Philip A. Gelston

Philip A. Gelston has been a director of the company since 2018.  Mr. Gelston joined Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP in 1978 and became a partner in 1984.  He retired from Cravath’s Corporate Department in December 2017.  He has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and general corporate counseling.  Mr. Gelston’s practice encompassed complicated negotiated transactions, hostile transactions (both offense and defense), cross border transactions, activist defense, and advising boards and senior executives, particularly on corporate governance and managing crisis situations.  Mr. Gelston also serves as a Trustee for the Friends of Bronx Preparatory Charter School.  Mr. Gelston has extensive legal and management expertise gained over the course of his 40-year career in the legal field.