Company: HGBL
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0000950170-25-056713
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Company: Heritage Global Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-04-22
Form: DEF 14A
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 will continue after the Annual Meeting. There are no arrangements or understandings between any director and any other person pursuant to which any director was or is selected as a director or nominee.

Nominees for Election at this Annual Meeting (To Term Expiring in 2028)

Samuel Shimer, age 61, was appointed as a Class I director in April 2001 and was appointed as Chairman of the Board in March 2020. Mr. Shimer has extensive expertise in mergers and acquisitions, including transactions that occurred while he was an officer of the former parent of the Company, Street Capital, where he was initially employed as a Senior Vice President, Mergers & Acquisitions and Business Development in July 1997. He was appointed Managing Director in February 2000, and he terminated his employment with Street Capital in February 2004. Mr. Shimer is currently Managing Director of SLC Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity fund management company that he co-founded in 2010. Mr. Shimer additionally serves on the board of two private companies. Mr. Shimer earned a Bachelor of Science in economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School.

Kelly Sharpe, age 60, has served as a Class I director of the Company since November 2020. Ms. Sharpe brings over 25 years of extensive financial, operational and senior management experience in both public and private venture backed high growth companies. She also has valuable expertise across several industries including many years in the Industrial Asset and Valuation sector at DoveBid Inc., helping to guide the growth of that company’s revenue 10X in the first three years of operation. Ms. Sharpe started her career in public accounting with KPMG International in the San Francisco Bay Area. She currently serves as President of Exec Xcel Inc., an executive consulting and coaching company. Previously Ms. Sharpe held executive positions as CEO of Sharpe Energy Services in the energy sector, Chief Financial Officer for Openwave Mobility and Chief Financial Officer of Openwave Messaging in the mobile telecommunications Industry, and Chief Financial Officer for Carrier IQ, Inc., a provider of mobile service intelligence solutions to the wireless industry. Ms. Sharpe graduated from Clarkson University in New York with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Law and holds an AAS degree from the State University of New York - Canton.

Ross Dove, age 72, the Chief Executive Officer and President of the Company, was appointed by the