Mr. Dionne has served as a Senior Advisor to the Blackstone Group L.P., an investment firm, since July 2013 and as a Senior Lecturer in the Finance Unit at the Harvard Business School since January 2014. He previously served as a director of Caesars Entertainment Corporation, a large casino-entertainment company, from October 2017 to July 2020, and currently serves as a director of Cengage Learning Holdings II, Inc. and Pelmorex Corp. Until he retired from his position as a Senior Managing Director of Blackstone, Mr. Dionne was most recently the global Head of its Private Equity Business Development and Investor Relations Groups and served as a member of Blackstone’s Private Equity and Valuation Committees. Mr. Dionne originally joined Blackstone in 2004 as the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Blackstone Distressed Securities Fund, and began his career with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Dionne holds a B.S., magna cum laude, in Accounting, Economics and Finance from The University of Scranton and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. Mr. Dionne was selected to serve as a director because of his significant financial experience and significant experience as a director of multiple companies and not-for-profit institutions.