Wajid Ali has served as a director of our Company since May 2024. He is presently the current Chief Financial Officer of Lumentum Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: LITE), a provider of optical and photonic products, and oversees Lumentum s overall financial operations and supply chain operations. Mr. Ali joined Lumentum in February 2019. Before joining Lumentum, Mr. Ali was the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Synaptics Incorporated, a developer and supplier of semiconductor product solutions, from May 2015 to February 2019. Before Synaptics, Mr. Ali was Vice President and Controller at Teledyne Technologies, Incorporated, an instrumentation, software and engineered systems company. Prior to Teledyne, he served as Chief Financial Officer at DALSA Corp., a semiconductor company that was acquired by Teledyne in 2011. Mr. Ali also held key financial management positions at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. and ATI Technologies, Inc., overseeing the finance functions for large business groups. Mr. Ali holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts degree in Economics from York University; a Master of Business Administration degree from the Schulich School of Business, York University; and CPA and CMA designations from the Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario, Canada. Our Board of Directors has determined that Mr. Ali is an independent director. Our Board of Directors believes that Mr. Ali s extensive experience and knowledge in finance, operations, information technology and accounting where he has spent the vast majority of his exceptional career, qualify him to serve on our Board.