Mark D. Klein has spent the last two decades running public companies and investment firms. He has been our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2017 and a member of our Board of Directors since 2011. A director of our portfolio company Learneo (formerly Course Hero) since 2020, Mr. Klein has also served as a board member of certain exchange-listed special purpose acquisition companies (“SPACs”), including Churchill Capital Corp II from June 2019 to July 2021, Churchill Capital Corp III from June 2019 to October 2020, Churchill Capital Corp IV from July 2020 to February 2021, Churchill Capital Corp V from December 2020 to October 2023, Churchill Capital Corp VI from February 2021 to December 2023, and Churchill Capital Corp VII from February 2021 to August 2024.
Additionally, since 2012, he has been Managing Member and Majority Partner at M. Klein & Company, LLC, an investment banking and advisory firm. Before joining the Company, Mr. Klein held positions including Chairman and CEO at several public and private companies and served on a variety of corporate boards. He earned a bachelor’s degree with high distinction in Business Administration from Emory University and an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
