STEVEN J. GILBERT, 78, has served as a director on our Board of Directors since January 30, 2013. Mr. Gilbert is Chairman of the Board of Gilbert Global Equity Partners, L.P., a billion-dollar private equity fund, and has served in this capacity since 1998. He is currently a director of Fairholme Funds, Inc. (Nasdaq: FAIRX), an open-end management investment company; Chairman of the Board and a director of MBIA, Inc. (NYSE: MBI); and the Lead Independent Director of the Empire State Realty Trust (NYSE: ESRT). He is also the Lead Independent Director of Oaktree Capital Group, Vice Chairman of the Executive Board of MidOcean Equity Partners, LP, and Managing Director of Raptor Sports Capital. Mr. Gilbert formerly served as a director of SDCL EDGE Acquisition Corporation (NYSE: SEDA) from October 2021 until March 2022; Senior Managing Director and Chairman of Sun Group (USA) until 2009; and Co-Chairman of Birch Grove Capital, as well as a Senior Advisor to Continental Grain. From 1992 to 1997, he was Founder and Managing General Partner of Soros Capital L.P., the principal venture capital and leveraged transaction entity of the Quantum Group of Funds, and a principal Advisor to Quantum Industrial Holdings Ltd. From 1988 to 1992, he was the Managing Director of Commonwealth Capital Partners, L.P., a private equity investment firm. Prior to that, from 1984 to 1988, Mr. Gilbert was the Managing General Partner of Chemical Venture Partners (now CCMP Capital), which he founded. Mr. Gilbert was admitted to the Massachusetts Bar in 1970 and practiced law at Goodwin Procter & Hoar in Boston, Massachusetts. He was an associate in corporate finance at Morgan Stanley & Co. from 1972 to 1976, a Vice President at Wertheim & Co., Inc. from 1976 to 1978 and a Managing Director at E. F. Hutton International from 1978 to 1980. Mr. Gilbert was the Chairman of the Board of Dura Automotive Systems, Inc., True Temper Sports and CPM Holdings; Co-Chairman of Stone Tower Capital Partners; and Chairman of the Investment Committee of Prostar Capital, an infrastructure fund. Mr. Gilbert has also previously served as a director of numerous companies, including Montpelier Re, Olympus Trust, Office Depot, Inc., Funk & Wagnalls, Inc., Parker Pen Limited, Piggly Wiggly Southern, Inc., Boy s Markets, Coast Community News, Inc., GTS-Duratek, the Asian Infrastructure Fund, Magnavox Electronic Systems Company, UroMed Corporation, Star City Casino Holdings, Ltd., Katz Media Corporation, Airport Group International, Batavia Investment Management, Ltd., Affinity Financial Group, Inc., ESAT Telecom, Ltd., Colep Holding, Ltd., NFO Worldwide, Terra Nova (Bermuda) Holdings, Limited, Freshpet, Inc., Sustainable Development Corporation, Veritas-DCG, J. O. Hambro Capital Management Group, RREEF Global Infrastructure Fund, Water Pik, Inc., and Florida Food Products, Inc. He was the principal owner, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Lion s Gate Films from 1980 to 1984. Mr. Gilbert is a member of the Writer s Guild of America (East), the Council on Foreign Relations, the Global Agenda Council on Capital Flows of the World Economic Forum and the Golf Digest Course Ranking Panel, and a member of the Board of Governors of the Lauder Institute, as well as a Fellow of the Tribeca Disruptors Foundation. Mr. Gilbert received his B.A. from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, his J.D. from the Harvard Law School and his M.B.A. from the Harvard Graduate School of Business. Mr. Gilbert provides our Board of Directors with vast investment management and leadership experience, and his prior and current service as a director of numerous publicly-held companies allows him to make valuable contributions to our Board of Directors.