Brad Weston became our President & Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2020 and has been a member of our Board since April 2020. Mr. Weston joined the Company as President of the Company and Chief Executive Officer of Party City Retail Group, in July 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Weston served as Chief Executive Officer at Petco (NASDAQ: WOOF), where he held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility from 2011 to 2018. Before joining Petco, Mr. Weston held several senior executive positions at Dick’s Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: DKS) from 2006 to 2011, including Chief Merchandising Officer. Mr. Weston currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boot Barn (NYSE: BOOT). Mr. Weston holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Weston’s extensive experience in the retail industry and his roles as Chief Executive Officer here and at Petco led to the conclusion that he should serve as a director of our Company.

Joel Alsfine has been a member of our Board since September 2020. Mr. Alsfine is a Senior Advisor to MSD Capital, an investment firm formed to manage the capital of Michael Dell and his family. Until July 2020, Mr. Alsfine was a Partner and the head of the Tactical Investments Group at MSD Capital. Mr. Alsfine joined MSD Capital in 2002 as an analyst focusing on investing in public equity securities and subsequently became the portfolio manager of a large, concentrated public equity portfolio. Mr. Alsfine became a Partner of MSD in February 2014. Prior to joining MSD, Mr. Alsfine worked at TG Capital Corp, a single-family investment office investing across all asset classes, McKinsey & Company, and accounting firm Fisher Hoffman Stride. Mr. Alsfine is a member of the board of Asbury Automotive Group Inc. (NYSE: ABG) and the board of Life Time Inc. He is also an independent director of CC Neuberger Principal Holdings II (NYSE: PRPB), a special purpose acquisition company. Mr. Alsfine received an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) in Accounting from the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Mr. Alsfine’s extensive capital markets, investment, financial and risk management experience from his executive and consulting roles, as well as his public company experience from director service and serving as an analyst focusing on public company equity, led to the conclusion that he should continue to serve as a director of our Company. Mr. Alsfine was nominated to the Board by the Nominating Parties pursuant to the Board Nomination Agreement.

James G. Conroy has been a member of our Board since September 2019. Mr. Conroy has been a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Boot Barn (NYSE: BOOT) since 2012. Prior to joining Boot Barn, Mr. Conroy was with Claire’s Stores, Inc. from 2007 to 2012, where Mr. Conroy served as Chief Operating Officer and Interim Co-Chief Executive Officer during 2012, President from 2009 to 2012 and Executive Vice President from 2007 to 2009. During his career, he was employed by Viacom Entertainment in their Retail Group from 1996 to 1998, Kurt Salmon Associates from 2003 to 2005 and Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Conroy currently serves on the Foundation Board of Children’s Hospital of Orange County (CHOC). Mr. Conroy received a bachelor’s degree in business management and marketing, and a master’s degree in business administration from Cornell University. Mr. Conroy is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his expertise in the strategic and operational aspects of the retail industry, which he has gained during his 27 years working in the industry.

Sarah Dodds-Brown has been a member of our Board since October 2020. Since 2005, Ms. Dodds-Brown has served in a variety of leadership positions in the General Counsel’s Organization at American Express (NYSE: AXP), including currently as Executive Vice President and Managing Counsel leading the Business Legal Group. For several years, in addition to her business support responsibilities, Ms. Dodds-Brown also led the global privacy law center of excellence at American Express and helped develop the company’s principle-based approach to privacy and data governance. Ms. Dodds-Brown currently serves as an Adviser on an American Law Institute project focused on developing principles for a data economy and is active with educational and civic organizations, including Duke University, Rye Country Day School, the City of New Rochelle Planning Board and DirectWomen. Previously, Ms. Dodds-Brown worked at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP in the firm’s M&A and private equity practices. Ms. Dodds-Brown received a JD from Columbia University School of Law and a B.A. from Duke University. Ms. Dodds-Brown’s extensive expertise in regulatory, legal, privacy, consumer and merchant matters, as well as significant experience activating cultural engagement and promoting diversity and inclusion across global organizations, led to the conclusion that she should serve as a director of our Company.

John A. Frascotti has been a member of our Board since September 2019. Mr. Frascotti is a Special Advisor and director of Hasbro, Inc (NASDAQ: HAS), and served as Hasbro’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 2018 until his retirement on March 31, 2021. Mr. Frascotti joined Hasbro in 2008 as Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer, became President of Hasbro Brands in 2014, and became President of Hasbro in 2017. In 2018, he was also named Chief Operating Officer, and became a member of Hasbro’s Board of Directors. Mr. Frascotti will not be standing for re-election to Hasbro’s Board of Directors at its Annual Meeting. Before joining Hasbro, Mr. Frascotti served in several senior executive positions at Reebok International Ltd. and myteam.com and the law firms of Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp in Los Angeles and Palmer & Dodge in Boston. Mr. Frascotti was a member of the Board of Directors of Corus Entertainment in Toronto, Canada, the Toy Association and the Hasbro Children’s Fund. Mr. Frascotti received his B.A. in Economics from Yale University, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude, and his JD, cum laude, from Harvard Law School. We believe Mr. Frascotti is qualified to serve on our Board of Directors because of his experience as a senior executive and his extensive experience in the strategic and operational aspects of the consumer products, gaming and entertainment industry.

Brad Weston became our President & Chief Executive Officer effective April 1, 2020 and has been a member of our Board since April 2020. Mr. Weston joined the Company as President of the Company and Chief Executive Officer of Party City Retail Group, in July 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Weston served as Chief Executive Officer at Petco (NASDAQ: WOOF), where he held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility from 2011 to 2018. Before joining Petco, Mr. Weston held several senior executive positions at Dick’s Sporting Goods (NASDAQ: DKS) from 2006 to 2011, including Chief Merchandising Officer. Mr. Weston currently serves on the Board of Directors of Boot Barn (NYSE: BOOT). Mr. Weston holds a B.S. in business administration from the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Weston’s extensive experience in the retail industry and his roles as Chief Executive Officer here and at Petco led to the conclusion that he should serve as a director of our Company.

Sean Thompson became Chief Merchant in November of 2019 and Chief Commercial Officer in September of 2020. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Thompson served at 7-Eleven, Inc. from 2012 to 2019, where he held several leadership positions of increasing responsibility, including SVP of Merchandising, SVP of Marketing, VP of Acquisition Integration, VP of Private Brands and Sr. Director of Merchandising. Previously, he served in merchandising and consulting roles with Target Corporation and The Farnsworth Group. Mr. Thompson holds a BA in Psychology and an MBA from Indiana University.

Peter Smith joined Party City Holdings Inc. in October 2022 as Chief Operations Officer. Mr. Smith is the key architect of the Company’s supply chain strategy and has overall responsibility for Manufacturing, Transportation, Distribution, Logistics, Supply Chain Analytics, Sourcing, and Inventory Optimization, which includes Merchandise Planning, Inventory Operations, Inventory Management. Mr. Smith has vast experience in end-to-end supply chain, designing and leading supply chain transformations that drove productivity, speed, and cost efficiency. Most recently, Peter was the Executive Vice President for Carter’s Children Clothing Company, where he oversaw the development and execution of the company’s supply chain strategy. Prior to Carter’s, he was a senior executive at V.F. Corporation where he led supply chain teams in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration and Economics from Franklin and Marshall College.