Rafael Pastor has an extensive and diversified track record in both running successful businesses and advising business leaders. His career has spanned the media/entertainment, education, and business/financial services sectors. He now serves on a variety of Boards and as an Advisor. From 2004 to 2013, based in San Diego, Rafael was Chairman of the Board and CEO of Vistage International, the world’s largest for-profit CEO membership company (which he co-owned with Larry Ellison, Michael Milken and Thomson Reuters). Previously, based in New York, Rafael held these positions at global media companies: CEO of Hoyts Cinemas Corporation; President of USA Networks International; Executive Vice President, International, of News Corporation and Fox Television International (reporting to Rupert Murdoch); and President of CBS/Fox Video International. Subsequently, he was co-Founder and co-Chairman of the Sonenshine Pastor (now Sonenshine Partners) investment banking firm in New York City. Rafael currently serves as a Director on the Boards of Ensight (as Chairman), RosettaBooks (as a Founder), and Experience Investment Corp. (a SPAC). Until September 2021, he served for six years on the Board of KinderCare Education, the largest early-childhood education company in the United States of which he remains a significant shareholder. He also serves as an Advisor to a major international private equity firm and is a limited partner and advisor in several investment partnerships. Rafael is engaged with not-for-profit organizations as: Former Board Member of the National Association of Corporate Directors (Pacific Southwest Chapter); Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the School of Global Policy and Strategy at UC San Diego (UCSD); Trustee of the UCSD Foundation; and Member of the Dean’s Advisory Council of the Rady School of Management at UCSD. Rafael started his career as an attorney, first at the Wall Street law firm of Hawkins, Delafield and Wood and then as Associate General Counsel at CBS Inc. He earned a BA from Columbia University and a JD from NYU School of Law. He was born in Israel to Hungarian parents and speaks several languages. In addition to his experiences as a Board member, Rafael has participated in numerous public and- private-company Board meetings and deliberations as a CEO, an investment banker and an attorney.