Mr. Kovac has served as one of our directors since January 2026. Mr. Kovac most recently served as Vice President, Optimus (Tesla Bot) at Tesla, Inc., an electric vehicle and energy generation and storage company ( Tesla ), from September 2024 to June 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Kovac served as Director, Optimus & Autopilot Engineering from January 2022 to September 2024, where he led engineering for Tesla s Optimus humanoid robotics program and the foundational software and infrastructure shared across Tesla s robotics and Autopilot initiatives. Earlier at Tesla, Mr. Kovac held a series of engineering leadership roles within the Autopilot Software organization from April 2016 to January 2022. Earlier in his career, Mr. Kovac held software engineering and project leadership roles focused on embedded platforms and computer vision technologies, including at SKULLY, Methodics, and SoftKinetic, and as a consulting software engineer supporting Sony and EVS Broadcast Equipment. Mr. Kovac has served on the board of directors of Boston Dynamics, Inc., an engineering and robotics design company and subsidiary of Hyundai Motor Group, since March 2026. Mr. Kovac holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from Haute cole Libre de Bruxelles. Mr. Kovac was selected to serve on our board of directors because of his leadership experience with a large public technology company and his expertise in the areas of artificial intelligence and robotics.