John A. Pless III has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2007. Mr. Pless brings broad finance and corporate governance experience to our Board of Directors. Mr. Pless is a Managing Partner of TruArc Partners, LP, a successor business to Snow Phipps. Mr. Pless joined Snow Phipps at the inception of the firm in 2005 and became a Partner in 2012. Prior to his tenure with Snow Phipps, Mr. Pless worked as a Vice President at Guggenheim Merchant Banking and served as Associate Director in the Financial Institutions Group at UBS Investment Bank, the investment banking arm of UBS AG, where he worked on a wide range of mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions for banks and specialty finance companies. Mr. Pless currently serves on the boards of BlackHawk Industrial Distribution, Inc., Cascade Environmental LLC, EnviroFinance Group, LLC, HCTec, Inc., Ideal-Tridon Holdings, Inc., Prototek Holdings LLC, New Directions Aromatics Inc., Trademark Cosmetics, Inc., Meyer Laboratory Inc. and Molded Devices, Inc. He is also a board member of Little Wings Foundation, a family foundation financially assisting other non-profits working on issues like education, children s health, international outreach and terminal diseases. Mr. Pless received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Middlebury College.