David G. Goodall

FirstMerit Corp. operates as a bank holding company for FirstMerit Bank, NA. The company provides a wide range of banking, fiduciary, financial, insurance and investment services to corporate, institutional and individual customers throughout Ohio, Chicago, Illinois and Western Pennsylvania. It operates through four business lines: Commercial, Retail, Wealth & Other. The Commercial line of business provides a full range of lending, depository, and related financial services to middle-market corporate, industrial, financial, business banking, public entities, and leasing clients. It also includes personal business from commercial loan clients in coordination with the Wealth Management segment. Its products include commercial term loans, revolving credit arrangements, asset-based lending, leasing, commercial mortgages, real estate construction lending, letters of credit, cash management services and other depository products. The Retail line of business includes consumer lending and deposit gathering, residential mortgage loan origination and servicing, and branch-based small business banking. Retail offers a variety of retail financial products and services including consumer direct and indirect installment loans, debit and credit cards, debit gift cards, residential mortgage loans, home equity loans and lines of credit, deposit products, fixed and variable annuities and ATM network services also offers other deposit products includes checking, savings, money market accounts and certificates of deposit. The wealth line of business offers an array of asset management, private banking, financial planning, estate settlement and administration, credit and deposit products and services. Its trust and investment services include personal trust and planning, investment management, estate settlement and administration services. The Retirement plan services focus on investment management and fiduciary activities. The Brokerage and insurance delivers retail mutual funds, other securities, variable and fixed annuities, personal disability and life insurance products and brokerage services. The Private banking provides credit, deposit and asset management solutions for affluent clients. The Other line of business includes activities that are not directly attributable to one of the three principal lines of business which includes other category the parent company, eliminations companies, community development operations, the treasury group, which includes the securities portfolio, wholesale funding and asset liability management activities, and the economic impact of certain assets, capital and support function not specifically identifiable with the three primary lines of business. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Akron, OH.

FirstMerit Bank, NA operates as a commercial bank. The company is based in Akron, OH.

Association for Corporate Growth, Inc. is a global organization founded in 1954 by Kenneth S. Berryman and David H. Brenner. The non-profit company is based in Chicago, IL and has subsidiaries in the United Kingdom, Netherlands, Canada, and the United States. The company's mission is to drive middle-market growth and it serves 90,000 investors, executives, lenders, and advisers to growing middle-market companies. The company's core focus is on middle-market M&A, with more than 25 years of sell-side and buy-side advisory experience, closing more than 200 transactions with a combined value of more than $1 billion. The company also publishes Middle Market Growth, the official publication of the Association for Corporate Growth, which includes a print magazine, website, weekly e-newsletter, and daily newsfeed. The CEO of the company since 2019 is Brent A. Baxter.

Turnaround Management Association is a organization that provides turnaround management, corporate restructuring and distressed investing services. Its members include turnaround practitioners, attorneys, accountants, investors, lenders, venture capitalists, appraisers, liquidators, executive recruiters, and consultants, as well as academic, government, and judicial employees. The company was founded by Thomas J. Allison, Jay Alix, C. Charles Bahr, Jacques H. Belet, Donald B. Bibeault, Gary Brooks Gerald, P. Buccino, John Butler, Melanie Rovner Cohen, John M. Collard, Marvin A. Davis, Peter Dusenberre, Timothy F. Finley, Kenneth E. Glass, Frank Grisanti, David Hansing, William J. Hass, Thomas D. Hays, William K. Marrinan, F. Richard Matthews, Kevin McConnaghy, Gilbert C. Osnos, Victor Palmieri, Peter Pellitier, Sanford C. Sigoloff, Jack R. Stone, James Sullivan, Rollie Tillman, Peter Tourtellot, John Whitney and Carl M. Youngman in 1991 and is headquartered in Chicago, IL.

The Commercial Finance Association operates as an international trade association for the finance industry. The non-profit company is based in New York, NY. The CEO of the company is Richard D. Gumbrecht.