Ms. Longley is the retired Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of The Jackson Laboratory, a global biomedical research institution in Bar Harbor, Maine where she led operations from 2018 to 2024, having first joined as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer in 2016. Before this, Ms. Longley served as the Senior Vice President of Finance & Administration and Treasurer at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine for fourteen years. She has held various legal and regulatory roles, including as a partner at Verrill LLP in Portland, Maine and as Commissioner of Professional & Financial Regulation in the cabinet of former Maine Governor Angus King. She currently serves on the board of trustees at Maine Maritime Academy, a public higher education institution in Castine, Maine, and has served on multiple non-profit and for-profit boards throughout her career. Ms. Longley holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from Bowdoin College, a J.D. cum laude from Suffolk University Law School, and is a member of the Maine Bar. Ms. Longley s extensive background in law, banking regulation, as well as direct oversight and active engagement in financial oversight roles makes her an asset to the Board and is the Company s designated Financial Expert under the NASDAQ rules. Her career experience has resulted in Ms. Longley s expertise in understanding financial statements and accounting methodologies which is essential to her service as the Audit Committee Chair and the Audit Committee Financial Expert, and in her role as a member of the Capital Committee. Ms. Longley s strong knowledge of the Maine market and broader global experience lends support to the Company from a strategic and competitive perspective.