Arthur F. Anton, 66, served as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Swagelok Company, Solon, Ohio (a fluid systems technologies company), from 2017 until his retirement on December 31, 2019. Mr. Anton previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 2004-2017, President and Chief Operating Officer from 2001-2004, Executive Vice President from 2000-2001, and Chief Financial Officer from 1998-2000 of Swagelok. Prior to joining Swagelok in 1998, Mr. Anton was a Partner of Ernst & Young LLP (a professional services organization). Mr. Anton is currently a director of The Sherwin-Williams Company (NYSE: SHW), Cleveland, Ohio (a paint coatings manufacturer), where he has served since 2006. Mr. Anton also is lead director of Olympic Steel (NASDAQ: ZEUS), Bedford Heights, Ohio (a steel processing and distribution company), where he has served since 2009. In March 2020, Mr. Anton was also appointed as a director of SunCoke Energy (NYSE: SXC), Lisle, Illinois (a raw material processing and handling company serving the steel, coal and power industries), where he has served as non-executive chairman since December 2020. He was also appointed as a director of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, Ohio (a rock and roll music museum), in 2018 and is a former director of Forest City Realty Trust, Cleveland, Ohio (a diversified Real Estate Investment Trust), where he served from 2010-2018, and University Hospitals Health System, Cleveland, Ohio (a large academic medical center), where he has served from 2005-2023.
Marjorie L. Bowen, 58, is a former Managing Director of Houlihan Lokey, having served in that capacity from 2000 through 2007 after having originally joined Houlihan Lokey in 1989. During her tenure at Houlihan Lokey, Ms. Bowen advised boards of public companies on transactional, strategic and other shareholder matters, headed the firm’s industry leading fairness opinion practice, and provided leadership as the most senior woman at the firm. Since 2007, Ms. Bowen has served on numerous public and private boards. Ms. Bowen joined the board of CBL Properties (NYSE: CBL) (a property management company specializing in retail centers) in 2021, where she is currently the chair of the audit committee and a member of the nominations/governance committee. She has served on over a dozen boards of numerous private and public companies following a nearly 20-year career in investment banking and has extensive board experiences with companies undergoing transformations. In the course of her work as a director Ms. Bowen has chaired audit and independent, special transaction, and restructuring committees and has been a member of nominating and governance, audit and compensation committees. Her prior board positions in recent years include Bed Bath and Beyond (NYSE: BBBY) (a retail company), Sequential Brands Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: SQBG) (a company that owns, promotes, markets, and licenses a portfolio of consumer brands), CWT (a travel management company), Centric Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTRC) (an apparel and accessories company), V Global Holdings (dba Vertellus Inc., a chemical company), Genesco, Inc. (a retailer and wholesaler of footwear, apparel and accessories, and Navient Corporation (NYSE: NAVI) (a student loan servicer). Ms. Bowen is an active public company director, and former investment banker. Ms. Bowen brings extensive experience as a public company director as well as expertise in corporate, securities, business/operation/division and asset valuation methodologies and resulting consideration of various stakeholder value issues and alternatives in both healthy and restructuring situations.
Matthew J. Espe, 65, serves as a board member and advisor to public companies, private equity firms and non-profit organizations. In January 2017, he was recruited by Sterling Partners, an investment management firm, to lead the transformation of Radial, Inc., an e-commerce company, and oversaw the successful sale of the company, serving as president and chief executive officer until November 2017. He previously served as chief executive officer of Armstrong World Industries, a designer and manufacturer of wall and ceiling building material, from 2010 to 2016, as chairman and chief executive officer, Ricoh Americas, at The Ricoh Company, Ltd., an imaging and electronics company, from 2008 to 2010, as chairman and chief executive officer of IKON Office Solutions, a provider of document management systems, copiers and services, from 2002 to 2008, and held various roles at GE, including president and chief executive officer of GE Lighting, a lightbulb and appliance company, from 1980 to 2002. He has served as an operating partner at Advent International, a private equity firm, from November 2017 to the present, and as an operating partner at SVP Global – United Kingdom, a private equity firm, from October 2018 to the present. In addition, Mr. Espe currently serves as an independent director at WESCO International, Anywhere Real Estate, Inc., and Korn Ferry.
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