Executive Officers

Craig E. Barnett, 59
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman

Mr. Barnett has been the Chief Executive Officer of Meadow Lane since 2014 and its associated broker-dealer and predecessor entities since inception and established and manages the global investment team. Mr. Barnett has over 35 years of experience in investment banking, private equity and corporate development and is responsible for Meadow Lane’s partnerships with financing and investment firms. Mr. Barnett has advised clients, pursued investments and overseen corporate development and finance activities with aggregate values exceeding $60 billion primarily in the consumer sectors of the global economy in the United States, Europe and Asia. In addition, Mr. Barnett has been highly active in corporate development, financing and acquisitions for GUS, Experian, Burberry, Argos, Arcade and Shaklee. Previously, Mr. Barnett was a senior executive in private equity and investment banking. He was a Managing Director with Blackstone, a Managing Director with The Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. and a Managing Director with PJ Solomon. Earlier in his career, Mr. Barnett was a Vice President at Lehman Brothers, in London, Tokyo and New York. Mr. Barnett, a graduate of the Wharton School, is active in a number of charitable and community organizations.

Terry Duddy, 65
Vice-Chairman and Director

Mr. Duddy has over 30 years of leadership experience with public companies and is a seasoned Chief Executive and digital commerce pioneer. Mr. Duddy has also worked with Meadow Lane principals for over 20 years. Mr. Duddy was a Director and member of the Executive Committee of GUS from 1998 to 2006, having joined as the Chief Executive Officer of Argos. Mr. Duddy was also responsible for the pan-European home shopping division of GUS that, though loss making, was eventually divested for over £800 million. Mr. Duddy was furthermore a member of the GUS board of directors’ Demerger Committee that presided over the demerger process of GUS that included the successful IPOs of Burberry, Experian and Home Retail Group. As Chief Executive Officer of Argos and its successor independent entity, Home Retail Group, from 1998 to 2014, Mr. Duddy guided the business through both the extensive digital transformation of the industry as well as the downturn of 2009. Argos was the UK’s first multichannel retailer with its e-commerce site and home delivery service launching in 1999 with over 20,000 product lines and a considerable private label brand. Mr. Duddy managed a $2 billion supply chain sourced from China, incubated emerging products, created new marketing technologies including the now ubiquitous and innovative “Click & Collect” sale and mentored a new generation of managers now in industry leadership positions. Most recently, Mr. Duddy was first Senior Independent Director and then Interim Board Chairman of Debenhams plc, which he managed through administration, secured financing for a successful reorganization and recruited a new Board. Mr. Duddy has been a member of True Capital Management’s advisory board since 2014, is the Chairman of London Marathon Events Ltd and is or has been a non-executive director of a number of other companies including Hammerson plc and Majid Al Futtaim Properties LLC.

Martin F. Lewis, 67
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Lewis has over 35 years of leadership experience in investment banking. He is the founder and Managing Principal, since 2014, of Gower Advisers, a financial advisory boutique in New York. He has also served as a Managing Principal of Meadow Lane since 2014. Previously, Mr. Lewis was a Managing Director with Greenhill, a founding member of Miller, Buckfire Lewis & Co (now Miller Buckfire), a Managing Director of Wasserstein erella and a Managing Director of Blackstone. Mr. Lewis was also associated with Chemical Bank in London and New York and with NM Rothschild in London and Mexico.

Scott M. Napolitano, 44
Managing Director

Mr. Napolitano has over 20 years of experience in investment banking acting as strategic and capital advisor to companies and private equity firms, principally in the healthcare and consumer sectors, evaluating mergers, acquisitions and strategic and financing alternatives. Mr. Napolitano is Managing Member of Scott Michael Partners LLC, an advisory and investment firm he founded in 2020 with a focus on healthcare and technology. Prior to founding Scott Michael Partners LLC, Mr. Napolitano served as Managing Director with Nomura Securities International from 2014 to 2020 where he was Head of MedTech Investment Banking and Healthcare M&A. Previously, he was a Managing Principal with Meadow Lane. Mr. Napolitano has also held senior investment banking positions with PJ Solomon, where he served as Managing Director and with The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where he served as Vice President. Mr. Napolitano is a graduate of Columbia University.

Board of Directors

James E. Lieber, 58
Director Nominee

Mr. Lieber has more than 25 years of experience in the strategic management of complex international projects and situations for multi-national corporations, investment funds, organizations and high net-worth individuals in Europe and the United States. Mr. Lieber is Founder and President of Lieber Strategies, a consultancy based in Paris. Prior to founding Lieber Strategies in 2005, Mr. Lieber served from 1997 to 2004 as Director of Corporate Affairs at LVMH, working with its chairman, Bernard Arnault, and his executive committee on major strategic projects. Mr. Lieber directed LVMH’s strategy in several multi-billion-dollar transactions and business conflicts and managed LVMH’s interests in international trade disputes and European competition clearance situations and other government relations matters. Before joining LVMH, Mr. Lieber practiced law with Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP, where he worked in New York on international securities offerings, privatizations and real estate transactions, and in Paris representing clients in cross-border acquisitions and joint ventures in the media, luxury goods and pharmaceuticals sectors. Mr. Lieber is a director of numerous companies, including LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton Inc., DFS Group and Gabriel Resources Ltd., as well as of Stanhope Capital Group, a private wealth manager with offices in New York, London, Geneva, Paris, Philadelphia and Palm Beach. He is also a director of the French-American Foundation and a member of Panthera’s Conservation Council. Mr. Lieber is an attorney admitted to practice in the State of New York and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Global Advisory Council of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars. Mr. Lieber holds a Juris Doctor degree cum laude from Northwestern University School of Law in Chicago, Illinois, where he was a member of the Order of the Coif, and a Master in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He received his Bachelor of Arts from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, with honors in art history.

Mary C. Tanner, 70
Director Nominee

Ms. Tanner has more than 30 years of leadership experience in investment banking and has served as a director on numerous private and public companies. Ms. Tanner is Senior Managing Director of ELSP, of which she is a co-founder.  Ms. Tanner specializes in healthcare investment and strategic advisory work, including mergers and acquisitions, licensing, corporate minority strategic investments and fund raising. Ms. Tanner is also an active venture capital investor. Before founding ELSP with her husband and long standing business partner, Frederick Frank, Ms. Tanner held leadership positions for over 20 years in investment banking at Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and PJ Solomon.  Ms. Tanner has directed over 500 mergers and acquisitions, over 130 initial public offerings and hundreds of financings and is highly experienced in mergers involving spinoffs of public companies. Ms. Tanner has significant expertise in life sciences, traditional pharmaceutical industries and consumer healthcare.  Advisory clients of Ms. Tanner have included Pfizer Inc., Block Drug, Amgen Inc., Rhône-Poulenc S.A., Marion Merrell Dow, Inc., BASF SE, Sanofi S.A., Revlon, Inc., Fabergé and L’Oréal S.A.  Ms. Tanner was a 10-year member of the board of directors of Lineagen, Inc., a molecular diagnostic company, which was merged with Bionano Genomics, Inc. in 2021, and she was Chair of its Audit and Compliance Committee. As a member of the board of directors of Genticel, S.A., an immune oncology company in France, she assisted in merging the company with Genkyotex, a Swiss/French publicly listed company, in a cross border transaction with Calliditas Therapeutics AB, a Swedish, Nasdaq-listed company. Previously, for a decade, she served on the board of directors of Evotec SE, a German company which is one of the largest companies in early stage contract research organization research.  Ms. Tanner previously served on the board of directors of the consumer products company Block Drug prior to its sale to GlaxoSmithKline plc. Ms. Tanner received a B.A. magna cum laude from Harvard University. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Yale School of Management and is an advisor to the Blavatnik Fund for Innovation at Yale and the Yale Center for Biomedical Innovation and Technology.

Laura A. Weil, 64
Director Nominee

Ms. Weil has over 25 years of corporate leadership experience.  Ms. Weil has been an independent director of Carnival Corporation since 2007 and is a member of the audit, compliance and compensation committees.  She is also an independent director of Global Fashion Group, SA since 2019. She previously served as a Director of Christopher & Banks Corporation. Ms. Weil is the Founder and has been the Managing Partner of Village Lane Advisory LLC, which specializes in providing executive and strategic consulting services to retailers as well as private equity firms, since 2015. Previously, Ms. Weil was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of New York & Company, Inc., the Chief Executive Officer of Ashley Stewart LLC, the Chief Executive Officer of Urban Brands, Inc., the Chief Operating Officer of AnnTaylor Stores Corporation, the Chief Financial Officer of American Eagle Outfitters, Inc., and the Vice President Finance and CFO Credit Operations for Macy’s Inc. Ms. Weil was also a senior executive with investment banking firms including Oppenheimer and Lehman Brothers.  Ms. Weil received a B.A. in Art History and Government from Smith College and an MBA from Columbia University Business School.