Mr. Connolly has been a member of our Board since February 2014. He has been the chief executive officer of Fourth Street Capital, Inc., which manages a portfolio of retail, flex-industrial, warehouse and multifamily real estate holdings, since October 2021. He has been a founding partner of Breakaway Capital Management, LLC, a private investment fund manager which provided debt and structured equity capital to lower middle market companies, since 2015. From 2007 to 2013, he was a partner with Leonard Green & Partners, LP., a private equity firm. Previously, Mr. Connolly was an investment banker at UBS Securities, LLC, where he served as managing director and co-head of UBS s Los Angeles investment banking office, and a senior vice president at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He was previously on the board of Cascade Bancorp (Nasdaq: CACB), where he was the chairman of the board loan committee and member of the compensation and audit committees, and on the board of FP Holdings, LP, a private company and the parent company of the Palms Casino Resort. He is a member of the emeritus board of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank. He received a bachelor s degree from the University of California-Berkeley. Based on his extensive experience as an investment banker advising companies on their strategic alternatives and his experience as a private equity manager working with companies and their management teams to grow and improve their businesses, we believe Mr. Connolly is qualified to serve on the Board.