Christopher Petzel joined the board on October 7, 2021.
Christopher Petzel is a managing director at Broadside Capital, LLC, a financial and strategic
advisory firm based in Puerto Rico. He serves as co-founder and Chairman of Byte to Bite
Industries, Inc., a delivery-focused hospitality platform serviced by a network of culinary centers
in Southern California, and as Chairman of Broadside Enterprises, Inc. (OTC:BRSE) and
Chancellor Group, Inc. (OTC:CHAG), two small cap vehicles. Mr. Petzel has broad corporate
finance, entrepreneurial and industry experience with a concentration in media and technology.
He has produced and/or financed several hundred million dollars of entertainment assets. Mr.
Petzel worked for investment banking firm Houlihan Lokey in Los Angeles, where his clients
included DreamWorks, Pacific Data Images (now DreamWorks Animation), Centropolis Effects,
Sundance Productions, Constantin Film AG and Castle Music. In 1999, he was one of the
principal members of the team representing The Walt Disney Company in valuation matters
pertaining to a much-publicized arbitration with Jeffrey Katzenberg. Mr. Petzel also previously
worked for the media finance department of Berliner Bank AG (London Branch). Mr. Petzel is
fluent in German, English, French and Spanish. He studied finance and economics at the
Universities of Barcelona (Spain) and Fribourg (Switzerland), where he graduated summa cum
laude.
We believe that Mr. Petzel is qualified to serve as a director because of his experience with
media, technology, hospitality, and corporate finance, as well as his experience in building
technology platforms and working with small cap public companies, including with respect to
their reporting requirements.