Biography

John Douglas Furst has served on our board of directors since July 2019. Mr. Furst has more than 35 years of experience in leveraged acquisitions and private investments. Mr. Furst is the founder of Oak Stream Investors, a private investment firm founded in 2008. He manages his own capital making investments in real estate, oil and gas, fixed income securities and public and private equities. Mr. Furst has served on the board of directors of Capital Southwest Corporation, a credit provider to small and medium sized business listed on Nasdaq, since 2014. Mr. Furst has also served on the board of directors for Drilling Tools International, a provider of tools for land and offshore drilling listed on Nasdaq, since 2012. Prior to founding Oak Stream Investors, Mr. Furst worked in a variety of roles at investment banks and private equity firms, including as a partner with Hicks Muse Tate & Furst. Mr. Furst is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas, where he teaches finance and investments. Mr. Furst graduated from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin with a Master of Business Administration and from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Science in Finance & Accounting.