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Axel Karlshoej, Director and Chairman Emeritus, and Thomas (Tommy) Kuo-Yuen Hsu, Director, have retired from their positions effective September 12, 2017, after 25 years with the board. They are being replaced by Rudolph W.J. Krediet and Heidi Locke Simon.

In addition, David Sche[ds_preview]llenberg has been appointed to the Company’s Board.

Krediet has over 15 years of experience as a financial investment professional. Since 2013, Krediet has served as a Partner at Anholt Services (USA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Kattegat Trust, which oversees the Trust’s globally-diversified investment portfolio. Between 2001 and 2013, Krediet acted as a Principal, Vice President and an Investment Analyst with Compass Group Management LLC, the manager of Compass Diversified Holdings, a publicly-traded investment holding company. From 2003 to 2004, he acted as Vice President at CPM Roskamp Champion, a global leader in the design and manufacturing of oil seed processing equipment.

Locke Simon has over 20 years of strategic management experience. Ms. Locke Simon was formerly a Partner at Bain & Company, a global management consulting organization, where she worked from 1993 to 2012. Prior to this, she was an Investment Banking Analyst at Goldman Sachs. Locke Simon has contributed to HBS Community Partners from 2013 to 2016, which is a volunteer consulting organization. She has served as a director of KQED Public Media from 2008 to 2014 and director of Turning Green from 2004 to present.

Schellenberg brings over 25 years of financial and operating leadership experience. He is currently a Managing Director and Principal with Highland West Capital, a private equity firm in Vancouver, Canada. Prior to that, Schellenberg was with Conair Group and its subsidiary Cascade Aerospace, specialty aviation and aerospace business, from 2000 to 2013 and was President and CEO from 2007 to 2013. He also acted as a Managing Director in the Corporate Office of the Jim Pattison Group, Canada’s second largest private company, from 1991 to 2000.