Alan B. Howe has served as a director since October 2021. Prior to this, Mr. Howe served as a director of Spartacus Acquisition Corporation (Nasdaq: TMTS), an entity party to the Business Combination (as defined below), from October 2020 until the closing of the Business Combination in October 2021. He has served as co-founder and Managing Partner of Broadband Initiatives, LLC, a telecommunications consulting firm, since 2001. Mr. Howe also served as Vice President of Strategic and Wireless Business Development for Covad Communications, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: COVD), a national broadband telecommunications company, from May 2005 to October 2008, and as Chief Financial Officer and Vice President of Corporate Development for Teletrac, Inc., a mobile data and location solutions provider, from April 1995 to April 2001. Previously, Mr. Howe held various executive management positions for Sprint Corporation (NYSE: S) and Manufacturers Hanover Trust Company. Mr. Howe has over 30 years of extensive hands-on operational expertise combined with corporate finance, business development and corporate governance experience. Mr. Howe has a broad business background and has been exposed to a wide variety of complex business situations within large corporations, financial institutions, start-ups, small-caps and turnarounds. Mr. Howe is currently a member of the board of directors and serves on the audit committee of Babcock & Wilcox Enterprises, Inc. (NYSE: BW) and as a member of the board of directors of the San Diego Rescue Mission. In December 2025, he also was elected to the board of directors and to serve as chair of the audit committee of Scully Royalty (NYSE: SRL), an iron ore royalty company with diversified merchant banking subsidiaries, but the election is being disputed by the legacy board of directors and is subject to ongoing litigation. Previously, Mr. Howe served on the boards of over twenty public companies, including Sonim Technologies Inc. (Nasdaq: SONM), Resonant, Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: RESN), Data I/O Corporation (Nasdaq: DAIO), Determine, Inc. (OTCMKTS: DTRM), Urban Communications, Inc. (formerly TSX-V: UBN), MagicJack, Vocaltec Communications Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: Call), WidePoint Corporation (NYSE American: WYY), CafePress Inc. (formerly Nasdaq: PRSS), and Orion Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: OESX). Mr. Howe holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and Marketing from the University of Illinois, School of Commerce and a Master of Business Administration in Finance from the Indiana University, Kelley Graduate School of Business. Mr. Howe is well qualified to serve as a director on our Board due to his extensive financial capital markets and M&A experience, as well as his experience serving on the boards of directors of other public companies.