Mr. O’Brien has been Managing Partner at Cannon Capital since 2017. In addition, from 2020 until mid-2022, he served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Re:Build Manufacturing, LLC. Before that, he was President of Specialty Finance and Operations of American Capital
Julie Bowerman has served as a Director of Middleby Corporation since 2025 and is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. She is an experienced consumer packaged goods executive with more than 25 years of leadership across global marketing, omni retail, digital commerce, and enterprise
President and Chief Executive Officer of Chapin Creative
Ms. Chapin has been Principal of Chapin Creative, LLC, a business incubation, strategy, and marketing advisory firm, since 2016. For seven years before founding Chapin Creative, she was Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Hail Merry, a marketer and manufacturer of gluten-free, vegan,
Former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Labcorp
Mr. Eisenberg brings extensive public company leadership experience spanning life services, industrial manufacturing, and diversified industrial sectors. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Labcorp (NYSE: LH), a $13 billion global life sciences company
Mr. FitzGerald has been Chief Executive Officer of Middleby since February 2019. Before assuming that role, he held many positions with Middleby and its principal subsidiary, Middleby Marshall Inc. (“MM”), including Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Middleby and MM from 2003 to 2019;
Ed Garden is the Founding Partner and CEO of Garden Investments. From 2005-2023, he served as Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner of Trian Fund Management. Prior to founding Trian, Ed was Vice Chairman and Director of Triarc Companies (subsequently The Wendy’s Company and previously
Mr. Hix has more than three decades of leadership experience in various industries, with an expertise in business transformations, including acquisitions and divestures. Most recently he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Enovis Corporation (NYSE: ENOV), the medical
President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Tack Consulting, Inc.
Since 2011, Ms. McCarthy has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Tack Consulting, Inc., a management consulting firm. From 2007 to 2011, Ms. McCarthy served as President and Chief Executive Officer of SM&A, a public company that provides business strategy, competition
Former Officer and Director, Cooper-Atkins Corporation, Former CEO, Ali Group North America
Mr. Nerbonne was formerly the CEO and President of multiple commercial foodservice equipment companies. He was an Officer and Board Member of Cooper-Atkins Corporation, a company that manufactures thermometers, timers, and wireless monitoring solutions, from 2014 to 2018.
Mr. Scherger is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Amcor, a global leader in packaging solutions for consumer and healthcare products, providing industry-leading innovation capabilities, global scale and technical expertise to help customers grow and meet the needs of millions
Tejas Shah is founder and CEO of Palo Alto Labs, a management consulting firm specializing in AI led product innovation and Business Transformation. Previously Tejas Shah was SVP of Sales Transformation and Global CIO of Fluence Energy, Inc. where he was responsible for leading Sales
Mr. Ziyad is Executive Chairman of Ziyad Brothers Importing, a leading distributor and global marketer of a diverse portfolio of ethnic food products, representing multinational customers such as Nestle, Kraft and Bel, founded in 1966. Before assuming that role in 2022, Mr.
