Mr. Bernard has served as a member of our Board since February 2025. He currently serves as the Board Chair of Barclays Bank U.S., LLC and Barclays Bank Delaware and has served in those roles since 2018. He is former chief operating officer and board director at Root Capital, a nonprofit social investment fund. From 2006 through 2013, he was a managing director and chief risk officer of D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. in New York. Prior to 2006, he held a variety of roles in finance and financial software, including: chief financial officer at RiskMetrics, a risk management software company spun out of J.P. Morgan and later acquired by MSCI; and president and cofounder of New Bond Trading, a Boston-based investment management firm. Early in his career, Mr. Bernard spent fifteen years at J.P Morgan in various capital market roles, split between New York and London. Aside from his career in finance, Bernard serves on the boards of the Massachusetts Audubon Society and Bowdoin College. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 1979 with a BA in Economics. Mr. Bernard was selected to serve on our Board because of his deep expertise in finance and risk management.