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Mr. H. C. Charles Diao has been a director since February 2022. Mr. Diao is a private investor and also provides strategic advisory services to corporate clients. From 2012 until June 2021, Mr. Diao was Senior Vice President of Finance and Corporate Development and Corporate Treasurer at DXC Technology Company (NYSE: DXC) and Vice President and Corporate Treasurer of its predecessor, Computer Science Corp, with responsibility for and management of global treasury operations, corporate finance and capital markets, corporate development and M&A, pension plans and risk management/insurance. From 2008 to 2012, Mr. Diao provided strategic advisory services to corporate clients and was CIO of an investment management firm that managed alternative investments on behalf of institutional family offices. Mr. Diao was formerly a Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns where he was the Group Head for Special Situations Credit, a partner within the firm’s TMT investment banking practice and a member of the firm’s Investment Banking Committee and IPO Committee. Prior to that, Mr. Diao was Group Head of the Telecom & Media Group at Prudential Securities Inc. where he began his career in mergers & acquisitions and in the Merchant Banking group. Mr. Diao has served on the board of directors of Turning Point Brands, Inc. (NYSE: TPB), a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of branded consumer products, since 2012, where he is currently Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating and ESG Committee. Mr. Diao also served as a member of the board of directors of television broadcaster and digital media company Media General Inc. (formerly NYSE: MEG), the successor via merger to New Young Broadcasting Holdings Inc., from August 2012 until January 2017.