Mr. Tannenbaum has served as a director since February 2024, and as our Executive Chairman since our Spin-Off from AFC. Mr. Tannenbaum is responsible for our overall management and, in his capacity as a principal of Sunrise Manager LLC (our Manager ), leads the Investment Committee, which is responsible for overseeing investment processes including origination, credit underwriting, risk analysis and loan approvals. Mr. Tannenbaum has extensive leadership experience, including his experience as the founder of AFC, its Chief Executive Officer from July 2020 until September 2023, its Chief Investment Officer from November 2023 until October 2024 and its Chairman since October 2024, and as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Fifth Street Asset Management, Inc. ( Fifth Street ) from its inception in 1998 until October 2017 when substantially all of its assets were sold to Oaktree Capital Management ( Oaktree ). Prior to such sale to Oaktree, Fifth Street had a core focus on disciplined credit investing across multiple economic cycles, and issued billions of dollars in public equity, private capital and public debt securities. Fifth Street made flexible investments across capital structures to growing middle market companies, primarily in conjunction with private equity sponsors. It managed approximately $5 billion of assets across multiple private investment vehicles and two publicly-traded business development companies. Fifth Street dissolved and liquidated its operations in the first half of 2022 and since its asset sale to Oaktree, it has had no revenue generating operations and makes no investments. Mr. Tannenbaum had a controlling interest in Fifth Street. Subsequent to the sale to Oaktree in 2017, Mr. Tannenbaum founded Tannenbaum Capital Group, a group of affiliated investment managers that are focused on allocating capital across various strategies including credit and commercial real estate. Mr. Tannenbaum currently also serves as a director of AFC and SRT. Mr. Tannenbaum graduated from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he received a B.S. in economics. Subsequent to his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, he received an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School as part of the submatriculation program. He is also a holder of the Chartered Financial Analyst designation and is a member of The Wharton Graduate Executive Board. Mr. Tannenbaum is married to the Company s President, Robyn Tannenbaum.