Board of Directors

Mr. Davis, age 54, currently serves as the CEO and CIO of Inherent Group, an investment management firm focused on the equity and credit markets that uses ESG factors to source and underwrite investments. Mr. Davis founded Inherent Group in 2015, and has held these roles since.

Prior to Inherent Group, Mr. Davis was the co-founder and President of Anchorage Capital Group and served as a Portfolio Manager for all the domestic and offshore funds managed by the firm. From 2010 through 2015, he was the President of Anchorage Capital Europe based in London. Prior to Anchorage, Mr. Davis worked in the Fixed Income, Currency and Commodities division of The Goldman Sachs Group.

Mr. Davis received his Bachelor of Science degree from Brigham Young University, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Arts degree from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Davis complements the Board’s expertise in particular in the ESG field and with respect to financial management and further adds an investor perspective to the Board.

Ms. Galvin, age 62, has been an attorney for 36 years, including 27 years as in-house counsel. She spent 18 years (1990-2008) at Lyondell Chemical Company, a publicly listed global chemical company in the Fortune 200, including the last eight years as executive officer and General Counsel. Later, she became an executive officer and General Counsel at Axip Energy Services LP, a privately held oil field services company, from 2010 to 2015. She then served as a consultant to Axip from 2015 through 2016.

Ms. Galvin has been a board member of the American Corporate Counsel Association, and a former board member of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan and The Georgetown University Board of Regents.

She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in foreign service from Georgetown University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan.

Ms. Galvin brings to the Board over 35 years of experience in managing legal and compliance matters and working extensively in corporate finance, securities law and corporate governance, including advising boards of directors and serving as an executive officer at a public company. Ms. Galvin has also managed human resources, compliance, HSE, risk management, public relations and government affairs functions.

Mr. Huck, age 73, was the Chief Financial Officer of Air Products and Chemicals, a publicly listed global industrial gas and chemicals company, from 2004 until his retirement in 2013.

 Prior to being Air Products and Chemicals CFO, he served as their Corporate Controller from 1994 until 2004. Mr. Huck joined Air Products and Chemicals in 1979 as a Financial Analyst and held various positions, including Manager of Project Control, Controller of the equipment division, Controller of the chemicals group, and Controller of the environmental and energy systems group. Before joining Air Products and Chemicals, Mr. Huck served as an officer in the U.S. Navy.

Since retirement in 2013, Mr. Huck served on the Boards of AdvanSix, Inc. and NewPage Corporation. He also served on various non-profit boards. Currently Mr. Huck is a member of the board of directors of St. Luke’s University Hospital Network in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Mr. Huck holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the United States Naval Academy and a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University.

Mr. Huck brings to the Board over 30 years of leadership, financial and accounting experience in the chemicals industry, as well as extensive experience with regulated industries, operations/HSE and sustainability, and serving as an executive officer at a public company.

Ms. Lindsey, age 67, served as Chief Financial Officer of Commercial Metals Company, a publicly listed global manufacturer and recycler of steel and other metals, from 2016 until her retirement in 2019.

Ms. Lindsey joined the Commercial Metals Company in 2009 as Vice President-Tax. She was appointed Vice President-Tax and Investor Relations in 2015, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2016 and Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2017. Previously, Ms. Lindsey spent twenty years at The Timken Company starting as a Corporate Attorney and then moving into various roles, including business strategy, until her promotion to Vice President, Tax and Tax Counsel before departing in 2005.

Ms. Lindsey currently serves as a Director and chair of the Audit Committee of Lindsay Corporation, a provider of water management and road infrastructure products and services and as a Director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Methode Electronics, Inc. (NYSE: MEI), a global developer of custom engineered and application specific products.

Ms. Lindsey has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian and Political Science from the State University of New York, a Juris Doctor degree from the State University of New York at Buffalo, as well as a Master of Law (LL.M.) degree in Taxation from Case Western University.

Ms. Lindsey brings to the Board extensive experience in financial, accounting and tax matters and she served as an executive officer.

Mr. Miraton, age 64, is currently a professor in the MBA program at the Collège des Ingénieurs (CDI) in Paris. He also is a member of the supervisory board of the French private companies Thea Holding and Segula Holding and is the appointed president of the consulting firm La Combe SAS in 2016 Mr. Miraton holds also supervisory board membership positions at six French start-up companies, Khéoos since 2022, Biotyfood since 2021, TrustInSoft since 2019, Glowbl since 2020, Adionics since 2020, and Cardiorenal since 2018.

From 2007 to 2011, Mr. Miraton served as Managing Partner of Michelin, the second largest publicly listed global tire manufacturer. Previously, as member of the Michelin Group Executive Council, he acted as president of Michelin’s worldwide Research & Technology group and as the supervisor of the Group’s industrial policy.

From 2012 to 2013, Mr. Miraton was appointed as CEO of Pierre Fabre, a French multinational pharmaceutical and cosmetics company, and acted as an independent Director of Vilmorin Clause & Cie SA from November 2007 until 2015. Mr. Miraton also held the CEO position of Almérys SAS, a French information technology company operating in the health insurance data sphere, from 2013 until 2015.

Mr. Miraton received a civil engineering degree from the École Nationale des Ponts-et-Chaussées. He brings to the Board a strong experience in the fields of Industry, Lean Manufacturing, R&D and Innovation, as well as Information Technology and adds significant experience in global management of industrial companies.

Dr. Yi Hyon Paik, age 67, is an Operating Partner at Ace Equity Partners since 2020.

Previously, he served as President and Chief Strategy Officer of Samsung SDI Company, a publicly listed South Korean producer of lithium-ion batteries and electric materials, from 2014 to 2016. Prior to Samsung SDI, he was the Executive Vice President and Head of the Electronic Materials Business at Samsung Cheil Industries from 2010 to 2013. From 2009 to 2010, Dr. Paik worked at the Dow Chemical Company as its Business Group Vice President and Head of Electronic Materials Business. Before Dow Chemical, he served at Rohm and Haas as Business Group Vice President and President of Electronic Materials Business.

Dr. Paik also was a Board member of Versum Materials, Inc. from 2016 until the company was acquired by Merck KGaA in 2019.

Dr. Paik earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Science degree in Chemistry from Seoul National University, a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Chemistry at the University of Pittsburgh and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at Columbia University.

Dr. Paik brings to the Board extensive leadership experience in multi-national companies, the electronic materials industry, and the energy storage industry. He served as an executive officer in a public company and also provides experience in research and development, strategic planning and global business expertise with a deep technical understanding.

Mr. Painter, age 60, became the CEO of Orion Engineered Carbons group in September 2018. He is responsible for setting strategy and policy, developing leadership talent, meeting customer and shareholder commitments, and setting company culture.

Prior to joining Orion, Mr. Painter was the Executive Vice President for Industrial Gases at Air Products and Chemicals, a publicly listed global industrial gas company, from 2014 until 2018. From 2013 to 2014, he served as Air Products’ Senior Vice Present of Merchant Gases. Mr. Painter joined Air Products in 1984 as a participant in a career development program and held various positions including Vice President, Global Electronics, Senior Vice President, Corporate Strategy and Technology, and Senior Vice President Supply Chain (operations, engineering, procurement, safety). He was based overseas in Asia and Europe for ten years.

Mr. Painter has served on numerous non-profit boards. He is a Certified Professional Engineer and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Mr. Painter brings to the board in-depth knowledge of the company, and the global chemicals business.

Mr. Smith, age 77, served as president of Lyondell Chemical Company, a publicly listed global chemical company, since 1994 and became Lyondell Chemical’s CEO in 1996 as well as chairman of Lyondell Chemical’s board of directors in 2007. Mr. Smith retired in December 2007 as chairman, president and CEO of Lyondell Chemical Company following the acquisition of Lyondell by Basell.

Mr. Smith currently is the chairman of the board of Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation. During the past five years, Mr. Smith served as independent director and chairman of the board of Kraton Performance Polymers, Inc., board member of Northern Tier Energy LLC and chairman of the board of Nexeo Solutions, Inc.

Mr. Smith also serves as a member of the College of Engineering Advisory Council at Lamar University. Mr. Smith earned a Bachelor of Science degree in chemical engineering from Lamar University.

Mr. Smith brings to the Board more than 40 years of executive leadership, including operations and finance, in the chemical and energy industries, as well as serving as the Chief Executive Officer of a public company. He as extensive board experience, including that of Chairman, on both public and private boards.

Mr. Winkhaus, age 85, served as CEO of Henkel group, a publicly listed global consumer goods and adhesives company from 1992 to 2000. From 2000 to 2008, he was a member of the Henkel shareholder committee. Mr. Winkhaus passed most of his professional career at Henkel in different finance, marketing and sales functions, nationally and internationally. Before joining Henkel in 1967, he was an assistant at the Banking Institute of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University in Munich.

Mr. Winkhaus also served as Chairman of the supervisory board of Deutsche Telekom AG from 2000 to 2003 and Schwarz Pharma AG from 1998 to 2007. He was a supervisory board member at BMW AG, Lufthansa AG, ERGO Versicherung AG, Degussa AG and up to September 2019 of Galeria Kaufhof AG.

Mr. Winkhaus is engaged in the CARE organization in Germany and was President of the Institute of the German Economy (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft) from 2000 to 2007.

He studied Business Administration in Munich and Lausanne and received a Dr. (Ph.D.) degree from Ludwig-Maximilian-University, Munich.

Mr. Winkhaus brings to the Board many years of leadership as well as financial, marketing and organizational experience. He also has broad experience in sustainability matters.

Michel Wurth, age 69, is the chairman of ArcelorMittal Luxembourg and non-independent board member of ArcelorMittal S.A., one of the world’s largest and most global steel and mining companies. He has served most of his professional career within ArcelorMittal and its predecessor companies, Arcelor and ARBED. Between 2006 and 2014, he was Senior Executive Vice President and member of the Group Management Board of ArcelorMittal, successively in charge of Flat Carbon Steel Europe, Global Automotive, R&D and Long Carbon steel worldwide. He was CFO of Arcelor starting from 2002 to 2006 and occupied different functions at ARBED prior to 2002, in particular CFO and Corporate Secretary.

Mr. Wurth serves several private companies as a non-executive board member. He is also a member of the Council of the Luxembourg Central Bank. He was chairman of the Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce and of Union des Entreprises Luxembourgeoises between 2004 and 2019.

He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics from the London School of Economics, a Master of Science degree in Law from the University of Grenoble (France) and a degree in Political Science from the Institut d’Etudes politiques de Grenoble. He is a Dr. of Laws, Honoris Causa, from Sacred Heart University.

Mr. Wurth brings to the Board many years of experience in senior leadership of a publicly listed industrial company. He also provides experience in finance, global business management, sustainability, and strategic planning.