Executive Advisory Board

Mr. Bloom is a Founder and Managing Partner of Trimaran Capital Partners, and serves a manager of Trimaran Fund II, an existing private equity fund. Until February 2006, Mr. Bloom was a Vice Chairman of CIBC World Markets Corp. and co-head of Leveraged Finance.

Geoffrey J. Colvin is a partner in CEW Partners, a family investment firm with interests in publicly traded securities, private partnerships and companies, and real estate.  Previously, he practiced law at Proskauer Rose LLP in New York.

Mr. Colvin is Honorary Chairman of the Columbia College Alumni Association. He is a member of the Board of Overseers of Columbia Business School and Co-Chair of the Board of Visitors of Columbia Law School. He is a trustee of Teachers College, Columbia University, and is chair of its Audit Committee.

Adam Fisher is the Founder and Chief Investor Officer of Commonwealth Asset Management, an investment platform with separate but complementary products in the two business lines of Global Macro and Real Estate.

Paul M. Goldschmid is a partner at King Street Capital Management. Mr. Goldschmid serves on the Management Committee and Global and U.S. Investment Committees and has been a partner since 2012. Prior to joining King Street in 2006, Mr. Goldschmid was an analyst at Compass Partners International, a boutique merchant banking firm, focusing on principal investments and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Goldschmid received a J.D. and M.B.A. from Columbia University in 2006 and a B.A. from Harvard University in 2000.

Eric S. Haueter is a corporate partner in the San Francisco office. His principal areas of practice include corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

Scott Ostfeld is a Partner of JANA Partners LLC and Co‑Portfolio Manager of JANA’s engaged investment strategy. Prior to joining JANA in 2006, Mr. Ostfeld was with GSC Partners in their distressed debt private equity group focused on acquiring companies through the restructuring process and enhancing value as an active equity owner. Prior to GSC Partners, Mr. Ostfeld was an investment banker at Credit Suisse First Boston.

Bruce Eben Pindyck is chairman and CEO of Meridian Industries, Inc., a mid-size manufacturing company with eighteen plants, all of which are located in the United States. He has been the senior operating officer of Meridian since February 1984.

Richard Paul Richman is the chairman and founder of The Richman Group and its affiliates. The Richman Group is the seventh largest apartment portfolio owner in the United States according to the National Multi-Housing Council. The firm's portfolio includes approximately 1,400 housing properties, containing nearly 110,000 apartment units located in 49 states, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and Saipan. The firm is headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut, and has regional offices throughout the nation.

Tom Rogers currently serves as Executive Chairman of WinView, Inc. WinView operates at the intersection of TV sports, social media, gaming and mobility, and with 28 patents, is the leading player in the application of games in which viewers can engage while simultaneously watching live TV sports.

Robert Rosen has served as a Managing Member of Greyhawke Capital Advisors LLC since 1998.  The Greenwich, Connecticut-based company invests capital in, and applies management expertise to, corporate and asset restructuring in selected investment opportunities generally involving real estate assets.  The company controls assets with a gross asset value of more than $500,000,000.

Jeffrey Witten is the founder and CEO of Coin Out, a retail rewards and data platform that processes more than a billion product purchases annually. Coin Out rewards close to 1 million users for their everyday purchases, building a highly engaged community focused on earning extra income. In doing so, Coin Out has built a treasure trove of invaluable data.