Matthew Lanford, Chief Payments Officer, and Director. Mr. Lanford has served as our Chief Payments Officer since January 2024 and as a director since August 2022. Mr. Lanford served as the Company s Chief Operating Officer and President from 2021 to 2024 and Chief Product Officer from 2019 to 2021. Prior to joining Paysign, Mr. Lanford served as senior vice president and general manager of the financial services division of InComm Payments ( InComm ) from 2016 to 2019, where he was responsible for InComm s consumer-facing Vanilla suite of prepaid products. Prior to his tenure at InComm, Mr. Lanford was with Mastercard from 2006 to 2016, where he was a vice president with the global prepaid product and solutions group and the prepaid product lead for Europe, based in London. Mr. Lanford had regional responsibility for innovation, product development, go-to-market strategy, and commercialization of the Mastercard prepaid portfolio of products, in addition to senior leadership roles in product management and investor relations. These companies are not a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of Paysign. Mr. Lanford was twice awarded the prestigious top spot in Europe s Prepaid Power 10. Mr. Lanford earned his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock. We believe Mr. Lanford s extensive experience in the payments industry qualifies him to serve on the Board.