Primary Job Title Chairman & Chief Executive Officer Primary Organization 
CSW Industrials
Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
Joseph B. Armes has served as the Company’s Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer since September 2015. Mr. Armes also served as a member of the Board and President of the Company from November 2014 to September 2015. Prior to the Company’s spin-off from Capital Southwest Corporation, a capital provider to middle market
companies, in September 2015, Mr. Armes served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Capital Southwest Corporation from June 2013 to September 2015. He currently serves as Chairman of the Capital Southwest Corporation board of directors, a position he has held since January 2014. Since December 2013, Mr. Armes has served as a board member and as audit committee chairman for RSP Permian, Inc., an independent oil and natural gas exploration and production company. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Armes served as the Chief Operating Officer of Hicks Holdings LLC, a private investment firm. Prior to 2005, he served as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Hicks Sports Group, LLC, an owner and manager of various professional sports teams. Rangers Equity Holdings GP LLC, a subsidiary of Hicks Sports Group LLC, had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas on May 28, 2010. He also previously served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Suiza Foods Corporation (now Dean Foods Company), a publicly traded food and beverage company, and as Vice President and General Counsel of The Morningstar Group, Inc., a publicly traded food and beverage company.
