Ms. Apfelbacher serves as independent non-executive director on the board of Kroll Bond Rating Agency Europe Limited where she is also a member of the audit committee. In addition, Ms. Apfelbacher is a member of the Supervisory Board (Aufsichtsrat; non-executive director equivalent in a two-tier board system ) of Nomura Financial Products Europe GmbH where she also serves on the Audit and Risk Committee and on the Remuneration Committee. Ms. Apfelbacher is also a current senior counsel and former partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. She is seeking board opportunities where her Supervisory Board experience, as well as her capital markets, M&A and financial sector expertise will enable her to be a strong contributor. Building on her working, studying and living experience in the U.S. and in Germany and her strong intercultural and interpersonal skills, she is considering board positions in the U.S. and in Europe. Ms. Apfelbacher was instrumental in building Cleary Gottlieb’s German practice, with expertise in capital markets, M&A, corporate governance and the regulation of financial services. Based on her involvement in international and multi-office transactions and other matters and representation of clients from different cultures, she has extensive experience and enjoys working in an international and cross-cultural setting. Ms. Apfelbacher is an accomplished senior professional with the proven ability to think strategically about the development of a practice or business and the necessary flexibility to take advantage of changing market dynamics. Through her involvement in numerous mission-critical and innovative capital markets and M&A transactions she built a reputation as a fearless and creative problem solver with a strong commercial acumen who stays calm under pressure. Based on her capital markets and M&A transactional and board advisory work for major financial institutions, including Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank, UniCredit Bank, LBBW and BayernLB, Ms. Apfelbacher gained deep insight into the financial sector. Through her work with financial advisors, such as Citi, Credit Suisse, Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, on numerous high-profile fairness opinion projects she is particularly well-versed in the demands on boards in M&A situations. As a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Ms. Apfelbacher performed leadership roles through her four year service on the ten-member global Executive Committee of the firm and a three year term as one of the two co-leaders of the firm’s partner and counsel candidacy evaluation and discussion process. While on the firm’s Executive Committee which is in charge of all strategic and policy decisions on behalf of the firm, Ms. Apfelbacher was involved in major strategic projects, such as geographic and practice area expansion and other priorities for the firm. The composition of the firm’s Executive Committee with 10 members from 6 different countries and otherwise diverse backgrounds provided her with governance experience in a truly diverse body. Ms. Apfelbacher joined the Supervisory Board of Nomura Financial Products Europe, Nomura Group’s EU registered broker dealer, in November 2021. She was also appointed to the Supervisory Board’s Audit and Risk Committee and Remuneration Committee. Nomura Financial Products Europe is a so-called large investment firm and is supervised by the German financial regulator BaFin. Previously, Ms. Apfelbacher was a member of the Supervisory Board and chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of Corestate Capital Holding S.A. (public – Frankfurt Stock Exchange (regulated market, Prime Standard, SDAX® – ISIN LU1296758029)), a Luxembourg-headquartered real estate asset manager. As a member of Corestate’s Supervisory Board, Ms. Apfelbacher was involved in the oversight of significant strategic initiatives at Corestate, including a capital increase and various changes in the composition of Corestate’s Management Board (Vorstand). In her role as chair of the Corporate Governance Committee, she initiated the coordination of Corestate’s ESG reporting with its financial reporting and the integration of Corestate’s ESG initiatives into its overall business model. Ms. Apfelbacher resigned from Corestate’s Supervisory Board together with all other then Supervisory Board members as a result of a de facto change of control at Corestate at the end of November 2020. Ms. Apfelbacher is a contributor to the Investors for Diversity initiative in Germany and a co-author of a study on the influence of institutional investors on German board diversity. She is also a member of the Advisory Board of the European Banking Institute (EBI), the non-profit European platform for academic research and intellectual exchange among regulators, industry professionals and advisors in the area of banking regulation. Ms. Apfelbacher was included in the list of the 100 most influential women in German business published by Manager Magazin (December 2018). Ms. Apfelbacher holds an LL.M. from Columbia Law School where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, a doctorate in law from Regensburg University and two German legal exams from the State of Bavaria. She is an alumna of the German National Scholarship Foundation (Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes). Her native language is German and she is fluent in English.

Stephanie Hildebrandt is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Archrock, Inc., (NYSE:AROC) the leading provider of natural gas contract compression services to customers throughout the United States.  She was formerly a partner with the global law firm of Norton Rose Fulbright in Houston, Texas, with a practice focused on corporate governance, energy transactions and mergers and acquisitions.  She is also the former Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Enterprise Products Partners L.P. (NYSE: EPD), one of the largest publicly traded partnerships and a leading North American provider of midstream energy services.

Ms. Hildebrandt is a member of the Board of Directors of Rice Midstream Partners LP (NYSE: RMP) of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania, where she also serves on the Conflicts Committee. Rice Midstream Partners is a publicly-traded partnership which owns, operates, develops and acquires midstream energy assets in the Appalachian basin.

She is also a member of the Board of Directors of WildHorse Resource Development Corporation (NYSE:WRD) of Houston, Texas, where she also serves on the Audit Committee.  WildHorse Resource Development is an independent oil and natural gas company.

She formerly served as a member of the Board of Directors of TRC Companies, Inc. of Windsor, Connecticut, where she also served as Chair of the Compensation Committee and as a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee.  TRC is a national engineering services, consulting and construction management firm that provides integrated services to the energy, environmental and infrastructure markets. TRC was acquired by a private equity firm in 2017 and is no longer a publicly traded company.

Ms. Hildebrandt is a member of the President’s Advisory Board of the University of St. Thomas in Houston, TX and is also a member of the Advisory Council of the Kay Bailey Hutchison Center for Energy, Law and Business at the University of Texas in Austin, Texas.

Ms. Hildebrandt received her Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University and her Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Tulane University Law School. Ms. Hildebrandt and her husband have two adult children and reside in Houston, Texas.

 

 

Malissia Clinton is an executive with considerable board experience and over 25 years of practice across multiple industries, including defense, aerospace, intelligence, advanced technologies and health care.  Clinton is Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Los Angeles-based The Aerospace Corporation, the preeminent DoD advisor for the space enterprise.  At Aerospace, Clinton serves as a strategic partner to the C-Suite on a broad range of transactional and governance issues. She is cleared at the TOP SECRET/Sensitive Compartmented Information level. Clinton serves on the board of 3D Systems (NYSe: DDD), a leading additive manufacturing solutions company, and is the chair of the compliance committee of 3D Systems. Clinton has specific expertise in ethics and compliance with an emphasis on consent decrees and administrative agreements.  Clinton was named the Nonprofit Leader in Law of the Year (2020) by Los Angeles Business Journal. Clinton has significant board experience at both for-profit and non-profit organizations. In addition to 3D Systems, she serves on the boards of Progyny (Nasdaq: PGNY), the leading fertility benefits management company in the U.S. and Pacaso, an innovative private company that sales second homes as LLCs with 8 owners co-sharing expenses and equity increases.  Since 2016, she has served on the board of City of Hope, a leading independent research and treatment center for cancer, diabetes and other life-threatening diseases. In her role at The Aerospace Corporation, Clinton provides leadership and oversight to the senior management team on issues related to compliance, strategy, ethics, mission and culture.  Clinton acts as a consigliere to the board of trustees and its committees facilitating communications with the executive team and helping the board guide the Company’s strategy. She reports to the audit committee quarterly and is the management liaison for the governance and nominating committee responsible for identifying board candidates, vetting conflicts-of-interest, and ensuring the board is compliant with its fiduciary duties.  From 1998 to 2009, Clinton served in multiple management positions at Northrop Grumman, rising through the leadership ranks to become senior counsel for special projects in the Office of the General Counsel. From 1993 to 1998, Clinton worked at the law firm Tuttle and Taylor.  Clinton, a member of Phi Beta Kappa, earned a bachelor’s degree, summa cum laude, in political science from Arizona State University. She earned her J.D. at Stanford Law School, where she was an editor of the Stanford Law Review. She is a graduate of the UCLA Anderson School’s Executive Program in Business Management.