Badar Khan has served as our Chief Executive Officer since November 2023 and as a member of the Board since May 2022. Prior to becoming our Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Khan served as a Senior Advisor with Global Infrastructure Partners, a leading independent infrastructure fund manager, from November 2022 until September 2023. Previously, from April 2017 to June 2022, he held several roles with National Grid, a multinational electricity and gas utility company, including President at National Grid US from November 2019 to June 2022, during which he led the company s core U.S. business operations, including the provision of electricity, natural gas and clean energy solutions to over 20 million people across Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island. From April 2017 to November 2019, he was the President of National Grid Ventures, a global portfolio of large-scale competitive energy projects including electricity interconnectors, onshore wind and solar generation, competitive electricity transmission, and LNG storage and oversaw the creation of National Grid Partners, the company s venture capital and innovation arm. Mr. Khan previously worked at Centrica plc, a multinational energy and services company, for 14 years in the UK and U.S., including from 2013 to 2017 as Chief Executive Officer of Direct Energy, the North American subsidiary that provides electricity, natural gas and home services. Prior to that, he was an officer of a start-up private retail energy company in the U.S. and also worked in management consulting with Deloitte Consulting. Mr. Khan has served on the board of directors of CRH plc, a manufacturer and supplier of building materials, since October 2021. He has a degree in engineering from Brunel University in London and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. We believe that Mr. Khan is qualified to serve as a director because of his operational expertise gained from serving as our Chief Executive Officer and his extensive professional experience in the energy sector.