Prior to 2000, Mr. Franco was engaged for fifteen years in the proprietary trading operations of several investment banks. Mr. Franco brings to the Board extensive knowledge of capital
markets and related financial matters.
James F. Gooch
, 51, has been a director of SHO since March 2013. Since January 2016
he has served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Lands End, Inc., a retailer, and from September 2016 to March 2017 he served as Interim
Co-Chief
Executive Officer of Lands
End, Inc. Lands End, Inc. may be an affiliate of SHO. He served as
Co-Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Administrative Officer of DeMoulas Supermarkets, Inc., a retailer, from March 2014 until December
2014. From December 2014 to January 2016 he served as a retail consultant. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of RadioShack Corporation, an electronics retailer, from May 2011 to October 2012, as President and Chief
Financial Officer of RadioShack Corporation from January 2011 to May 2011, and as Chief Financial Officer of RadioShack Corporation from August 2006 to January 2011. Earlier in his career he was employed by Helene Curtis (a personal-care and
beauty-products company), The Quaker Oats Company (a food-products company), Kmart Corporation (a retailer), and Sears Holdings. Mr. Gooch brings to the Board extensive experience, knowledge, and understanding about retail and consumer-products
businesses.
Josephine Linden
, 67, has been a director of SHO since the Separation. She founded and has been the managing
member and principal of Linden Global Strategies LLC, a New York-based,
SEC-registered
investment management firm, since September 2011. From September 2010 to July 2011, she taught as an Adjunct Professor in
the Finance department of Columbia Business School. In November 2008, Mrs. Linden retired from Goldman, Sachs & Co., as a Partner and Managing Director after having been with the firm for more than 25 years, where she held a variety of
roles. She has served as a director of Lands End, Inc. since March 2014 and as its Chairman of the Board since October 2014. She served as a director of Bally Technologies, Inc., a diversified, worldwide gaming company, from April 2011 to
November 2014. She is currently a trustee, and serves on the Executive Committee, of The Collegiate School in New York, New York and acts as financial advisor to The Prince of Wales Foundation, a
not-for-profit
organization. Mrs. Linden brings to the Board extensive knowledge of capital markets and other financial matters from her
25-year
career with
Goldman Sachs.
Kevin Longino
, 59, has been a director of SHO since October 2016. He was appointed the Chief Executive
Officer of the National Kidney Foundation in September 2015 after having served as Interim CEO beginning in March 2015. Prior to that Mr. Longino was an entrepreneur and a private investor in several
start-up
tech companies. From 1987 to 2000, he was an executive with Compaq Computer Corporation. Mr. Longino brings to the Board extensive knowledge and expertise with respect to product and business
development, mergers and acquisitions, operations, corporate strategy, and financial management.
Will Powell
, 48, has
served as SHOs Chief Executive Officer and President and a director since July 2015. From the time of the Separation until July 2015 he served as the Companys Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to his employment
with the Company he served as Sears Holdingss Senior Vice President and President, Hometown Stores (at that time a division of Sears Holdings), positions he held from November 2008 to October 2012. From November 2007 until November 2008
Mr. Powell served as Sears Holdingss Vice President and General Manager, Outlet Stores (at that time a division of Sears Holdings), and from January 2006 to November 2007 he served as Sears Holdingss Divisional Vice President,
Stores/Sales-Dealer Stores. He joined Sears Holdings in August 2003. Mr. Powell brings to the Board a thorough understanding of all aspects of SHOs business and the issues its faces.
John E. Tober
, 64, has been a director of SHO since April 15, 2019. Since September 2015 he has served as the Chief
Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board, and is the co-founder, of CertaTech, LLC d/b/a CertaTech Solutions. He currently also serves as a director at CCS Medical Holdings, Inc., where he serves as its Audit Committee Chairman. Prior to founding
CertaTech Solutions, he was a partner at the New York law firm of Boies, Schiller & Flexner, LLP from 2002 to 2013. Prior to joining the Boies firm, from 1999 to 2002 he was the managing partner of the Miami law firm of Zack Kosnitzky, P.A,
which was acquired by the Boies firm.
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