Governance

Douglas M. Polinsky (Chief Executive Officer and Director) co-founded the Sui Group Holdings in January 2006 and since that time has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Since 1994, Mr. Polinsky has been the President of Great North Capital Consultants, Inc., a financial advisory and investment company that he founded. Great North Capital Consultants, Inc. primarily engages in the business of investing in hard money lending with collateral on the loans being first or second mortgages in both residential and commercial properties. In addition, Great North Capital Consultants, Inc. makes direct investments into public and private companies. From 2015 until 2024, Mr. Polinsky served as an independent director of Liberated Syndication, Inc., a Nevada corporation with its podcast-publishing operations in Pennsylvania, as well as that board's audit and compensation committees. Mr. Polinsky earned a Bachelor of Science degree in hotel administration at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas in 1981.

Stephen Mackintosh (Chief Investment Officer) is a co-founder at Karatage, a principal investing business in the blockchain and deep tech sector.

He has also served as an advisor to the web3 cohort at Entrepreneurs First, a talent incubator that has helped create over 600 startups with a combined value of over $11 billion.

Previously, Mr. Mackintosh was Chief Commercial Officer at Re:infer, a natural language processing startup that was acquired by UiPath (NYSE: PATH) in August 2022. He also served as an advisor to Resolve Group, a London-based finance house providing corporate finance and restructuring services, acquired by Evelyn Partners.

Mr. Mackintosh earned a 1st Class BA Honors degree from University College London.

Joseph A. Geraci, II (Chief Financial Officer and Director) co-founded the Sui Group Holdings in January 2006 and has been a director and the Chief Financial Officer of the Company since that time.

Since February 2002, Mr. Geraci has been managing member of Isles Capital, LLC, an advisory and consulting firm that assists small businesses, both public and private, in business development. In March 2005, he also became the managing member of Mill City Advisors, LLC, the general partner of Mill City Ventures, LP, and Mill City Ventures II, LP, each a Minnesota limited partnership that invested directly into both private and public companies.

From January 2005 until August 2005, Mr. Geraci served as the Director of Finance for Gelstat Corporation, a purveyor of homeopathic remedies based in Bloomington, Minnesota. From June 2000 to December 2004, he provided investment advice to clients as a stockbroker and Vice President of Oak Ridge Financial Services, Inc., a Minneapolis-based broker-dealer firm. While at Oak Ridge Financial Services, his business was focused on structuring and negotiating debt and equity private placements with both private and publicly held companies. Mr. Geraci was also employed at other Minneapolis brokerage firms from July 1991 to June 2000.

Through his career and investment experiences, Mr. Geraci has established networks of colleagues, clients, co-investors, and the officers and directors of public and private companies. These networks offer a range of contacts across a number of sectors and companies that may provide opportunities for investment, including many that meet the Company’s screening criteria.

In August 2003, the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD) found in an administrative hearing that Mr. Geraci, while employed by and affiliated with a NASD member, had engaged in insider trading in violation of NASD Conduct Rule 2110 and SEC Rule 10b-5 in August 1999, and barred him from associating with any NASD member in the future.