Edward E. Cohen has been the Vice Chairman of our board of directors since December 2020. He has also been the Co-Chairman of the board of directors of Osprey Technology Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: SFTW), a blank check company, since June 2019. From August 2018 to May 2020 he was Vice Chairman of Falcon Minerals Corporation (Nasdaq: FLMN), formerly Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp., and before that was Executive Chairman of Osprey Energy Acquisition Corp. from April 2017 to August 2018. Mr. Cohen has served as Chairman of HEPCO, a private investment firm making control investments in middle market companies and real estate, since its formation in September 2016. Mr. Cohen was Chief Executive Officer of Atlas Energy Group, LLC from February 2015 to May 2020, having also served as Chairman since February 2012. He was Chairman of the board of directors and Chief Executive Officer of the general partner of Atlas Growth Partners, L.P. from its inception in 2013 until 2020. Mr. Cohen served as Chairman of Titan Energy, LLC from 2016 to 2020, and from August 2015 to September 2016, was Executive Chairman of Atlas Resource Partners, L.P. which filed a voluntary pre-packaged plan under Chapter 11 in July 2016, emerging from Chapter 11 as Titan Energy, LLC in September 2016 after confirmation of its plan. In addition, Mr. Cohen was: a director of Resource America, Inc. (formerly a publicly traded specialized asset management company) from 1988 until September 2016 and Chairman of its board of directors from 1990 until September 2016; and Chairman of the board of Resource Capital Corp., now known as Exantas Capital Corp. (NYSE: XAN) (a real estate investment trust) from its formation in 2005 until November 2009 and served on its board until September 2016.
Dr. Cohen is an economic historian who has been an adjunct Professor at the University of Pennsylvania since 1995.