Alison Davis, 64 , has served as a director since 2024. Ms. Davis is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, an active investor in growth companies and a best-selling author on the topics of technology and innovation. Ms. Davis is currently the Chairperson and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and Blockchain Coinvestors. She also currently serves on the boards of Bitwise and Kraken, chairs the advisory board of Blockchain Capital and the board of Renaissance Entrepreneurship, and is a director of the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Northern California Chapter and Cambridge in America. Ms. Davis has served on the boards of over 25 public and private companies as a board chair and chair of the audit, compensation, and technology and innovation committees, including City National Bank, Diamond Foods, Dispatch Management Services, Fiserv, First Data Corporation, Janus Henderson Group, LECG, Ooma, NatWest (formerly RBS), Silicon Valley Bank, Unisys, and Xoom. Ms. Davis was previously the Managing Partner of Belvedere Capital, a regulated bank holding company and private equity firm focused on investing in U.S. banks and financial services firms where she worked closely with federal and state banking regulators. Prior to this, Ms. Davis was the Chief Financial Officer of Barclays Global Investors (now BlackRock), the world s largest institutional investment firm, where she was part of the leadership team that launched the iShares product range. Earlier in her career, Ms. Davis spent 14 years as a strategy consultant and advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, executive teams and boards with McKinsey & Company, and as a practice leader with A.T. Kearney where she built and co-led the global Financial Services practice. She is a bestselling author and has been frequently named among the Most Influential Women in Business by the San Francisco Business Times. She received her B.A. with honors and MA in Economics from Cambridge University in England, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. The Board considered Ms. Davis experience in global financial services, venture capital, and digital asset innovation, as well as her extensive tenure as a chair of audit and technology committees for numerous public companies, in concluding that she is qualified to serve as a director.