Mr. Sills has completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bowdoin College. Mr. Sills qualifications to serve as a director include his extensive knowledge of our business and its operations, and the experience that he has acquired throughout his thirty-five year career in the automotive aftermarket industry and our Company. Mr. Sills has served in a variety of management positions across our organization, in which he has cultivated strong financial experience, corporate governance insight and extensive leadership, strategy and risk management skills. As our Chief Executive Officer, he has developed and executed global strategies to expand the Company s footprint and its customer base. His demonstrated experience and success earned Mr. Sills recognition as a leader in the automotive aftermarket industry, and he has been awarded the 2022 Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association Member Advocacy award (which recognizes his advocacy efforts on behalf of the automotive aftermarket). Mr. Sills served on the Board of Governors of the Motor & Equipment Manufacturers Association (MEMA) Aftermarket Suppliers Association (previously the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association) from 2017 to 2024, including as Chairman in 2022 and 2023. Mr. Sills currently continues to serve on the Board of Governors of MEMA. Mr. Sills has also testified before Congress on behalf of the manufacturing community on supply chain challenges and investing to strengthen American manufacturing and competition. In addition, we believe Mr. Sills qualifications to serve as a director include his and his family s significant ownership interest in the Company, which serves to align his interests with the interests of our other shareholders, and the fact that he represents the fourth generation of the Sills family which established the Company in 1919.