John R. Kline

Chief Executive Officer, President, and Trustee

Mr. Kline joined New Mountain in 2008 as a founding member of New Mountain’s credit platform. Prior to joining New Mountain, he worked at GSC Group from 2001 to 2008. From 1999 to 2001, Mr. Kline was with Goldman where he worked in the Credit Risk Management and Advisory Group. Mr. Kline currently sits on the board of directors of New Mountain Finance Corporation, New Mountain Guardian III BDC, L.L.C, New Mountain Guardian IV BDC, L.L.C., New Mountain Guardian IV Income Fund, L.L.C., NMF SLF I, Inc., and Unitek Global Services, a current NMFC portfolio company. Mr. Kline graduated from Dartmouth College, with an A.B. degree in History in 1999.

Adam B. Weinstein

Trustee

Mr. Weinstein joined New Mountain in 2005 and currently serves as New Mountain’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer and helps to oversee and manage the Firm overall with the Founder/CEO. On a dayto-day basis, he helps to drive strategy, investment process, helps to oversee the team and steer the firm overall. In addition, he helps to oversee all non-investment team members including finance, operations, compliance, human resources, legal and administration across the firm and its business lines. He is involved with portfolio company oversight and business development/marketing, spending significant time with the Firm’s investors. He also serves as an Executive Vice President and is on the Board of Directors of New Mountain Finance Corporation, a publicly traded business development company (Ticker: NMFC). He previously worked at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, in that firm’s merger and acquisition and private equity investor services areas, with clients that included large and small blue chip private equity and venture capital firms. Mr. Weinstein currently serves on the Board of Sonrava Health (fka Western Dental) and Citrin Cooperman. He is a New York State Certified Public Accountant and received his B.S., summa cum laude, from Binghamton University. He is involved and sits on the boards of various professional and philanthropic organizations.

Barbara Daniel

Independent Trustee

Ms. Daniel is a global media and entertainment executive with over 30 years of experience across strategy, mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. As Senior Vice President and Head of Corporate Strategy at SiriusXM (Nasdaq: SIRI) since 2015, Ms. Daniel advises the CEO and partners with fellow Executive Leadership Team members to drive the company's overall corporate strategy and is responsible for M&A and strategic investments. She joined SiriusXM in 2012 as Treasurer. Prior to that, she served as Senior Vice President, Corporate Treasurer at E*TRADE Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: ETFC), an electronic trading platform, and was Chief Financial Officer at CIFC Asset Management LLC, a corporate and structured credit investment firm. Ms. Daniel also previously served as Managing Director, Investment Banking at JPMorgan Chase advising Telecom, Media and Technology start-ups and Fortune 100 companies. Further, she is a Director on the board of SoundCloud and served as the Chairperson of the Audit Committee for ISOS Capital and held a position on the board of SiriusXM Canada. Ms. Daniel holds a BA degree in Economics from William and Mary University and an MBA from Cornell University — S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management.

Daniel Hébert

Independent Trustee

Daniel B. Hébert has been a director of New Mountain Finance Corporation since 2019 and was previously a director from August 2011 until March 2012. Since September 2018, Mr. Hébert has served as Chief Executive Officer of Vision One Partners, LLC a FINRA registered broker dealer. From March 2022 through October 2024, Mr. Hebert was COO & CCO of Vision One Management Partners, LP, a constructive activist hedge fund based in Miami, Florida. In November 2024, Mr. Hebert was named Managing Partner of Athir Capital, a multi-strategy hedge fund launching in Q1 2025.  From May 2017 through May 2020, Mr. Hébert was the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Bernstein Equity Partners LLC, a boutique investment banking firm and family office. From October 2013 until April 2017, Mr. Hébert was a Managing Director at Sandler & O’Neill, an investment banking firm.  He served as a Partner and Managing Director at North Sea Partners LLC, an investment banking firm, from 2011 until September 2013. Prior to that he served as a Managing Director at Tri-Artisan Partners, LLC from 2005 through the summer of 2011. Before Tri-Artisan, Mr. Hébert spent approximately seven years as the Head of Merger & Acquisitions at Rabo Bank International. From September 1991 through March 1999, he was a Managing Director in the Corporate Finance Department of BT Alex Brown. Prior to joining BT Alex Brown, Mr. Hébert formed Dakota Capital in February 1991 to acquire a Canadian wine distributor; and from 1985 to 1991, he worked as a Director in the Corporate Finance Department of Salomon Brothers. Mr. Hébert began his career in the Corporate Finance Department at Morgan Stanley in New York in 1982. Mr. Hébert holds a Bachelor of Arts from Acadia University and received his M.B.A. from Richard Ivey School of Business.

John P. Malfettone

Independent Trustee

Prior to retirement, he has previously served as the Senior Managing Director at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice ("CD&R"), a global private investment firm based in New York that managed over $28 billion of assets representing over 80 companies across a broad range of industries. Mr. Malfettone joined CD&R in 2010; he was a leader of the CD&R's Portfolio Procurement and Portfolio Insurance Programs. He also served as the Chief Compliance Officer. Previously, from 2004 to 2010, Mr. Malfettone served as a Partner, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Compliance Officer at Oak Hill Capital Partners, a leading U.S. based middle market private equity firm focused on core sectors such as consumer, retail and distribution, industrials, media and communications and services. Prior to joining Oak Hill, he worked for 12 years at General Electric Co. (GE) serving numerous roles since 1990, including that of a Managing Director at GE's private equity business. Before GE, Mr. Malfettone started his career at KPMG in 1977 and was a promoted to partner in 1988. Mr. Malfettone has been a CPA since 1978 and earned his Bachelor of Sciences ("B.S.") in Accounting, magna cum laude, from the University of Connecticut. Mr. Malfettone brings his experience in investment management, including perspectives related to audit and compliance, as well as potential industry-specific expertise related to various portfolio investments to our Board. This background positions Mr. Malfettone well to serve as our director.