Hsiao-Wuen Hon, Ph.D. has been a member of our Board since August 2017. Dr. Hon is a former technology industry executive with over 28 years of experience at Microsoft Corporation, where he held various leadership positions before retiring in 2024. Most recently, he served as Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, and previously held the positions of Asia-Pacific R&D Group Chairman and Managing Director of Microsoft Research Asia. During his tenure at Microsoft, he made significant contributions in the areas of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, spoken language recognition, and internet search. Prior to joining Microsoft, Dr. Hon served as Technology Director of the Apple-ISS Research Center on behalf of Apple Corporation. Dr. Hon also serves on the board of directors of MediaTek Inc., a Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company. Dr. Hon holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from National Taiwan University, a Master of Science degree in Computer Science with a focus on Artificial Intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, with a focus on Artificial Intelligence and Speech Recognition, also from Carnegie Mellon University. We believe that Dr. Hon possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a member of our Board, including his extensive experience and wealth of knowledge in artificial intelligence and his managerial experience in the technology industry at Microsoft and Apple.