Nominees For Election at the Annual Meeting
Information regarding our director nominees, including their qualifications and principal occupations, as well as the key experience and qualifications that led the Board of Directors to conclude each nominee should serve as a director, is provided below.
Stewart Bloom has served as one of our directors since our business combination with Crescent Acquisition Corp (“Crescent”), a special-purpose acquisition company, in June 2021. He has served as an Operating Executive and independent advisor to Golden Gate capital since August 2006 and as such currently serves as Chairman for cyber-security solution provider, Vercara LLC and K-12 student safety solution provider, Securly, Inc. Prior to joining Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Bloom served as Chairman and CEO of the global customer engagement solution provider Aspect Software from August 2012 to July 2017. Previously, he was CEO of Escalate Retail from August 2005 to February 2011 (and CEO of its predecessor company GERS Retail Systems). Mr. Bloom has served on the boards of Golden Gate Capital portfolio companies Vector Solutions, Infor, Escalate Retail Systems, Aspect Software and Symon Communications. Previously, Mr. Bloom has served as Vice President Americas Technology Services for Capgemini, Senior Vice President for strategy firm Mainspring (prior to its acquisition by IBM), Senior Partner for Ernst & Young Management Consulting, and Vice President Marketing & Sales for DSSI (prior to its acquisition by Ernst & Young).
We believe Mr. Bloom’s significant technology and financial expertise make him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Doug Ceto has served as one of our directors since our business combination with Crescent in June 2021. Mr. Ceto is a Partner with Lone View Capital. Previously, he was a Managing Director of Golden Gate Capital from April 2014 through December 2021. Prior to joining Golden Gate Capital, Mr. Ceto worked at Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe in New York, New York from 2010 to 2014. Previously, he worked in the Global Leveraged Finance group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in New York, New York from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Ceto holds a B.A. from Dartmouth College.
We believe Mr. Ceto’s financial expertise and significant investment experience make him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Susan Morisato has served as one of our directors since our business combination with Crescent in June 2021. Ms. Morisato is the former President of Insurance Solutions, UnitedHealthcare Medicare & Retirement at UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) (“UnitedHealth”) from January 2009 to October 2019. Previously, she served as President – Federal Programs of United Health Group Alliances at UnitedHealth from August 2007 to December 2009 and Chief Operating Officer of Senior and Retiree Services for UnitedHealth from January 2005 to July 2007. Prior to this, she held various roles at Bankers Life and Casualty, where she managed aspects of the Company’s health insurance products from June 1979 to December 2004, and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Actuary from 1996 to 2004. Ms. Morisato served on the boards for Symphonix Health Insurance from 2016 to 2019 and for Bankers Life and Casualty from 2000 to 2004. She holds a B.S. degree in Mathematics and Education from the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL and an M.S. in Mathematics at the University of Illinois in Urbana, IL.
We believe Ms. Morisato’s significant operational expertise and her board experience make her well qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.
Todd M. Purdy has served as one of our directors since our business combination with Crescent in June 2021. Mr. Purdy is a seasoned private equity investor with more than 25 years of investment industry experience. Most recently, Mr. Purdy was Chief Executive Officer of Crescent. Previously, Mr. Purdy was a Partner at Leonard Green & Partners, or LGP, a leading private equity investment firm based in Los Angeles, California, where he focused on investments in the consumer, retail and services sectors. During Mr. Purdy’s tenure with the firm from 2000 to 2018, LGP grew significantly from investing its third fund, a $1.2 billion pool of committed capital, to investing its seventh fund, a $9.6 billion pool of committed capital. During this time, Mr. Purdy was involved in the acquisitions of 12 portfolio companies, representing more than $15 billion of transaction enterprise value, which collectively completed more than 40 follow-on acquisitions. Prior to LGP, Mr. Purdy was an investment banker with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in Los Angeles and London. Mr. Purdy graduated from the Honors Business Administration Program at the Ivey Business School at Western University in Canada.
We believe Mr. Purdy’s significant investment and financial expertise make him well qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.