Lead Independent Director, Chair of the Compensation Committee, and member of the Audit Committee, Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc.; Adjunct Professor, UCSD Rady School of Management

Michael J. Berthelot

Michael Berthelot has served as CEO/Chairman of two publicly traded companies, TransTechnology Corporation (NYSE), a multinational aerospace and industrial products manufacturer, and Pro-Dex Inc. (NASDAQ), a manufacturer of surgical instruments.  Mr. Berthelot currently serves as Lead Independent Director, Chair of the Compensation Committee, and member of the Audit Committee at Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc. (NYSE:FDP), a $4B consumer products company headquartered in Miami.

Since 2009, Mr. Berthelot has been an adjunct professor at the University of California San Diego Rady School of Management where he teaches “The Board, the CEO and Corporate Governance” in the MBA program.  He also teaches the New Business Venture course as well as accounting principles, financial statement analysis and corporate governance at the in the Education Program for Scientists and Engineers at the UCSD Extension Institute.  Mr. Berthelot frequently writes and speaks at national conferences on current issues for boards of directors and corporate governance.

During his 15 year tenure at TransTechnology, Mr. Berthelot oversaw a public stock offering and led its roadshow, managed more than 30 acquisitions and divestitures, syndicated bank and institutional credit lines, and managed a shareholder base including mutual funds, hedge funds, private equity and retail investors. During his three years at Pro-Dex, Mr. Berthelot led a turnaround and organizational restructuring resulting in the development of several new products.

Mr. Berthelot serves as an advisor to several start-ups in the software and biotech industries, including medical devices, pharmaceutical research, market research and machine learning, providing strategic, operational, finance, and accounting counseling.

He received a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Akron, Ohio and an MBA from Cleveland State University.  Mr. Berthelot is a Certified Public Accountant, a qualified financial expert under Sarbannes-Oxley, and a former IRS agent.  Mr. Berthelot served four years in the United States Coast Guard including a tour in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War.  He is married, lives in San Diego, California, and has six adult children.

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Deputy Corporate Secretary, Uber Technologies, Inc.

Keir D. Gumbs

As Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, and Deputy Corporate Secretary, Keir leads a team of professionals who support Uber’s executive leadership team in partnership with Uber’s business in the areas of Payments, M&A, Finance, Real Estate and Commercial Transactions, Corporate Governance, Marketing, ESG, Capital Markets and related matters. Keir is responsible for overseeing Uber’s group-wide corporate governance practices and supporting Uber’s board of directors.

Prior to Uber, Keir was a Partner for nearly a decade at Covington & Burling, where he represented a cross-section of constituencies in securities and governance matters, including companies ranging in size from Fortune 50 companies to venture-backed firms, as well as public pension funds, hedge funds, faith-based investors and trade associations.

Keir’s career includes six years of service with the SEC, where, immediately prior to joining Covington & Burling in 2005, he served as Counsel to SEC Commissioner Roel C. Campos. In that position, Keir advised the Commissioner on a variety of matters arising under federal securities law with an emphasis on corporate finance issues under the Securities Act of 1933, issuer reporting obligations under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, corporate governance developments and SEC enforcement actions. Prior to serving as Counsel to Commissioner Campos, Keir spent five years as a staff attorney and later a Special Counsel in the Office of Chief Counsel in the SEC’s Division of Corporation Finance.