Michas has been Managing Partner of Juniper Investment Company, LLC since he founded the firm in 2008. Juniper is also a Principal of Aetolian Investors, LLC, a registered commodity pool operator. Michas was the Managing Partner and a director of Stonington Partners, Inc., an investment management firm, from 1994 to 2011.. Prior to that, Michas. was a partner of Merrill Lynch Capital Partners, Inc., or MLCP, a wholly owned subsidiary of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc., from 1993 to 1994, and Senior Vice President of MLCP from 1989 to 1993. He served on the board of directors of MLCP from 1989 to 2001 and was a consultant to MLCP from 1994 to 2001. Michas was also a Managing Director of the Investment Banking Division of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated from 1991 to 1994.. Michas received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.. Michas is the Chairman of the board of both BorgWarner Inc. and Lincoln Educational Services Corporation. Michas served as a director of AirTran Airways, Inc. until its acquisition by Southwest Airlines in 2011. Michas is also a director of Theragenics Corporation, a privately held company, and a director of a family of funds managed by Atlantic Investment Management, Inc., an investment management firm. Michas is Chairman of the board of trustees of Athens College in New York.. Michas brings to our board many years of private equity experience across a wide range of industries, and a successful record of managing control investments in public companies. Michas also brings extensive transactional expertise, including mergers and acquisitions, IPOs, debt and equity offerings and bank financing. This expertise is utilized through his position as Chair of the finance committee of our board, allowing Michas to provide our board with valuable insight on trends in global debt and equity markets, and the impact of such trends on the capital structure of the Company. We also benefit from the corporate governance knowledge developed by Michas in his board roles with other public companies, including his service as a lead director, a board chairman, and a member of the compensation, governance, audit, finance and executive committees of such companies. Michas’ knowledge of the Company and his thorough understanding of the role of boards of directors qualify him to serve on our board and as our Lead Director.
