Company: PNNT
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001193125-25-322723
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Company: PENNANTPARK INVESTMENT CORP
Filing Date: 2025-12-17
Form: DEF 14A
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Adam K. Bernstein

Mr. Bernstein brings to the Board over 30 years of experience at a real estate development, investment and management business in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. Since October 2010, Mr. Bernstein has served on the Board of Directors of PFLT. Since October 2025, Mr. Bernstein has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of PPIF and PEIF. Mr. Bernstein affords the Board his vast experience in the area of strategic and financial planning and capital and risk management. Mr. Bernstein is currently President of The Bernstein Companies, a Washington, D.C.-based real estate investment and development firm which he joined in 1986. Mr. Bernstein runs a diversified company that includes a Hotel division, a Private Real Estate Investment Trust, and a structured financed group that focuses on tax credit syndication and project lending for community development projects nationwide. From 2012 to 2021, Mr. Bernstein was appointed to the Board of Overseers of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and has served on the Board of Trustees of the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania from 2018 to 2022 and on the Advisory Board of University Research Corporation since 2020.

José A. Briones, Jr.

Mr. Briones brings to the Board 30 years of business leadership and experience and knowledge of senior lending, mezzanine lending, leveraged finance, distressed debt and private equity businesses, as well as diverse management practices. Since May 2022, Mr. Briones has served on the Board of Directors of PFLT. Since October 2025, Mr. Briones has also served as a member of the Board of Trustees of PPIF and PEIF. He is responsible for and oversees originating, underwriting, executing, and monitoring investments for the Adviser, as well as overseeing various strategic initiatives and serves as a Portfolio Manager. Before joining the Adviser, Mr. Briones was a Partner of Apollo Investment Management, L.P. and a member of its investment committee. Before that, Mr. Briones was a Managing Director with UBS Securities LLC in the Financial Sponsors and Leveraged Finance Group from 2001 to 2006. Before joining UBS, Mr. Briones was a Vice President with JP Morgan in the Global Leveraged Finance Group from 1999 to 2001. From 1992 to 1999, Mr. Br