Mark Ein

Mark Ein served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Capitol Investment Corp. IV from inception until the completion of the business combination with Nesco and since such time has served as Nesco’s Vice Chairman. Mr. Ein is an investor, entrepreneur and philanthropist, who has created, acquired, invested in and built a series of growth companies across a diverse set of industries over the course of his 25-year career. During this time, Mr. Ein has been involved in the founding or early stages of six companies that have been worth over one billion dollars and has led over $1.5 billion of private equity, venture capital and public company investments. From July 2015 until June 2017, Mr. Ein was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Capitol Acquisition Corp. III (“Capitol III”), a blank check company formed for substantially similar purposes as Capitol. In June 2017, Capitol III completed its business combination with Cision (NYSE:CISN), a leading media communication technology and analytics company. Mr. Ein has served as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Cision Ltd. since the closing of its business combination. From August 2010 to July 2015, Mr. Ein was the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Treasurer and Secretary of Capitol Acquisition Corp. II (“Capitol II”), a blank check company formed for substantially similar purposes as Capitol. In July 2015, Capitol II completed its business combination with Lindblad Expeditions, Inc. (NASDAQ:LIND), a global leader in expedition cruising and extraordinary travel experiences. Mr. Ein has served as Chairman of the Board of Capitol II (and now post-merger Lindblad Expeditions Holdings, Inc.) since the closing of the business combination. From June 2007 to October 2009, Mr. Ein was the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Capitol Acquisition Corp. (“Capitol I”), a blank check company formed for substantially similar purposes as Capitol. Capitol I completed its business combination with Two Harbors Investment Corp. (NYSE: TWO), a Maryland real estate investment trust, in October 2009. From October 2009 to May 2015, Mr. Ein served as the Non-Executive Vice Chairman of Two Harbors’ Board of Directors. Mr. Ein is the Founder of Venturehouse Group, LLC, a holding company that creates, invests in and builds companies, and has served as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since 1999. Venturehouse’s portfolio includes or has included the seed investment in Matrics Technologies in August 2000 (sold to Symbol Technologies in September 2004), the lead investment in the buyout of Cibernet Corporation from the CTIA in March 2003 (sold to MACH S.à.r.l. in April 2007), the acquisition of Visual Systems Group, Inc. (“VSGi”) from Net 2000 Communications, and an early investment in XM Satellite Radio. He has also been the President of Leland Investments Inc., a private investment firm, since 2005. Mr. Ein is Co-Chairman of Kastle Holding Company LLC, which through its subsidiaries conducts the business of Kastle Systems, LLC, a provider of building and office security systems that was acquired in January 2007. In 2008, Mr. Ein founded and is the owner of the Washington Kastles, the World Team Tennis franchise in Washington, D.C., that has won the league championship six times in its eleven years in the league. In September 2018, Mr. Ein founded Washington E-Sports Ventures, LLC and purchased an Overwatch League Team bringing the premier global esports league to Washington, D.C. Also in 2018, Mr. Ein formed MDE City Paper Holdings, LLC to acquire the Washington City Paper, the renowned weekly paper serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area since 1981. Mr. Ein has been a member of the World Economic Forum since 2016 and has served on the Board of Directors of Soho House Holdings Limited since September 2018. Mr. Ein is also the Chairman of the Board of the District of Columbia Public Education Fund and a Presidential Appointee to the board of the United States Tennis Association where he previously served for two terms as a member at large and then a term as Vice President of the Board and a member of the boards of The District of Columbia College Access Program (DC-CAP), the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and the International Tennis Hall of Fame. He was appointed by Mayor Vincent Gray to be a member of the D.C. Tax Revision Commission and also serves on the Executive Committee of the Federal City Council. In November 2018, Mr. Ein was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame. In September 2009, Washington D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty presented Mr. Ein with the Key to the City, highlighting not only his Washington Kastles success on the court, “but for their commitment to the District’s communities and their youth.” Previously in his career, Mr. Ein worked for The Carlyle Group, Brentwood Associates, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Mr. Ein received a B.S. in Economics with a concentration in Finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School.