Gordon J. O'Brien has served as a director of Middleby since 2005 and as Non-Executive Chairman of the Board since 2019. He has been Managing Partner at Cannon Capital since 2017, served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Re:Build Manufacturing, LLC from 2020 to mid-2022, and was President of Specialty Finance and Operations of American Capital Strategies from 2008 to 2017.