Board of Directors

James H. Litinsky is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of MP Materials (NYSE: MP). Mr. Litinsky is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of JHL Capital Group LLC, an alternative investment management firm. Before founding JHL in 2006, he was a member of the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund at Fortress Investment Group. Prior to Fortress, he was a Director of Finance at Omnicom Group, and he worked as a merchant banker at Allen & Company. Mr. Litinsky received a B.A. in Economics from Yale University, cum laude, and a J.D./M.B.A. from the Northwestern University School of Law and the Kellogg School of Management. He was admitted to the Illinois Bar. Mr. Litinsky also serves as a member of the Boards of the Shirley Ryan AbilityLab and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago.

Arnold Donald is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of Carnival Corp. (NYSE: CCL) and Carnival plc from July 2013 to August 2022 and as a director from 2001 to November 2022. He currently serves as a director of Bank of America Corporation (NYSE: BAC) since January 2013 and as a director of Salesforce, Inc. (NYSE: CRM) since January 2023.  He also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of The Executive Leadership Council, a nonprofit organization providing a professional network and business forum to African-American executives at major U.S. companies from November 2010 to June 2012. In addition, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International from January 2006 to February 2008.  Mr. Donald earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from Carleton College with a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics, a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Graduate School Business.

Connie K. Duckworth is a former Partner and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, and retired in 2000, following a nineteen-year career. Ms. Duckworth was named Partner in 1990, the first woman sales and trading partner in the firm’s history. After Goldman Sachs, Ms. Duckworth founded ARZU in 2004 to empower destitute women weavers in rural Afghanistan and served pro bono as its Chairman and CEO until its merger with UK-based Turquoise Mountain in 2019. Ms. Duckworth is a director of Steelcase Inc. (NYSE: SCS) in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Previously, she served as a Trustee of Equity Residential and on the Boards of Directors of Northwestern Mutual, Russell Investment Group, Nuveen Investments, Smurfit Stone Container Corporation, and DNP Select Income Fund. In her philanthropic work, Ms. Duckworth is a Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania, an Overseer of The Wharton School, and a member of the International Board of Advisors of the University of Texas at Austin. She serves on the Board of NorthShore University HealthSystem, in Evanston, Illinois, where she was the first and only woman Chairman of the Board. She is a founding member of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative Policy Advisory Council in Dallas. The recipient of numerous awards for leadership, social impact and innovation, Ms. Duckworth holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Gold is the Founder and CEO of QVT Financial LP, an alternative investment management firm, and the QVT Family Office. Prior to founding QVT he was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, where he managed the proprietary trading group which became QVT via a spinout in 2003. Before Deutsche Bank he worked at Daiwa Securities and Bear Stearns. Mr. Gold graduated from Harvard College with an A.B. in Physics.

Ms. Lavan is the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT), a global security and aerospace company principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services operating in four business segments: Aeronautics, Missiles and Fire Control, Rotary and Mission Systems and Space. In this role, she is responsible for the legal affairs and law department of Lockheed Martin, including serving as counsel to its senior leadership and Board of Directors. She previously served as the Vice President of Corporate Internal Audit for Lockheed Martin, providing independent assessments of governance, internal controls, and risk management. She joined Lockheed Martin in 1990. Ms. Lavan graduated magna cum laude from the State University of New York at Albany with a Bachelor of Science degree. She received her juris doctor degree from the Washington College of Law, American University. Ms. Lavan is a member of the Public Contract Law Section of the American Bar Association. She serves on the governing bodies for the Leadership Council on Legal Diversity, Equal Justice Works, Council for Court Excellence, University at Albany Foundation, and Fordham University.

Mr. McKnight is a Managing Partner of the Credit Funds Business based in San Francisco, CA. Mr. McKnight heads the liquid strategies and serves on the investment committee for the Credit Funds and is a member of the Management Committee of Fortress. Mr. McKnight is also the Co-CIO of the Drawbridge Special Opportunities Fund, Fortress Lending Fund and Fortress Credit Opportunities Fund V. In addition, Mr. McKnight is currently the CEO of Fortress Value Acquisition Corp.

Retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers loyally served his country for forty years and retired as a four-star general. From 2001-2005, General Myers served as the 15th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Myers was the highest-ranking uniformed officer of U.S. military forces and served as the principal military adviser to President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and the National Security Council. Since retirement from the military, General Myers has served on several public and non-profit boards, and also held the Colin Powell Chair for National Security Leadership, Ethics, and Character at National Defense University. From 2016 to February 2022, General Myers was the President of Kansas State University.

Mr. Weisenburger founded Mile 26 Capital in January 2015. Previously, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Omnicom Group Inc. (NYSE: OMC) from 1998 through 2014. Before joining Omnicom, Mr. Weisenburger was a founding member of Wasserstein Perella and a former member of the First Boston Corporation. Mr. Weisenburger currently serves on the Board of Carnival Corporation (NYSE: CCL), Valero Energy Corporation (NYSE: VLO), and Corsair Components Inc. Mr. Weisenburger holds a MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and Accounting from Virginia Tech.