William Richard Harker

Sears Holdings Corp. engages in the provision of retail stores through its subsidiaries. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

OSH 1 Liquidating Corp. is a retailer focused on homeowners with repair, maintenance and improvement needs. The company's stores are designed to appeal to convenience-oriented customers, whose purchase occasions are largely driven by their home repair, maintenance and improvement needs throughout the home, garden and outdoor living areas. Its repair and maintenance category consists of plumbing, electrical, paint, tools, hardware, and industrial products. The company's lawn and garden category consists of nursery, garden, outdoor power and seasonal products. Its in-home category consists mainly of house wares and appliances. The company also focuses on the convenience-oriented purchases of the small professional customer. The company was founded in 1931 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

March of Dimes Foundation is a non-profit organization for pregnancy and baby health. The organization works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. March of Dimes Foundation was founded on January 3, 1938 and is headquartered in Arlington, VA.

Sears Hometown & Outlet Stores, Inc. engages in the sale of home appliances, hardware, tools and lawn, and garden equipment. It operates through Hometown, and Outlet segments. The Hometown segment consists of its hometown stores, hardware stores, home appliances showrooms,and buddy's home furnishing stores business formats. The Outlet segment offers in-store and online access to purchase new, one-of-a-kind, out-of-carton, discontinued, obsolete, used, reconditioned, overstocked, and scratched and dented products, collectively outlet-value products across a broad assortment of merchandise categories, including home appliances, mattresses, furniture, and lawn and garden equipment at value-oriented prices. The company was founded on April 23, 2012 and is headquartered in Hoffman Estates, IL.

Àshe Capital Management LP (Àshe) is an independent, SEC-investment advisor and hedge fund manager headquartered in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. The firm was founded by William C. Crowley, Stephen M. Blass and William R. Harker in 2015 as the successor entity to Àshe Capital Management LLC, which was founded in 2013. Àshe provides investment management services to Àshe Capital Partners LP, a Delaware limited partnership.

ESL Investments, Inc. is a privately-owned hedge fund sponsor and registered investment adviser founded in 1988. Headquartered in Bay Harbor Islands, Florida, ESL manages assets on a discretionary basis in one master fund, ESL Partners LP. They also offer investments in ESL Partners through ESL Limited, a Bermuda-based “feeder fund”. Investors in the funds are generally comprised of ultra high-net worth individuals and family offices, but also include private and public pension plans, financial institutions, and other institutional investors.