Nicola Adamo has served as the Chair of the Board since April 2019 and has served as a director of the Company since August 2018. Mr. Adamo is a former senior executive of Cisco Systems ( Cisco ), where he served in a variety of sales and leadership roles over a 22-year career prior to his retirement in 2016. While there, Mr. Adamo served as the Senior Vice President of the Americas, where he managed Cisco s largest geographic region, with annual IT and communications sales of more than $26 billion, and was responsible for 6,500 employees working across 60 different countries. Mr. Adamo also served as the Senior Vice President of Cisco s $12 billion Global Service Provider organization, leading sales, service delivery, and development for the company s top service provider customers, among various other roles. Prior to his tenure at Cisco, Mr. Adamo spent more than a decade at IBM in various sales and management assignments. Since leaving Cisco in 2016, Mr. Adamo has consulted with a range of tech companies, and currently serves on the board of directors of Lookout, Inc. Mr. Adamo is also the Founder and President of Making A Mark, Inc., which is a charitable foundation located in Monmouth County, New Jersey, dedicated to empowering change through awareness, knowledge and inclusive opportunities targeting the environment and education. Mr. Adamo holds a BS in Computer Engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Adamo is an experienced executive in the information technology industry, who brings a deep working knowledge of the industry and experience from both enterprise and service provider segments, that he can deploy to provide valuable insight and perspectives to our Board. He also has extensive experience and successes as a leader who is able to balance strategy and execution, foster long-standing strategic relationships, and guide business and technology discussions and decisions for shared success. This combination makes him an effective leader for our Board.