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Andrew R. Heyer

Chairman at The Lovesac Company

Andrew R. Heyer is the Chairman of our Board of Directors. Mr. Heyer is a finance professional with over 35 years of experience investing the consumer and consumer-related products and services industries. He has deployed in excess of $1 billion of capital over that time frame and has guided several public and private companies as a member of their boards of directors. Mr. Heyer is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Mistral Equity Partners, a private equity fund manager founded in 2007 that invests in the consumer industry. Prior to founding Mistral, Mr. Heyer served as a Founding Managing Partner of Trimaran Capital Partners. Until 1995, Mr. Heyer was a vice chairman of CIBC World Markets Corp. and a co-head of the CIBC Argosy Merchant Banking Funds. Prior to joining CIBC World Markets Corp., Mr. Heyer was a Founder and Managing Director of The Argosy Group L.P. Prior to joining Argosy, Mr. Heyer was a Managing Director at Drexel Burnham Lambert Incorporated and, prior to that, he worked at Shearson/American Express. From 1993 to 2009 and from 2012 to April 2019, he has served on the board of The Hain Celestial Group (Nasdaq: HAIN), a natural and organic food and products company. From December 2016 to March 2020, Mr. Heyer served as a director of XpresSpa Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: XSPA), a diversified holding company. From April 2017 to March 2019, Mr. Heyer served as a director and President of Haymaker Acquisition Corp., which was acquired by OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (Nasdaq: OSW) on March 19, 2019. Mr. Heyer has served on the board of directors of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited since March 2019. He has also served on the board of directors of: Arko Corp. (Nasdaq: ARKO), 100% owner of GPM Investments, LLC, a convenience store chain since December 2020; Tastemaker Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: TMKRU), a special 8Table of Contents purpose acquisition company targeting businesses in the restaurant, hospitality or related technology and services sectors, since January 2021; and AF Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: AFAQU), a special purpose acquisition company targeting the better-for-you food and beverage, health and wellness, beauty, personal care and pet industries, since March 2021. Mr. Heyer also serves on the boards of directors of several private companies, including Worldwise, a pet accessories business. Since June 2019, Mr. Heyer has served as a director and President of Haymaker Acquisition Corp. III (Nasdaq: HYAC), a special purposes acquisition company.

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