Executive Officers

William A. Ackman, 55
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; Director

William Ackman serves as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Ackman also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PSTH. Mr. Ackman founded Pershing Square in 2003, and is principally responsible for its investment policies and implementation. Mr. Ackman has spent 30 years in the investment management industry. Prior to forming Pershing Square, he co-founded Gotham Partners Management Co., LLC, an investment adviser that managed public and private equity portfolios. Mr. Ackman is currently Chairman of the Board of Howard Hughes Holdings Inc., a member of the Board of Universal Music Group N.V., and a member of the Investment Advisory Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of NY. Mr. Ackman received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College, where he graduated magna cum laude, and received his Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Ben Hakim, 46
President

Ben Hakim serves as our President. Mr. Hakim is a Partner at Pershing Square and joined the Investment Team in 2012, and previously served as President of PSTH. Mr. Hakim was previously a Senior Managing Director at The Blackstone Group, where he worked in the Mergers & Acquisitions group for 13 years. Mr. Hakim received his Bachelor of Science from Cornell University in 1997.

Michael Gonnella, 41
Chief Financial Officer

Michael Gonnella serves as our Chief Financial Officer and is Chief Financial Officer and a Partner at Pershing Square. Mr. Gonnella also served as Chief Financial Officer of PSTH. Prior to his appointment as Pershing Square’s Chief Financial Officer in 2017, he served as senior controller of Pershing Square since joining the firm in 2005. Mr. Gonnella is a certified public accountant and received his Bachelor of Science from Seton Hall University in 2002.

Steve Milankov, 48
Corporate Secretary

Steve Milankov serves as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, and is the Assistant General Counsel and a Partner at Pershing Square. Mr. Milankov previously served as Corporate Secretary of PSTH. Prior to his appointment as Pershing Square’s Assistant General Counsel, he served as Senior Trading Counsel of Pershing Square since joining the firm in 2013. Mr. Milankov received his Joint MBA and Law degrees from McGill University in 2000. Mr. Milankov worked at the law firm Clifford Chance LLP and most recently at Société Générale prior to joining Pershing Square.

Board of Directors

Jennifer Blouin, 51
Independent Director Nominee

Dr. Jennifer Blouin is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Blouin is an expert on the role of taxation in firm decision making. Her research examines the effect of taxes on asset pricing, capital structure, corporate payout behavior, multinational firm behavior, and mergers and acquisitions. Dr. Blouin has provided expert testimony in tax shelter litigation on behalf of the US Department of Justice, and in pharmaceutical patent litigation regarding transfer pricing and the repatriation of earnings by multinational corporations and their affiliates. Dr. Blouin has presented her work at over 75 universities and at numerous association conferences. Dr. Blouin is frequently cited in the press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and the Financial Times. She currently serves on the board of directors of Extra Space Storage Inc. (NYSE: EXR), and she is an editor of the Review of Accounting Studies and an associate editor of the Journal of Accounting Research. Dr. Blouin teaches taxation to undergraduate, MBA, and PhD students and is a recipient of the University of Pennsylvania’s Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching and Wharton Teaching Excellence Award. Prior to her academic career, Dr. Blouin was a tax manager with Arthur Andersen. She received her PhD in Accounting from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill and her BS from Indiana University—Bloomington.

Kathryn Judge, 44
Independent Director Nominee

Kathryn Judge is the Harvey J. Goldschmid Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Intellectual Life at Columbia Law School. Her research focuses on financial regulation and intermediation design. She is a regular speaker at academic, industry and policy conferences in the United States and abroad. She currently serves on the Research Committee of the European Corporate Governance Institute and on the board of directors of Bread for the World, Bread for the World Institute and the Columbia Business Law Review. She has served on the Financial Research Advisory Committee of the Office of Financial Research, during which time she co-chaired the LIBOR to SOFR Working Group and the Financial Innovation Working Group. She also served as an editor of the Journal of Financial Regulation and as a member of the Task Force on Financial Stability, co-sponsored by the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at the Brookings Institution and the Initiative on Global Markets at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She previously served as a law clerk for Judge Richard Posner and Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. She is a graduate of Stanford Law School and Wesleyan University.

Linda Rottenberg, 53
Independent Director Nominee

Linda Rottenberg is one of the world’s premier voices in entrepreneurship, technology, and business transformation. As CEO and cofounder of Endeavor, she helped forge the leading global community of, by, and for high-growth entrepreneurs operating in 42 markets across the globe. She also serves as President of Endeavor Catalyst, a rules-based investment fund that invests in Endeavor companies. With $500 million in assets under management across four funds, Endeavor Catalyst has made 280 investments in 37 markets and counts 50 companies valued at more than $1 billion in its portfolio. Rottenberg currently serves as a director of Globant, a world-leader in digital transformation and software development (NYSE: GLOB); and Olo, a SaaS-based restaurant ordering platform (NYSE: OLO). She formerly served as a director of Zayo Group, a $15 billion global bandwidth infrastructure company (NYSE: ZAYO). In 2023, Rottenberg was appointed Vice Chair of the Yale President’s Council on International Activities; she is a member of YPO and the World Economic Forum. A graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School, her 2014 book, CRAZY IS A COMPLIMENT: The Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags, was an instant New York Times bestseller.