Board of Directors

Rajeev Amara
Chairman and Director

Rajeev Amara has served as the Chair of the Board of Directors since the company’s formation. Since 2018, he has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Arcline Investment Management. Before that, he was a managing director at Golden Gate Capital for more than a decade. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chairman of the Board
Patrick Allen
Director

Patrick Allen has served as a member of our Board of Directors and Chair of the Audit Committee since March 2026. He served as the Chief Financial Officer for Collins Aerospace, a division of Raytheon Technologies, from 2018-2020. He had previously served as the Chief Financial Officer for Rockwell Collins from 2015 through 2018, having taken on roles of increasing responsibility at Rockwell Collins since he joined the company in 1998. Mr. Allen has served as a director of Alliant Energy Corporation since 2011 (and chair since May 2025) and Tennant Company since February 2026. He previously served as director of Triumph Group, Inc. from 2023 until 2025. He received his B.S. in Finance from The Pennsylvania State University.

Financial Expert
Independent Director
Stephen Oetgen
Director

Stephen Oetgen has served as a member of our Board of Directors since March 2026. Most recently, he served as Managing Director of Smoky Mountain Advisory Co., a firm he founded focused on specialty consulting and accounting services. He previously served as Managing Director, General Counsel, and Chief Financial Officer at Golden Gate Private Equity, Inc. from 2013 to 2023, and prior to that was a senior partner at Kirkland & Ellis LLP from 1993 to 2013, where he served on the firm’s Finance Committee and was a founding partner of its San Francisco office. Mr. Oetgen received a B.S. in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and obtained his CPA in May 1991. He earned a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center and is admitted to the Illinois and California State Bars. He has served as a Continuing Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law since 2008 and as a Lecturer in Law at Stanford University Law School.

Independent Director
Kevin Perhamus
President, Chief Executive Officer and Director

Kevin Perhamus has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors since the company’s formation, having served as CEO of Arxis predecessors Quantic from 2020 to 2022 and Qnnect since 2022. From 2010 to 2020, he served as the CEO of Winchester Interconnect. Before that, he spent a combined 17 years in roles at Teradyne and Amphenol (which acquired Teradyne’s Connection Systems Division). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from the University of New Hampshire and a Master of Business Administration from the Questrom School of Business of Boston University.

Shyam Ravindran
Director

Shyam Ravindran has served as a member of the Board of Directors since the company’s formation. Since 2018, he has served as the President of Arcline Investment Management. Before that, he was a principal at Golden Gate Capital, where he worked for more than a decade. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University.