Biography

Mr. O’Brien has been a Director since July 2007, chairs our Audit Committee and is a member of our Compensation and Nominating & Governance committees. He has been a principal in Morningside Group LLC, a consultancy, since 2024. Prior to that, since 2018, he was principally a private investor and entrepreneur. He was Chief Executive Officer and a board member of TravelCenters of America LLC, from 2007 until 2017, and a senior executive with the RMR Group from 1996 through 2017. From 1988 to 1996, Mr. O’Brien was a senior manager with Arthur Andersen LLP where he served a number of public company clients. Mr. O’Brien graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, with a B.S. in Economics.