great elm capital corp. (nasdaq: gecc, “gecc”) is an externally managed, specialty finance company focused on investing in the debt instruments of middle market companies. gecc has elected to be regulated as a business development company (“bdc”) under the investment company act of 1940, as amended. gecc is managed by great elm capital management (“gecm”). gecm’s investment team has deployed more than $17 billion into more than 550 issuers across 20+ jurisdictions over the team’s 14 year history under mast capital management, llc. now led by peter a. reed, gecc’s chief executive officer, gecm’s investment team has more than 100 years of aggregate experience financing and investing in leveraged middle market companies. investment objective: gecc’s investment objective is to generate both current income and capital appreciation, while seeking to protect against risk of permanent capital loss. gecc will invest predominantly in the debt securities of middle market companies, which gecm def