Mr. Forsyth has served as a member of our Board since May 2024 and previously served as a member of the Former Parent s board of directors from April 2018 until May 2024. From 1994 until February 2022, Mr. Forsyth served as a portfolio manager, a managing director and Chief Investment Officer of U.S. Income & Growth Strategies with Allianz Global Investors GmbH ( Allianz ), a global investment management firm. Mr. Forsyth was also the head of the Allianz Income and Growth Strategies team, during which time he had portfolio management, trading and research responsibilities, and oversaw all aspects of the Income and Growth platform s business, including product development and implementation. Mr. Forsyth was the lead portfolio manager for the Allianz U.S. High Yield Bond strategy since its inception in August 1994 and assumed lead portfolio management responsibility for the firm s U.S. Convertible strategy in 1998. In addition to management responsibility for institutional clients worldwide, Mr. Forsyth supervised multiple open-end and closed-end mutual funds. Mr. Forsyth has 30 years of investment-industry experience. Mr. Forsyth currently serves, or has served, on a variety of non-public company boards across a variety of industries as well as several charitable boards. Mr. Forsyth received a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Iowa. We believe that Mr. Forsyth is qualified to serve as a member of our Board due to his extensive experience as an investment fund portfolio manager and his extensive business strategy experience.