Nominees for Election to the Board of Directors in 2023
The following information describes the offices held and other business directorships of each nominee. Beneficial ownership of equity securities of the nominees is shown under “Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management” below.
Daniel Shribman, 39, has been a member of our Board since the Business Combination Closing. Mr. Shribman previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. from its inception until the Business Combination Closing. Mr. Shribman currently serves as President of B. Riley Principal Investments, a position he has held since September 2018. Mr. Shribman has also served as Chief Investment Officer of B. Riley Financial, Inc. since September 2019, as well as CEO and CFO of both B. Riley Principal 250 Merger Corp. since 2020. From 2010 to 2018, Mr. Shribman was a Portfolio Manager at Anchorage Capital Group, a special situation asset manager. During Mr. Shribman’s tenure at Anchorage, he led investments in dozens of public and private opportunities across the general industrials, transportation, automotive, aerospace, gaming, hospitality, and real estate industries. Prior to Anchorage, Mr. Shribman worked at Tinicum Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and at Lazard Freres in the restructuring advisory group. Mr. Shribman has served on the board of Faze Holdings (Nasdaq: FAZE) since July 2022 when it completed its business combination with B. Riley Principal 150 Merger Corp., where Mr. Shribman had served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer since 2020. Mr. Shribman has also served on the board of The Arena Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: AREN) since June 2021, NextPoint Financial Inc. (OTCMKTS: NACQF) since August 2021 and AltEnergy Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: AEAE) since October 2021. Previously, Mr. Shribman had served as a member of the board of directors of Eos Energy (Nasdaq: EOSE) from November 2020 until September 2022. Mr. Shribman holds an A.B. in Economics and History from Dartmouth. We believe that Mr. Shribman is qualified to serve as a member of our Board because of his extensive experience in corporate finance and strategic knowledge about investments in our industrial, transportation, and automotive markets.
Our Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has considered in particular Mr. Shribman’s extensive experience in corporate finance and his strategic knowledge about investments in our industrials, transportation and automotive markets.
Katherine E. White, 56, has been a member of our Board since the Business Combination Closing. Ms. White is currently a Professor of Law at the Wayne State University Law School. She is a member of and has served as chair of the University of Michigan Board of Regents and chair of the Finance and Audit Committee of the University of Michigan. Ms. White has been a member of the Old National Bancorp (Nasdaq: ONB) board of directors since 2015. Ms. White is a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army National Guard, currently serving as Special Assistant to the Chief, National Guard Bureau, and serves as the Director of the Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Arlington, VA. She was appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to the United States (“U.S.”) Department of Agriculture’s Plant Variety Protection Office Advisory Board in 2004 and served until May 2020. She was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Public Advisory Committee from 2000 to 2002 and was a White House Fellow from 2001 to 2002. Ms. White was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge (ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit from 1995 to 1996. Ms. White received a B.S.E. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Princeton University, a J.D. degree from the University of Washington, an LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School, and a Master’s degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar (Germany) and a registered patent attorney, and in 2021, she was inducted into the Michigan Military and Veterans Hall of Honor. We believe that Ms. White is qualified to serve as a member of our Board because of her legal background, long tenure in the U.S. government and military serving advisory and operational roles, as well as her previous experience as a member of several boards of directors and board committees.
Our Board and the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee has considered in particular Ms. White’s legal background, long tenure in the U.S. government and military serving advisory and operational roles, as well as her previous experience as a member of several boards of directors and board committees.
Directors are elected by a plurality of the votes cast, present in person or represented by proxy and entitled to vote thereon, for the election of each director at the Annual Meeting.
OUR BOARD RECOMMENDS THAT YOU VOTE “FOR” THE ELECTION OF EACH OF THE DIRECTOR NOMINEES NAMED ABOVE.
CONTINUING MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
In addition to the directors nominated for election at the Annual Meeting, the following Class II directors currently serve on our Board of Directors, with a term expiring at the 2024 annual meeting of stockholders:
Ryan Greenawalt, 48, joined the Company in December 2008 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) since December 2017 and as the Chairman of the Board since the closing of the Company’s business combination with B. Riley Principal Merger Corp. (the “Business Combination”) on February 14, 2020 (the “Business Combination Closing”). Mr. Greenawalt leads Alta’s executive leadership team and management, is responsible for corporate strategy and development and the Company’s long-term and short-term strategic objectives. Mr. Greenawalt has led Alta’s acquisition activities since joining the Company, expanding Alta’s geographic footprint, and entering new end markets. Mr. Greenawalt returned to the equipment industry after a career in financial services from 2002 to 2008. He has a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and holds an MBA from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.
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