Ms. Hatten Butler is an Independent Director of Wells Enterprises, Inc. and Ferguson Partners. She is the former President and Chief Investment Officer of Capri Investment Group, a real estate development and direct investment firm that has completed more than $14 billion in commercial real estate investments over the past 25 years. Ms. Hatten Butler is a senior business leader with an outstanding track record in delivering strong results over the course of her 35+ years in the financial services, investment, and real estate industries. Ms. Hatten Butler is a strategic, creative, analytical, and energetic C-suite executive with extensive experience in change management, business restructuring, and high-performance team building. She is an audit committee financial expert with demonstrated success in developing and executing growth strategies, managing regulated businesses, capital markets, risk management, capital raising, economic development, and nonprofit and for-profit corporate board leadership. Prior to joining Capri Investment Group, Ms. Hatten Butler held senior leadership positions at UBS Global Asset Management, Bear Stearns Asset Management, SEI Capital Resources, and Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company. While holding those positions, Ms. Hatten Butler maintained active FINRA Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses. Ms. Hatten Butler is a member of the Board of Directors of Wells Enterprises, Inc. and Ferguson Partners. Ms. Hatten Butler is Chair of the Community Development Commission of the City of Chicago. She is active in numerous industry, civic, and philanthropic organizations, and serves on the Board of Directors of the Real Estate Executive Council; the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan, where she chairs the Nominating Committee; Develop Detroit; and the Detroit Public Schools Foundation. Ms. Hatten Butler is an active guest lecturer at the University of Michigan, New York University, and Northwestern University. Ms. Hatten Butler received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Michigan and an M.B.A. in Finance from Northwestern University. She previously served on the Board of Directors of Seaway Bank and Trust Company and chaired the Risk Management committee. Ms. Hatten Butler previously served as Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Securities Professionals and as President of the Board of Directors of YWCA Metropolitan Chicago.

Throughout his career, Gordon Follmer has been actively involved in developing and implementing financial business strategies that enable companies to prosper and grow. Gordon was the founding partner of Follmer Rudzewicz & Company, one of the seven firms that merged in 2000 to form UHY Advisors, Inc., and was a member of the firm’s National Executive Committee and National Board of Directors for several years. He was instrumental in expanding the firm’s financial and business consulting service offerings to include ISO/QS consulting, HR consulting, change leadership, and marketing communications services, as well as growing the delivery of industry-specific service lines. Gordon specializes in profit enhancement and wealth preservation strategies, taking the lead role in the sale, merger, or acquisition of a business; creating strategies to help troubled companies increase earnings and profits; providing crisis management strategies; preparing and implementing plans to prevent and identify fraud; and performing succession planning and estate planning services. Gordon works with both public and private closely held companies, with a major emphasis on restructuring and growth. He assists major automotive manufacturers and minority automotive suppliers with turnaround strategies and identifying and implementing growth opportunities. Additionally, Gordon provides expert witness testimony in federal and state courts involving business transactions, contract disputes, lost profits, and fraud activity.

Ron Hall is President and Chief Executive Officer at Bridgewater Interiors, LLC. Bridgewater is an automotive interior manufacturing firm, specializing in just-in-time assembly, sequencing, and delivery of seating systems. It employs more than 2,400 people at four facilities in the U.S. Ron has been with the company in various roles of increasing responsibility since 2007, succeeding his father, company founder Ron Hall, Sr., in 2015. A lawyer by training, Ron spent several years of his early career as a Detroit-based corporate attorney at Dykema, PLLC, a prominent business law firm. He earned his Juris Doctor degree at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was a Darrow Scholar, received the Book Award for excellence in Administrative Law, and served as an associate editor on the Michigan Journal of International Law. Ron holds a Bachelor of Science degree in International Political Economy from the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, and served several years active duty as a field artillery officer in the US Army. He attained the rank of captain and, among other awards, was decorated for meritorious service in the Persian Gulf War.

In addition to various business pursuits, Ron sits on multiple nonprofit boards, where he has held additional leadership and committee positions.

Sylvester Hester is President & CEO of LM Manufacturing, LLC. Established in 2019, LM Manufacturing, LLC is a joint venture between LAN Manufacturing Group (LMG) and Magna Seating North America. Magna International is a $40 billion mobility technology company, with 157,000 employees, 344 manufacturing operations, and 93 product development, engineering, and sales centers in 27 countries. LMG is wholly owned by Sylvester Hester, a 30-year veteran automotive, aerospace supply chain executive with substantial experience in manufacturing, operations, logistics, and business development. Hester’s career began in 1985, as an engineering technician for General Motors Advanced Engineering. Joining Regal Plastics in 1987, he quickly moved up the ranks from engineering to program management, through sales and marketing, and finally rose to vice president in 1993. In 1998, Hester was selected to serve as president of GAA’s company, ARD, near Atlanta, Georgia. By 2003 he co-founded and was named president of GAA’s newest acquisition, Key Logistics. Ultimately before starting his own enterprise, he rose to the position of chairman of all GAA companies, and CEO of Grupo Antolin Primera. Hester was appointed to and served a four-year tenure as a Tuskegee University Board of Trustees member. He is a current member of Karmanos Cancer Institute, Grow Michigan II, Ben Carson High School Advisory Council, Industrial Advisory Board of the Electrical & Computer Engineering Department of the University of Michigan-Dearborn, and Michigan Minority Supplier Development Council, and Chair of the MBEIC and Manufacturing and Mobility sector. Hester holds a Master of Science in Administration degree, with concentration in leadership, from Central Michigan University, and a Bachelor of Science in Plastics Engineering with an emphasis in polymer chemistry from Ferris State University. He completed the Advanced Minority Business Executive Program at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business, the Kellogg School of Management Advanced Management Education Program at Northwestern University, and the Quantum Shift Program at The University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.