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Brad Green

Chief Executive Officer

Jay Dodds

President & Chief Operations Officer

Daniel Millett

Chief Financial Officer

Jeff Parker

Chief Technology Officer

Jennifer Hay

Chief Strategy Officer & General Counsel

Lorie Johnson

Chief Administrative Officer

Clark Harlow

Senior VP of Corporate Development

Brad Green

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Brad Green

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

J. Bradley Green was President of PLC from May of 2018 through March 31, 2020 wherein he was appointed the Interim Chief Executive Officer and officially appointed Chief Executive Officer effective June 22, 2020. Mr. Green has over 14 years of experience in the funeral and cemetery profession. Prior to joining PLC, Mr. Green served as a founder, owner and the Chief Executive Officer of Signature. Prior to founding Signature, he was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of another publicly traded funeral and cemetery industry consolidator. During that time, he was responsible for many corporate functions, including acquisitions. In addition to his industry experience, Mr. Green is a licensed attorney with an extensive legal background, including work at two international law firms and serving as the General Counsel for a large, international transportation company.

Jay Dodds

President & CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

Jay Dodds has over 39 years of experience in the funeral and cemetery profession. He holds a funeral directors and embalmers license in both Texas and New Mexico. In addition, he is a certified cremation operator. Jay served as founder, owner and President/COO of the Signature Group. Prior to founding Signature, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of another U.S. publicly traded company where he served in a senior operations leadership role for 17 years. Over his career he has directly managed businesses in every region of the country. Jay is the immediate Past President of the International Cemetery Cremation and Funeral Association, Trustee Emeritus for the Funeral Service Foundation, Trustee of the ICCFA Educational Foundation and a board member of the Pierce Mortuary Colleges.

Jay Dodds

President & CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER

DANIEL MILLETT

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

DANIEL MILLETT

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

Daniel Millett formerly served as Chief Financial Officer of Agellan Commercial REIT and, prior to that, a Senior Manager, at KPMG LLP, in their building, construction and real estate industry group. He has proven expertise in financial controls, risk management, financial reporting, and financial modeling for mergers and acquisitions in a public company setting. In addition, Daniel has cross-border experience in Canada and the United States and has been involved in over $3 billion of real estate and capital markets transactions. He holds a Chartered Professional Accountant, Chartered Accountant designation, and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Wilfrid Laurier University.

JEFF PARKER

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

Jeff Parker joined PLC in June of 2018. Jeff brings over 40 years of IT experience and 20 years of funeral and cemetery experience to the table. He began his IT career with IBM in the late 70s, wrote code to guide Maverick Missiles in the 80s, joined his father in the energy industry in the 90s, and started in the funeral and cemetery business at the urging of a friend that was providing hardware to one of the largest publicly traded death care consolidators in the industry in 1998. Jeff’s 20 years in the industry includes roles as Manager of Offsite Systems, Manager of Application Development, and Director of Information Systems. Jeff was the principal architect of the software system that currently runs one of the largest public funeral and cemetery businesses in the US.

JEFF PARKER

CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER

JENNIFER HAY

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER & General Counsel

JENNIFER HAY

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER & General Counsel

Jennifer Hay joined PLC in 2018 as Associate General Counsel and was appointed General Counsel in February of 2020. She has been a licensed attorney since 2001 and has approximately 7 years of experience working directly within the funeral and cemetery industry. Ms. Hay has a wide-breadth of legal expertise with over 10 years of in-house experience advising and serving as counsel for public companies including two international companies. Prior to joining PLC, she served in numerous capacities for Whole Foods Market, Inc., LDR Spine USA, Inc. and Carriage Services, Inc. In these roles, she has developed, led and had oversight over various functions including Legal, Human Resources and Safety and Risk Management.

LORIE JOHNSON

VICE-PRESIDENT of Human Resources

Lorie Johnson has over a decade of experience in the funeral and cemetery profession, and she joined Signature in 2014 as its Chief Administrative Officer. Lorie has over 30 years of experience in all aspects of organizational administration, human resources, training and people development. At Park Lawn, her role is to lead, facilitate and participate in organizational development and effectiveness across an employee’s full life cycle with the company. In this role, she has oversight over all aspects of Human Resources, Training, Safety and Risk Management, as well as Administration and Information Technology. Lorie is an HRCI and SHRM certified Senior Human Resource Professional.

LORIE JOHNSON

VICE-PRESIDENT of Human Resources

CLARK HARLOW

VICE-PRESIDENT of Finance - USA

CLARK HARLOW

SENIOR VICE-PRESIDENT, OPERATIONAL FINANCE & ACCOUNTING

Clark Harlow joined PLC as VP, Finance-USA in May of 2018. Mr. Harlow has over 27 years of experience in various accounting and executive roles across several industries, of which 20 years have been in the funeral and cemetery profession. He joined Signature Group in 2015 as an owner and its Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Harlow had previously led the finance, accounting and M&A functions in private and publicly listed companies.

LINDA GILBERT

VICE-PRESIDENT, CORPORATE FINANCE & FINANCIAL REPORTING

Linda Gilbert joined PLC as the Director of Finance in September, 2014, and in March 2016 was appointed the VP, Finance and Administration. Ms. Gilbert is a chartered accountant and brings over 20 years of finance experience in public companies. Prior to joining PLC, she was an Independent Director of Envoy Capital Group and acted as a member of the Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee and as Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee. She has previously held the positions of Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and Director of Finance at Envoy Communications Group Inc. Ms. Gilbert also has experience as an independent consultant and has consulted to various companies on financial management, analysis and reporting.

LINDA GILBERT

VICE-PRESIDENT OF Finance & Administration - CANADA

JIM PRICE

Senior Vice President of Industry Relations

JIM PRICE

Senior Vice President of Industry Relations

Jim Price has been a member of the Park Lawn team since February of 2016, as CEO of Midwest Memorial Group, LLC., a Park Lawn Corporation company with 28 cemetery locations throughout the state of Michigan. Prior to joining Park Lawn, Jim co-founded and served as EVP / COO of Foundation Partners Group and formerly co-founded and served as COO of Keystone Group Holdings. Jim currently serves on the International Cemetery, Cremation & Funeral Association (ICCFA) Board of Directors, ICCFA Governmental Affairs Committee and is currently President of the ICCFA Educational Foundation. He also serves on the Advisory Board for the Sykes School of Business, Center for the Study of Ethics, at the University of Tampa in Tampa, Florida. Jim has over 50 years of experience in the funeral profession and is a graduate of the California College of Mortuary Science.