Spanning a distinguished 35-year career as a former auditor, senior partner, and Vice Chairman at Ernst & Young (EY), Mr. Fezell, age 65, held multiple leadership roles at the industry, regional, and executive committee levels for EY, providing deep knowledge of financial reporting, risk management, and market-leading growth strategies to large public multinationals as well as emerging growth and newly public companies. He was Vice Chair and Managing Partner of the firm s Central Region, responsible for a $3 billion business across all service lines that included over 7,000 professionals in 17 offices. While serving as the Americas Vice Chair for Markets, Mr. Fezell oversaw growth for a $15 billion practice. Prior to his retirement from EY in 2020, Mr. Fezell served as the Americas Leader for EY s alliance with Microsoft, at the forefront of transformation and digitalization and responsible for product development, investment allocations and joint go-to-market strategies to help drive digital platform services growth at both EY and Microsoft. Mr. Fezell has served on the board of many community and higher education organizations including The United Way, the Civic Committee of The Commercial Club of Chicago, the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, the Orfalea School of Business at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and Perspectives Charter Schools in Chicago. He is a CPA and graduate of Westminster College in Pennsylvania. There have been no transactions since the beginning of the Company s last fiscal year, and there are no currently proposed transactions, in which the Company was or is to be a participant and in which Mr. Fezell (or any member of his immediate family) had or will have any interest, that are required to be reported under Item 404(a) of Regulation S-K. The appointment of Mr. Fezell was not pursuant to any arrangement or understanding between him and any person, other than a director or executive officer of the Company acting in his or her official capacity.