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Frank Williams is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Evolent Health (NYSE: EVH) and previously served as the company’s Chairman and CEO between 2011 and 2020. Evolent offers a technology-enabled service platform that helps healthcare providers and managed care organizations deliver superior clinical and financial performance through value-based care transformation. The company currently partners with leading health systems in over 35 markets, manages over 3.1M lives under value-based arrangements and employs over 3,300 professionals nationwide. Prior to Evolent, Frank served as Chairman and CEO of The Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), a global research and technology firm that serves over 5,000 organizations across the Health care and Higher Education sectors. During Frank's tenure as both its’ Chairman and CEO, The Advisory Board completed an initial public offering and grew to $450M+ in annual revenues with over 2,500 employees and $2B+ in market capitalization. Along with the Evolent Health board, he currently serves on the boards of the Business Talent Group, Peer Health Exchange, Syapse and Passport Health Plan. Frank is active philanthropically in initiatives related to Public Health and Education. A native Californian, Frank received a BA in Political Economy from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Tom Johnson is Chief Executive Officer of Abernathy MacGregor and head of its Mergers and Acquisitions practice. He works with companies across multiple sectors on a wide variety of topics, and has a particular expertise with M&A, private equity and closely held companies. His client experience includes work with a number of Fortune 100 companies and several of the world’s largest and best-known private companies on a wide variety of corporate communication and investor relations challenges, including reputation management, executive changes, activist investor preparedness and crisis response plans. His M&A expertise covers the full range of high-profile takeovers, cross-border acquisitions, contested merger situations and proxy contests. He is also an expert in media strategy, having spent more than a decade as a financial journalist prior to joining Abernathy. Mr. Johnson’s recent M&A advisory work includes working with Anthem on its acquisition of Cigna, Exor on its acquisition of PartnerRe, Coty on its acquisition of P&G’s beauty business, Office Depot on its merger with Staples, Sprint on its merger with Softbank and acquisition of Clearwire and Joh A. Benckiser on its acquisition of Peet’s Coffee & Tea and D.E. Master Blenders. Other transaction clients include Sanofi, Hewlett Packard, Alcatel SA, Carlyle Group, Blackstone Group and Starwood Capital. His proxy contest and activist defense experience includes advising CVR Energy, Office Depot, QEP Resources, Hewlett Packard, Sovereign Bancorp and Yahoo!. Prior to Abernathy MacGregor, Mr. Johnson was editor-in-charge of Investment Banking and Finance for Reuters, where he also ran the M&A and IPO desks. Earlier, he worked at CNN Financial News and at The Daily Record newspaper in Baltimore. He serves on the Board of Volunteers of America’s Greater New York Chapter.

David Li is a Board Member at Halcyon Agri Corporation Ltd; CEO/Executive Director at Halcyon Agri Corporation Ltd; and Chief Executive Officer at GlobalMedia Group, LLC. He has worked as Board Member at Tropical Rubber Cote Dlvoire, Commissioner at Bumi Jaya PT, and Board Member at Sinochem Intl Overseas Pte Ltd. David studied at University of International Business and Economics and Norwegian School of Management.

Des O Connor are a Chief Executive Officer at Bravo Group. They have worked as Chief Executive Officer at BROKER NETWORK HOLDINGS LTD and Chief Commercial Officer at BROKER NETWORK HOLDINGS LTD.