Richard Adair, Chief Executive Officer & Founder

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Mr. Adair co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of Pluribus. Prior to Pluribus, Mr. Adair held senior executive roles in over 25 technology companies in a range of verticals over the past 30 years. He has a unique combination of restructuring, M&A and strategic sales experience in successfully growing technology companies. From 2005 to 2015, Mr. Adair held various senior management roles in Symbility Solutions Inc., a software company formerly listed on the TSX Venture exchange prior to being acquired by CoreLogic, Inc. These roles included CFO and President/COO of the parent company, as well as Executive Vice President International of its insuretech division and CEO of its healthcare division. Mr. Adair is presently a director for Pioneering Technologies Inc., which is listed on the TSXV. Mr. Adair has an Honours Business Administration degree from the University of Western Ontario and is a member of the Canadian Institute of Chartered Business Valuators.

Alfred Apps, Director

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Mr. Apps is a senior partner at Miller Thomson LLP. Mr. Apps is the co-head of the firm’s structured finance and securitization practice and is recognized as a leading counsel in restructuring, M&A, private equity fund formation and investment, structured finance and infrastructure finance. In addition to over 25 years in the practice of corporate law, Mr. Apps has led companies and raised capital in Canada, the U.S., and Europe. He has also served as Chair and/or Director of a number of public and private companies and was one of the founders of the Insolvency Institute of Canada. Mr. Apps graduated with an honours bachelor of arts degree from Western University, Juris Doctor from University of Toronto and was admitted to the Ontario Bar in 1987.

David Coombs, Director

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Mr. Coombs is a Principle at Starland Development Corp and has been a residential property, Golf Course developer for over 25 years. Mr. Coombs is also the former Chairman & CEO of Assured Software that was acquired by Pluribus in April 2019.

Carolyn Currie, Director

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Ms. Currie is Managing Director for Waterstone’s executive search practice. Prior to this leadership role, she held the position of Waterstone’s Director of Research. Earlier in her career, Ms. Currie led the Canadian operations of global recruitment firms and has been a partner in executive search and advised her clients in helping them achieve their broader human capital goals. Ms. Currie was previously Country Leader and Partner for the Canadian division of the global human capital firm, Korn Ferry International where she was responsible for the strategic direction, development, and growth of the business. Ms. Currie holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts Degree from Western University.

Jim Dunbar, Director

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Mr. Dunbar has 25 years of progressive business leadership and expertise in transformational growth, spearheading companies through start-up, expansion, acquisition and sale across various sectors including banking, real estate, technology, portfolio management and consumer finance. Most recently, Mr. Dunbar was the CEO of Crown Crest Capital and President of The Simply Group (2016 – 2019). Prior to Crown Crest, he was Co-Founder and CEO of Affirm Financial Services and Managing Partner at Canaccede Financial Group Ltd (2009 – 2015). Mr. Dunbar held leadership positions at Brookfield Asset Management (2001-2009) including President and CEO of HomeServe Technologies Inc., COO Home-Link Canada, CMO Marketing Royal LePage Canada Ltd., VP Financial Services, Brascan Financial Corp (now Brookfield RPS). Prior to Brookfield, Jim was AVP Consumer Credit Scotiabank and Director, Credit Risk Management and Product Management at Avco Financial Services (aka. Citi Financial). Mr. Dunbar holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Western University, Honours Business Administration degree from the University of Windsor and an MBA from Niagara University Graduate School.

Elmer Kim, Chair of the Board of Directors

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Mr. Kim is the Chief Investment Officer and Head of the Hyatt Bangia Family Office, a private family office established to manage the assets of the Hyatt and Bangia families. He has been a regular weekly panelist on CBC News Network’s nationally broadcasted Saturday Business Panel since 2010. Previously, Mr. Kim was Vice President of Growth Equity at BDC Capital and was National Group head for investing in $1 million to $20 million per company sector, and a member of the Investment Committee for the Group. Prior to BDC, he was Managing Director at Roynat Equity Partners, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Bank of The Corporation Scotia/Scotiabank. Prior to this, Mr. Kim was co-founder and Managing Director of Whitecastle Private Equity Partners a Toronto-based middle market private equity fund. During his career, Mr. Kim has been an investor across a wide variety of sectors including media, industrial distribution, media and software, industrial services, software logistics, advertising, pharmacy retail, insurance services, software/hardware, factory automation, etc. Mr. Kim has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto. He received his CPA, CA designations in 1988.

Warner Sulz, Director

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In addition to his director’s role at Pluribus, Warner is currently an advisor to and investor in privately-held companies in the construction technology and refined oil distribution industries. Prior to these endeavours, Warner had a 25-year career in asset management, most recently as Vice President and Portfolio Manager at RBC Global Asset Management. He was responsible for managing over $3 Billion across a number of diversified Canadian and North American equity mutual funds. Funds included RBC North American Growth Fund, PH&N Canadian Dividend Income Fund, and the PH&N Canadian Growth Fund. Before that role, Warner served as Co-Manager of the RBC Canadian Equity and RBC Balanced Growth Funds, as well as a member of the firm’s Investment Policy Committee. Prior to assuming these equity portfolio management roles, he was responsible for the firm’s Equity and Derivatives trading desks. Prior to his tenure at RBC Global Asset Management, Warner worked for a number of years in capital markets at Dominion Securities. He graduated from York University in Toronto with a Bachelor of Business Administration.