Executive Officers

Matthew Perkal, 35
Chief Executive Officer

Matthew Perkal has led Brigade’s industry coverage for various sectors including retail, consumer, gaming and lodging. He also serves as Executive Vice President – Mergers & Acquisitions of M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. since February 2021 and as Chief Executive Officer of M3-Brigade Acquisition III Corp. since April 2021. Mr. Perkal has structured and led many of the firm’s successful deals in the private credit space including Barney’s and Sears. Mr. Perkal currently serves on Guitar Center Inc.’s board of directors. Prior to joining Brigade, Mr. Perkal worked at Deutsche Bank as an Analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group. In that capacity, Mr. Perkal also spent time on the Leveraged Debt Capital Markets Desk, selling both bank and bond deals. Mr. Perkal received a BS in Economics with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School. Additionally, Mr. Perkal serves on The One Love Foundation’s New York Board.

William Gallagher, 62
Executive Vice President

William Gallagher is a Managing Director of M-III Partners, LP. Mr. Gallagher also has served as Executive Vice President of M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. from its inception in December 2020 and M3-Brigade Acquisition III Corp. since April 2021. Mr. Gallagher has more than 35 years of experience in finance, investment and financial restructurings. He brings deep expertise in credit analysis and has long-term management experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining M3 Partners in October 2018, Mr. Gallagher was the Chief Executive Officer at WMIH Corp (NASDAQ:WMIH), a public acquisition corporation which was the successor to Washington Mutual, Inc., from May 2015 to July 2018. He was recruited to WMIH to oversee its acquisition strategy and manage its day-to-day affairs and his responsibilities included reviewing, vetting and analyzing a large number of potential target companies from a variety of different sectors and industry groups. Ultimately, WMIH acquired Nationstar Mortgage Holdings (NYSE symbol NSM) to form Mr. Cooper Group (NASDAQ:COOP). Mr. Gallagher departed from WMIH upon the closing of the acquisition of Nationstar as his job at WMIH was completed. Prior to WMIH, Mr. Gallagher was CEO and Chief Risk Officer at Capmark Financial Group, formerly known as GMAC Commercial Mortgage, from March 2009 to May 2015. Mr. Gallagher was retained by Capmark to manage its financial restructuring following the global economic crisis. Capmark was a highly successful restructuring as Mr. Gallagher and his colleagues significantly increased the recovery value to Capmark’s creditors. Before joining Capmark, he was the Chief Credit Officer of RBS Greenwich Capital from 1989 to 2009, the US fixed income investment banking business of the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was responsible for all aspects of credit risk management. While at RBS Greenwich, Mr. Gallagher was responsible for a wide variety of US corporations and buy-side companies, including corporate borrowers and debt issuers, financial institutions, industrial companies with captive finance businesses, and a variety of US corporations who traded various securities with or through RBS Greenwich. Earlier in his career, Mr. Gallagher was a Vice President at First Boston Corporation in that firm’s credit risk management department from 1985 to 1989. He began his career at Chemical Bank, where he completed the bank’s credit training program and then worked as a loan officer in the middle market division and a credit officer in the financial institutions division from 1981 to 1984. Mr. Gallagher has a B.S. in business administration from Syracuse University and an MBA from New York University.

Charles Garner, 58
Executive Vice President and Secretary

Charles Garner is Managing Director and General Counsel of M-III Partners, LP. He also serves as Executive Vice President and Secretary of M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. since its inception in December 2020 and M3-Brigade Acquisition III Corp. since April 2021. Mr. Garner has over 30 years of legal and management experience across a range of industries. Prior to joining M3 Partners in May 2015, Mr. Garner served as Managing Member of Long Mountain Advisors LLC, a privately-held financial advisory firm since April 2014 and also was Of Counsel to Duval & Stachenfeld, a boutique real estate-focused law firm, from May 2011 to May 2014. Mr. Garner began his career in 1987 at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a premier international law firm, where he rose to be a Partner in the corporate/banking department. From 2000 to 2002, Mr. Garner served as an executive at IDT Corporation, a publicly-traded telecommunications company (NYSE:IDT), where he held a series of roles of increasing responsibility culminating with his appointment as Executive Vice President of IDT Corporation and Chief Executive Officer of its IDT Ventures division. He also served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Winstar Communications following its purchase by IDT out of bankruptcy in 2001. Mr. Garner served as Executive Managing Director of Island Capital Group LLC, a privately- held real estate-focused merchant banking firm, from 2004 to 2010, where he also served as President of Island Global Yachting, a controlled affiliate of Island Capital which is the leading developer, owner and operator of luxury and megayacht marinas, from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Garner has also served as an advisor to, and held interim executive management roles with, Ferranti Computer Systems, a Belgian industrial software company, and Citynet Telecommunications, a telecom infrastructure provider. Mr. Garner has served as a director of Infrastructure & Energy Alternatives, Inc., a leading engineering, procurement and construction company with a focus on renewable energy, since from March 2018 through May 2019 and from September 2018 to the present. Mr. Garner earned a J.D. from New York University School of Law and a B.A. in Urban Studies and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian Griffith, 46
Chief Financial Officer

Brian Griffith is also a Managing Director of M-III Partners, LP. He also serves as Chief Financial Officer of M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. since its inception in December 2020 and M3-Brigade Acquisition III Corp. since April 2021. Mr. Griffith has more than 20 years of financial, operational and advisory experience in both growth and distressed situations. Over the course of his career, Mr. Griffith served as Chief Restructuring Officer and interim VP of Finance for various clients in the finance, energy and technology sectors. His experience covers a number of industries including financial services, real estate, healthcare services, energy, consumer products, manufacturing, retail and food services. Prior to joining M3 Partners in August 2014, Mr. Griffith spent two years as an independent advisor to companies in transition, including roles as the Chief Restructuring Officer of Yoostar Entertainment Group from April 2014 to October 2014 and as an advisor to Springleaf Holdings, LLC (NYSE: LEAF) from May 2013 to October 2014. Mr. Griffith was previously a Managing Director at Loughlin Meghji + Company, a privately-held financial advisory firm, from February 2008 to January 2013. At Loughlin Meghji + Company, he was involved with numerous transactions, including the restructuring of Capmark Financial Group, Inc., where he was responsible for the development and execution of cost rationalization initiatives. Mr. Griffith also advised Berkadia Commercial Mortgage on process improvement and cost reduction initiatives. Other roles included advising an institutional investor on a merger integration of two healthcare companies. Prior to Loughlin Meghji + Company, Mr. Griffith worked for CCV Restructuring from 2002 to 2008, FTI Consulting from 2001 to 2002 and Ernst & Young, LLP from 1996 to 1997 advising stakeholders in turnarounds, as well as providing transaction advisory services. Mr. Griffith earned an M.B.A from Fordham University and received a B.S. in Business Administration degree from Villanova University. He is a member of the Turnaround Management Association.

Board of Directors

Mohsin Meghji, 56
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mohsin Meghji has been the Managing Partner of M-III Partners, LP (or its predecessor, M-III Partners, LLC) since February 2014. Mr. Meghji also serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M3-Brigade Acquisition II Corp. from its inception in December 2020 and of M3-Brigade Acquisition III Corp. since April 2021. He also previously served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of M III Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ:MIII) from its inception in August 2015 through the consummation of its initial business combination in March 2018 to create Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, Inc. Mr. Meghji served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of that company (NASDAQ:IEA) from the consummation of such initial business combination through January 2020. His career of more than 30 years has focused primarily identifying the financial, operational and strategic changes needed to maximize value in companies at inflection points in their growth trajectories and working with the relevant constituencies to implement those changes. He has accomplished this through management and advisory roles in partnership with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, private equity funds and hedge funds. Mr. Meghji’s most recent corporate role was as Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy at Springleaf, as well as Chief Executive Officer of its captive insurance companies, from January 2012 to February 2014. Springleaf was listed on the NYSE in late 2013. Prior to Springleaf, Mr. Meghji served as a Senior Managing Director at C-III Capital Partners, LLC, a real-estate focused merchant banking firm, from October to December 2011. Mr. Meghji cofounded Loughlin Meghji + Company, a privately-held financial advisory firm which became one of the leading restructuring boutiques in the U.S. Mr. Meghji was a Principal and Managing Director of Loughlin Meghji + Company from February 2002 to October 2011. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meghji was with Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1987 to 2002 in the firm’s London, Toronto and New York offices, including as a Partner in the Global Corporate Finance group from 2001 to 2002. In his capacity as a restructuring and financial advisory professional, Mr. Meghji has periodically served as Chief Restructuring Officer (or in an analogous position) of companies which elected to utilize bankruptcy proceedings as a part of their financial restructuring process and, as such, he served as an executive officer of various companies which filed bankruptcy petitions under federal law, including, without limitation, Pappas Telecasting in 2008, Capmark Finance, Inc. in 2009, Medical Staffing Network in 2010, Real Alloy Intermediate Holding, LLC in 2017, Sears Holdings Corporation in 2018, Barneys Inc. in 2019, Sanchez Energy Corporation in 2020, and Sable Permian Resources, LLC in 2020. In that same capacity, Mr. Meghji also has periodically served as an independent director of companies, some of which similarly elected to utilize bankruptcy proceedings, including Mariner Health Care Inc. from 2002 to 2004, Cascade Timberlands, LLC from 2004 to 2005, MS Resorts from January 2011 through February 2013, Philadelphia Energy Solutions Refining and Marketing LLC from August 2017 through March 2018, Toys ‘r Us from September 2017 through September 2018, Full Beauty Brands from August 2018 through February 2019, and Intelsat Envision Holdings from May 2020 through the present. He is a director of the Equity Group International Foundation, which provides funding for underprivileged high-potential students in Kenya. Previously, he served on the Board of HealthRight International from 2004 to 2012 and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan from 2013 to 2018. Mr. Meghji is a graduate of the Schulich School of Business, York University, Canada and has taken executive courses at the INSEAD School of Business in France. He has previously qualified as a U.K. and Canadian Chartered Accountant as well as a U.S. Certified Turnaround Professional.

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