Brett Pertuz
(Board Member)
Mr. Pertuz is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Mr. Pertuz began his career at Bain & Company in management consulting and then spent eighteen years in private equity as a Managing Director first with Bruckmann, Rosser, Sherrill & Co. and later with Altpoint Capital Partners. Mr. Pertuz has invested in a wide variety of industries and worked closely with portfolio companies including serving on boards of directors and as interim executive management. Mr. Pertuz holds a BS from the University of Virginia and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Daniel Zevnik
(Board Member)
Mr. Zevnik is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners. Prior to joining HPS in 2017, Mr. Zevnik worked as a Vice President at BlackRock Capital Corporation for seven years, where he focused on special situations and junior capital investments. Prior to joining BlackRock Capital, Mr. Zevnik was an Analyst in the Media and Communications Group at UBS Investment Bank. Mr. Zevnik graduated Phi Beta Kappa and holds a BA in Economics from Trinity College.
Daniel Taylor
(Board Member)
Daniel Taylor is a Principal at Onex Falcon. Prior to joining Onex, Daniel was an investment banking analyst in the Financial Services Group at Jefferies LLC in New York. Daniel received a B.S. in Management, with concentrations in Finance, Accounting and Economics from Boston College.
Vikas Keswani
(Board Member)
Mr. Keswani is a Managing Director at HPS Investment Partners and Head of North American Specialty Lending. Prior to joining HPS in 2010, Mr. Keswani spent a majority of his career at BlackRock, where he was a part of the initial team that established, structured and capitalized BlackRock Capital Investment Corporation (NASDAQ: BKCC), a publicly traded private investment vehicle. Mr. Keswani is a CFA charterholder and holds a BSE from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.
Rafael Fogel
(Advisor to the Board)
With 30 years of investment and operations experience focusing on media, technology and healthcare, Rafael was a Founding Partner at Falcon Investment Advisors, EVP at SunAmerica Investments, Franklin Templeton, CFO and head of business development at BIG3 Basketball and related entertainment properties, SVP of Finance at MindMaze Holding SA and is currently Executive Chairman of Rain Technology.
He started his career at Franklin Templeton Group of Funds after receiving a BA with honors in Economics from Haverford College. Rafael has sat on the Board of Directors of dozens of companies including Legendary Pictures, ARCA, Saveology, TCC Wireless, and Village Roadshow.
Shin-Tson Wu
(Advisor to the Board)
Dr. Shin-Tson Wu is the Pegasus Professor of Optics & Photonics at CREOL, the University of Central Florida, as well as the SID Honors and Awards Committee Chair. He is a Charter Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (2012) and one of the first six inductees of the Florida Inventors Hall of Fame (2014). Over the years, he has also co-authored 7 books, over 630 journal papers, and obtained 191 patents — including 93 US patents. He holds a PhD in Laser Physics from University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and BS in Physics from National Taiwan University (Taipei).