Gordon O'Brien
CIO/CFO Re:Build Manufacturing LLC, Managing Partner, Cannon Capital
Chairman of the Board, member of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee
Mr. O’Brien is Chairman of the Board and a member of the Audit and Compensation Committees. He has been a member of the Middleby Board of Directors since 2005. Mr. O’Brien has been Chief Investment and Chief Financial Officer at Re:Build Manufacturing, LLC since 2020 and managing Partner at Cannon
Chairman of the Board
Sarah Palisi Chapin
President and Chief Executive Officer of Chapin Creative
Chair of Nominating and Governance Committee, member of the Compensation Committee
Ms. Chapin is the Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Ms. Chapin has been Principal of Chapin Creative, LLC, a business incubation, strategy, and marketing advisory firm, since 2016. For five years before founding Chapin Creative, she was
Independent Director
Cathy L. McCarthy
President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Tack, Inc.
Chair of the Audit Committee, member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Ms. McCarthy is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Since 2011, Ms. McCarthy has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cross Tack, Inc., a management consulting firm. From 2007 to 2011, Ms.
John R. Miller III
President, E.O.P., Inc.
Chair of the Compensation Committee, member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
Mr. Miller is the Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. He has served on the Middleby Board since 1978. Mr. Miller was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Equal Opportunity Publications, Inc. from 1968 to 2019, EOP a leader in diversity
Independent Director
Robert Nerbonne
Former EVP and Director, Cooper-Atkins Corporation, Former CEO, Ali Group North America
Member of the Nominating and Governance Committee
Mr. Nerbonne is a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. He joined the Middleby Board of Directors in 2019. Mr. Nerbonne was Executive Vice President of Cooper-Atkins Corporation, a company that manufactures thermometers, timers and wireless monitoring solutions, from 2014 to 2018.
Nassem Ziyad
Chief Operating Officer, Ziyad Brothers Importing
Member of the Audit Committee
Mr. Ziyad is a member of the Audit Committee. He has served on the Middleby Board of Directors since 2017. Mr. Ziyad has been is Chief Operating Officer of Ziyad Brothers Importing since 1983. Founded in 1966, Ziyad Brothers Importing is a leading distributor and global marketer of a diverse
Timothy FitzGerald
Chief Executive Officer, The Middleby Corporation
Mr. FitzGerald was named Middleby CEO in 2019 and has been with the company for nearly 25 years. Before moving to the CEO role, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he had held since 2003. Prior to that, he was Vice President and Corporate Controller from 1998 to