Select Mandates

• $1.7 billion distressed divestiture to resolve a pending short-term debt default (medical devices).

• Turnaround and operational restructuring of a $5 billion global metals and mining company.

• Interim President of a $1.3 billion European-based equipment and specialty chemical manufacturer (turnaround, operational restructuring, leadership transition).

• Interim CEO of a vertically integrated, multi-state permanent crop company (founder-to-professional-management transition).

• CRO of an agricultural biotechnology portfolio company (turnaround and asset sale).

• CRO of a grower/packer/shipper operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

• Interim COO of a distressed early-stage AgTech portfolio company.

• Integration of two global food and beverage companies following an $11 billion acquisition.

• Integration of an agricultural sciences company and a seed company following a $7.7 billion acquisition.

Board Experience

Sunkist Growers, Inc.

Fruit Growers Supply Company

Growcentia, Inc.

Recognition

Titan 100 Hall of Fame — Top 12 Private Company CEOs

The Conference Board — Outstanding Presentation, Creating Value through M&A Integration

Digital Hero Award — Innovating M&A Integration through Technology, awarded by John Sculley of Sculley Brothers LLC, former CEO of Apple and PepsiCo

Scott J. Wiley

Scott has spent more than three decades leading businesses through distressed and special situations. His career spans leadership transitions, turnarounds and restructurings, insolvency, complex strategic and distressed transactions, and corporate governance involving organizations ranging from privately held companies to Global 500 enterprises.

He has served as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Restructuring Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Managing Director in a Big Four Global Financial Strategies practice, and corporate director. Scott has been called upon to restore and accelerate growth, transform operations, return underperforming companies to profitability and positive cash flow, and execute and integrate acquisitions. He has also been called upon to navigate businesses through financial distress, insolvency, and Chapter 11, lead orderly wind-downs, and take the helm during CEO and founder transitions or when circumstances require a fundamentally different response.

His experience includes more than 20 special situation mandates and over $40 billion in strategic and distressed M&A transactions and divestitures. His corporate governance experience includes service as a director of three companies with oversight of strategy, finance, executive leadership, crises, and other consequential matters. Scott has worked across a range of industries, with depth in complex and asset-intensive businesses, including manufacturing, mining, oil and gas, industrial products, consumer products, and distribution. He is especially known for his expertise in agriculture, AgTech, and food and beverage, developed through decades of operating and governance leadership across the agrifood value chain.

When circumstances require experienced leadership, sound judgment, and the authority to act, Second Mesa is prepared to assume responsibility, determine the path forward, and execute.