Corporate Activism – When Activists Pound On The Boardroom Door Speaker Bios

Craig A. Barbarosh

Craig Barbarosh is an experienced board member and business leader/strategic advisor with nearly 30 years of professional experience. Craig presently serves as an independent director on the boards of: Landec Corporation (NASDAQ: LNDC), where he is the Chairman of the Board and was previously a member of the Compensation Committee; Nextgen Healthcare, Inc. (NASDAQ: NXGN), where he is the Vice Chairman of the Board, Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance and Special Transactions Committees and was previously a director of NXGN's India subsidiary; Sabra Healthcare REIT, Inc. (NASDAQ: SBRA), where he is the Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee; and Evolent Health, Inc. (NYSE: EVH), where he is a member of the Compensation and Strategy Committees. In addition to his public company board service, Craig currently serves as the Independent Director and sole member of the Restructuring Committee of a telecommunications distribution company in its Chapter 11 proceeding and as an Independent Director of Easterday Ranches, Inc. in its Chapter 11 proceeding.

Craig previously served on the boards of directors of Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PETX), a leading pet therapeutics company, where he was a member of the Compensation Committee and Chair of the Strategic Review Committee, Bazaarvoice, Inc. (NASDAQ:BV), a market-leading SaaS-based provider of software and service solutions and data analytics for the retail sector, where he was a member of the Compensation Committee, and BiopharmX, Inc. (NYSE MKT: BPMX), a specialty pharmaceutical company based in Menlo Park, CA, where he served as the Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. Craig also previously served as an Independent Director of Ruby Tuesday, Inc., a 200+ location casual dining restaurant chain in its Chapter 11 proceeding, the Independent Board Observer for Payless Holdings LLC (owner of the Payless shoe store chain) during its Chapter 11 proceeding and the Independent Board Advisor to the holding company of Plum Healthcare Group.

Craig has extensive experience in debt and equity offerings, M&A, governance and compliance, turnarounds and restructurings, CEO and founder transitions, senior leadership recruitment, activist shareholder relationships (including three contested proxy contests), executive compensation, dispute resolution and leadership coaching and development. Craig is a “financial expert” as defined by the SEC and completed certificated executive education programs at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Corporate Valuation (2019), Harvard Business School in Effective Corporate Boards (2015), Strategic Business Valuation (2010) and Private Equity/Venture Capital
(2007) and Carnegie Mellon University in Cybersecurity Oversight (2019).

Craig is a lawyer by background and served as a senior partner in two international law firms where he held various leadership positions including on the firm’s Boards of Directors, Executive Committees and Strategy Committees. Craig’s financial restructuring practice was national in scope and included leading roles in many of the largest corporate restructuring matters in the country.

Craig holds a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a J.D. from the University of Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where he graduated with honors. Craig is a frequent speaker at seminars and conferences discussing corporate governance and restructuring-related issues and has published several articles addressing current business, governance and legal topics.

David Hunker

David Hunker is a highly experienced advisor to CEOs and Boards of Directors in North America, Europe and Asia on all aspects of shareholder activism preparation and defense.

David joined EY in late 2020 to expand the firm’s efforts to advise corporate clients on key issues critical to shareholder activism vulnerability and strategies to mitigate a shareholder activist approach.  David’s expertise focuses on all aspects of shareholder activism, including institutional shareholder engagement, ESG, corporate strategy and capital structure.

Prior to joining EY, David was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan, where he founded and ran the bank’s global shareholder activism defense practice for nearly a decade, advising hundreds of clients on activism preparedness and defense.  Prior to his focus on shareholder activism, David worked at J.P. Morgan on private company capital raising and M&A in the U.S., Europe, Africa and Asia.

David is regularly quoted by major print and online news outlets and has appeared on CNBC to discuss shareholder activism.

Hoshi Printer

Hoshi Printer serves on the boards of one public company and two private companies

Printer is on the board of directors of Lantronix, a public technology company (LTRX), where he is the Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of Nominating / Governance committee and Compensation Committee.

Designated as a Board Leadership Fellow by NACD (National Association of Corporate Directors) and a board member of its Pacific Southwest Chapter, he has more than four decades of impressive board, general and financial management experience spanning a wide range of industries.

Printer has served as CFO for ten technology companies in sectors that include the Internet, ecommerce, software, storage, and biosciences, and has taken three companies public.

He holds an MBA, and served as U.S. Army officer and a Vietnam veteran.

Colleen C. Smith

Colleen Smith, an experienced trial lawyer and Local Chair of the San Diego Litigation & Trial Department, represents emerging and Fortune 500 companies and their officers and directors in high-stakes complex litigation.

Ms. Smith has secured major trial victories for clients facing enterprise-threatening liability, including in the first securities class action to go to trial in over a decade. In that matter, the jury reached a unanimous verdict in the client’s favor on the majority of claims, awarding miniscule damages.

Ms. Smith regularly defends companies and their executives against private plaintiffs claiming disclosure fraud, often achieving early dismissals on motion practice.

Ms. Smith also represents executives and boards of directors facing SEC subpoenas and investigations, as well as board committees in connection with internal investigations. Representing a technology company CEO in one such matter pursued by the SEC, Ms. Smith helped secure a unanimous defense verdict following a three-week jury trial — a Daily Journal Top Defense Verdict of 2014.

Before becoming a lawyer, Ms. Smith served as a US Naval Surface Warfare Officer on the guided missile destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73), and was one of the first women to serve in a combatant role. After law school, she served as a law clerk for Judge David R. Thompson of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge James H. Michael of the US District Court for the Western District of Virginia.