Rick McConnell brings more than 30 years of experience in the technology industry with expertise in building broad-based product portfolios and establishing commercialization strategies. He brings deep operational and strategic insights that support the Board s oversight of Dynatrace s growth, margin expansion, capital allocation, and disciplined execution in service of long-term value creation. As Chief Executive Officer of Dynatrace (since December 2021), Rick has more than doubled the company s revenue and has led the evolution of Dynatrace into an end-to-end, AI-powered observability platform that brings together differentiated data, context, and intelligence layers. Under Rick's leadership, Dynatrace has delivered durable, profitable growth, surpassing $2 billion in ARR while achieving solid operating margins. Prior to Dynatrace, Rick spent over a decade at Akamai Technologies (Nasdaq: AKAM), a cloud, security, and content delivery company, where he held several President and General Manager roles, including of the Security Technology Group (2021), the Web Division (2016-2021), and Products and Development (2011-2016). Prior to Akamai, he served as Vice President and General Manager of Sales (2004-2011) at Cisco Systems (Nasdaq: CSCO), a global technology company, where he helped build the company s multibillion-dollar Communications and Collaboration business. Rick joined Cisco when the company acquired Latitude Communications, where he was Chief Executive Officer (1998-2004). Rick holds an M.B.A. and a B.A. in Quantitative Economics from Stanford University. Our Board believes that based on Rick s knowledge of our company and our business, and his service as our Chief Executive Officer, Rick is qualified to serve on our Board.