Item 5.02. Departure of Director or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Agreements of Certain Officers.
On March 8, 2023, the Board of Directors (the “Board”) of MidCap Financial Investment Corporation (the “Company”) appointed Emanuel Pearlman to the Board, effective as of March 8, 2023, to serve as a Class III Director of the Company. Effective upon the appointment of Mr. Pearlman as a Director of the Company, the size of the Board was increased from eight to nine members. The Board appointed Mr. Pearlman to the Audit Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee and Compensation Committee of the Company.
Mr. Pearlman is the Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Liberation Investment Group, an investment management and consulting firm that provides financial consulting, devises capital structures, negotiates IPOs, leads acquisitions and mergers, implements restructurings, and creates other complex financial plans for a variety of companies. In February 2023, Mr. Pearlman became a member of the Board of Diebold Nixdorf, Inc., a multinational financial and retail technology company that specializes in the sale, manufacture, installation and service of self-service transaction systems (such as ATMs and currency processing systems), point-of-sale terminals, physical security products, and software and related services for global financial, retail and commercial markets. He also serves as a member of the Finance and the People & Compensation Committees. Since January 2012, Mr. Pearlman has been a director of Network-1 Technologies, Inc., a company specializing in the development, licensing, and protection of its intellectual property assets, where he serves as chairman of the audit committee and a member of the nominating and governance committee. Mr. Pearlman is currently a director of LSC Communications, LLC, the largest producer of books in the United States and a leading manufacturer and distributor of magazines, catalogs and office products, serving as a member of the audit and compensation committees since 2021.
From March 2022 to April 2022, Mr. Pearlman served as a director of Redbox Entertainment, Inc., an entertainment company, and chair of its strategic review committee. In October 2020 and February 2021, Mr. Pearlman became a director of Atlas Crest Investment Corp. and Atlas Crest Investment Corp. II, special purpose acquisition companies. He served as chairman of the audit committee and a member of the compensation committee and nomination & governance committee on both boards until his ACIC board service ended in September 2021 and his ACII board service ended in June 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Pearlman served as director of Empire Resorts, Inc. (2010 - 2019); CEVA Logistics, AG (2018-2019); CEVA Holdings, LLC (2013-2018); ClubCorp Holdings, Inc. (2017); Fontainebleau Miami JV, LLC (2009-2014); Jameson Inns, Inc. (2012); Dune Energy, Inc. (2012-2013); Multimedia Games, Inc. (2006-2010); and Network-1 Security Solutions, Inc. (2000-2002). Mr. Pearlman holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. from Duke University. Mr. Pearlman is 62 years old.
The Company is aware of no arrangement or understanding between Mr. Pearlman and any other person pursuant to which he was appointed as a Director. Mr. Pearlman has no direct or indirect material interest in any transaction or series of similar transactions contemplated by Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K.