Steven J. Gilbert has over 50 years of experience in private equity investing, investment banking and law, and he has invested in and managed numerous companies during his career. Mr. Gilbert has served as Chairman of the board of directors of Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund since 1998, and as Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of MidOcean Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity firm since 2005.
Mr. Gilbert also serves as a director of MBIA, Inc. (NYSE: MBI), a provider of financial guarantee insurance, fixed-income asset management and other specialized financial services, since 2011, as Chairman of the Board of TRI Pointe Homes, Inc. (NYSE: TPH), a single family home builder, since 2013, as the Lead Director of Oaktree Capital Group LLC (NYSE: OAK), a global alternative investment manager, since 2016, as a director of The Fairholme Funds, a mutual fund (NASDAQ: FAIRX), since 2014, and as a director of SDCL Edge, Inc. (NYSE: SEDA) a blank check acquisition company, since 2021, as well as a director of several privately held companies.
Within the past five years, Mr. Gilbert has also served as Co-Chairman of Birch Grove Capital, a credit hedge fund, from 2013 to 2021, as a director of Waterpik, Inc., a manufacturer of personal and oral healthcare products, from 2013 to 2017, and as a director of CPM Holdings, Inc. (HKG: 0906), a manufacturer of process equipment used for oilseed and animal feed production, from 2003 to 2019.
Mr. Gilbert is a member of the Writer’s Guild of America (East), a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. He was previously a Trustee of the New York University Langone Medical Center. Mr. Gilbert received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, a law degree from the Harvard Law School, and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.
Mr. Gilbert was selected to serve as a member of our Board of Directors based on his extensive experience leading companies in the financial services industry and serving as a director of public, NYSE-listed companies.