Sean Alford is J2 Global’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Development. In this role, he is responsible for origination, analysis and execution of mergers and acquisitions, investments and strategic transactions across the J2 Global portfolio. Prior to taking on his current role, Sean led corporate development for Ziff Davis and J2 Digital Media.

Sean has been recognized in the “Next Wave of Leaders” by Multichannel News for his leadership in media and telecom. He started his career as an attorney at the law firm Proskauer Rose in New York City, where he was a member of the firm’s Sports Group and TMT practice. He has also worked at Comcast’s NBC Sports Group. Sean holds law and business degrees from the University of North Carolina.

Brad Armstrong is a partner in the Philadelphia office of LMP. He joined the firm in 2009. Prior to LMP, Brad was part of the Financial Institutions Group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he focused on M&A and capital raising transactions for the firm’s investment banking clients. Previously, Brad was an Assistant Vice President in Bank of America’s Finance Group. Brad began his career in a strategic advisory group within Wachovia Corporation.

Brad is currently a member of the Boards of Directors of Global Financial Credit, Pathstone, SRS Acquiom, and Tortoise Investments, and previously served on the boards of Commercial Credit Inc., First Allied Holdings Inc. and LSQ Funding. Brad received an M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Ben Axler is the founder of Spruce Point Capital Management, an investment firm focused on short-selling, value, and special situation investment opportunities. Mr. Axler is an activist short-seller, forensic financial researcher, and has exposed billions of dollars of financial schemes globally. Prior to founding his firm in 2009, Mr. Axler spent eight years as an investment banker with Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital where he structured and executed financing, derivative risk management, and M&A deals for leading Fortune 500 clients. Mr. Axler graduated from Yale University with a Masters degree in Statistics, and received both a Bachelor of Arts degree in Statistics and a Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Business Administration from Rutgers College, where he graduated with Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa honors.

Vin has more than 25 years of investment banking and financial advisory experience across mergers and acquisitions, financings, and special situations.

Prior to joining Configure Partners, Vin was a Managing Director at various investment banks including Duff & Phelps, Alvarez & Marsal and Deloitte Corporate Finance. Vin spent the early part of his career at Lehman Brothers and Arthur Andersen.

Vin received his M.B.A. from New York’s University’s Stern School of Business. He is a Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) Charterholder and a C.P.A. (Inactive; State of Colorado).

Vin is also a FINRA General Securities Registered Representative (Series 7, 63 and 24). Vin resides in New Jersey with his wife and two children.

Robert Carlon is a director in the Corporate Development team at Smiths Group plc. Robert is responsible for origination and execution of M&A transactions and other strategic projects across Smiths Group’s five divisions. Robert originally joined Smiths Group in 2018 as a lawyer working in the M&A legal team and transitioned across to corporate development just under a year ago.

Prior to joining Smiths Group, Robert worked as an M&A lawyer in private practice for over 10 years. Robert worked in both UK and US law firms in London and Singapore and has significant experience of cross border transactions in Europe, the US and Asia.

Robert has a law degree from Southampton University. Robert is originally from Sweden but has spent most of his life in the UK, other than a few years working in Stockholm and Singapore.

Brendan Carroll is a Senior Partner at VPC, which he co-founded in 2007. He is responsible for strategic initiatives and firm operations in addition to sourcing, evaluating and executing investment opportunities. Mr. Carroll also oversees marketing, fundraising, business development and investor relations for the firm. He is a member of the firm’s Senior Leadership Team and Investment Committee.

Mr. Carroll serves as member of the board of directors of VPC portfolio company, johnnie-O.

Previously, as a member of the Solutions Group at Magnetar Capital, Mr. Carroll specialized in direct financings to lower middle market companies. He has held various investment banking positions at William Blair and Robertson Stephens, specializing in corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Carroll has also worked in various capacities for former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman (I- CT).

Mr. Carroll received a B.A. with honors in government from Georgetown University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Board of Regents at Georgetown University, the Finance Council of the Archdiocese of Chicago, the Board of Trustees at National Louis University and Loyola Press. He is also a director on the board of the Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago and is a member of the board’s Finance Committee.

Andrew Dunn joined OEP in 2008 and is a Managing Director based in New York. During his tenure at OEP, Mr. Dunn has worked on a range of investments in the business services, technology, media and telecommunications industries. Mr. Dunn is currently a member of the Board of Directors of Allegro Microsystems, MediaKind, Neology and Zodiac Systems. Mr. Dunn was previously involved in OEP’s investments in Genband, Mandiant, Netas, Travelport and TV Guide.

Prior to joining OEP, Mr. Dunn worked at the Boston Consulting Group, where he primarily served clients in the media and telecommunications sectors. Mr. Dunn received his M.P.P. focused on International Trade and Finance from the Harvard Kennedy School and his B.A. (double first class honors) in Modern History from the University of Oxford.

Jaime Forsyth is a Managing Director and member of the Senior Leadership Team at Monomoy Capital Partners. She started her tenure with the firm as an investment Analyst in 2008 and leads deal execution from sourcing through exit. Prior to joining Monomoy, Jaime was an Analyst in the leveraged finance group at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc.

Jaime has served or currently serves on the Board of Directors for 13 of Monomoy’s platform investments, including Kauffman Engineering and Friedrich Air Conditioning, both current investments for which she serves as Chairman of the Board, and Katun Corporation, which is Monomoy’s most recent exit. In addition to her deal team responsibilities, Jaime manages the junior investment team and is actively involved in the firm’s internal continuous improvement initiatives.

Jaime received her B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia, with concentrations in Finance and Accounting, and a minor in Italian. Jaime grew up outside of Chicago and currently lives in Manhattan with her husband and daughter.

Tim is a Principal in the Corporate Value Consulting practice and is located in Grant Thornton’s San Francisco office.

Tim has more than 21 years of professional experience spanning corporate finance consulting; financial analysis; and valuation of businesses, intangible assets and complex securities across a range of industries.

Ross Gatlin is CEO & Managing Partner of Prophet Equity, a private equity firm that makes control equity investments in strategically viable, asset intensive, middle market companies where there are significant value creation opportunities. His track record includes over $2.4B of value created with the same distinct investment strategy over the last twenty plus years. These investments have generated both absolute and internal rates of return at the top of the private equity industry standard. Prior to this, Ross worked on strategic and operational turnarounds at Bain & Co. and financial restructurings at Houlihan Lokey. Ross holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University where he received both the Dean’s Distinguished Service Award and Beta Gamma Sigma honors. He earned his BBA from the University of Texas at Austin with a concentration in finance.

Jeff is the Senior Vice President – Corporate Development for Jacobs where has worked since 1998. In this role, he has lead Jacobs through two of the most transformative transactions in its history—the $3.3B acquisition of CH2M in 2017 and the $3.3B divestiture of our Energy, Chemicals, and Resources Segment – as well as Key W in 2019 and Wood Nuclear in 2020.

Prior to this role, Jeff served Jacobs as SVP – Controller and Public Sector – CFO. He has over 36 years of experience in M&A and financial roles, primarily in engineering, construction, government services, and related industries, having worked for Jacobs, ICF Kaiser, and Deloitte & Touche. Jeff is a graduate of Virginia Tech and resides in Dallas where he is married with three adult children. He loves sports, is involved in his church and actively mentors others. He is also on the Board of Directors for CBMC (Christian Business Men’s Connection).

Dr. Haders has 20 years of experience in Healthcare as a scientist, entrepreneur, advisor & investor.

Dr. Haders is currently the Managing Director, Digital Health at Nex Cubed a Frontier Technology Venture Studio and Seed Investor, where he oversees an early stage investment portfolio of 23 Digital Healthcare companies that have an enterprise value of over $150M. In late 2018, Dr. Haders launched Nex Cubed’s Digital Health Accelerator, which was recently named one of the “Top Ten Global Digital Health Accelerators” and “The Best Accelerators and Incubators for FemTech Startups”. Nex Cubed Digital Health is one of the most active investors in the industry, deploying $3M across 16 investments in 2019. He is also an Operating Partner at Sway Ventures, a US- based venture capital firm, where he helps lead Digital Health investing and portfolio oversight. Dr. Haders is a Board Member and the Executive Chairman of Repurpose.ai, an AI Drug Discovery company, and a Board Observer at AppliedVR, a digital therapeutic company.

Dr. Haders is a Faculty Member and Member of the Advisory Committee of the UCSD, Digital Health Certificate Program.

Prior to his current roles, Dr. Haders held positions from research fellow to senior scientist to Co-Founder/CEO in the fields of medical devices, pharmaceuticals and nano-drug delivery.

Dan Hanson is Chief Investment Officer of Waddell & Reed Financial, Inc., and of the company’s asset manager, Ivy Investment Management Company. He is responsible for leading the firm’s Investment Management Division and serves as a member of the company’s executive leadership team. Mr. Hanson joined the company in 2019 as senior vice president and CIO, bringing over 25 years of investment and leadership experience.

Mr. Hanson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and French from Middlebury College, and earned an MBA, Accounting and Analytic Finance, from The University of Chicago. He is a CFA charterholder.

Florence Hosanna is a Director responsible for the origination and underwriting of venture tech/tech-enabled companies within ORIX Growth Capital. Her team is passionate in providing capital to high-growing, innovative tech companies that create value through technology, to steward a better tomorrow. ORIX Growth Capital has deployed over $2 billion of debt capital and enabled over 200 tech-enabled companies to execute on their growth plans with minimal dilution, with investment sizes ranging from $5 million to $100 million.

Florence also spent five years at Goldman Sachs & Co in the Specialty Lending Group. As Vice President, Ms. Hosanna was responsible for structuring investments, conducting due diligence, managing legal documentation and leading restructurings.

Florence is currently a board member of Family Gateway, a Dallas charitable organization committed to providing life-changing supportive services to families affected by homelessness. She is also President of the board of the Dallas Children Advocacy Center (“DCAC”) Foundation that manages funds for DCAC, a charitable organization that provides services to improve the lives of abused children. Florence loves to spend time with her husband Marcus Ku and two daughters Alathea-Joy (8) and Sophie Grace (4). In the weekends, Florence also enjoys leading a praise and worship band as lead vocalist and pianist.

Paul Humphreys focuses on M&A transactions and general corporate matters. He has extensive experience advising strategic and sponsor clients on cross-border transactions, including complex carve outs, in the chemicals, pharmaceutical, industrials and consumer products sectors. Paul is a member of Freshfields US Diversity Committee and heads up Halo, Freshfields LGBT+ employee resource group

Prior to his career as an attorney, Paul lived and worked in Japan. Paul earned his JD at The Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University where he was a member of the Pace International Law Review and received his BA from The University of Texas at Austin.

Denise Jackson joined AMN Healthcare (AMN: NYSE) in 2000, and is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary. AMN Healthcare is the nation’s largest healthcare workforce management solutions and staffing company with over $2B in annual revenue. AMN has been named as one of Forbes’ 100 fastest growing companies and is part of the Fortune 1000.

Ms. Jackson serves on the Board of Tractor Supply Company, the country’s largest rural lifestyle retailer and a Fortune 500 company. Ms. Jackson serves as the Chairperson of the Nominating and Governance Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. Previously Ms. Jackson served as a director of PipelineRx, a telepharmacy technology and services company, and as Chairperson of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Jackson also serves as a Director for AMN Healthcare’s 25 subsidiaries.

Priya Pradhan Karkar works on business development, investor relations, and strategy at Kline Hill, having joined the team in April 2018. She was most recently an independent consultant, working with several private investment firms including Kline Hill, with whom she has been working as an advisor since October 2015. Previously, she spent eight years at Cambridge Associates as head of private equity secondaries and fund of funds manager research. While at Cambridge Associates, Ms. Karkar was responsible for covering the industry, identifying and conducting primary research on high quality investment firms, and monitoring firms and funds in which clients were invested.

Her previous experience includes work in microfinance with various organizations and international economic development consulting at CARANA Corporation. She began her career as a research associate at the Corporate Executive Board. Ms. Karkar holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Relations from Brown University (2002) and a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (MALD) with a focus in International Business from The Fletcher School at Tufts University (2007).

Ms. Tiffany Kosch is a Managing Director at CenterGate Capital a $350 million lower middle market private equity fund. Tiffany has over 20 years of investment experience creating value in lower middle market companies. She was a Managing Director at H.I.G. Capital, where she invested in underperforming lower middle market companies for eight years. Her experience covers a broad range of investment structures and types, among them corporate spin-outs and orphans, turnaround equity and distressed debt. Sectors covered are also broad, including business services, consumer products and manufacturing. Tiffany received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.S., cum laude, from Georgetown University.

Wade Kruse is the National Managing Partner, Diligence, for the Transaction Services practice. Kruse has managed hundreds of transaction advisory services projects for private equity and corporate clients, with a primary focus on the financial, tax, IT, and compensation and benefits aspects of businesses. He has experience leading buy-side and sell-side due diligence projects; providing sell-side support for investment bankers and their clients; consulting on carve-out divestitures; identifying working capital requirements and negotiating positions; structuring deals; and managing M&A projects and merger integration. Kruse previously held positions in the assurance and business advisory practices of two Big Four firms.

Pamela L. Marcogliese focuses on corporate transactions and corporate governance matters.

She has extensive experience in initial public offerings and other capital-raising transactions. She has played a crucial role in a number of high-profile capital markets transactions over the past few years, including Pinterest’s 2019 IPO.

Pamela also provides board room and management advice on activism, shareholder engagement, and other strategic issues, including cybersecurity, proxy contests, shareholder proposals and ESG. In 2020, Pamela was one of four lawyers ranked by the Legal 500 for Corporate Governance.

Lenard is responsible for leading Edison investments in companies primarily located in the mid-Atlantic area. Lenard co-leads healthcare IT investments and leads Edison’s security practice. Lenard is active in the mid-Atlantic venture community serving as a board member for the Maryland Venture Fund and Greater Baltimore Technology Council.

Lenard began his career at IBM where he worked as a Financial Analyst for IBM Global Services. His main responsibilities were overseeing a budget of $80 million and partnering with international locations to decrease the project costs of IBM Global Services West. Later, Lenard worked for Princeton eCom—an online bill payment company—where, as Manager of B2C Implementations; he oversaw one of the largest joint ventures in the company’s history. Lenard later led B2C Product Development at Princeton eCom prior to earning his MBA. Lenard also worked in healthcare investment banking for Wachovia Securities.

Ryan is a Principal in Grant Thornton’s Financial Advisory Services group. He specializes in advising domestic and international companies, secured and unsecured creditors and private equity funds, in workout situations both in-court and out-of-court. He is primarily focused on advising clients in sale processes, complex financial restructurings, and liquidations as well as serving in various interim management roles. He rejoined Grant Thornton in 2013 after serving as Director for KPMG’s Transactions and Restructuring practice.

Ryan has more than 15 years of restructuring experience within a variety of industries. He also has extensive experience in interim management roles. Most recently, he served as interim CEO to an oil field value, pipe and fittings distribution company as well as its subsidiary, an oil well casing services business, during their respective chapter 11 cases. He and his team were successful in selling all company assets through a §363 sale process.

KJ joined GTCR as a Vice President in 2014 and became a Principal in 2019. Previously, he worked as an Associate at TPG Capital, a global private equity firm based in San Francisco, and as an Analyst in the Financial Institutions group at Goldman Sachs in New York. KJ holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar, and a BS in finance with highest honors from the Indiana University Kelley School of Business.

KJ is currently a Director of RevSpring, Paya and Ultimus Fund Solutions. KJ was previously a Director of GTCR investments Convergex and Dash Financial Technology. In addition, he played an instrumental role in GTCR’s past investments in The Townsend Group and Premium Credit Limited.

James A. Mitarotonda is Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Barington Capital Group, L.P., a value-oriented activist investment firm that he founded in January 2000. Mr. Mitarotonda is an experienced public company director. He currently serves as a director of OMNOVA Solutions Inc. and The Eastern Company. He has also served as a director of A. Schulman, Inc., Avon Products, Inc., The Pep Boys – Manny, Moe & Jack, The Jones Group, Griffon Corporation, Gerber Scientific, Inc., Register.com, Inc., Sielox, Inc. and Ameron International Corporation, among other companies. Mr. Mitarotonda began his career in operating positions at Bloomingdales and Citibank and subsequently was co-founder, Chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Associates (now Comvest). He received a B.A. in economics from Queens College, where he currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees, and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern School of Business.

Abhay Nayak was appointed Head of Global Strategy, Commercial Development and Customer Experience at Zoetis in January 2020. In this role, he is responsible for keeping Zoetis customers at the center of the company’s strategic planning and commercial development plans, while ensuring greater alignment in how Zoetis incorporates the needs of its customers.

Mr. Nayak most recently served as Head of Corporate Strategy at Zoetis, responsible for leading global strategic initiatives, as well as identifying major growth areas and business model innovation opportunities.

Prior to joining Zoetis, Mr. Nayak was a consultant at McKinsey & Company where he advised leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies on crafting and executing global growth strategies. He started his career as an investment banker at Barclays in London, where he advised private equity clients on M&A, restructuring, and financing transactions in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.

Mr. Nayak earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Wharton School. He is also a CFA Charter holder.

Jeffrey Pierce is the Managing Partner of Snow Park Capital Partners, an alternative asset management firm that employs an activist approach to investing in global real estate. Mr. Pierce has significant experience investing in public companies in Australia, including a recent activist engagement with Japara and past involvement with Charter Hall Office REIT. He also recently led a successful proxy contest in the U.S. that resulted in two board seats at Front Yard Residential Corporation. Prior to founding Snow Park in 2015, Mr. Pierce worked at leading hedge fund firms such as Farallon Capital and Luxor Capital.

Barrett is a Managing Director, and a leader, of our Transaction Services – Divestiture Advisory practice with over 16 years of experience in financial statement analysis, financial and operational due diligence, project management and executive leadership. He has extensive experience in purchase, divestiture and financing transactions and has partnered with leading private equity, investment banking and venture capital firms globally to achieve successful results in hundreds of transaction across industries such as business services, healthcare, technology, retail, manufacturing, distribution and consumer products. Prior to joining Grant Thornton, Barrett served as the Chief Financial Officer of several distribution companies and leverages his dual expertise of executive management experience along with mergers and acquisitions advisory for the benefit of his clients. He is also a CPA and adjunct professor at Southern Methodist University where he teaches a graduate level course in financial due diligence.

Prior to launching Coast, James was the Principal and CIO at White Eagle (2007-2016), the predecessor fund to Coast Capital. At White Eagle, James ran an event-driven, activist, and hedged equities portfolio. That fund out-performed peers and relevant indices by >37% over the life of the fund. James also led 5 co-investments from 2011 to 2016 at White Eagle.

From 2004-2007, James was an MD and Head of International investing at JANA Partners. International investments at JANA made a large contribution to overall returns during his tenure. Prior to Jana, James was a Portfolio Manager at Claiborne Capital (2001-2004) where he managed a European Value and Event Portfolio. James began his career at Sierra Global Management in 1997 where he was an MD and the first analyst at the firm. While at Sierra, James learned the disciplines of investing in leading companies in growing and profitable industries.

Saema Somalya serves as deputy general counsel, corporate, and senior vice president at Fifth Third Bancorp. In her role, Ms. Somalya oversees the Corporate and Securities Legal team, the Office of the Corporate Secretary, Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance for Fifth Third Bancorp. Ms. Somalya joined Fifth Third in 2016.

Since joining Fifth Third, Ms. Somalya has advised the C suite and Board on all corporate governance and securities regulatory matters, including the management of fiduciary duties and shareholder and board approvals for the recently completed $4.7 billion acquisition of MB Financial, Inc. Ms. Somalya has also managed the negotiation and execution of significant securities transactions including the divestiture of an approximately $1.7 billion equity investment in Worldpay, over $6 billion in share buybacks and debt offerings and approximately $100 million in strategic acquisitions and investments in the insurance and financial technology sectors. In addition to facilitating strategic transactions, Ms. Somalya also oversees the development of governance processes to facilitate the speed and quality of board and management decision-making and maintain compliance with applicable securities regulations, manages shareholder engagement around corporate governance and ESG issues, and ensures board oversight of corporate culture. She also manages executive compensation and acts as a strategic advisor to the Risk, Compliance and business teams on corporate governance matters.

Before joining Fifth Third in 2016, Ms. Somalya was general counsel, chief administrative officer and corporate secretary of Warren Resources, a NASDAQ listed energy company. At Warren Resources, Ms. Somalya oversaw transformative acquisitions, including the acquisition of Citrus Energy, and negotiated the terms of all significant commercial and capital raising transactions. In addition, Ms. Somalya also managed all administrative, human relations, litigation and regulatory matters for the company. During her tenure, she settled class action lawsuits within reserves, obtained regulatory clearance for significant acquisitions and resolved regulatory disputes with the SEC, NASDAQ and the State of California.

Prior to joining Warren Resources, Ms. Somalya served as senior corporate counsel at PepsiCo, Inc. and as an associate in the securities and capital markets practices of Davis Polk LLP and Linklaters LLP, where she specialized in complex cross border securities offerings and mergers and acquisitions.

After an eleven-year career at Bell Labs in the 80s managing large systems development projects, in the early 90s, Pete founded a software technology and services company that developed network event monitoring solutions for the major telecom providers.

After growing that company to over 70 employees, he sold it, and started another company to build a product that quickly became a leader in the network security industry performing threat detection across large enterprises.

That company was acquired by a Security Audit and Compliance company which was then acquired by IBM. At IBM, Pete led their Global Security SWAT team which was an elite team of security experts and hackers helping customers implement solutions to protect their ‘crown jewels’.

After eleven years at IBM, in 2018, Pete jumped at the opportunity to join the mission at eCare21 to build a Virtual Care solution that is now transforming how healthcare and homecare are delivered.

Patrick N.W. Turner is a Managing Director of VSS and is responsible for developing investment opportunities, structuring investments, conducting due diligence, executing transactions, and monitoring portfolio companies. Mr. Turner joined VSS in 2014. Mr. Turner is currently a member of the board of the following VSS portfolio companies: IT-Ernity and MRG. Previously he was a Managing Director and member of the Management Committee of Crescent Capital Group LP, a below-investment grade alternative credit investment firm, formerly part of Trust Company of the West where he was a Managing Director. After his service with Crescent, he joined Crimson Capital, a leading private equity firm based in China. Mr. Turner is a member of the Board of the American Friends for Oxford University and the Squash Doubles Association.

Mr. Vaughn has served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Par Pacific since July 2014. Prior to joining Par Pacific, Mr. Vaughn, was a partner in the corporate practice group and bankruptcy section of Porter Hedges LLP for 14 years, where his practice focused on corporate reorganizations and restructurings, commodities marketing, transportation, hedging and derivatives, distressed corporate acquisitions, financings and refinancings and creditors” rights. His practice also included general civil litigation in both federal and state courts.

Mr. Vaughn holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University and a juris doctorate from the University of Miami School of Law. Mr. Vaughn is listed as one of America”s leading lawyers by Chambers USA, and The Best Lawyers in America. He is a fellow of the Litigation Counsel of America, and has also been recognized as one of the leading lawyers in Texas by Texas Super Lawyers and H Texas Magazine.

Kristy N. Waterman is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Government Affairs of Dean Foods Company, a leading food and beverage company and the largest processor and direct-to-store distributor of fresh fluid milk and other dairy and dairy case products in the United States. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of the Company’s legal and regulatory matters and ethics and compliance, in addition to acting as counselor to the board of directors and executive leadership team.

Prior to joining Dean Foods, Ms. Waterman worked in the Dallas office of Norton Rose Fulbright, where she focused on corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions, SEC compliance and corporate governance.

Ms. Waterman received a bachelor’s degree from University of Texas and her law degree from St. Mary’s University School of Law.

Ms. Wirick is Vice President, Finance at AtriCure, a medical device company that provides innovative technologies for the treatment of Atrial Fibrillation (Afib) and related conditions. Ms. Wirick directs the global finance and accounting functions of the company and supports strategic projects, including AtriCure’s acquisitions of nContact (2015) and SentreHEART (2019). Ms. Wirick joined the company in 2014 as Director, Finance, overseeing financial planning, analysis and SEC reporting. Ms. Wirick began her career in public accounting at Arthur Andersen LLP and Deloitte & Touche LLP, serving privately held clients in a variety of industries in Cincinnati, Ohio. Ms. Wirick received her B.S.B.A. in Accounting from the University of Dayton, and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Lauren Taylor Wolfe is co-founder and Managing Partner of Impactive Capital. Prior to founding Impactive she spent 10 years at Blue Harbour Group, a $3 billion activist investment firm, where she was a Managing Director and Investing Partner. Focused primarily on select sectors including, Technology, Consumer, Business and Healthcare Services, Lauren led many of the firm’s investments where she advised CEOs and boards on capital allocation, strategic opportunities and ESG considerations.

Lauren received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. magna cum laude from Cornell University. Lauren is active on various boards including, HD Supply [Nasdaq: HDS], a $9 billion enterprise value industrial distributor, 30% Club Steering Committee, an Angel Member of 100 Women in Finance. Lauren was named one of the 50 leading women in hedge funds globally by Hedge Fund Journal.

Suzanne Yoon is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kinzie Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on making control investments in lower middle market companies with up to $15mm of EBITDA.

Prior to Kinzie, Ms. Yoon was a Managing Director of Versa Capital Management, LLC, a private equity firm where she led transaction development throughout North America. Prior to Versa, Ms. Yoon was a Senior Vice President of CIT Group, co-founded LaSalle Bank/ABN AMRO’s Corporate Restructuring Group, and held positions in distressed loan portfolio management and advisory at LaSalle Bank and Ernst and Young’s Corporate Finance Group, respectively.

Ms. Yoon sits on several boards, including the National Philanthropic Trust where she serves as a Board Trustee and Vice Chair of the Investment Committee. She also serves on the steering committees of PE WIN (Private Equity Women’s Investor Network) and the Chicago chapter of the Women’s Association of Venture and Equity. Ms. Yoon is an Executive Scholar from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and received a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Iowa.