Eric Yanagi Bio

Mr. Yanagi originally joined Mill Road Capital in 2008 and returned in 2014 following his graduation from business school. He is a member of the Mill Road Capital Management Committee. Mr. Yanagi has responsibility for both governance and public investing and is materially involved in all financings of private companies. Mr. Yanagi currently serves on the board of directors of Performant Financial (ticker “PFMT”), Contrail Asset Management, Mother’s Market & Kitchen, R.G. Barry Corporation, and Skullcandy, Inc. He previously served as a director of School Specialty Inc. (former ticker “SCOO”) and Vision7 International (formerly known as Cossette Inc.). Mr. Yanagi also served as a special consultant to Physicians Formula (former ticker “FACE”) and was involved in Mill Road’s investments in National Technical Systems (former ticker “NTSC”) and PRT Growing Services (former ticker “PRT”). Prior to joining Mill Road, Mr. Yanagi was an investment professional at Nautic Partners, a middle-market private equity firm focused on healthcare, industrials, and services. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group at Credit Suisse. Mr. Yanagi earned an AB (cum laude) in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA (with Honors) from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.