Thomas P. Gallagher is one of the Company s founders and has served as the Chairman of the Board of the Company and the MIAX Exchanges since 2008. Mr. Gallagher has been serving as the Chief Executive Officer of the Company and the MIAX Exchanges since 2012. He was a founding partner of the law firm Gallagher, Briody & Butler, a corporate and securities law firm located in Princeton, New Jersey, and was associated with the firm until joining the Company full time in December 2012. Mr. Gallagher has been a director of MIAX Global, LLC ( MIAX Global ) since June 2015 and M IAX F utures Exchange, LLC ( MIAX Futures, formerly the Minneapolis Grain Exchange, LLC (MGEX)), since October 2019, becoming Chairman of the MIAX Futures Board of Directors in June 2021. Mr. Gallagher has also been a member of The Bermuda Stock Exchange ( BSX ) Council since July 2019, becoming Chairman of the BSX Council in February 2020. Mr. Gallagher has been the chairman of the International Stock Exchange Group Limited ( TISEG ) since June 2025. He also serves as the Chairman and Executive Officer of several of the Company's subsidiaries. We believe that Mr. Gallagher is well qualified to serve as our Chairman in light of 15 his in-depth knowledge of global markets, his guidance of the Company and the MIAX Exchanges as Chief Executive Officer since the Company's inception, and his successful execution of key strategic initiatives to grow the Company.