Richard Noll
Director
Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Richard Noll serves as a director of the company and as Chair of the Audit Committee. Since January 2020, Mr. Noll is Chairman of the Board of Reynolds Consumer Products Inc., and serves on the Audit Committee and Compensation, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Previously Mr. Noll served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hanesbrands Inc. from 2009 to 2019, and Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2016. Mr. Noll joined Hanesbrands Inc. from Sara Lee Corporation where he worked for 14 years in various management positions, including President and Chief Operating Officer of Branded Apparel and Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer of Sara Lee Bakery Group, and led the turnarounds of several Sara Lee Corporation bakery and apparel businesses. Mr. Noll has also served as a director of Fresh Market Inc. from 2011 to 2016 and as a director of Cater’s Inc. from 2019-2021. Mr. Noll received a B.A. in Business Administration from Pennsylvania State University and an M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University.
Samir Kaul
Director
Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Samir Kaul serves as a director of the company and as Chair of the Nominating Committee. Mr. Kaul is a Founding Partner and Managing Director at Khosla Ventures, where he focuses on health, sustainability, food, and advanced technology investments. Mr. Kaul led the firm’s investments in Vicarious Surgical [NYSE: RBOT], SLD (acquired by Kyocera), Guardant Health [NASDAQ: GH], Impossible Foods, Mojo Vision, NanoH2O (acquired by LG Chem), Nutanix [NASDAQ: NTNX], Oscar [NASDAQ: OSCR], Quantumscape [NASDAQ: QS], Ultima, Raxium, Connie Health, Statespace, OpenStore, Varda, Rightway Heath, and Mirvie, among others. Previously, Mr. Kaul was at Flagship Ventures where he founded and invested in early-stage biotechnology companies, and Craig Venter’s Institute for Genomic Research where he led the Arabidopsis Genome Initiative. He is active in philanthropy and has been a longstanding member of the leadership committee of the Tipping Point Community, a board member of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital, and on the Board of Trustees for the US Ski and Snowboard Association. Mr. Kaul holds a B.S. degree in Biology from the University of Michigan, an M.S. degree in Biochemistry from the University of Maryland and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.
Heather Hartnett
Director
Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Heather Hartnett serves as a director of the company and as Chair of the Compensation Committee. Since 2015, Ms. Hartnett has served as the Chief Executive Officer and General Partner of Human Ventures, a New York City- based venture capital fund backing, building and scaling industry-changing technology companies through a startup studio model. Since launching six years ago under Hartnett’s leadership, Human Ventures has invested in and co-built more than 50 companies. Those companies have grown to a combined more than $4.1 billion in enterprise value and have gone on to raise over $500 million in additional capital from notable later stage investors. Key investments and board positions include Reserve Media, Inc. (acquired), Current, theSkimm, Tiny Organics Inc., Tia Health and Daily Muse Inc. Ms. Hartnett is an active leader in the technology community, serving on the leadership council for Tech:NYC since 2017 and the board of Transact Global. She has also been a member of the prestigious Kauffman Fellowship executive education program in venture capital and innovation since 2018.
Jeffrey E. Kelter
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Executive Chairman
Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Jeffrey E. Kelter is our Executive Chairman and Chairman of the company’s board of directors. Mr. Kelter is a Co-Founder and a Partner of KSH Capital since 2015. KSH Capital provides real estate entrepreneurs with capital and expertise to seed or grow their platform. KSH Capital is focused on the deployment of the principals’ capital in domestic and international strategies that offer compelling long-term returns. Prior to founding KSH Capital, Mr. Kelter was a Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of KTR Capital Partners (“KTR”) from 2005 to 2015, a leading private equity real estate investment and operating company focused on the industrial property sector in North America. KTR and its commingled investment funds were sold in May 2015 to a joint venture of Prologis Inc. and Norges Bank Investment Management. Since its inception in 2004, KTR had raised three funds which totaled over $7.0 billion of investment capacity. Prior to founding KTR, Mr. Kelter was President, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of Keystone Property Trust, an industrial real estate investment trust. Mr. Kelter founded the predecessor to Keystone in 1982, and took the company public in 1997, where he and the management team directed its operations until its sale in 2004 to Prologis. Prior to forming Keystone, he served as president and CEO of Penn Square Properties, Inc. in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a real estate company which he founded in 1982. Mr. Kelter currently serves on the Board of Directors of Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH). From January 2014 to November 2017, Mr. Kelter served on the Board of Starwood Waypoint Homes, its predecessor. Mr. Kelter currently serves as a trustee of the Urban Land Institute, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, Westminster School and Trinity College. Mr. Kelter formerly served on the Board of Gramercy Property Trust (NYSE: GPT) from 2015 to 2018. Mr. Kelter received a B.A. in Urban Studies from Trinity College. Mr. Kelter’s extensive investment and entrepreneurial experience makes him well qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.
Thomas Jermoluk
Director and President
Jack Creek Investment Corp.
Thomas Jermoluk serves as a director of the company and our President. Mr. Jermoluk has been the Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder of Beyond Identity since April 2020, a cybersecurity company specializing in passwordless identity management. Since 2008, Mr. Jermoluk has been Partner at Clark Jermoluk Founders Fund, an early stage venture capital firm along with James H. Clark. Previously, from 2005 to 2009 Mr. Jermoluk was CEO of Hyperion Development Group. From 2000 to 2005 Mr. Jermoluk was General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, one of Silicon Valley’s oldest and most established venture capital firms and from 1996-2000 he was Chairman and CEO of @Home Networks, a highspeed internet service pioneer. For ten years ending 1996, Mr. Jermoluk held various positions at Silicon Graphics, Inc., including most recently President and Chief Operating Officer. Mr. Jermoluk currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ibotta, a mobile payments, loyalty and cash back rewards company. Throughout his career, Mr. Jermoluk has served on the Board of Directors of numerous other private and public companies. Mr. Jermoluk earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Virginia Tech.