Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. has served as our President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board since our inception in January 2021. Mr. Ross was the Founder, Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer of WL Ross from April 2000 to February 2017. Founded in 2000, WL Ross is a global distressed private equity firm investing across private equity, credit, infrastructure and mortgage funds. In March 2016, WL Ross Holding Corp., a SPAC founded in 2014 by Mr. Ross, successfully acquired Nexeo Solutions Holdings LLC, a chemical and plastics distributor. Mr. Ross served as chairman of the board of Nexeo Solutions for a year before his appointment as the 39th Secretary of Commerce on February 28, 2017. Immediately prior to his confirmation as Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Ross served on the board of directors of the following companies: Navigator Holdings (NYSE: NVGS), Invesco Private Capital, Bank of Cyprus, Talmer Bancorp and Sun Bancorp. He previously had been Chairman of International Steel Group Inc., International Auto Components Group Inc., and Diamond S Shipping Inc. As Secretary of Commerce, Mr. Ross was the principal voice of business in the Trump Administration, ensuring that U.S. entrepreneurs and businesses had the tools they needed to create jobs and economic opportunity. He served on the board of directors of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, the Overseas Private Investment Corporation and the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation. Prior to founding WL Ross in 2000, Mr. Ross was the Executive Managing Director of Rothschild, Inc., where he and his team advised various constituencies through bankruptcies and workouts around the world, assisting in restructuring in excess of $200 billion of liabilities. In 1997, Mr. Ross and his investment team organized their first private equity fund, Rothschild Recovery Fund L.P. In April 2000, Mr. Ross founded WL Ross and acquired from Rothschild Inc. its general and limited partner interests in Rothschild Recovery Fund L.P., which was renamed WLR Recovery Fund, L.P. We believe Mr. Ross is well qualified to serve as a director due to his over 40 years of experience in private equity, numerous public and private company directorship roles, and globally-recognized financial expertise having been elected to both the Private Equity Hall of Fame and the Turnaround Management Association Hall of Fame. Additionally, South Korean President Kim Dae Jung awarded Mr. Ross a medal for helping the country recover from its financial crisis and the Emperor of Japan awarded him the Order of the Rising Sun with Silver Stars, its highest award to a foreign citizen.

Stephen J. Toy has served as our Chief Financial Officer since our inception in January 2021. Mr. Toy has also served as the co-founder and managing partner of Broadpeak Global LP since September 2020, an independent private equity firm dedicated to opportunistic buyouts and special situations transactions in the global industrials, materials and chemicals sectors. Prior to that, from 2006 until September 2020 Mr. Toy served in various senior roles at Invesco, Ltd. including as the Global Head of Private Equity . In his past career he occupied the position of Chairman for Plascar Participações Industriais SA, Chairman for International Automotive Components Group North America, Inc., President & Director at Nexeo Solutions, Principal at Rothschild, Inc. and Senior Managing Director at WL Ross. Over the past 24 years, Mr. Toy has invested across a diverse set of industries including automotive, railcar leasing, telecommunications, financial services, steel, media, building materials and technology. Mr. Toy is currently on the board and compensation committee of Permian Basin Materials LLC and has served since October 2013. Mr. Toy previously served on the board of directors for Amalgamated Bank, Compagnie Europeenne de Wagon, IAC Group North America, Marquis Who’s Who and Kansai Sawayaka Bank.

Nadim Z. Qureshi has served as our Head of M&A since our inception in January 2021. Mr. Qureshi is the co-founder and managing partner of BroadPeak Global LP since June 2020, an independent private equity firm dedicated to opportunistic buyouts and special situation transactions in the global industrials, advanced materials and chemical sectors. Prior to this, Mr. Qureshi was a Managing Partner at Invesco Private Capital from September 2015 to September 2020. Prior to that, he served as a Managing Director for WL Ross. In this role, he headed private equity investments in the chemical and the industrial sectors. Mr. Qureshi led the sourcing and the execution of the Nexeo’s acquisition by WL Ross Holding and was a Director of Nexeo Solutions from June 2016 to November 2017. From 2013 to 2014 Mr. Qureshi was a Partner at Quinpario Partners LLC. Prior to that, from 2005 to 2012, he held multiple leadership roles at Solutia Inc. including corporate development, strategy and P&L responsibility. Mr. Qureshi was a member of the executive team that led the restructuring and transformation of Solutia from a bankrupt, commodity producer to a global, highly profitable specialty chemicals business until its sale to Eastman Chemical in 2012. Prior to Solutia, Mr. Qureshi was with Arthur D. Little and Charles River Associates, focusing on strategy development, mergers and acquisitions, growth and performance improvement in the chemical and industrial sectors. Mr. Qureshi currently serves a director and chairman of the board of Diamond S Shipping Inc. and has held that position since March 2017.

Lord William Astor has served on our board of directors since our inception in January 2021. He has been Chairman of Silvergate Media Ltd since 2011, a media and intellectual property company. Previously, he served as a director of Nexeo Solutions, Inc. from 2015 to 2017 and as a non-executive director of WL Ross Holdings Corp. from 2000 to 2015. From 2007 to 2015 William Astor was a director of Networkers International Plc, a global recruitment consultancy listed on AIM. From 1977 to 2011, He was Deputy Chairman of Chorion Plc, a media rights company. Lord Astor was previously a Minister in the Governments of Prime Minister Margret Thatcher and John Major from 1990 to 1997, Conservative Opposition Spokesman from 1997 to 2011 and currently sits in Parliament in the House of Lords as a Conservative Peer. He is a non-executive Director of Canadian Overseas Petroleum Plc since March 2013. Lord Astor also serves as a member and chairman of the board of directors for Silvergate Media Limited and has held this position since January 2011. We believe that Lord William Astor’s directorship experience, business expertise, financial acumen and business industry contacts, make him well qualified to serve as a director on our board of directors.

Larry Kudlow has served on our board of directors since our inception in January 2021. Mr. Kudlow was Assistant to the President and Director of the National Economic Council for the Trump Administration from March 2018 to January 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Kudlow was a CNBC Senior Contributor from April 2011 to February 2018. He was previously host of CNBC’s primetime “The Kudlow Report” and a syndicated radio show host from April 2011 to February 2018. During President Reagan’s first term, Mr. Kudlow was the associate director for economics and planning, Office of Management and Budget, where he was engaged in the development of the administration’s economic and budget policy. We believe that Mr. Kudlow’s business and government expertise, financial acumen and business industry contacts, make him well qualified to serve as a director on our board of directors.

Edward A. Snyder has served on our board of directors since our inception in January 2021. Mr. Snyder is the William S. Beinecke Professor of Economics and Management at the Yale School of Management since June 2011. He conducts research on Industrial Organization and Antitrust and also teaches Economic Analysis of High-Tech Industries, a course that applies economic principles to valuations of high-tech firms. Mr. Snyder earlier served as Dean of the University of Virginia’s Darden School, Dean of the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and most recently as Dean of Yale School of Management. Mr. Snyder serves as Chair of the Global Network for Advanced Management since April 2012, a network of 32 top business schools that he launched in 2012. He is a member of the Visiting Committee of MIT Sloan, the International Advisory Board of the Fudan University Business School, and the International Advisory Counsel of Stockholm School of Economics. Additionally, Mr. Snyder is a member of the board of directors of Kemper Sports. Mr. Snyder earned a Ph.D. in Economics and an M.A. in Public Policy from the University of Chicago. We believe that Mr. Snyder’s directorship experience, business expertise, financial acumen and business industry contacts, make him well qualified to serve as a director on our board of directors.