Lincoln International LCLN

Robert T. Brown is expected to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as a Director of Lincoln International, Inc. since February 2026, Chief Executive Officer of Lincoln since October 2021 and as a director of LI GP, Inc. since April 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Brown led Lincoln's North American business and its business services practice. Having been with Lincoln for 28 years, he has been instrumental in many of the firm's growth initiatives, including building out several of the firm's industry practices, recruiting talent to the platform and expanding internationally. Mr. Brown serves on the board of UNICEF USA and the Dean's Business Council for the Gies School of Business at the University of Illinois. Previously, Mr. Brown worked in management positions at Price Waterhouse LLP in its investment banking subsidiary and the transaction services group. Mr. Brown earned a Master of Business Administration from Columbia University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois. He is a Certified Public Accountant (inactive).

Eric D. Malchow is expected to serve as President and Global Head of M&A of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as a Director of Lincoln International, Inc. since February 2026 and the President of Lincoln since October 2021. Prior to that, Mr. Malchow served as the Co-President of Lincoln's North American business and Managing Director. He established and built the firm's industrials M&A practice since the firm's founding in 1996 and led the firm's Industrials M&A practice for more than a decade. Throughout his 38-year investment banking career, Mr. Malchow has provided mid-market M&A advisory services for leading private equity groups and publicly traded corporations. Prior to co-founding Lincoln, Mr. Malchow was a senior associate at Peers & Co. and an officer with Heller Financial, concentrating on leveraged buyout financings of mid-market companies on behalf of private equity groups. Mr. Malchow serves on the Advisory Board for the Tippie College of Business at the University of Iowa. Mr. Malchow earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Iowa.

Mary R. Weber is expected to serve as the Chief Operating Officer of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as Chief Operating Officer at Lincoln since January 2024. As Chief Operating Officer, Ms. Weber drives Lincoln's change management initiatives, collaborating closely with group leaders to ensure coordination, communication and consistency globally. She provides leadership on many of the firm's key initiatives, applying her experience as an investment banker to inform decisions on the firm's operations. In her role, Ms. Weber also oversees the Talent function, including the strategic planning and initiatives that help Lincoln attract, retain and engage high performers. She previously served as the Chief Talent Officer at Lincoln from July 2022 through January 2024 and as the Chief Talent Officer for North America at Lincoln from 2019 through July 2022. Before leading the talent and operations functions for Lincoln, Ms. Weber worked in client advisory at the firm, primarily focused on sell-side assignments in the Business Services, Consumer and Industrials sectors. Ms. Weber holds a Master of Business Administration from Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and a Bachelor of Finance and a Bachelor of Accounting from the University of Illinois.

Effective May 19, 2026, Mr. John W. Oleniczak was appointed to the board of directors of the Company. John W. Oleniczak is expected to serve as a Director of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws. Mr. Oleniczak was a partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC), where he spent more than 38 years before retiring in June 2024, most recently serving in PwC's Governance Insights Center advising boards of directors, executive teams and investors on corporate governance matters. During his tenure at PwC, Mr. Oleniczak held numerous leadership roles, including Leader of PwC's Midwest Audit Practice during the implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and PCAOB standards, Managing Partner of PwC's Cybersecurity and Forensics Practice, and U.S. Markets and Operations Leader of PwC's Risk and Internal Audit Practice. He also led PwC's Chicago leveraged buyout and private equity practice within the firm's Deals group and served as lead partner on multiple large multinational client engagements, advising on mergers and acquisitions, internal controls, governance, and cybersecurity strategy. Mr. Oleniczak has served on the Board of Directors of the Archdiocese of Chicago since June 2023, where he currently serves as the Audit Committee Chair, and as a director of the Western Golf Association since 2020. He served on the Board of Directors of the Lyric Opera of Chicago until 2020, where he served as Audit Committee Chair, and as a member of the Executive Committee of the Morton Arboretum until 2014, where he chaired the Finance Committee. Mr. Oleniczak is a Certified Public Accountant (retired). Mr. Oleniczak holds a Masters in Management from Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

M. Christie Smith, Ph.D is expected to serve as Director of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws. She has served on the advisory board to LILP since March 2024 and served on the Board of Directors of Endo, Inc. (NASDAQ: ENDP) from 2020 to July 2025. Dr. Smith has been a Partner of Heidrick & Struggles, a premier provider of executive search and leadership consulting services, since March 2025. Prior to that, Dr. Smith served as a Senior Managing Director at Accenture from 2020 to August 2023 and as a Global Vice President for Inclusion and Diversity at Apple from 2017 to 2020. Dr. Smith was also a member of Deloitte's executive leadership team from 2011 to 2017, responsible for defining and implementing the firm's strategy and business, operations and international expansion plans. Dr. Smith holds Doctorate from New York University, a Masters in Social Work from Rutgers University and a Bachelor of Arts from Loyola College in Baltimore.

Robert B. Barr is expected to serve as Managing Director of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as a Director of Lincoln International, Inc. since February 2026. He is also a co-founder of Lincoln, has served as a director of LI GP, Inc. since December 2011 and served as Global Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from the firm's inception in April 1996 through September 2021. Mr. Barr also served as Lincoln's Co-Head of Europe from November 2023 until April 2026. Prior to co-founding Lincoln, Mr. Barr advised on cross-border M&A as a Managing Director at Peers & Co. and as a Senior Vice President at PaineWebber. He began his career as a consultant with Data Resources, Inc., an econometric consulting firm. Mr. Barr earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School and a Bachelor of Arts (with honors) from Case Western Reserve University.

Theodore J. Heidloff is expected to serve as Chief Financial Officer of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws. He has served as Chief Financial Officer at Lincoln since 2018, where he is responsible for all aspects of the firm's accounting, forecasting, tax and treasury operations. Mr. Heidloff has more than 25 years of diverse global finance leadership experience at several SEC registrants. Prior to joining Lincoln, Mr. Heidloff was the Global Controller for Cushman & Wakefield, a global real estate services firm, and Controller and Chief Accounting Officer for Walgreens. Mr. Heidloff serves on the board of EverPulse Foundation, a nonprofit enterprise committed to accelerating innovation in pediatric cardiology. Mr. Heidloff holds a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Lawrence James Lawson III is expected to serve as Managing Director and Chairman of the board of directors of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as a Director of Lincoln International, Inc. since February 2026. He is also a co-founder of Lincoln and has served as Chairman of the advisory board to Lincoln since November 2022 and as a director of LI GP, Inc. since December 2011. He also served as Global Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from the firm's inception in April 1996 through September 2021. Mr. Lawson has served on the board of Washington & Lee University since May 2023. Prior to co-founding Lincoln, Mr. Lawson served as a senior officer at Peers & Co., a M&A boutique, where he helped establish the Chicago office and worked on cross-border transactions. Previously, he was a senior vice president in corporate finance for PaineWebber Incorporated (which was acquired by UBS) (PaineWebber), where he worked on equity capital market and debt capital market deals as well as in the M&A group. He began his career in public accounting with KPMG LLP. In addition to co-founding and co-leading Lincoln, Mr. Lawson also co-founded a private equity firm and a manufacturing and servicing company of printing consumables. Mr. Lawson earned a Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science from Washington and Lee University, where he graduated magna cum laude and a member of Beta Gamma Sigma.

Kristin M. Marvin is expected to serve as General Counsel of Lincoln International, Inc. upon adoption of its amended and restated bylaws and has served as General Counsel at Lincoln since September 2024, where she is responsible for all aspects of the firm's legal and compliance operations. She previously served in roles of increasing responsibility at Lincoln from 2015 until 2018. Prior to rejoining Lincoln in 2024, Ms. Marvin was in roles of increasing responsibility at Xeris Biopharma Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: XERS), most recently as General Counsel, from 2018 to September 2024, Senior Counsel at Durata Therapeutics, Inc. from 2014 to 2015 and was an attorney in the New York offices of Simpson, Thacher & Bartlett LLP from 2008 until 2014. Ms. Marvin earned her Juris Doctorate magna cum laude from Fordham University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Tufts University.