Governance

Keith Anderson became a director of Skyline Champion on June 1, 2018. Mr. Anderson was named Chief Executive Officer of Skyline Champion on June 1, 2018 and he retired from that role effective June 1, 2019. He served between November 1, 2016 and June 1, 2018 as Chief Executive Officer of both Champion Holdings and Champion Home Builders, Inc. (“CHB”), a Division of Champion Holdings. Previously, from June 2015 through October 30, 2016, Mr. Anderson was President and Chief Executive Officer of Champion Holdings and Chief Executive Officer of CHB. Since 2016, he has served on the Board of Managers of Southwest Stage Funding, LLC d/b/a Cascade Financial Services. He has served as a director of the non-profit organization Manufactured Housing Institute, and on the Manufactured Housing Advisory council for both Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Prior to joining Champion Holdings, Mr. Anderson was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Walter Investment Management Corp. from June 2012 to November 2014. From November 1995 to June 2012, Mr. Anderson held various executive management positions at GreenTree Servicing, LLC ending with the role of President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Anderson holds a B.S. in Accounting from Illinois State, and an M.B.A. from DePaul University.

Michael Berman joined the Board on November 25, 2018. Mr. Berman has served as the Chief Executive Officer of MB Capital Associates, a consulting firm, since March 2018. From 2011 through 2018, he was Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of GGP, Inc., a retail real estate investment company where he oversaw its finance, accounting, capital markets, treasury, investor relations, and corporate communications functions. Previously he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Equity LifeStyle Properties (formerly Manufactured Home Communities), an owner and operator of manufactured home communities. Mr. Berman was employed in the investment banking department of Merrill Lynch & Co. from 1988 through 2002 and was an associate professor at the New York University Real Estate Institute in 2003. Mr. Berman also serves as a director and Chair of the Audit Committee of Brixmor Property Group, Inc., one of the nation’s largest owner-operators of grocery anchored shopping centers and served as a director of Mack-Cali Realty Corporation on both the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Berman holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, a J.D. from Boston University School of Law, and a B.A. from Binghamton University.

Eddie Capel became a director of Skyline Champion on September 16, 2019 and was elected Chair of the Board effective July 27, 2023. Mr. Capel has been the Chief Executive Officer of Manhattan Associates, Inc. since 2013. Before then, he served Manhattan Associates in various roles, including Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, and President. Before joining Manhattan Associates in June 2000, Mr. Capel held various positions at Real Time Solutions, including Chief Operations Officer and Vice President, Operations, where he led teams that supported the supply chain strategies of companies such as Walmart, Amazon.com and J.C. Penney. He also served as Director, Operations, with Unarco Automation, an industrial automation/robotics systems integrator. Before joining Unarco, Mr. Capel worked as a Project Manager and System Designer for ABB Robotics in the United Kingdom. He obtained his degree in HNC Mechanical Engineering from Swindon College.

Michael Kaufman became a director of Skyline Champion on June 1, 2018. Mr. Kaufman is the Chief Executive Officer of MAK Capital, an investment advisory firm based in New York, New York, which he founded in 2002. He is director and Chairman of the Board of Agilysys, Inc., and serves as a director for Yatra Online, Inc., Trailhead Biosystems and Metal Recovery Holdings, LLC, (formerly AZP, LLC and American Zinc Recycling). Mr. Kaufman holds a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Chicago, where he also received his M.B.A. degree. He also earned a law degree from Yale University.

Tawn Kelley was elected to serve as a director of Skyline Champion on July 27, 2023. Ms. Kelley is an Executive Vice President of Taylor Morrison Home Corporation, one of the country’s top public, NYSE-listed homebuilders. With more than 30 years of experience in new construction mortgage financing, Ms. Kelley serves as President of Taylor Morrison’s financial services suite of companies, leading Taylor Morrison Home Funding and Inspired Title Services. In addition, she is the Chair of the company’s joint venture business, Mortgage Funding Direct Ventures which she founded in 2001 and sold to Taylor Morrison in 2009. The joint venture partners with homebuilders to provide in-house mortgage operations. In 2011, she established a free qualification improvement program to better position families for home purchase, and today her proprietary program – Able, Ready, Own – has educated and strengthened qualification for thousands of families. In 2021, Ms. Kelley joined the Mortgage Bankers Association national board (MBA) and, in addition, she currently serves on the Residential Board of Governors as well as the Affordable Homeownership Advisory Council and MBA’s Investment Committee. In 2020, she joined the Board of Directors for STORE Capital, a publicly traded REIT, and was named Chair of the Board in December 2021. She led the sale of STORE Capital to GIC Private Limited in February 2023 and left the Board at that time.

Erin Mulligan Nelson Nelson became a director of Skyline Champion on September 16, 2019. Erin currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer for OfficeSpace Software, a Vista Equity portfolio company. From 2021 through the end of 2022, Ms. Nelson served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Bonterra, a public benefit corporation which became the second largest and fastest-growing social good software platform. Before leading Bonterra, Ms. Nelson was Chief Executive Officer and Director of Social Solutions from April 2020 to November 2021. Prior to that, from September 2017 to March 2020, she was the CEO of Calytera, a private equity-backed government technology software company. Ms. Nelson spent 11 years at Dell, Inc., including as Global Chief Marketing Officer, where she stewarded the Dell.com ecommerce business, Corporate Social Responsibility and Dell’s global marketing strategy, and has also served as Chief Marketing Officer for SunPower and Bazaarvoice. She has led brand strategy, global communications, social media, corporate social responsibility, global research, marketing talent development and agency management. Ms. Nelson serves on the Board of Directors for Mavenir, a private telecommunications company, and Zalat Restaurant Group, a privately held hospitality company. Ms. Nelson obtained her B.B.A. from the University of Texas and currently serves on the Dean’s Advisory council for the University of Texas McCombs School of Business.

Nikul Patel was elected to serve as a director of Skyline Champion on July 26, 2022. Mr. Patel is a co-founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of LoanGlide, Inc., an embedded financing platform for personal loans, a position he has held since November 2019. Prior to that, he was Chief Strategy Officer of LendingTree, Inc. LendingTree operates an online consumer platform in the United States offering comparison shopping services for mortgage, credit card, personal loans, insurance and various other financing products. During his more than six-year tenure at LendingTree, he also held the positions of Chief Operating Officer and Chief Product Officer at various times. Prior to joining LendingTree, Mr. Patel held various other leadership positions including President, Lendage.com at Bills.com, Inc., Chief Operating Officer and Vice President, Products at Home-Account, Inc. and a variety of positions at Intel Corporation over a 12-year period. Mr. Patel also serves as a director of Data Axle, Inc. As an entrepreneur, he also co-founded Movoto.com, an online real estate search platform. Mr. Patel holds an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Computer Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and a B.E. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Gujarat University.

Gary E. Robinette became a director of Skyline Champion on June 1, 2018. Mr. Robinette served as a member of the Champion Holdings Board of Managers starting in 2010. Mr. Robinette served as Chairman of Associated Metals, LLC, where he continues to serve as a director. He previously served as Chairman Emeritus of Ply Gem Industries Inc. until November 2020. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Ply Gem from 2006 through 2018. Mr. Robinette was elected Vice Chairman of the Ply Gem Board of Directors in May 2013 and was appointed Chairman of the Ply Gem Board of Directors in 2015. Prior to joining Ply Gem, Mr. Robinette served as Executive Vice President and COO at Stock Building Supply, formerly a Wolseley company, since September 1998, and was also a member of the Wolseley North American Management Board of Directors. Mr. Robinette held the position of President of Erb Lumber Inc., a Wolseley company, from 1993 to 1998 and served as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Carolina Holdings, which was the predecessor company of Stock Building Supply. Mr. Robinette received a B.S. in Accounting from Tiffin University and an M.B.A. from Xavier University, where he has served as a member of the Board of Trustees. He also served as a member of the Policy Advisory Board of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies and serves on the board of directors for two companies sponsored by private equity firms.

Mark Yost became a director of Skyline Champion on April 30, 2019 in connection with being named President and Chief Executive Officer effective June 1, 2019. Mr. Yost joined Champion Holdings in June 2013 as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. In October 2016 he was named President of CHB. Previously Mr. Yost served as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President for Severstal North America. Mr. Yost received his B.S. in Finance and M.B.A. degrees from the University of Michigan.