Biography

Willem Mesdag has been a director of DXL since January 2014. Mr. Mesdag is the managing partner of Red Mountain Capital Partners LLC, an investment management firm, and since May 2019, has also served as a Senior Advisor for HPS Investment Partners, a global investment firm. Prior to founding Red Mountain in 2005, Mr. Mesdag was a partner and managing director of Goldman Sachs & Co., which he joined in 1981. Prior to Goldman Sachs, he was a securities lawyer at Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll, which he joined in 1978. From February 2016 to May 2025, Mr. Mesdag served on the board of Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc., a publicly traded company, for which he chaired the audit and finance committee and served on the human resources and compensation committee. He also previously served on the boards of 3i Group plc, Cost Plus, Inc., Encore Capital Group, Inc., Nature’s Sunshine Products, Inc., Skandia AB and Yuma Energy, Inc., all of which are or were publicly traded companies.