Board of Directors

Ryan Greenawalt, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the board of directors
Ryan Greenawalt joined Alta Holdings in December 2008 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since December 2017. Mr. Greenawalt leads our executive leadership team and is responsible for corporate strategy, operations, and corporate development. He has led our acquisition activities since joining the Company, expanding our geographic footprint, and entering new end markets. Mr. Greenawalt returned to the equipment industry after a career in financial services from 2002 to 2008. He has a BA from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor and holds an MBA from the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University.

Dan Shribman, B. Riley Financial’s Chief Investment Officer and BRPM’s former Chief Financial Officer
Dan Shribman, serves as the Chief Investment Officer of B. Riley Financial, Inc.. He brings 12 years of experience in both public and private equity to the company. Prior to joining B. Riley, Mr. Shribman was a Portfolio Manager at Anchorage Capital Group, a special situation asset manager based in New York, where he worked from 2010 to 2018. During Mr. Shribman’s tenure at Anchorage, he led investments in dozens of public and private opportunities across the general industrials, transportation, automotive, aerospace, gaming, hospitality and real estate industries. These investments ranged from public equities and bonds to deeply distressed securities, par bank debt, minority owned private equity, and majority owned private equity. Mr. Shribman worked in close collaboration with management teams and boards to maximize shareholder value in the form of both operational turnarounds, capital markets financings and communication and capital deployment initiatives. Prior to Anchorage, Mr. Shribman worked at Tinicum Capital Partners, a private equity firm, and in the restructuring advisory group at Lazard Freres. Mr. Shribman holds an MA in Economics and History from Dartmouth.

Zachary E. Savas, President of Cranbrook Partners & Co.
Zachary E. Savas has served as President of Cranbrook Partners & Co., a private company engaged in active ownership of businesses since 2001, and from 1991 to 2001 a boutique advisory firm primarily providing merger and acquisition, and corporate finance services for both public and private companies. He has also served as President of Production Spring, LLC, a manufacturer of metal fasteners for the automotive industry, since March 2002. He was a founder and Chairman of Fire Catt, LLC, a fire hose testing business since October 2006 and Chief Executive Officer since January 2010. He is an active Manager and Board of Vexor Technology, LLC, an industrial waste services and alternative fuel company since March 2016. In addition, he serves as Chairman of Lewis ig, an information technology business since July 2004, Presidence of Rislov Foundation, a charitable organization since November 2003 and Managing Member of Peponides Associates LLC, an investment vehicle for real estate, stocks and private companies since January 2000. He has sat on numerous private company boards and was Lead Director of Tecumseh Products Company, NASDAQ from September 2009 – January 2014, including serving on the Audit, Governance, Nominating and Compensation Committees. He began his career at Citicorp Mergers and Acquisitions in 1985 and graduated with high distinction from The University of Michigan Ross School of Business with a BBA in 1985, concentrating on finance and accounting.

Andrew Studdert, Founder of Andrew P. Studdert & Associates
Mr. Andrew Studdert is currently an Independent Corporate Director and consultant. He serves on the public boards of Target Hospitality, USA, CRAMO, Finland, and the UK-based not-for-profit IPAF (International Powered Access Federation). From July through December 2019, Mr. Studdert served as Interim CEO/MD of IPAF, which operates in 65 countries. He served as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of NES Equipment Rentals from 2004 to 2017, until its sale to United Rentals. He was Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of UAL Corporation and of its subsidiary, United Airlines, from 1999 to 2002, and led the airline through the 9/11 crisis. He also served as Senior Vice President, Fleet Operations of United Airlines from 1997 to 1999, and as Chief Information Officer from 1995 to 1997. Prior to joining United Mr. Studdert established Andrew Studdert & Associates, a private information technology consultancy and served as an Executive Vice President of First Interstate Bancorp, then the seventh largest U.S. bank holding corporation. He was a Director of ModSpace, USA, until its sale in 2018. In 2015 he established the Andrew P. Studdert Chair in Business Ethics and Crisis Leadership at Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa. He is an SEC Financial Expert, NACD Fellow in Corporate Governance, and holds a Carnegie Mellon certificate in Cyber Security Oversight.

Katherine White, Professor of Law at Wayne State University Law School
Katherine E. White received a B.S.E. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from Princeton University, a J.D. degree from the University of Washington, a LL.M. degree from the George Washington University Law School, and a Master’s degree in strategic studies from the U.S. Army War College. From 1995–1996, she was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable Randall R. Rader, Circuit Judge (ret.), U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. From 2000–2002, she was appointed by the Secretary of Commerce to serve on the United States Patent and Trademark Office Patent Public Advisory Committee. She was also first appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Plant Variety Protection Office Advisory Board serving from 2004 and continues to serve today. She was elected to the University of Michigan Board of Regents in 1996, and re-elected in both 2006 and 2014. Her term expires January 1, 2023. In 2015, she became a member of the Old National Bancorp Corporate Board of Director
She is currently a Professor of Law at the Wayne State University Law School in Detroit. In addition, she is a Brigadier General in the U.S. Army National Guard currently serving as the Deputy Commander of the 46 Military Police Command in Lansing, MI. She is a Fulbright Senior Scholar (Germany), a White House Fellow 2001–2002, and a registered patent attorney.