Mr. Michas is the founder and has been Managing Partner of Juniper Investment Company, LLC (“Juniper”), an investment management firm based in New York, since 2008. Juniper is also a Principal of Aetolian Investors, LLC, a registered commodity pool operator.
Mr. Michas holds a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Michas has been the Non-Executive Chairman of PerkinElmer, Inc. (NYSE: PKI) since December 2019, has been a director of AstroNova, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALOT) since June 2022, is a director of funds managed by Atlantic Investment Management, Inc., and is a director of Theragenics Corporation, a privately held company. Previously, he also served as the Non-Executive Chairman of the board of directors of Lincoln Educational Services Corporation until 2015 and as a director of Allied Motion Technologies, Inc. until July 2017. Mr. Michas is also the Chairman of the U.S. Board of Trustees of Athens College, a nonprofit organization.
Mr. Michas brings to the Board his many years of private equity experience across a wide range of industries, and a successful record of managing investments in public companies. Mr. Michas also brings extensive transactional expertise, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, debt and equity offerings, and bank financing which provides valuable insight on trends in global debt and equity markets, and the impact of such trends on the capital structure of the Company. The Board also benefits from his corporate governance knowledge of public company matters from his service on other public company boards, including his service as Non-Executive Chair, lead director, and a member of the compensation, governance, audit, finance, and executive committees of such companies. Mr. Michas’ thorough knowledge of the Company and his current and past service on the boards of other public companies make him uniquely qualified to serve on our Board and as our Non-Executive Chair.
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