Mr. Meyercord has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2015. Mr. Meyercord joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chair from March 2011 until August 2015. Prior to assuming his operating role at Extreme Networks in April 2015, Mr. Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a privately-held software-driven, healthcare information technology company from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Meyercord served as Chief Executive Officer, President and Director of Cavalier Telephone, LLC, a privately-held voice, video and data services company, from 2006 to 2009. He served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director of Talk America Holdings, Inc., a publicly-traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the United States, from 1996 to 2006. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyercord served as a VP in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers Inc. (now part of Citigroup, Inc.), a Wall Street investment bank, from 1993 to 1996. He also served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc., a then publicly-traded telecommunications company, from August 2009 to May 2011. Mr. Meyercord has served as a director of SpayFirst since 2017. Mr. Meyercord holds a B.A. degree in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and a M.B.A. degree from the Stern School of Business at New York University. Mr. Meyercord brings to the Board his extensive executive experience in leadership, management, operations, sales and marketing, strategy, execution, mergers and acquisitions, and finance. His background in the healthcare and telecommunications industries provides our Board with valuable industry expertise in several of our key markets. Also, the Board believes it is valuable to have the Company s Chief Executive Officer serve on the board to bring in-depth perspective on the Company s current operations, strategy, financial condition and competitive position.