Mr. Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a high technology venture capital development and investment firm focused on investment opportunities that address the consequences of climate change, stress on the Earth s natural resources and the increased demand for low carbon energy. Mr. Strauch is the former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cool Systems, the manufacturer of Game Ready, a medical physical therapy system, which was sold to Halyard Health in 2018. He was formerly Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) a leading search engine on the web. Prior to that, Mr. Strauch was a board member and Chief Executive Officer of Symmetricon (now known as Microsemi (NASDAQ: MSCS)), a public telecommunications equipment manufacturer, and prior to that was Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of TCSI Corp., a telecommunications software company. Mr. Strauch recently served as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in Berkeley. He is also a member of the Engineering Dean s College Advisory Board of University of California at Berkeley. The Board nominated Mr. Strauch to serve on our Board of Directors for the following reasons. Mr. Strauch brings substantial strategic and financial experience to the Board, as well as specific experience with clean technology, ESG and sustainability initiatives. The Board believes that Mr. Strauch s experience enhances the knowledge of the Board and provides useful insights to management.