Gerald Haddock has served on our Board since May 2022 and currently serves as a member of each of the Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. Mr. Haddock founded Haddock Enterprises, LLC in 2000 and has served as its President since such time. Mr. Haddock was appointed to serve as a director of Silver Star Properties REIT Inc. in June 2020, and has served as its Executive Chairman since 2023 and its Chief Executive Officer since 2024. Since January 2005, Mr. Haddock has served as a director of Meritage Homes Corporation, a real estate development company, and has also served as Chairman of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since January 2006 and as a member of its Audit Committee from January 2009 to December 2018. In the last five years, he has served as a Founder and Director of Union Acquisition Corp. I., which recently completed a business combination with Bioceres Crop Solutions Corp., and as a Founder and Director of Union Acquisition Corp. II, which recently completed a business combination with Procaps Group, S.A. From 1986 to 2020, Mr. Haddock served as director of Valaris, Plc. (formerly ESCO International, Plc.), a leading global offshore oil and gas drilling service company, where he led much of its mergers and acquisitions and oversaw strategic development, as well as served as its co-lead Director and Chairperson of the Audit Committee and was also a member of the Nominating and Governance Committee. Additionally, from December 2004 to October 2008, Mr. Haddock served as a Board Member of Cano Petroleum, Inc. Formerly, Mr. Haddock co-founded Crescent Real Estate Equities Company and served as its President and Chief Operating Officer from 1994 to 1999, and as its Chief Executive Officer from 1996 to 1999. Mr. Haddock serves on the board of the CEELI Institute and has previously served on the board of trustees for Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and as a member of various other committees for Baylor University and at Baylor College of Medicine. Those committees included the Executive Investment Committee at both Baylor University and Baylor College of Medicine. Mr. Haddock has also previously served on the board of the M.D. Anderson Proton Therapy Education and Research Foundation. Mr. Haddock led the acquisition team to purchase the Texas Rangers, in which he was a minority owner along with George W. Bush from 1989 to 1998 and served as its General Counsel. Mr. Haddock holds a B.B.A and J.D. from Baylor University. He also holds an L.L.M in Taxation from New York University School of Law and an M.B.A. from Dallas Baptist University. We believe that Mr. Haddock s significant and extensive experience advising multiple companies across a breadth of industries, combined with his understanding and background in business, will bring proven leadership and business and industry acumen to the Board and qualify him to serve as a director.