Mr. Garilli has served as Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary since November 2018. Previously, Mr. Garilli served as the Chief Executive Officer of our Predecessor from July 2018 until November 2018 and as the Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of our Predecessor from March 2017 until November 2018. Mr. Garilli has served as Interim President and Chief Executive Officer of Luby’s Inc. since February 2021 until May 2022. Mr. Garilli has served as a Trustee of LUB Liquidating Trust, successor to Luby’s, Inc., since June 2022. Mr. Garilli has served as Interim Chief Financial Officer of Seritage Growth Properties since January 2022. Mr. Garilli served as Chief Financial Officer of Winthrop Realty Trust from June 2012 until its liquidation in August 2016. Mr. Garilli has been with Winthrop Capital Advisors (f/k/a First Winthrop Corporation), a real estate investment and management company and affiliate of the Winthrop Advisor since September 1995 and currently serves as its President.
Mr. Read has served as an independent manager and Chairman of the Board of Managers since November 2018. Previously, he served as an independent director of our Predecessor from December 2014 to November 2018, including as Chairman of our Predecessor’s Board of Directors from June 2015 to November 2018. Mr. Read has served as the independent Chairman of the Board of Enzon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. since August 2020, as an independent Director of SandRidge Energy, Inc. since June 2018. Mr. Read previously served as an independent director of Business Development Corporation of America (2014-2018) and as an independent director of Luby’s Inc. (2019-2021). Mr. Read has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Nevada Strategic Credit Investments, LLC since 2009. From 2007 to 2009, he served with The Greenspun Corporation, lastly as Executive Director and President, whose companies included its wholly owned subsidiary American Nevada Realty. Mr. Read has previously served as President of a variety of other companies and has previously served on a number of public and private company boards. He is admitted as a Certified Public Accountant and has an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton Graduate School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. from Tulane University.
Mr. Bouchard has served as an independent manager since November 2018. Previously, Mr. Bouchard served as an independent director of our Predecessor from October 2016 through November 2018 and served on the nominating and corporate governance committee and the affiliated transactions committee. Mr. Bouchard currently serves as the Executive Chairman of the Board of The Ecolution Power Company (EcolutionPower.com), and is the Co-Chairman of The Space Railway Corporation (Spacerailway.com). Mr. Bouchard is a New York Times Best Selling Author, having co-authored “The Caterpillar Way: Lessons in Leadership, Growth and Stockholder Value,” Copyright 2013, (McGraw Hill, November 2013). In 2010, Mr. Bouchard founded Shale-Inland Holdings LLC (“Shale Inland,” now known as FloWorks International), a leading distributor of stainless steel pipe, valves and fittings, and stamped and fabricated parts to the United States energy industry. Mr. Bouchard served as the Chief Executive Officer and later as the Chairman of the Board of Shale-Inland through 2012.
Before founding Shale-Inland, in 2004, Mr. Bouchard co-founded and was the President and Vice Chairman of the Board of the steel company Esmark, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESMK). Esmark was the highest appreciating stock on the NASDAQ for the full year 2008. Prior to that, from 1998 to 2003, Mr. Bouchard was the President and Chief Executive Officer of New York-based NumeriX, a risk management software company focused on managing derivative financial risk.
Prior to that, Mr. Bouchard was the Global Head of Derivatives Trading and Quantitative Research at the First National Bank of Chicago, where his career spanned 19 years.
Mr. Bouchard is currently a member of the Leadership Board of the Department of Athletics at Duke University. Mr. Bouchard served on the Board of Trustees of Boston University and on the Foundation of the University of Montana. Mr. Bouchard holds a Bachelor of Arts degree, a Master of Economics degree in Economics, and Doctor of Science, from Illinois State University where he is in the Hall of Fame, of the School of the Arts and Sciences. Mr. Bouchard has a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of Chicago.
Mr. Ashner currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Winthrop Capital Advisors, LLC, First Winthrop Corp. and Winthrop Realty Partners L.P. He formerly served as a trustee of Winthrop Realty Liquidating Trust. From December 2003 to December 2016, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Winthrop Realty Trust. Mr. Ashner also served as the Executive Chairman and a Trustee of Lexington Realty Trust. Prior to the merger between Lexington and Newkirk, he also served as a director and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Newkirk. From 2002 to 2004, Mr. Ashner served as a director and Chief Executive Officer of Shelbourne Properties I, Inc., Shelbourne Properties II, Inc. and Shelbourne Properties III, Inc. From 2019 to 2021, he served as a director of CBL Associates & Properties, Inc. Mr. Ashner is a Trustee of the Northwell Hospital System, American Friends of Beit Ruth and a past trustee of the National World War II Museum of New Orleans. He is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of Miami School of Law.