John A. Zangardi has served as a director of Qualys since June 2020. Dr. Zangardi served as director of Redhorse Corporation, a technology services company delivering decision quality data to federal government customers, from January 2025 until August 2025, and as Chief Executive Officer of Redhorse Corporation from December 2021 until December 2024. As President of Redhorse Corporation from June 2020 until December 2024, he expanded the AI/ML and data services offerings to the federal government. From November 2019 to May 2020, Dr. Zangardi served as Senior Vice President of Business Initiatives and Strategic Partnerships for the Civil Group at Leidos, Inc. From November 2017 to November 2019, Dr. Zangardi served as Chief Information Officer of the Department of Homeland Security, a presidentially appointed position, where he was responsible for overseeing IT and its related security and management. Prior to that, Dr. Zangardi first served as the Principal Deputy Chief Information Officer and later as the Acting Chief Information Officer of the Department of Defense, from October 2016 until November 2017. He also represented the Department of NATO s C3 Board. Dr. Zangardi served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Information Operations & Space from March 2011 until 11 September 2016 and as the Department of the Navy CIO from 2014 to 2015. A retired Navy officer, Dr. Zangardi served in a variety of command and staff assignments during his military career before being appointed to the Senior Executive Service. Dr. Zangardi currently serves as an independent board member of ZeroFox, Inc. and as a non-executive director of Symetrica, Inc., a U.K-based radiation detection technology company. He previously served on the board of directors of Forcepoint, a privately held software company, from April 2021 to January 2024. Dr. Zangardi holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Scranton, a Master of Science degree from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree from George Mason University. We believe that Dr. Zangardi possesses specific attributes that qualify him to serve as a member of our board of directors, including his experience as chief information officer for departments of the federal government and Dr. Zangardi s background in the U.S. military and executive experience at technology companies.