Therapeutics, MiddleBrook Pharmaceuticals and CNA Surety Corp., as well as those of several private companies associated with Equity Group Investments. Mr. Pate began his professional career at The First Boston Corporation as a financial analyst in the natural resources mergers and acquisitions group, and subsequently as an associate at The Blackstone Group where he worked on private equity investments and mergers. Mr. Pate received a Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Chicago Law School in 1993 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1986. We believe Mr. Pate is well qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his experience as a board member of public and private companies and expertise with capital markets, financial transactions, corporate governance and investing in a range of businesses across domestic and international markets.

George L. Pita, has agreed to serve on our board of directors. Mr. Pita currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of MasTec, Inc. (NYSE: MTZ), an energy and telecommunications infrastructure construction company. Mr. Pita joined MasTec in February 2013 and during this tenure, annual revenue has grown over 90%, with 2019 revenue of approximately $7.2 billion. Mr. Pita previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Stuart Weitzman Holdings, LLC from 2007 to 2013, where he played a key management role during the $550 million sale of the company to Jones Group (formerly NYSE: JAG) in 2010. From April 2002 to June 2007, Mr. Pita served in various positions at Perry Ellis International (formerly NASDAQ: PERY), a leading apparel company, including as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2004 to 2007. From 1989 to 2002, Mr. Pita served in a variety of financial and operating positions, including Chief Financial Officer, at Sunglass Hut (formerly NASDAQ: RAYS), where he played a key role in the $650 million sale of the company to the Luxottica Group SpA (Milan and formerly NYSE: LUX) in 2001. Mr. Pita began his career in the audit division of Arthur Andersen, LLP, and has been a certified public accountant for over 30 years. He is a member of the advisory board for the Miami Business School of Accounting and serves as a board and audit committee chair of various non-profit entities including Goodwill Industries of South Florida and Easter Seals of South Florida. From January 2008 through February 2010, Mr. Pita served as a special advisor to Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp. (formerly AMEX: AXG), a $200 million SPAC that completed its initial public offering in 2008. Mr. Pita received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Miami in 1983. We believe Mr. Pita is well qualified to serve on our board of directors based on his accounting expertise and extensive leadership and business experience, including his management positions in both public company and private equity portfolio entities.

Special Advisors

Gaurav V. Burman, one of our special advisors, is a Director of Dabur International, and a fifth generation member of the family that founded Dabur over 130 years ago. Dabur is the largest Indian fast-moving consumer goods company in India, with US$2 billion in revenue and US$12 billion in market capitalization. Dabur manufactures a range of over 400 products in healthcare, oral care, personal care, home care, packaged foods, insect care, and non-carbonated soft drinks. Dabur became a listed business in 1995, at which time Mr. Burman, on behalf of his family, started to invest in new businesses, as India started to liberalize. As a result, the Burman family now have investments in healthcare, media, financial services, retail, and education, and have multiple joint ventures with Global Fortune 100 businesses including Aviva, Experian, Yum Brands, Bongrain, and previously with Fidelity and ABN Amro. Mr. Burman is a board member of Dabur International, DMI Finance India, Experian India, Healthcare at Home, Burman Hospitality, Tufts University and the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice. Mr. Burman is also a member of the Young Presidents Organization. Mr. Burman was the President and a member of the Board of Directors of Atlas Acquisition Holdings Corp., a $200 million SPAC that completed its initial public offering in 2008.

Brian Finn, one of our special advisors, currently serves as Chairman of Covr Financial Technologies Corp. and as a director of The Scotts Miracle Gro Company, Owl Rock Capital Corporation, X-Vax Corporation and WaveGuide Corporation. Mr. Finn is also Chairman of Star Mountain Capital, a lower middle market credit investment firm, and Investment Partner of Nyca Partners, a financial technology venture capital firm. Mr. Finn previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Asset Management Finance Corporation from 2009 to March 2013 and as its Chairman from 2008 to March 2013. From 2004 to 2008, Mr. Finn was Chairman and Head of Alternative Investments at Credit Suisse Group. Mr. Finn has held many positions within Credit Suisse and its predecessor firms, including President of Credit Suisse First Boston, President of Investment Banking, Co-President of Institutional Securities, Chief Executive Officer of Credit Suisse USA and a member of the Office of the Chairman of Credit Suisse First Boston. He was also a member of the Executive Board of Credit Suisse. Mr. Finn served as principal and partner of private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Finn received a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.