LARA COMPTON DIRECTOR OF PLATFORM MARKETING, STERLING PARTNERS EQUITY ADVISORS Lara M. Compton is the Director of Platform Marketing for Sterling Partners Equity Advisors. Lara joins Sterling with over 19 years of investment management sales experience, specializing in national account management and platform sales. Prior to joining Sterling, Lara has been responsible for developing research relationships and increasing sales and distribution efforts at several firms including Brookfield Asset Management, Calamos Investments and DWS Investments. Lara is a Certified Investment Management Analyst, CIMA®. Lara graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Political Science.

NISHAAD BALACHANDRAN SENIOR ASSOCIATE Nishaad joined Sterling Partners in 2017 and is a Senior Associate for Avathon Capital. As a member of the Investment Team, he works on all aspects of the deal process, including identification and due diligence of prospective investments, as well as management and oversight of the active portfolio. Prior to joining Sterling, he worked as an Investment Banking Analyst for Raymond James’ Industrials group where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising transactions. Nishaad received a B.S., Magna Cum Laude, from the John Cook School of Business at Saint Louis University. REPRESENTATIVE PORTFOLIO COMPANIES Amerigo API

EMAL DUSST INVESTMENT PROFESSIONAL Emal joined Sterling in 2019 and is an investment professional. Prior to Sterling, he was Head of Strategy and Chief of Staff at Laureate Education, the largest international network of degree-granting higher education institutions. In his role, he was responsible for leading strategy and corporate development/M&A, driving various strategic and business development initiatives, working directly with the Board of Directors, and for leading the Company’s B Corp certification when it became the largest B Corp in the world. Prior to Laureate, he was Director of Strategy and Planning at Saint-Gobain, a $60 billion French conglomerate, where he also led global business development for the company’s alternative energy business. Emal started his career in investment banking. Emal serves or has served as a board member or observer on several education companies/institutions, including Coursera, the American University of Afghanistan (US government funded), the World Affairs Council in DC and ReCoded, a United Nations-funded non-profit coding school for refugees. Additionally, he is a member of the Education Leadership Council at the Brookings Institution, where he writes on global education trends, and a Board Advisor at The Aspen Institute’s workforce analytics initiative. Emal is also a Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations. Emal holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics with a minor in German from UCLA and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.