Ashwin Kumar has served as a member of our Board since March 2022. Mr. Kumar is an industry partner at Motive Partners, which he joined in 2021, and has also served as Head of EMEA for Jain Global, a multi-strategy asset manager since 2024. Prior to joining Motive Partners, from 2018 to 2021, Mr. Kumar was founding partner of 7RIDGE, a private markets asset manager invested in financial technology and associated transformative technologies. Mr. Kumar s extensive experience spans investment banking, capital markets, public and private markets investing, and market infrastructure across the United States and Europe with over 30 years in the financial sector. Prior to 7RIDGE, Mr. Kumar was Managing Director, Global Head of Group Product and Business Development at Deutsche B rse from 2015 to 2018. As member of the senior executive leadership team, Mr. Kumar was a member of the Group Management Committee, Group Risk Committee, Corporate Venture Capital Investment Committee, Product Development Lab Steering Committee, and Datafication Council. Preceding this, Mr. Kumar has over 14 years of experience on the investing side including being a founding partner at Meru Capital and Old Lane Partners, both global multi-strategy hedge funds investing across all major asset class and regions across both public and private markets. Prior to this, Mr. Kumar held senior executive roles at capital markets divisions of global banks including as Managing Director, Head of Rates Trading Europe and Head of Strategic Rates Trading Europe at Bank of America; Managing Director, Head of US Rates Trading for Commerzbank Securities USA and at Credit Suisse First Boston where he ran the global US Treasury Options business. Mr. Kumar has served as a board member of Digital Asset Holding, a leading enterprise DLT financial technology company, and Pratham U.K., an NGO focused on education, and is currently a board member of Trumid, a leading financial technology company enabling the electronification and transformation of fixed income marketplaces, and Martial Arts Charitable Trust. Mr. Kumar received a B.S. in Industrial Management/Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago. We believe Mr. Kumar is well qualified to serve on our Board due to his expertise in the financial, banking, and financial technology sectors and his experience on the boards of other companies and organizations.