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Mark Klein

Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer

Mark Klein has spent the last two decades running public companies and investment firms. He has been our Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer since August 2017 and a member of our Board of Directors since 2011.

A director of our portfolio company Learneo (formerly Course Hero) since 2020, Mr. Klein is also a current board member of a New York Stock Exchange-listed special purpose acquisition company (“SPAC”), Churchill Capital Corp VII, for which he has served since February 2021. Mr. Klein was formerly a board member of Churchill Capital Corp II from June 2019 to July 2021, Churchill Capital Corp III from June 2019 to October 2020, Churchill Capital Corp IV from July 2020 to February 2021, Churchill Capital Corp V from December 2020 to October 2023, and Churchill Capital Corp VI from February 2021 to December 2023, each of which was a SPAC. Additionally, since 2012, he has been Managing Member and Majority Partner at M. Klein & Company, LLC, an investment banking and advisory firm.

Before joining SuRo, Mark held positions including Chairman and CEO at several public and private companies and served on a variety of corporate boards. He earned a bachelor’s degree with high distinction in Business Administration from Emory University and an MBA from the J. L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

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