Mr. Semple has served as one of our directors since April 2017. He currently serves as our Audit Committee chairman. Since December 31, 2024, Mr. Semple has served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Teekay Tankers Ltd, a leading provider of international crude oil marine transportation services. Between December 2015 and December 2024, Mr. Semple served as a member of the board of directors and the Audit Committee of Teekay Corporation and as the Audit Committee Chairman from March 2018. Between May 2019 and January 2022, Mr. Semple served as a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Teekay GP, LLC, the general partner of Teekay LNG Partners, LP. He was formerly Director and Chief Financial Officer at John Wood Group PLC (Wood Group), a provider of engineering, production support and maintenance management services to the oil and gas and power generation industries, a role he held from 2000 until his retirement in May 2015. Prior to this, he held a number of senior finance roles in Wood Group since 1996. Mr. Semple graduated from the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, Scotland) in 1979 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. We believe that Mr. Semple s over 30 years of finance experience, primarily in the energy industry, makes him qualified to serve on our Board.