Mr. Atwood, age 55, became our Chief Financial Officer on September 6, 2022, succeeding Mr. Russell Greenberg, the former Chief Financial Officer, who retired on that same date. Mr. Atwood was first elected to our Board of Directors at the 2022 Annual Meeting held in September 2022. From September 2018 through March 2022 while at Est e Lauder, Mr. Atwood had strategic oversight for the fragrance category across that company and operational accountability for several of its fragrance brands. He also had senior level merger and acquisition ( M&A ) duties, including acquisition integration and brand divestitures/discontinuations. Over his nearly four years at Est e Lauder, he also drove cross-brand synergies across research and development and supply chain for the fragrance category. From February 2017 to August 2018, he was an independent consultant as an M&A advisor on multiple fragrance license acquisitions and also acted as a private investor. From 1995 to 2017, Mr. Atwood has held several executive positions at Procter & Gamble ( P&G ) in France, Switzerland, Italy and Germany. His final title at P&G was Divisional CFO of Global Prestige Fragrances, leading a 90 member team, and ultimately spearheading the divestiture of that division to Coty. Earlier he was CFO Global Markets Prestige Fragrances, a business generating over $2 billion in sales, where he headed a globally dispersed team of 60 people supporting the go-to-market organization (affiliates, Travel Retail and distributors) of the Prestige Division. Before that, he was Global Prestige Director of Strategic Planning, Licensing and Acquisition shaping and executing the overall business direction and licensing and acquisition strategy of P&G s Global Fragrance and Premium skin and cosmetics businesses. Michel Atwood holds a master s degree in software engineering from the Institut National des Sciences Appliqu es of Lyon, and a master s in international finance from HEC Paris, the prestigious French business school. He also earned the designation of Certified Management Accountant from the Institute of Management Accountants. He has a truly international background, working/living in France, Switzerland, the U.S., Canada, Turkey and Italy. We believe that Mr. Atwood s skills and experience in accounting, international tax, mergers and acquisitions, as well as his knowledge of the fragrance industry, render him qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors.