Mr. Martinez has served on our board of directors since April 2023. Mr. Martinez is presently Chairman and CEO of Cross Section Capital, a privately held company, founded in 2019 that focuses on mergers, acquisitions with an array of traditional investment banking and strategic advisory services. From January 2018 to April 2019, Mr. Martinez served as President and Chief Executive Officer for Christian Community Credit Union, a national regulated state and federal banking and financial services institution founded in 1957. Mr. Martinez previously served from May 2005 to February 2018 as Founder and CEO of Cross-Section Ventures Inc., a privately held investment entity with a focus on high-impact creative strategy and execution, driven by developing a blend of technology innovations and vertical integration supply chain solutions. Collectively, Mr. Martinez has 40 years of successful senior executive leadership and management experience ranging across domestic and international Fortune 500 Companies. His oversight and areas of expertise include business development, strategic enterprise expansion and re-alignment, mergers and acquisitions, complex manufacturing operations, all facets of financial accountability, risk management and a long tenure of corporate/board governance in both private and public sectors. Specifically, he has led several successful global organizations, including Executive Director of American Standard s Global Faucet and plumbing business from June 1984 to October 1987. From November 1988 to June 1995 Mr. Martinez was Executive Vice President & Managing Director for Price Pfister Faucet, Inc. (a publicly held company sold to Black & Decker Corporation in 1991). Post acquisition he held additional executive level positions, including Chair of Black & Decker s Global Strategic Planning Board. From November 1996 to December 1999, Mr. Martinez served as Senior Vice President of RSI Home Products a national manufacturing and retail supplier serving all the nation s largest home improvement companies. Mr. Martinez s qualifications to serve on the F&G board of directors are based on his current independent and productive service to date along with his decades of hands-on executive leadership experience and governance across a diversified set of industries for domestic and global fortune 500 companies.