Non-Employee Directors
Michael Farlekas has served on our Board of Directors since the closing of the Asset Sale in April 2024. Mr. Farlekas has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Onit, Inc., a provider of legal workflow software and solutions, since January 2024. Prior to serving in that role, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of E2open, LLC, a provider of cloud-based, on-demand supply chain and execution software, from May 2015 to October 2023. Prior to serving in that role, Mr. Farlekas held positions at Roadnet Technologies, Inc., a provider of fleet management software solutions for private fleets, from 2012 to 2014 and RedPrairie Corporation, a provider of warehouse management solutions from 2001 to 2012. Mr. Farlekas graduated from Fairleigh Dickinson University with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and from Jacksonville University with an M.B.A. in International Business. We believe that Mr. Farlekas is qualified to serve as member of our Board due to his 20 years of experience in executive leadership for enterprise software companies.
Marshall Heinberg has served on our Board of Directors since the closing of the Asset Sale in April 2024. Mr. Heinberg is the founder and has served as the managing director of MAH Associates, LLC, a provider of strategic advisory and consulting services to companies evaluating financing and strategic alternatives, since 2012. He has also served as the chair of the board of directors of Custom Truck One Source, Inc., a single-source provider of specialized truck and heavy equipment solutions including sales, rentals, and financing, since April 2021 and as a director of Union Carbide Corporation, a subsidiary of Dow Inc, since July 2019. Previously, Mr. Heinberg served as the chair of the board of directors of PAE, Inc., an operational support services company, from February 2020 to February 2022 and on the boards of directors of Galmed Pharmaceuticals Ltd., a clinical-stage life sciences company, from October 2018 to June 2022 and ChannelAdvisor Corporation, an e-commerce company, from December 2019 to November 2022. Further, Mr. Heinberg previously served as the chair of the board of directors of Ecology and Environment, Inc., a subsidiary of WSP Global, Inc., from June 2017 to January 2020, as a director of Universal Biosensors, Inc., a world leader in electrochemical cell technology, from July 2010 to March 2021 and as an advisor to Burford Capital Limited, a legal finance products and services company, from July 2015 to July 2020. Mr. Heinberg began his investment banking career in 1987 in the corporate finance division of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc., an international bank, and served as head of the investment banking department and as a senior managing director of Oppenheimer & Co., Inc. from 2008 until 2012. Mr. Heinberg also served as the head of U.S. investment banking of CIBC World Markets, an international bank, from 2001 until 2008. Mr. Heinberg graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and from Fordham University School of Law with a J.D. We believe that Mr. Heinberg is qualified to serve as a member of our Board due to his 35 years of extensive experience in capital markets as well as his business and financial experience in complex and related industries.
Elizabeth LaPuma has served on our Board of Directors since the closing of the Asset Sale in April 2024. Ms. LaPuma most recently served as the Head of the Balance Sheet Advisory Group at UBS Group AG, serving as a Managing Director, from January 2020 to July 2023, particularly focused on representing financial institutions. She also ran Alvarez & Marsal Holdings, LLC’s Asset Management Services group, from July 2013 to January 2020, managing a portfolio of assets including a portfolio of debt and equity investments and international assets. Prior to that, Ms. LaPuma worked in the Financial Advisory Group of BlackRock, Inc., as well as at Lazard, Inc., the global investment bank. Ms. LaPuma has sat on the boards of directors of WeWork Inc., a public, workspace provider company, since August 2023; Digital Media Solutions, Inc., a public, technology-enabled advertising company, since September 2023; Ebix, Inc., a public, software as a service for financial institutions company, since October 2023; and several private companies across several industries. Ms LaPuma previously served on the board of directors of Surgalign Holdings Inc., a global medical technology company, from June to its sale in July 2023. Ms. LaPuma graduated from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Finance and an M.B.A. and from The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in International Relations. We believe that Ms. LaPuma is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors due to her 20 years of experience advising on and structuring complex financial transactions, including securities offerings, mergers and acquisitions, and restructurings.
Richard Parisi has served on our Board of Directors since the closing of the Asset Sale in April 2024. Mr. Parisi is the founder and managing partner of Catania Capital Partners LLC, an investment firm formed in September 2020 focused on private equity and other junior capital investments across a range of industries, including telecom, media & technology, financial services and gaming. Prior to serving in that role, Mr. Parisi served as a senior investment professional at Silver Point Capital, L.P. from June 2005 to September 2020. He currently serves as the chairman of the board of directors of American Broadband Holding Company (d/b/a Fastwyre Broadband), a private broadband, video and voice service provider and a portfolio company of Madison Dearborn Partners, LLC, and Catania Capital. Mr. Parisi previously served on the board of directors of iPCS, a publicly traded telecom company that was ultimately sold to Sprint Nextel Corporation, from 2006 to 2007, and as the chairman of the board of directors of Affinity Gaming, a locally focused casino operator with properties in Nevada, Missouri, Iowa and Colorado, from 2013 to 2015. Mr. Parisi graduated from Duke University with a B.A. in Chemistry and Economics and received his M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. We believe that Mr. Parisi is qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors due to his 25 years of investment and transaction experience.
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