Mr. Merrill joined the Company in May 2007 as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He was named President and Chief Executive Officer in June 2011 and elected Chairman in November 2019. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Merrill worked in both investment banking and online real estate marketing. While working for UBS and its predecessor firm Dillon, Read & Co. (from 1987 to 2000), Mr. Merrill ultimately served as co-head of the Global Resources Group, overseeing relationships with construction and building materials companies around the world, including advising Beazer Homes on its 1994 initial public offering and several major acquisitions. Immediately prior to joining Beazer, Mr. Merrill was with Move, Inc. where he served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy after joining the firm as its first President of Homebuilder.com.

Mr. Merrill is also involved in several housing industry organizations. He was elected to the Board of Directors of Freddie Mac (Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation) in September 2020 and recently completed a four-year term as Chairman of Leading Builders of America, a trade organization of the country’s largest public and private homebuilders. He also serves on the Policy Advisory Board of the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University and on the board of privately held Builder Homesite Inc. He is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School with a Bachelor of Science degree in Economics.

We believe Mr. Merrill’s experience in and knowledge of the homebuilding sector, gained primarily through finance, capital markets and strategic development roles over more than 25 years, is particularly valuable to the Company as it seeks to achieve its financial and operational goals.

Prior to her retirement in April 2012, Ms. Acton was Executive Vice President Finance (from 2011 to 2012) and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from (2002 to 2011) of Comerica Incorporated, a financial services company. Prior to joining Comerica, Ms. Acton held a variety of positions at Ford Motor Company from 1983 to 2002, including Vice President and Treasurer from 2000 to 2002 and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Credit Company from 1998 to 2000. She is an Independent Trustee of the Fidelity Fixed Income and Asset Allocation Funds and Chair of its Audit Committee. Ms. Acton received a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota and a Master of Business Administration degree in Finance from Indiana University.

Ms. Acton has over 35 years of significant financial management expertise as well as significant experience as a finance executive for two public companies. We believe Ms. Acton’s finance and accounting expertise is valuable to the Company in many respects, including with respect to assessment of our capital structure and financial strategy as Chair of our Finance Committee, as well as compliance with our obligations under various regulatory requirements for financial expertise on our Board of Directors and Audit Committee.

Mr. Johnson served as Global Managing Director, Finance and Internal Audit, for Accenture Corporation from 2004 to 2015. At Accenture, he was responsible for leading the global consulting company’s corporate audit organization and providing guidance and counsel in finance and strategic planning. Prior to joining Accenture, Mr. Johnson was an Executive Director of M&A and General Auditor at Delphi Automotive and was Corporate Vice President, Finance and Chief Audit Executive at Emerson Electric Corporation. Mr. Johnson began his career at Coopers & Lybrand, which is now part of PwC. Mr. Johnson currently serves on the boards of Apogee Enterprises, Haemonetics Corporation, VSE Corporation and AARP.

Mr. Johnson received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in accounting and a Master of Accountancy degree with a major in accounting from the University of South Carolina and his Master of Business Administration from Duke University.

Mr. Johnson has over 40 years of significant financial management expertise as well as experience as a finance executive for two public companies and experience in the public accounting field.  We believe Mr. Johnson’s finance and accounting expertise is valuable to the Company in many respects, including with respect to assessment of our capital structure and financial strategy, as well as accounting expertise.
 

Mr. Orser served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Weyerhaeuser Real Estate Company, a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser Company, where he oversaw five different homebuilding operations across the United States, from 2010 to 2014. In July 2014, under his leadership, Weyerhaeuser completed the successful sale of the company. Prior to that, Mr. Orser spent almost 25 years in various positions at Quadrant Homes, a leading homebuilder in the state of Washington and a subsidiary of Weyerhaeuser, including serving as President from 2003 to 2010. Mr. Orser is active in a number of civic organizations, including multiple terms on the Runstad Department of Real Estate, University of Washington Advisory Board and United Way of King County board. Mr. Orser holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Puget Sound and a Master of Urban Planning from the University of Washington.

Mr. Orser’s experience in the homebuilding industry provides significant operational and safety expertise to the Company. We believe his understanding of our industry, as well as his management experience gained over the course of his career, is valuable to the Company.

Ms. Provencio was named Lead Director in November 2019. Ms. Provencio is President and owner of Provencio Advisory Services Inc., a healthcare financial and operational consulting firm. Prior to forming Provencio Advisory Services in October 2003, she was the Partner-in-Charge of KPMG’s Pacific Southwest Healthcare Practice since May 2002. From 1979 to 2002, she was with Arthur Andersen, serving as that firm’s Partner-in-Charge of the Pharmaceutical, Biomedical and Healthcare Practice for the Pacific Southwest. Ms. Provencio received her Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Loyola Marymount University. She is a certified public accountant and also a member of the Board of Trustees of Loyola Marymount University.

Ms. Provencio has over 30 years’ experience in the public accounting field. We believe her in-depth understanding of accounting rules and financial reporting regulations to be valuable to the Company’s commitment and efforts to comply with regulatory requirements.

Prior to his retirement in 2015, Mr. Shepherd was Vice Chairman (from 2014 to 2015) and served as Senior Vice President, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (from 2001 to 2014) of Vulcan Materials Company, a producer of construction aggregates. From 2016 to 2021, Mr. Shepherd served on the board of directors of GCP Applied Technologies. Mr. Shepherd received his Bachelor of Science degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Mr. Shepherd has significant experience in the building materials industry, and he has over 40 years of public company experience. He served in various management roles over the course of his career, including 13 years as an executive of a large producer of construction aggregates. We believe his in-depth understanding of our industry, as well as his management and operational experience, provides value to the Company.

Mr. Spitz served as chief executive officer and as a member of the board of directors of ChannelAdvisor Corp., a leading e-commerce cloud platform whose mission is to connect and optimize the world's commerce, from May 2015 through November 2022.  He also served as president and chief operating officer of ChannelAdvisor from 2010 until May 2015, and previously served in a number of capacities from 2006 until 2010.  He was an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Aurora Funds, a venture capital firm, from 2005 to 2008. Previously, from 2000 to 2002, Mr. Spitz was founder and chief technology officer of WindWire, a mobile marketing company that was acquired by Avesair, where he then served as president until its acquisition by Inphonic in 2003. In 1996 he co-founded, and until 1998 served as chief technology officer of, Netsation, a network management software company acquired by Nortel Networks, where he then served as senior principal technologist until 2000. Mr. Spitz received a B.A. degree in computer science from the University of California, San Diego. He holds four U.S. patents, is past chairman of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics Foundation Board and is past chairman and a member of the executive committee and board of directors of CED, an entrepreneurial support organization for companies in the southeastern United States. 

Mr. Spitz’s high-level management experience with software and technology companies, computer science background and deep technology industry experience provides value to the Company.

Mr. Winkle served as the chief executive officer and a member of the board of directors of Sunrise Senior Living, which operates senior living communities in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, including Gracewell Healthcare communities, from September 2014 to January 2021. He was chief executive officer of MedQuest, Inc., a leading operator of independent, fixed-site, outpatient diagnostic imaging centers in the United States from November 2005 to August 2013. He served as president and chief executive officer of Mariner Health Care, Inc., which operated skilled nursing facilities, assisted living and long-term acute care hospitals from January 1999 to July 2004. Mr. Winkle was the chief operating officer of Integrated Health Services, where he helped pioneer the sub-acute care sector and was responsible for all facility and ancillary service operations. He is a member of Argentum and American Seniors Housing Association (ASHA) boards. Mr. Winkle received his Bachelor of Science degree from Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Winkle's broad management experience and his specific expertise in serving the important aging adults demographic provides value to the Company.