Philip H. O’Brien

Mr. O’Brien has served as a member of the Zevia board of directors since December 2020. Since September 2021, Mr. O’Brien serves on the board of directors of Wizeline, Inc, a global technology services company. Mr. O’Brien has been designated as a director by Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec (CDPQ), an institutional investor based in Quebec, Canada, and has served as Senior Director, Private Equity at CDPQ U.S. Inc., a subsidiary of CDPQ, since June 2019. Mr. O’Brien leads direct technology and consumer private equity investing for CDPQ in the U.S. and is based out of New York. Prior to CDPQ, Mr. O’Brien worked from April 2014 to May 2019 at the Abu Dhabi Investment Council (“ADIC”), a sovereign wealth fund, where he served as a Principal and led the firm’s North American direct Private Equity investing activities. Prior to ADIC, Mr. O’Brien worked in private equity investment at Levine Leichtman Capital Partners and The Carlyle Group’s U.S. Buyout Fund. He was also an investment banker within Deutsche Bank Securities’ Industrials Group. Mr. O’Brien previously served on the board of directors of Hilco Trading, LLC, an investment company, from October 2019 to August 2021. Mr. O’Brien earned his B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and his M.B.A. from Columbia Business School. He is also a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).