John Frank, Chairman
John Frank has served as the Chairman and on our board of directors since July 2024. Mr. Frank served in a similar role on the board of directors of Oaktree Acquisition Corp. I and Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II until their business combinations with Hims, Inc. and Alvotech Holdings S.A., respectively. Mr. Frank is Vice Chairman and Director of Brookfield Oaktree Holdings, LLC (formerly Oaktree Capital Group, LLC) and Vice Chairman of Oaktree. He has been senior executive of Oaktree working closely with co-founders Howard Marks and Bruce Karsh, for twenty-three years. Since October 2017, Mr. Frank has also served as the Chairman of the board of directors of Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation. From October 2017 to March 2021, Mr. Frank also served as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oaktree Strategic Income Corporation prior to its merger with Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation. Mr. Frank joined Oaktree in 2001 as General Counsel and was named Oaktree’s Managing Principal in early 2006, a position which he held for about nine years. As Managing Principal, Mr. Frank was the firm’s principal executive officer and responsible for all aspects of the firm’s management. Prior to joining Oaktree, Mr. Frank was a partner of the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP where he managed a number of notable merger and acquisition transactions. Prior to joining Munger Tolles in 1984, Mr. Frank served as a law clerk to the Honorable Frank M. Coffin of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. Prior to attending law school, Mr. Frank served as a Legislative Assistant to the Honorable Robert F. Drinan, Member of Congress. Mr. Frank holds a B.A. degree with honors in history from Wesleyan University and a J.D. magna cum laude from the University of Michigan Law School, where he was Managing Editor of the Michigan Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. He is a member of the State Bar of California and, while in private practice, was listed in Woodward & White’s Best Lawyers in America. Mr. Frank is a member of the Board of Directors of Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) and Daily Journal Corporation and a Trustee of The James Irvine Foundation and the XPRIZE Foundation. Mr. Frank was a long-time trustee of Good Samaritan Hospital, Polytechnic School and Wesleyan University (where he served as Chair of the Board from 2001 until 2004).
Zaid Pardesi, CEO
Zaid Pardesi has served as our Chief Executive Officer since July 2024 and is a managing director at Oaktree Capital. Mr. Pardesi also served as the Chief Financial Officer and Head of M&A of Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II from September 2020 until the closing of the business combination of Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II with Alvotech (NASDAQ: ALVO) in June 2022. From July 2019 to January 2021, Mr. Pardesi served as Chief Financial Officer and Head of M&A of Oaktree Acquisition Corp., which consummated a business combination with Hims & Hers Health, Inc. (NYSE: HIMS). He has spent his career originating, acquiring and managing middle-market companies in the industrial, consumer, and healthcare sectors, often operating platforms as Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Pardesi joined Oaktree in 2019 from The Cranemere Group, a global holding company, where he was a senior investment professional acquiring middle-market businesses. Prior thereto, Mr. Pardesi was an investor at H.I.G. Capital and at AEA Investors in New York and London. He began his career at Bain & Company. Mr. Pardesi received an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. from Northwestern University, where he was a computer engineering and economics double major.
Courtney Conigliaro, CFO
Courtney Conigliaro has served as our Chief Financial Officer since July 2024 and is a senior vice president within Oaktree’s Finance organization, serving as head of the corporate accounting organization. She joined Oaktree’s Finance organization in 2021. She has spent her career managing and overseeing finance, accounting and reporting functions within the asset management and real estate industries, in a variety of management roles. Prior to working at Oaktree, Ms. Conigliaro worked at CBRE, Inc., a global commercial real estate services and investments company, from 2018 to 2021, where she was a senior director, serving as the global segment controller for their advisory segment and overseeing financial due diligence and integrations for the company’s mergers and acquisitions, including oversight of CBRE’s SPAC finance operations. She began her career as an auditor and consultant at Ernst & Young, serving strategic clients in the real estate and financial services industries. Ms. Conigliaro received a B.S. in Accountancy from Villanova University.
Matthew Pendo, COO
Mathew Pendo has served as our Chief Operation Officer since July 2024. Mr. Pendo currently serves as the Managing Director, Head of Corporate Development and Capital Markets for Oaktree and the President of the following Oaktree managed Business Development Companies: Oaktree Specialty Lending Corporation and Oaktree Strategic Credit Fund. Mr. Pendo joined Oaktree in 2015. Mr. Pendo previously served Chief Operating Officer of Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II until its business combination with Alvotech Holdings S.A., and as Chief Operating Officer of Oaktree Acquisition Corp. until its business combination with Hims, Inc. His prior experience includes serving as the chief investment officer of the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he was honored with the Distinguished Service Award in 2013. Mr. Pendo began his career at Merrill Lynch, where he spent 18 years, starting in their investment banking division before becoming managing director of the technology industry group. Subsequently, Mr. Pendo was a managing director at Barclays Capital, first serving as co-head of U.S. Investment Banking and then co-head of Global Industrials group. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics from Princeton University, cum laude and is a former board member of Ally Financial, Keypath Education, Inc., New IPT Holdings, LLC and SuperValue Inc.
Aman Kumar, M.D., Director
Aman Kumar, MD, has served on our board of directors since July 2024 and is a managing director within Oaktree’s Global Private Debt strategy. He also serves as a co-portfolio manager for the strategy’s Life Sciences Lending platform which focuses on investment opportunities across the healthcare spectrum from biotechnology and pharmaceuticals to medical devices and healthcare services. Prior to joining Oaktree in 2014, Dr. Kumar spent three years at Deutsche Bank in London working on the Global Credit team, most recently as a vice president on the European High Yield trading desk. Since June 2023, Dr. Kumar has been serving on the board of directors of Sanius Health. He has also been a board member of Si02 Material Science since September 2023. He received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery degree from King’s College London. Prior to Wharton, Dr. Kumar worked as a surgeon in the UK National Health Service (NHS). He is a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Paul Meister, Director
Paul Meister has served on our board of directors since October 2024. Mr. Meister has been a partner in Novalis LifeSciences, a life science-focused venture firm, since 2021. Mr. Meister is the co-founder, and since 2008, Chief Executive Officer of Liberty Lane Partners, LLC, a private investment company with investment holdings in healthcare, technology and distribution-related industries. From 2014 to 2018, Mr. Meister was President of MacAndrews & Forbes Incorporated, a private company that owns or controls a diverse set of businesses. In 2018, Mr. Meister also served, on an interim basis, as Executive Vice Chairman of Revlon, Inc. a leading beauty products company (NYSE: REV). Mr. Meister served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of inVentiv Health, Inc. (now Syneos Health Inc.) (NASDAQ: SYNH), a leading provider of commercial, consulting and clinical research services to the pharmaceutical and biotech industries, from 2010 to 2014. Mr. Meister was Chairman of Thermo Fisher Scientific, Inc. (NYSE: TMO), a scientific instruments equipment and supplies company, from 2006 to 2007. Mr. Meister was previously an Executive Officer of Fisher Scientific International, Inc., a predecessor of Thermo Fisher Scientific from 1991 to 2006. Mr. Meister has a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University. Other public company directorships include Aptiv PLC (NYSE: APTIV) since July 2019; Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NYSE: AMRX) since August 2019; Oaktree Acquisition Corp. I (July 2019 - January 2021) (NADSAQ: OAC); Oaktree Acquisition Corp. II (NASDAQ: OACB) from September 2020 to June 2022, Quanterix Corporation (NASDAQ: QTRX) since 2013, and Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) from March 2012 to June 2020. Mr. Meister is Co-Chair of the University of Michigan’s Life Sciences Institute External Advisory Board and Chair of the Provost’s Advisory Committee.
Alvin Shih, M.D., Director
Alvin Shih, M.D. has served on our board of directors since October 2024. Dr. Shih has broad experience in drug development, spanning multiple indications with a focus on rare diseases, including as the chief operating officer and founding member of Pfizer Inc.’s (NYSE: PFE) rare disease research unit from May 2010 to May 2014. Most recently, he has served as president and chief executive officer of Catamaran Bio, Inc. since February 2021. Prior to his current role, from July 2019 to December 2020 Dr. Shih served as the chief executive officer of Disarm Therapeutics, a biotechnology company that developed therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases and that was acquired by Eli Lilly in October 2020. Before that, Dr. Shih was chief executive officer of Enzyvant Therapeutics from November 2016 to February 2019, where he led the company’s cell/tissue-based therapy development for treating a rare immunological disease. Dr. Shih was also the executive vice president and head of research at Retrophin, Inc. from May 2014 to October 2016 where he worked on therapies for multiple disease indications. Dr. Shih has been serving on the board of directors of Tenza from November 2021. Since January 2024, Dr. Shih has been serving on the board of directors of Zevra Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ GS: ZVRA), and since July 2024, Dr. Shih has served on the board of directors of Imbria Pharmaceuticals. Dr. Shih previously worked in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and L.E.K. Consulting, LLC. He received his medical degree from the University of Alabama and completed his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Shih received his M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
