Director since 2004 Age: 66 Ms. van Lith is founder and Chief Executive Officer of APEL Worldwide, LLC, an eCommerce investor. She was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of MakeMusic, Inc., a publicly held technology solutions provider, from 2011 until the company was taken private in 2012. Ms. van Lith was President and Chief Executive Officer of Gelco Information Network, a private equity owned provider of transaction and information processing systems from 2000 until its sale in 2007. Ms. van Lith was serving in multiple interim CEO roles for companies going through disruptive transformation when not serving in full-time capacities prior to 2019. Prior to Gelco, she held senior executive finance and M&A roles at publicly-held companies, including Ceridian HCM Holding Inc. and Deluxe Corporation. Ms. van Lith s prior board experience also includes serving as a director of E.A. Sween, a privately held company doing business as Deli Express, from August 2012 to December 2019, a director of XRS Corporation, a publicly traded provider of fleet operations solutions to the transportation industry from 2010 until its sale to Omnitracs in 2014, and a director of CNS, a publicly traded consumer goods company, from 2003 until its 2006 sale to GlaxoSmithKline. Ms. van Lith s qualifications to serve as a director of Associated, Chair of the Trust Committee and a member of the Audit Committee include her education in finance and accounting along with her past and present directorship experience in both public and private companies, as well as having earned NACD Director Certification. Ms. van Lith provides the board with a strong understanding of accounting and experience in financial roles of large publicly held companies. She was a CPA, has practiced with an international public accounting firm and has served in various executive capacities. She also meets the requirements of an audit committee financial expert.