JUNIPER II - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Andrew Teich has agreed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Teich has over 35 years of experience in the industrial technology sector. In June 2017, after 33 years with the company, Mr. Teich retired as the President and Chief Executive Officer of FLIR Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: FLIR), a position he had held since 2013. FLIR is a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of thermal imaging and stabilized airborne camera systems for a wide variety of applications in the commercial, industrial, and government markets. Mr. Teich joined FLIR in 1999 as Senior Vice President, Marketing, and held various positions within FLIR since that time, including President of Commercial Vision Systems and President of Commercial Systems. During Mr. Teich's tenure at FLIR, the market capitalization grew from approximately $60 million to more than $6 billion Prior to joining FLIR, Mr. Teich held various positions at Inframetrics, Inc. (acquired by FLIR in 1999), including Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Teich served on the board of directors of FLIR from July 2013 until his retirement in June 2017. Throughout his career, Mr. Teich has been involved in more than 25 technology company acquisitions, is listed as an inventor on more than 50 patents and became known in the industry as a principal innovator of commercial and military thermal imaging and successfully expanded into visible, radar, sonar, near infrared, and CBRNE (Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and Explosive) technologies and markets. Mr. Teich has served as a director of Sensata Technologies Holdings plc (NYSE: ST), a multinational automotive and industrial sensing company, since May 2014, and as the Chairman of the board since July 2019. In October 2018, he joined the board of directors of Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI), where he is currently the lead independent director.
Bill Fradin has agreed to serve as one of our advisors. Mr. Fradin has over 15 years of experience as a finance and investment professional. Since November 2019, Mr. Fradin has served as Executive Vice President of Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE:SFTW), which has entered into a business combination agreement with BlackSky Holdings, Inc., a leading real-time geospatial intelligence, imagery, and data analytics company. In addition, Mr. Fradin is a Managing Partner and Founder at Seal Rock Partners, a family-backed private equity firm, and a Managing Director and Co-Founder at HEPCO Capital Management, LLC, a multi-SPAC sponsor. Prior to founding Seal Rock Partners, Mr. Fradin was an investment professional at JLL Partners. Mr. Fradin is the son of Roger Fradin, our Chairman.
Darius Adamczyk has agreed to serve as one of our advisors. Mr. Adamczyk is a proven business leader with significant experience in executive leadership positions. Mr. Adamczyk has been the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell since April 2018. Mr. Adamczyk was President and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell from March 2017 to April 2018 and Chief Operating Officer of Honeywell from April 2016 to March 2017. From April 2014 to April 2016, Mr. Adamczyk served as President and CEO of Honeywell Performance Materials and Technologies ("PMT"). Prior to serving as President and CEO of PMT, Mr. Adamczyk served as President of Honeywell Process Solutions from 2012 to 2014 and as President of Honeywell Scanning and Mobility from 2008 to 2012. Mr. Adamczyk joined Honeywell in 2008 when Metrologic, Inc., where he was the Chief Executive Officer, was acquired by Honeywell. Prior to Metrologic, Mr. Adamczyk held several general management assignments at Ingersoll Rand, served as a senior associate at Booz Allen Hamilton, and started his career as an electrical engineer at General Electric.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Mark Levy has agreed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Levy has over 20 years of experience within the industrials sector and has deep expertise in building businesses, developing customer relationships, and executing lean manufacturing. From 2000 to 2014, Mr. Levy served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell Life Safety where he led the transformation of the business into a global leader in commercial fire alarm systems, gas detection, and industrial-grade personal protection equipment. During his tenure at Honeywell Life Safety, in which he worked very closely with Mr. Fradin, Mr. Levy executed over 10 acquisitions, a crucial factor to the segment's growth. Mr. Levy currently serves as member of the Board of Directors at Quexco, Inc, Eco-Bat Technologies, Sciens Building Solutions and Laticrete International, and as Co-Chairman of the Board of Directors at Potter Electric Signal Co. Mr. Levy also served as a director of Juniper Industrial from November 2019 to June 2021.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of Our Board of Directors
Mitchell Jacobson has agreed to serve as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Jacobson began his career in 1976 at MSC, a premier distributor of Metalworking and Maintenance, Repair and Operations ("MRO") products and services to industrial customers throughout North America. In 1995, Mr. Jacobson was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of MSC and served as President until 2003 and Chief Executive Officer until 2005. Mr. Jacobson became Chairman of the Board of MSC in 1998 and transitioned to Non-Executive Chairman in 2013, where he continues to serve today and remains active in ongoing growth initiatives. Mr. Jacobson has served as Director of Ambrosia Holdings, L.P. (the holding company of TriMark USA, the country's largest provider of equipment, supplies, and design services to the foodservices industry) since 2017, and previously served as a Director of Juniper Industrial from November 2019 to June 2021, and as a member of the Board of Directors at HD Supply Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: HDS) from 2007 to 2013.
Job Titles:
- Chief Executive Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Murray Grainger serves as our Chief Executive Officer and as a member of our Board of Directors. Mr. Grainger has over 25 years of global industrial experience within general management, corporate finance, mergers, acquisitions and integrations, strategic planning, and technology investing. Mr. Grainger began his career at ITT Industries, where he held engineering, product management, investor relations and corporate development roles across Sweden, Australia and the United States. Mr. Grainger joined Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON) in 2004 and over the course of his 17 year career held a number of leadership roles across Honeywell's global businesses and functions. During his tenure at Honeywell, Mr. Grainger served as Vice President of Investor Relations, where he led partnerships with external stakeholders including the buy- and sell-side analyst community and built strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including Mr. Fradin and other senior leaders, to develop expert knowledge of the company and serve as a trusted advisor to share the Wall Street perspective. Mr. Grainger also served Chief Financial Officer for Honeywell's Specialty Products strategic business unit and General Manager for the Advanced Fibers and Composites businesses. Mr. Grainger was a member of Honeywell's Global M&A team and subsequently Vice President of Business Development and M&A for Honeywell's ACS segment, its largest business unit. In these roles, Mr. Grainger aided or led multiple buy- and sell-side transactions including Novar plc, Universal Oil Products (UOP) and Intelligrated, among others, and partnered directly with Mr. Fradin on several of these transactions in his capacity as President and CEO of ACS and Vice Chairman of Honeywell. Most recently, Mr. Grainger was the founding Managing Director and Global Head of Honeywell Ventures, based in Silicon Valley, where he built one of the leading corporate venture capital programs in the industrials sector, making more than 30 investments across emerging technology areas including robotics and advanced manufacturing, artificial intelligence/machine learning ("AI/ML"), cybersecurity, urban air mobility, worker productivity and quantum computing.
Job Titles:
- Chief Financial Officer
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Management Team
Noah Kindler serves as our Chief Financial Officer and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Kindler has over 20 years of experience as a technology and strategy executive. He has deep experience identifying and working with early stage technology companies. Early in his career, he served as a consultant at McKinsey & Company, where he advised Fortune 500 companies globally and won awards for innovation. He then joined Avira, a multinational security company where he was the President of the Americas and the VP of Technology/Operations where he focused on growing their market share in the US, where they would eventually be acquired by Symantec. He later joined Knotel in 2015, a property-technology leader, where he served until May 2018 as a general manager and drove substantial sales growth. From May 2018 to August 2019, Mr. Kindler was a member of the senior leadership of Canoo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOEV), joining as one of its first employees, in charge of the Silicon Valley office and responsible for the internet enabled software within the vehicle while it grew to an eventual successful merger with Hennessy Capital Acquisition Corp IV. In August 2019, Mr. Kindler joined ConcertVDC, Inc. as a founding board member and where he is currently Chief Product Officer. He also serves as a long tenured advisor at the Stanford technology accelerator, StartX.
Job Titles:
- Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Chairman of the Board
- Member of the Management Team
- Chairman of Our Board of Directors
Roger Fradin serves as the Chairman of our Board of Directors. Mr. Fradin has over 40 years of experience acquiring, building, and leading a diverse set of industrial businesses. Mr. Fradin began his career at Pittway Corporation where he held a variety of roles of increasing responsibility, including President and Chief Executive Officer of the Security and Fire Solutions segment, and helped lead an entrepreneurial team which transformed Pittway into a $2 billion world leader in electronic security and fire systems. In 2000, Pittway was acquired by Honeywell International Inc. (NYSE: HON), or Honeywell. Shortly thereafter, Mr. Fradin assumed the role of President and Chief Executive Officer of Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions, or ACS. In this role, Mr. Fradin transformed ACS from a business with $7 billion in sales in 2003 focused predominantly on the U.S. market to a $17 billion in sales (as of 2014) global business leader in the development and manufacture of environmental controls, life safety products, and building and process solutions. From 2000 to 2017, Mr. Fradin oversaw, directed, and integrated the acquisition of over 60 companies at Honeywell, aggregating billions of dollars in deal value. Mr. Fradin's strategy and execution for ACS helped deliver more than $85 billion of value to Honeywell's shareholders. During his tenure at Honeywell, Mr. Fradin also served as Vice Chairman of Honeywell where he was responsible for acquisition strategy for all of Honeywell. Mr Fradin also was responsible for a large advanced research & technology organization that executed many classified programs, as well as inventing many core new technologies such as Honeywell's quantum computer offering. After retiring from Honeywell, Mr. Fradin was named Chairman of Resideo Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: REZI), or Resideo, a leading provider of home comfort and security solutions. At Resideo, Mr. Fradin recruited the Chief Executive Officer, senior management team, and Board of Directors as well as installed all public company board processes and procedures. Mr. Fradin also currently serves as a director of Janus International Group, Inc. (NYSE: JBI) ("Janus"), a position he has held since the consummation in June 2021 of Janus' business combination with Juniper Industrial Holdings, Inc. ("Juniper Industrial"), where Mr. Fradin served as the Chairman of the board of directors of from August 2019 to June 2021 and as Chief Executive Officer from August 2019 to January 2020. In addition to Resideo and Janus, Mr. Fradin currently sits on the boards of L3Harris Technologies Inc. (NYSE: LHX), Vertiv Holdings Co (NYSE: VRT), or Vertiv, and several of The Carlyle Group's, or Carlyle, portfolio companies in his capacity as a Carlyle Operating Executive. He also previously served as a member of the board of directors for each of MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. (NYSE: MSM) ("MSC") and Pitney Bowes, Inc. (NYSE: PBI).