Omar M. Maasarani has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2023. Mr. Maasarani brings to our Board of Directors extensive experience in the financial services sector. Mr. Maasarani is a portfolio manager at PIMCO focused on originating, executing, and managing private equity and structured equity investments as part of the firm s alternatives investing complex. Prior to joining PIMCO in 2018, Mr. Maasarani spent nearly a decade with Morgan Stanley, most recently as a vice president with the firm s private equity investing team. At Morgan Stanley, he executed and managed over a dozen investments across the technology, business services, and consumer sectors. Earlier in his career, Mr. Maasarani worked in the financial services investment banking advisory group at Morgan Stanley and in asset management at Goldman Sachs. He has 18 years of investment and financial services experience and holds a bachelor s degree from Rutgers University.