Raymond J. Harbert has served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Harbert Management Corporation, an alternative asset investment management firm, since it was organized in 1993. Mr. Harbert began his career with Harbert International, Inc., a subsidiary of Harbert Corporation, in 1982 where he held various positions. Subsequently, Mr. Harbert served as Vice President of Business Development and then as President of Harbert Properties Corporation, Harbert Corporation’s real estate subsidiary. In December 1988, he was elected Vice President of Harbert Corporation, where he had overall responsibility for the firm’s investment portfolio. In July 1990, he was elected President and Chief Executive Officer of Harbert Corporation, which brought the remainder of the firm under his management. Mr. Harbert serves on the Board of Trustees of Auburn University, where he is the past President Pro Tem. Mr. Harbert also serves on the Board of Trustees for the Robert Meyer Foundation. He serves on the Board of Trustees and is a member of the Executive Committee of Children’s Hospital of Alabama. In addition, Mr. Harbert serves on the Board of Directors and the Executive Committee for Birmingham Business Alliance. He also serves as a member of the President’s Advisory Board of the University of Alabama at Birmingham and is a member of Chief Executives Organization. Mr. Harbert is a past member of the Board of Trustees for the Alabama Trust Fund, Alabama Business Hall of Fame Nominating Committee, Leadership Alabama, Young Presidents’ Organization, and a former Alabama State Chairman for YPO.

Mr. Brooke is one of Harbert Management Corporation’s founding shareholders, and has served on its Board of Directors since 1994. He also is as a member of the Investment Committee and Members’ Advisory Committee of the Harbinger/Aurora Venture Funds. He presently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of MaxCyte, Inc., of Rockville, MD, Innovative BioSensors, Inc., of College Park, MD, Aldagen Holdings, LLC, of Raleigh, NC and nContact Surgical, Inc., of Raleigh, NC, and has previously served on the boards of several venture and private equity-backed companies, including Emageon, Inc. (NASDAQ: EMAG), Nationwide Homes, Inc., Visador, Inc., Optimal IMX Corporation, NovaMin Technologies, Inc. and Atherotech, Inc. Mr. Brooke joined Harbert Corporation and its affiliates as Vice President and General Counsel in August of 1991, and served as their Chief Operating Officer from 1995 until 2001. Before his employment with Harbert, Mr. Brooke was founder and Managing Partner of the Birmingham law firm, Wallace, Jordan, Ratliff and Brandt (originally, Wallace, Brooke & Byers), and an attorney with the Burr & Forman law firm in Birmingham. Mr. Brooke has served as a visiting lecturer at the MBA and undergraduate programs at The University of Alabama, where he is a member of its Alabama Entrepreneurship Council. He is Chairman of the Alabama Innovation Council Study Commission. He is a current member and Past Chairman of the Board of each of Southeast BIO, Birmingham’s Innovation Depot, the Business Council of Alabama, and the Board of Visitors at the Culverhouse School of Business at The University of Alabama. He is a member of Leadership Alabama, the Society of International Business Fellows and is a Rotarian. Mr. Brooke holds degrees in Business Administration (B.S., 1978) and Law (J.D., 1981) from The University of Alabama.

Mr. Boutwell joined HMC in 1994 and became its EVP & Chief Administrative Officer in 2002 serving through 2011 when he became EVP and Chief Financial Officer. He then became Executive Vice Chairman in 2016. Mr. Boutwell is a Certified Public Accountant and Certified Management Accountant, and he practiced with Ernst & Young from 1979 to 1990. There, he specialized in internal controls, manufacturing companies and public company SEC reporting. Mr. Boutwell joined Harbert Corporation in 1991 as its Director of Financial Projects and became its Controller in 1992. He earned a Bachelor of Sciences and a Master of Arts in Accounting, both from the University of Alabama. He is a member of and provides financial expertise to all of the HMC investment committees. Mr. Boutwell is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Culverhouse School of Commerce at the University of Alabama.

Michael D. Luce joined Harbert Management Corporation (“HMC”) in 1995 and served as its President & COO. Before joining the firm, Mr. Luce worked with Bear Stearns & Company, where he served as a member of the Commitment Committee, Chairman of the Equity Committee, and as a Senior Managing Director in the New York office. While with Bear Stearns, Mr. Luce primarily focused on mergers, buyouts, and debt and equity transactions for public and private companies. Effective January 1, 2015 he was appointed as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of HMC, at which time he relinquished his duties as President and COO. He remains on the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors, and several investment committees of HMC’s private market funds. In addition to his duties at HMC, he currently serves on the Board of Directors and the Investment Committee for the Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham, Board member and Co-Chairman of the Alabama School Readiness Alliance pre-K task force, and on the Board of Directors of Safe Harbor RE, LTD reinsurance. In December 2014, he ended 6 years of service on the Board of Directors of the United Way of Central Alabama. Mr. Luce holds a BBA from the University of Miami and a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.