STEVEN J. GILBERT has served as a director on our Board of Directors since January
30, 2013. Mr. Gilbert is Chairman of the Board of Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., a
billion-dollar private equity fund, and has served in this capacity since 1998. He is
currently a director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. (Nasdaq: FAIRX), an open-end
management investment company; a director of MBIA, Inc. (NYSE: MBI); and the Lead
Independent Director of the Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE: ESRT). He is also the
Lead Independent Director of Oaktree Capital Group, Vice Chairman of the Executive
Board of MidOcean Equity Partners, LP, and Managing Director of Raptor Sports
Capital. Mr. Gilbert formerly served as a director of SDCL EDGE Acquisition
Corporation (NYSE: SEDA) from October 2021 until March 2022; Senior Managing
Director and Chairman of Sun Group (USA) until 2009; and Co-Chairman of Birch
Grove Capital, as well as a Senior Advisor to Continental Grain. From 1992 to 1997, he
was Founder and Managing General Partner of Soros Capital L.P., the principal venture
capital and leveraged transaction entity of the Quantum Group of Funds, and a principal
Advisor to Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd. From 1988 to 1992, he was the Managing
Director of Commonwealth Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity investment firm. Prior
to that, from 1984 to 1988, Mr. Gilbert was the Managing General Partner of Chemical
Venture Partners (now CCMP Capital), which he founded. Mr. Gilbert was admitted to
the Massachusetts Bar in 1970 and practiced law at Goodwin Procter & Hoar in Boston,
Massachusetts. He was an associate in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley & Co. from
1972 to 1976, a Vice President at Wertheim & Co., Inc. from 1976 to 1978 and a
Managing Director at E. F. Hutton International from 1978 to 1980. Mr. Gilbert was the
Chairman of the Board of Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., True Temper Sports and CPM
Holdings; Co-Chairman of Stone Tower Capital Partners; and Chairman of the
Investment Committee of Prostar Capital, an infrastructure fund. Mr. Gilbert has also
previously served as a director of numerous companies, including Montpelier Re,
Olympus Trust, Office Depot, Inc., Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., Parker Pen Limited, Piggly
Wiggly Southern, Inc., Boy’s Markets, Coast Community News, Inc., GTS-Duratek, the
Asian Infrastructure Fund, Magnavox Electronic Systems Company, UroMed
Corporation, Star City Casino Holdings, Ltd., Katz Media Corporation, Airport Group
International, Batavia Investment Management, Ltd., Affinity Financial Group, Inc.,
ESAT Telecom, Ltd., Colep Holding, Ltd., NFO Worldwide, Terra Nova (Bermuda)
Holdings, Limited, Freshpet, Inc., Sustainable Development Corporation, Veritas-DCG,
J. O. Hambro Capital Management Group, RREEF Global Infrastructure Fund, Water
Pik, Inc., and Florida Food Products, Inc. He was the principal owner, Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer of Lion’s Gate Films from 1980 to 1984. Mr. Gilbert is a
member of the Writer’s Guild of America (East), the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Global Agenda Council on Capital Flows of the World Economic Forum and the Golf
Digest Course Ranking Panel, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Lauder
Institute, as well as a Fellow of the Tribeca Disruptors Foundation. Mr. Gilbert received
his B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his J.D. from the
Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business.