Executive Officers

Matthew Perkal, 38
Chief Executive Officer and Director

Since 2010, Mr. Perkal has led Brigade’s industry coverage for various sectors including retail, consumer, gaming and lodging, and 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 the board of directors for Guitar Center Inc., Greenfire Resources Ltd. (NYSE:GFR), and Silver Airways. In his capacity as a restructuring and financial advisory professional, Mr. Perkal served as an independent director of companies, some of which elected to utilize bankruptcy proceedings, including Guitar Center from December 2020 through present and Gymboree from September 2017 through June 2020. Prior to joining Brigade, Mr. Perkal worked at Deutsche Bank as an Analyst in the Leveraged Finance Group from 2008-2010. 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 of Business.

Eric Greenhaus, 30
Chief Financial Officer

Since March 2020, Mr. Greenhaus has provided restructuring advisory and performance improvement services as a Vice President at M3 Partners, as well as assisting with SEC reporting and transaction modeling for the Second SPAC and the Third SPAC. Prior to joining M3 Partners, Mr. Greenhaus worked at KPMG in their Deal Advisory & Strategy department from March 2018 through February 2020. Mr. Greenhaus also worked at Deloitte as an audit associate from September 2016 to February 2018, during which he maintained a Certified Public Accounting license. Mr. Greenhaus has extensive experience auditing and analyzing financial statements, conducting financial due diligence, managing liquidity, creating financial and forecasting models, business planning, and advising senior executives on strategic initiatives. Mr. Greenhaus received a Master of Accounting from the University of Michigan in 2016 and a B.A. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan in 2015.

Chris Chaice, 53
Executive Vice President

Since November 2012, Mr. Chaice has advised the Brigade investment team with respect to structuring investments, restructurings, bond and bank debt covenants, and litigations. Mr. Chaice served as a Senior Credit Attorney at Brigade from November 2012 until January 2021 and as Senior Attorney, Private Credit and Restructuring, from January 2021 until . In his capacity as a restructuring and financial advisory professional, Mr. Chaice served as an independent director of companies, some of which elected to utilize bankruptcy proceedings, including Sanchez Energy Corporation from October 2023 through present. Since , Mr. Chaice has served as a Partner & Head of Distressed Research at Brigade. Prior to joining Brigade, from July 2008 to October 2012, Mr. Chaice worked at Covenant Review, a fixed-income research firm, where he analyzed debt covenants, complex capital structures, and bankruptcy issues. Additionally, from August 2006 to May 2008, Mr. Chaice worked as an Analyst at Southpaw Asset Management, where he analyzed event-driven investment opportunities relating to bankruptcies, restructurings, liquidations and litigation. Prior to Southpaw, Mr. Chaice practiced law at Cahill Gordon & Reindel from September 1999 to September 2005, and at Willkie Farr & Gallagher from September 2005 to August 2006, where he specialized in capital markets transactions, primarily representing underwriters of high yield bonds and leveraged loans. Mr. Chaice received a BA in Political Science from Syracuse University and a law degree, cum laude, from New York University School of Law.

Charles Garner, 61
Executive Vice Present and Secretary

He was actively involved in all aspects of the business plan of the Prior SPACs, including formation, management and business combination activities. Mr. Garner joined M3 Partners in 2015 and currently serves as Senior Managing Director and General Counsel of M3 Partners. Mr. Garner began his career in 1987 as an attorney at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, a leading international law firm, where he rose to become a partner in the corporate/banking group. Mr. Garner has served as Executive Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of Island Capital Group LLC, a real estate-focused merchant banking firm, where he played key roles in the formation of Emirates National Securitisation Corporation (a joint venture with various entities of the Government of Dubai to create a mortgage securitization market in Dubai) and Island Global Yachting (a leading owner and operator of luxury and megayacht marinas). Among other positions, Mr. Garner also has served as Interim CEO of a European industrial software company focused on the utilities industry. Mr. Garner served as a director of IEA (with a short period of interruption) from March 2018 through its merger with MasTec, Inc. in October 2022 and served as the Chair of various Special Committees of independent directors of IEA in the review of financing and related transactions that led to the material increase in the equity and enterprise values of IEA during that period. We believe that Mr. Garner’s experience will be particularly valuable to us in the negotiation, diligence and execution of our initial business combination.

Board of Directors

Mohsin Y. Meghji, 59
Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Meghji was the principal sponsor of the Initial SPAC from 2015 to 2019, the Second SPAC from 2020 to 2023, the Third SPAC from 2021 to 2023 and the Fourth SPAC from 2021 to 2022. Mr. Meghji has served as the Managing Partner of M3 Partners since 2015 and is a nationally recognized U.S. turnaround professional with a track record of building value across a wide range of sectors, including power, energy and industrials. M3 Partners is a merchant banking, investment and restructuring advisory firm founded by Mr. Meghji which provides operational, strategic and financial advisory solutions to support complex businesses at inflection points in their growth trajectory. Mr. Meghji has more than 30 years of advisory and management experience in building value in companies that are facing financial, operational or strategic inflection points and transitions. He has accomplished this through both operating management and financial advisory roles, often in partnership with some of the world’s leading financial institutions, private equity firms and hedge fund investors. Mr. Meghji has led the repositioning of, and driven value creation at, numerous businesses over the past two decades in an operating management or financial advisory capacity. In his capacity as a restructuring and financial advisory professional, Mr. Meghji has served periodically 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, Zachry Holdings, Inc. in 2024, Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. in 2023, Clark & Daniels, Inc. in 2023, 245 Park Avenue Property LLC and 181 West Madison Property LLC in 2021, PWM Property Management LLC in 2021, Seadrill Partners LLC bankruptcy in 2020, Sable Permian Resources, LLC in 2020, Sanchez Energy Corporation in 2020, Barneys Inc. in 2019, Sears Holdings Corporation in 2018, Real Alloy Intermediate Holding, LLC in 2017. 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 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, Intelsat Envision Holdings from May 2020 through March 2022, Frontier Communications from 2019 through 2021 and SHOPKO from 2018 through 2019. Mr. Meghji’s most recent corporate management role was at Springleaf, a subprime consumer finance company (now known as OneMain Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: OMF)), where he served as Executive Vice President and Head of Strategy and as Chief Executive Officer of its captive insurance companies, Merit Life Insurance Co. and Yosemite Insurance Company, from 2012 to 2014. These insurance companies provided life, property and casualty insurance coverage to Springleaf’s customers. Springleaf was created in late-2010 when American International Group, Inc. sold 80% of its subsidiary, American General Finance Inc., to affiliates of Fortress Investment Group LLC. At the time of the sale, American General Finance Inc. provided consumer loans, retail financing and mortgages to more than one million families through more than 1,100 branches located across the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. After multiple years of operating losses, Springleaf turned profitable in 2013 as a result of the strategic, management and operational improvements implemented by its new ownership and management team, evidencing a significant turnaround in its performance. Springleaf went public in October 2013 at a $1.95 billion valuation. As part of its senior management team and Head of Strategy for the company, Mr. Meghji played a key role in this successful transition.

Frederick Arnold, 71
Director Nominee

Mr. Arnold has over 40 years of experience in investment banking, corporate management and board governance. Mr. Arnold has served as a member of the boards of directors of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. since 2012 (including serving as current Chairman of the Board from April 2014 – April 2015 and from January 2019 – present), Pepco Group NV from June 2024 – present and Navient Corporation (NASDAQ: NAVI) since August 2018. He also has served as a director of Cyxtera Technologies, Inc. from April 2023 – January 2024, the Third SPAC from October 2021 – September 2023, Valaris PLC (NYSE: VAL) from November 2019 – April 2021, The We Company (and as a member of the New Committee) from June 2020 – July 2020, Corporate Capital Trust II from 2015 – 2016, Corporate Capital Trust (NYSE: CCT) from 2011 – December 2018 (Chairman 2017 – 2018), various members of the family of funds advised by FS/KKR Advisor, LLC (including FS KKR Capital Corp. (NYSE: FSK), FS Investment Corp II, FS Investment Corp. III and FS Investment Corp. IV) from December 2018 – November 2019, Syncora Holdings Ltd. (OTC BB: SYCRF) from September 2016 – January 2020, and CIFC Corp. (NASDAQ: CIFC) from 2011 – 2014. From 2015 – 2017, Mr. Arnold served as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer of Convergex Group, LLC. Prior to that, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Capmark Financial Group Inc. from 2009 – 2011 and as Executive Vice President, Finance, for Masonite International Inc. from 2006 – 2007. From 2000 – 2004, Mr. Arnold served in various executive capacities for Willis Group Holdings and its subsidiaries, including as EVP of Finance, Development and Administration of Willis NA, and Group Chief Administrative Officer and Group Executive Vice President, Strategic Development, for Willis Group Holdings. Mr. Arnold began his career in investment banking at Lehman Brothers in 1980 and spent the following twenty years as an international investment banker, primarily at Lehman Brothers and at Smith Barney, where he served as Managing Director and Head of European Corporate Finance. Mr. Arnold earned a B.A. summa cum laude, in Economics from Amherst College, a MA in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

Benjamin Fader-Rattner, 42
Director Nominee

Benjamin Fader-Rattner is a director nominee and has been a Managing Director at Nexus Capital Management LP since December 2023 where he focuses on credit opportunities. Prior to joining Nexus, Mr. Fader-Rattner led Space Summit Capital LLC, a special situations investment fund which he founded in January 2021. Previously, Mr. Fader-Rattner served as a director of the Third SPAC from October 2021 – September 2023 and he also served as President and a director of Osiris Acquisition Corp., a publicly listed special purpose acquisition company, from May 2021 – May 2024. Prior to founding Space Summit Capital LLC, Mr. Fader-Rattner was a Managing Director at Canyon Partners, where he led investments across the capital structure in several industries including retail and consumer, from 2008 to July 2020. Prior to Canyon, Mr. Fader-Rattner was an analyst at Glenview Capital in 2007, where he invested primarily in debt opportunities, an associate at The Carlyle Group from 2005 to 2007, where he focused on leveraged buyout transactions, and an analyst at Bear, Stearns & Co. Inc. from 2003 to 2005. Mr. Fader-Rattner received a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.