is an Associate Professor of the Practice of Accounting in the Leventhal School of Accounting and the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California (USC). Professor Braunegg teaches Financial Accounting for Mergers and Acquisitions and Financial Statement Analysis in the Graduate School and Managerial Accounting in the Undergraduate Program. Prior to teaching at USC, Professor Braunegg was an Executive Vice President and Co-Founding Principal of CAST Management Consultants Inc. (CAST) from 1986 to 2017 when he and his fellow Principals sold the firm to West Monroe Partners. During his tenure at CAST, Professor Braunegg served on the firm s Board of Directors and was the Corporate Secretary. From 1981 to 1986, he worked as an Auditor and as a Financial Services Consultant at KPMG. The Company believes that Professor Braunegg s extensive experience in executive management and his 35-year management consulting career advising senior management of numerous large public companies qualify him for service on the Board of Directors of the Company.