Mr. Fischer was appointed to a newly created Class III directorship in April 2026. Under the Certificate of Incorporation and Bylaws, directors who are appointed to fill newly created directorships hold office until the expiration of the director class to which they are appointed or the director s earlier resignation or removal. Mr. Fischer s term will expire and he will stand for re-election at the 2027 annual meeting of stockholders. Mr. Fischer currently serves as an independent director of Semtech Corporation (NASDAQ: SMTC) and is a member of the compensation, nomination and governance, and strategy and technology committees. Mr. Fischer most recently served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Broadcom Inc., a public company and an American designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products, from 2014 to May 2021, and as Vice President and General Manager of the Carrier Access Business from 2004 to 2014. Previously, Mr. Fischer served as Vice President and General Manager of the Video Products Business Unit at Conexant Systems, Inc., an American-based software developer and fabless semiconductor company, from 2002 to 2004, and as Director of Product Marketing and Business Development, from 1997 to 2002. Earlier in his career, he served as Manager of Corporate Business Development at Rockwell International Corporation (n/k/a Rockwell Automation, Inc.), a major American manufacturing conglomerate involved in aircraft, the space industry, defense and commercial electronics, components in the automotive industry, printing presses, avionics and industrial products, from 1994 to 1997, and served in several design engineering and program management positions at Rockwell Collins Avionics Co. (before being purchased by Raytheon Technologies Corporation), an avionics technology company, from 1985 to 1994. Mr. Fischer has served as an independent advisor to Gerson Lehrman Group, Inc., a professional services firm, since December 2021, and AlphaSights Ltd., an information services company specializing in connecting clients with experts. Mr. Fischer also serves on the advisory board of Syntiant Corp., an edge-AI neural processor and modeling company. Mr. Fischer earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and an M.B.A. from the University of Iowa. We believe Mr. Fischer is qualified to serve on the Board due to his extensive executive management and semiconductor industry leadership experience.