Timothy L. Christen has served as a director of Mayville Engineering Company, a publicly traded value added manufacturer, since June 2016 and serves as the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Christen served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Baker Tilly US, LLP, a national public accounting firm, from June 1999 to May 2016. Mr. Christen also served as the non-executive Chairman of Baker Tilly International Ltd. from October 2017 to October 2021 and as a director of CPA.com, a CPA firm solutions and strategies provider, since February 2018. Mr. Christen also served as director of the American Institute of CPAs from 2014 to 2017, serving as Chairman from 2015 to 2016, and since January 2021 serves as a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation. Mr. Christen holds a B.S. in accounting from the University of Wisconsin-Platteville and is a licensed certified public accountant. They believe that Mr. Christen is qualified to serve as a member of the board of directors due to his over 38 years of accounting expertise and substantial strategy, risk and management experience over his 16 years as the Chief Executive Officer of a national public accounting firm and membership on the board of a publicly traded company.