G3 VRM Acquisition Corp.

G3 VRM Acquisition Corp.

Apr 14, 2021 by Matt Cianci

MANAGEMENT & BOARD


Executive Officers

Matthew Konkle, 47
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors

Since September 2018, Mr. Konkle has served as Senior Managing Director and Head of Industry Teams for G2 Capital Advisors, LLC. Previously, Mr. Konkle has served in other capacities at G2 Capital Advisors, LLC as the Executive Chairman and Chief Restructuring Officer from July 2016 to October 2018, as well as the Managing Director of Technology & Business Services from January 2016 to September 2019. Mr. Konkle was previously the Chief Operating Officer at Speed Commerce, Inc. from November 2014 to December 2015 and served as the President of Sigma Holdings, LLC and Sigma Micro from August 2009 to November 2014 and July 2007 to August 2009, respectively. Mr. Konkle also has experience in finance, having served as the Chief Financial Officer of Sigma Micro and Reverse911 and the Director of Finance and Operations at Aprimo, Inc. Mr. Konkle currently serves on the board of directors for Duramark Technologies, Inc. Previously, he has served on the board of directors for Legacy Supply Chain Services, Inc.


Don Van der Wiel, 61
Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Van der Wiel has served as Managing Director of G2 Capital Advisors, LLC an affiliate of CISCAP 4 and our sponsor, since January, 2018. From 2016 to 2017, Mr. Van der Wiel served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of private equity-backed Parker School Uniforms, Inc. Parker School Uniforms, Inc. filed for bankruptcy in 2018. Previously, Mr. Van der Wiel served as Chief Financial Officer of Sigma Holdings, LLC and hhgregg, Inc. during its initial public offering, as well as Vice President of Finance and Principal Financial Officer for Buffets Holdings, Inc. for several public offerings. Mr. Van der Wiel has over 35 years of financial management experience in public and private companies including positions at Things Remembered, Inc., The William Carter Company, Sears, Roebuck and Co., and Deloitte & Touche.


Board of Directors

Tamar Elkeles, 52
Director Nominee

Dr. Elkeles has nearly 30 years of experience in the high technology industry. Since 2019, Dr. Elkeles has been the Chief Human Resources Officer at XCOM Labs, Inc., a wireless technology company. Previously, she was Chief Talent Executive for Atlantic Bridge Capital from 2016 to 2018. Prior to that she was the Chief People Officer at Quixey, Inc. from 2015 to 2016. From 1992 to 2015, she served as the Chief Learning Officer at Qualcomm, during which time the company grew from 700 employees to over 31,000 worldwide. Dr. Elkeles currently serves on the Board of Directors of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE:GPX). She also currently serves on the Board of Advisors of the Forbes School of Business & Technology at The University of Arizona and the Editorial Board for “Chief Learning Officer”, a multimedia publication focused on the enterprise learning market. Previously she was on the Board of Directors, and is still a very active member of, the Association for Talent Development. Dr. Elkeles also serves as a strategic advisor to several start-up companies in the technology sector. Dr. Elkeles brings experience as a technology executive, Chief Human Resources Officer and relationships with other human capital executives at global Fortune 500 companies and in the overall technology field. She holds both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology.


Marshall Geller, 82
Director Nominee

Mr. Geller has been a director and a member of the audit committee of GP Strategies Corporation (NYSE:GPX) since 2002. Mr. Geller has been a director and a member of the audit and the corporate governance committees of VerifyMe, Inc. (NASDAQ:VRME) since July 2017. Mr. Geller was a director of Wright Investors’ Service Holdings Inc. (OTCMKT:WISH), formerly National Patent Development Corporation, from January 2015 until October 2018. He is also currently a Director of Easy Smart Pay, a public-private partnership of the California State Association of Counties Finance Corporation. Mr. Geller formerly served as a director of California Pizza Kitchen, Inc. (formerly NASDAQ:CPKI) from 2008 until 2011, and Hexcel Corporation (NYSE:HXL) from 1994 until 2003. Mr. Geller was a founder of St. Cloud Capital, a Los Angeles based private equity fund, and Senior Investment Advisor from December 2001 until September 2017. He has spent more than 50 years in corporate finance and investment banking, including 21 years as a Senior Managing Partner of Bear, Stearns & Co., with oversight of all operations in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Hong Kong and the Far East. Mr. Geller is currently on the Board of Directors of UCLA Health System and on the Board of Governors of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles. Mr. Geller also serves on the Dean’s Advisory Council for the College of Business & Economics at California State University, Los Angeles.


Theresa L. Mock, 57
Director Nominee

Theresa Mock has over 25 years of experience in technology-enabled services, with expertise in SaaS applications, enterprise software, digital media, and ecommerce. Since January 2020, Ms. Mock has served as the Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer at Rave Mobile Safety, a SaaS communications software company for public safety. From 2017 to 2019, Ms. Mock served as the Chief Operating Officer at Cybba, Inc., and from 2015 to 2017, she served as Chief Revenue Officer at Ve Interactive North America, both digital media companies. Prior to that, Ms. Mock served in management roles in Global Marketing and Strategy at Deltek, an enterprise software company from 2011 to 2014, OpSec Security, a technology services company from 2007 to 2011, and Aspen Technology, an asset optimization software company from 1992 to 1998. Ms. Mock holds a Master of Business Administration, Master and Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering, and was a Leaders for Global Operations fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.


Michael T. Sullivan, 49
Director Nominee

Since 2017, Mr. Sullivan has been Managing Principal of MTS Advisory LLC through which he provides advisory services and serves as an Independent Director for companies undergoing operational and financial restructurings. He currently serves on the boards of J.D. Norman Industries, Inc., K.R. Drenth Trucking, Inc. and The Paper Store LLC. Prior to founding his firm, Mr. Sullivan was a Managing Director in the Distressed Securities Group at Angelo, Gordon & Co., an alternative asset management firm, where he worked from 2007 to 2016. Prior to Angelo, Gordon, Mr. Sullivan was an investment banker in the Restructuring Group at UBS Investment Bank from 2001 to 2007. Mr. Sullivan also currently serves on the boards of Broadway Housing Communities, Inc., as well as its Foundation and Global Grassroots, each a non-profit organization. Mr. Sullivan has previously served on the boards of Benevis Corp., Frontier Spinning Mills, Inc., Emtec, Inc., Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, Fallbrook Technologies, Inc., and Ensequence, Inc. Mr. Sullivan holds an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, a M.A.L.D from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and an A.B. from Bowdoin College.