Biography

TERM: Current term expires at the 2026 Annual Meeting.

Bertrand Villon has served as a member of our Board since June 2023. Mr. Villon currently serves as a Managing Director in the Private Equity Group of Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (“CDPQ”), a long-term institutional investor in New York, overseeing the firm’s direct private equity investment activities in the business services and industrials sectors in North America since September 2015. Before joining CDPQ, he was a Director at Bagan Capital, an investment and advisory firm, in Hong Kong from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, he was a Vice President, Private Equity at Investcorp, an alternative investment firm, in New York and London, where he participated and led investments across a variety of industries in North America and Europe from 2007 to 2013. He began his career as an Associate, Mergers & Acquisitions at Rothschild, an investment bank in London, from 2003-2006. He currently serves on the board of directors, audit committee and compensation committee of Allied Universal, a leading provider of security services, and the board of directors and compensation committee of Clarios, a leading supplier of energy storage solutions, and on the board of directors, audit committee and compensation committee of ICR, a strategic communications and advisory firm. Mr. Villon previously served on the Board of Sterling from 2017 to 2020. Mr. Villon holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MSc in Management from HEC School of Management in Paris. Mr. Villon was selected to serve as a director because of his extensive experience in private equity investing, his prior experience with the Company and his service on the board of directors of other companies.