Dominique Mielle has been a member of our Board of Directors since January 2020 and was appointed as the Chairperson of the CNG Committee in August 2020. Ms. Mielle was a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Partners ( Canyon ) from 1998 to 2017, focusing on the transportation, technology, retail and consumer products sectors, corporate and municipal bond securitizations and leading Canyon s collateralized loan obligations business. She was named one of the Top 50 Women in Hedge Funds by Ernst & Young in 2017. Prior to joining Canyon in 1998, Ms. Mielle worked at Libra Investment Services, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Credit Lyonnais. She was a director of Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation, a mortgage REIT investment firm where she was the chair of the compensation committee and a member of the audit committee from 2018 until its merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2021. In connection with the merger, Ms. Mielle became a director of Ready Capital Corp., where she is the chair of the audit committee and serves on the compensation committee. She is also a director of Studio City International since 2018, where she is the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and serves on the compensation and audit and risk committees. Ms. Mielle was formerly a director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company from April 2019 until June 2020, where she was the chair of the audit committee, and formerly a director of Osiris Acquisition Corp. from 2021 until May 2024, where she was the chair of the audit committee. She was also formerly a director of Digicel Group from July 2020 to February 2023. Ms. Mielle is the author of Damsel in Distressed and is a contributing author to Security Analysis, 7th Edition by Graham and Dodd. Ms. Mielle graduated with an M.B.A. in Finance from Stanford University and a Master in Management degree from Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales in France (HEC Paris). Ms. Mielle was selected and qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of her extensive financial services industry experience on Wall Street, investing in fixed income and leading capital structure optimizations and restructurings.