M. Ashton Hudson

Since 2010, M. Ashton Hudson has served as a Partner of Value Acquisition Fund, an acquisition, development and asset management firm focused on the deployment of long-duration capital into operating businesses and real assets, where his responsibilities include investment sourcing and underwriting, transaction structuring and negotiation, and capital allocation across the firm’s strategies. Since 2018, Mr. Hudson has also served as the Founder and Chairman of Riverwood Asset Management, a family office that invests across public equities, private investments and real assets. From 2002 to 2018, Mr. Hudson was the owner and Executive Chairman of Turner Pest Control, a Jacksonville, Florida-based residential and commercial pest control company, which grew from approximately $1.5 million to more than $25 million in annual revenue during his ownership before its sale in 2018 to Anticimex, a global pest control company backed by EQT Partners. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hudson practiced law at Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP, where he focused on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, general corporate law and securities law. 

Since September 2026, Mr. Hudson has served as an independent director of Live Oak Acquisition Corp. VI (Nasdaq: LOVI), a special purpose acquisition company, where he serves on the Audit and Compensation Committees. Mr. Hudson previously served as an independent director of Live Oak Acquisition Corp. V (NYSE: LOKV), a special purpose acquisition company, from 2025 until the completion of its business combination with Teamshares, Inc. (NYSE: TMS) in 2026; as an independent director of Live Oak Crestview Climate Acquisition Corp. (NYSE: LOCC), a special purpose acquisition company, from 2021 to 2023; and as an independent director of Forestar Group Inc. (NYSE: FOR), a residential lot development company, from 2016 to 2019, where he served concurrently on the Audit, Compensation and Corporate Governance Committees during the period that culminated in the company’s sale of a majority interest to D.R. Horton, Inc. Since 2020, Mr. Hudson has served as an independent director of real asset investment funds managed by Bessemer Trust, and since 2019 he has served as a member of the North Florida board of directors of Fifth Third Bank, a subsidiary of Fifth Third Bancorp (Nasdaq: FITB). From 2006 to 2013, Mr. Hudson served on the board of JEA (Jacksonville Electric Authority), one of the largest municipally owned electric, water and sewer utilities in the United States, including a two-year term as Chairman of the Board, and previously chaired its Audit Committee and Finance Committee. Mr. Hudson received a Bachelor of Science in Business and Accounting, cum laude, from Wake Forest University in 1994 and a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1997, where he served as an Articles Editor of the Wake Forest Law Review and was a Cooke Foundation Scholar. 

Qualifications 

Oasis believes that Mr. Hudson’s qualifications to serve as a director of the Company include his more than two decades of experience as an investor in and operator of businesses and real assets, including scaling and selling a consumer services business with a recurring-revenue model, as well as his public company board experience, including his concurrent service on the audit, compensation and governance committees of an NYSE-listed company through a strategic transformation and sale process.