Thomas Hicks

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Mr. Thomas Hicks serves as Senior Partner, Vice Chairman & Member of Executive Committee, Nominating Committee & Enterprise Risk Committee at The Beneficient Company Group. Mr. Thomas Hicks was the Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer & President at Hicks Acquisition Company I. Mr. Hicks has served as the chairman of Hicks Holdings LLC, a holding company for sports, real estate and private equity investments of Mr. Hicks and his family, including the National Hockey League's Dallas Stars, purchased in December 1995, Major League Baseball's Texas Rangers, acquired in June 1998 and a 50% interest in the English Premier League's Liverpool Football Club, acquired in March 2007. Hicks Holdings is also the controlling stockholder of Latrobe Specialty Steel Company, a specialty steel manufacturer. Its other corporate holdings include DirecPath, a company that provides bundled DIRECTV programming, broadband voice and data services, security and other locally based services to multiple dwelling units across the United States, Ocular LCD, Inc., a designer, manufacturer and marketer of high-performance liquid crystal displays, modules and systems, Berkshire Resources, a gas and oil exploration company, Grupo Pilar, an animal and pet food company in Argentina, SafeMed, a provider of decision support systems for healthcare professionals and River City Landscape Supply, a provider of bulk and bagged mulches, soils and decorative rocks. Hicks Holdings also holds approximately 20% of the equity of Greatwide Logistics Services, a U.S. non-asset based provider of dedicated transportation, third-party logistics, warehouse/distribution and truckload brokerage solutions. Mr. Hicks co-founded Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, a nationally prominent private equity firm in the United States that specialized in leveraged acquisitions, and served as chairman from 1989 through 2004. During Mr. Hicks' tenure as chairman, Hicks Muse raised over $12 billion of private equity funds, and consummated over $50 billion of leveraged acquisitions, and was one of the most active private investment firms in the country. Mr. Hicks also co-founded and served as co-chief executive officer of the leveraged buy-out firm Hicks & Haas from 1984 until 1989. Mr. Hicks received a Master's of Business Administration degree from the University of Southern California in 1970 and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from the University of Texas in 1968. Mr. Hicks is the father of Thomas O. Hicks, Jr., our secretary and one of company's vice presidents, and Mack Hicks, a vice president of our company. In Mr. Hicks' position as our chairman, he will have general supervision and control of our acquisition activities subject to the ultimate authority of our board of directors and shall be responsible for the execution of the policies of our board of directors with respect to such matters.