Mark P. Mills has served as a member of our Board since March 2023 and currently serves on our Compensation Committee and Audit Committees. Mr. Mills has been a distinguished senior fellow at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is executive director of its National Center for Energy Analytics and was previously a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, an economics and policy research institute, and a faculty fellow at Northwestern University s McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science since 2014. He has also served as a strategic non-operating partner with Montrose Lane (an energy-tech venture fund) since 2017, and Chief Executive Officer of Digital Power Capital LLC, a boutique venture fund he co-founded in 2001 (which ceased operation in 2009). Previously, Mr. Mills was chairman and Chief Technology Officer of ICx Technologies, Inc., from 2005 to 2008, aiding in its public offering in 2007. Mr. Mills served in the White House Science Office under President Reagan and subsequently provided science and technology policy counsel to a variety of private-sector firms, the Department of Energy and U.S. research laboratories. Mr. Mills was a technology advisor for Bank of America Securities, Inc. and coauthor of the Huber-Mills Digital Power Report, a tech investment newsletter. Early in his career, Mr. Mills was an experimental physicist and development engineer at Bell Northern Research (Canada s Bell Labs) and at the RCA David Sarnoff Research Center on microprocessors, fiber optics and missile guidance, earning several patents for his work. In 2016, Mr. Mills was named Energy Writer of the Year by the American Energy Society. Mr. Mills holds a degree in physics from Queen s University, Ontario, Canada. Mr. Mills was appointed to our Board in March 2023 in connection with our IPO in light of his management skills and knowledge of the energy and the technology industries.