Steven Pully serves on boards of public and private companies across a variety of different industries and serves as an expert witness in litigation involving fiduciary duty, governance, restructuring, due diligence, investment banking and transaction matters. Over the course of his career, he has served on more than 50 corporate boards and completed more than 40 expert witness projects. He also performs investment banking services in connection with restructuring, capital raising and M&A transactions.

Mr. Pully has served on boards in a variety of industry sectors, including agriculture, aviation, consumer products, data centers, energy and power, engineering and construction, entertainment, finance, gaming, healthcare and pharmaceuticals, leasing and lending, life sciences, manufacturing, media, power sports, restaurant, refining, retail, real estate, telecom, and technology. Over the course of his board service, he has been designated as an independent director at the request of lenders and equity holders and as a non-independent director by a variety of large shareholders. Mr. Pully has also served as a board member of companies domiciled or located in a variety of international locations, including Brazil, Canada, Gabon, Luxembourg, Mexico, and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Pully has served as Executive Chairman, Chairman or Lead Director of boards and chaired Audit, Comp, Governance, Conflicts, Restructuring and Special Committees on numerous occasions. Mr. Pully recently served as the Executive Chairman of a public company, and as his first task, he resolved a serious covenant violation with the company’s largest lender, engineering a fully backstopped rights offering that allowed the company to avoid bankruptcy. Mr. Pully is also the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of a company that he joined after bankruptcy emergence that sold all its assets and that is now involved in a complicated dissolution process under Delaware law.

Until September of 2014, Mr. Pully was a partner and the General Counsel of Carlson Capital, L.P., a $9 billion AUM multi-strategy hedge fund where he worked for almost seven years. During his time at Carlson Capital, he worked on the formation of a $700 million AUM oil and gas private equity fund focused on distressed oil and gas investments and also worked on a significant number of restructurings and investments in the energy sector. Prior to working at Carlson Capital, Mr. Pully spent six years as the President of Newcastle Capital Management, a $650 million AUM deep value fund. During his time at Newcastle, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of two operating companies, including a domestic manufacturing company after its emergence from bankruptcy that had over 600 employees and a public company that was seeking to complete an acquisition.

Mr. Pully was a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns and a Managing Director at Bank of America Securities and also worked at Kidder Peabody and Wasserstein Perella. He worked on a broad variety of restructurings, financings and mergers and acquisitions involving the energy sector during his time as an investment banker. He was also responsible for the oil service area at the different investment banks where he worked and completed a number of restructurings, financings and mergers and acquisitions involving oil service companies. Mr. Pully began his career at Baker & Botts in Houston.

Mr. Pully is a licensed attorney and CPA and is also a CFA Charterholder. Mr. Pully also holds the Series 7, 63 and 79 FINRA licenses. Mr. Pully earned his undergraduate degree with honors in Accounting from Georgetown University and is also a graduate of The University of Texas School of Law.

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Thomas McClintock is a senior executive and advisor with more than three decades of experience navigating complex financial, operational, and distressed-asset environments. Known for delivering results in high-stakes situations, he brings deep expertise in mergers and acquisitions, bankruptcy processes, asset recovery, judgment enforcement, and strategic advisory engagements across a broad range of industries - including energy, real estate, industrial, technology, biotech, telecommunications, consumer products, and automotive.

Mr. McClintock has led efforts in M&A, valuations, restructuring, and early-stage capital raising, while also working closely with FINRA-registered broker/dealer operations to support compliant and successful private placements.

In addition to his advisory work, Mr. McClintock is also a successful Court-Appointed Pre- and Post-Judgment Receiver, experienced in forensic accounting, cryptocurrency tracing, complex asset recovery, and distressed asset sales. He has provided expert testimony, worked with federal bankruptcy trustees, and acted as a special trustee in high-value recovery matters.

Previously, Mr. McClintock spent over a decade with Blackhill Partners and Blackhill Advisors, ultimately serving as Senior Vice President & COO. His work included management of the firm’s FINRA-registered broker/dealer division and advisory roles in large-scale infrastructure, power generation, petroleum, and natural gas projects exceeding $20 billion in value. He contributed to numerous major bankruptcy processes - including the American Pad & Paper Company (Ampad) Chapter 11 restructuring - and provided financial advisory support to distressed oil & gas and manufacturing companies. Mr. McClintock is also the Founder & CEO of Manik Technologies, where he has built a unique international business in motorsports and engineered automotive products.

Mr. McClintock began his finance career with MG Capital & MG Securities, where he supported merchant banking, investment banking, and restructuring activities dating back to 1996. Prior roles include serving as Vice President at ComTech Associates, a venture-funded telecom infrastructure firm, and as a Market Analyst at The Fennigan Group, a commercial real estate consultancy.

Mr. McClintock holds a Bachelor of Business Administration with dual degrees in Finance and Corporate Real Estate - and additional concentration in Mechanical Engineering - from the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Mr. McClintock is licensed as a FINRA Series 79 Investment Banking Representative, Series 82 Private Securities Offerings Representative, and Series 63 Securities Agent.

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Mr. Latimer is an accomplished leader with a track record of success in complex and difficult situation. His background includes all phases of corporate finance, business strategy, and operations management in the oil and gas, high-tech, real estate, and distribution industries. He has expertise in creating capital structures that enhance company performance and has helped a diverse group of corporations accelerate their growth and successful transition from mid-market to private-equity backed and publicly held entities.

Most recently, Mr. Latimer served initially as CRO and later as CEO of Pacific Exploration and Production (TFX:PEN), now Frontera Energy, a large E&P company in Bogota Colombia and Toronto, Ontario.  Previously he served as CRO of RAAM Global Energy, and has served in the same capacity for ATP Oil & Gas (NYSE:ATPG), Cano Petroleum (AMEX:CFW), Crusader Energy, Rand Energy, Lothian Oil, and others.  Directorships include Enron Creditors Recovery Corp. (formerly Enron Corp.), Cinco Resources, the initial Magnum Hunter Resources, Inc., (NYSE:MHR), Prize Energy (AMEX:PRZ), Falcon Drilling Company (NYSE:RIG) (a predecessor to Transocean), and NGP Capital Resources Company (NASDAQ:NGPC).

Mr. Latimer earned his CPA with Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC), and served as a US Army Signal Corps officer, during which time he served in various assignments including in the Pentagon as Executive Officer to the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Comptroller), working extensively on procurement and weapons systems issues. Mr. Latimer received his B.A. degree in economics from Yale University, and his M.B.A. degree (with Distinction) in finance and marketing from Harvard University. He has received the Chartered Financial Analyst and Certified Public Accountant designations.

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Dan Gillett was a valued colleague, trusted advisor, friend, and Co-Founder of Speyside Partners. Speyside honors his memory and his many contributions to the firm, its clients, and the industries he served.

Dan provided consulting, restructuring, and investment banking services to companies and investors, and served on the boards of public and private oil and gas companies. He had more than 30 years of investment banking, restructuring, board, and senior executive experience, including service as chief executive officer, chief restructuring officer, and advisor to companies both in and out of bankruptcy. Over the course of his career, he completed more than $15 billion of financing, restructuring, merger, and acquisition transactions.

In recent years, Dan served as Chief Restructuring Officer of Seawolf Resources and Smith Production, and served in the Office of the Chief Restructuring Officer during the $5.4 billion restructuring of Pacific Exploration. Following Pacific’s emergence from bankruptcy, he served in the Office of the Chief Executive Officer. The Pacific restructuring was named the 2016 Cross-Border Restructuring of the Year in the “Over $5 Billion” category.

Dan served on multiple public and private company boards, including as Chairman, Co-Chairman, and Audit Committee member. He also served on the boards of Rover Petroleum, Castex, and Select Sands.

Before co-founding Speyside Partners, Dan was a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Blackhill Partners. Earlier in his career, he worked in the investment banking group at CS First Boston and began his career at Price Waterhouse, where he was a certified public accountant.

Dan received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BBA in Accounting from Harding University.