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Mr. Mason is the former President of the Europe, Middle East & Africa Sector (EMEA Sector) of Ecolab, Inc., a leading provider of food safety, public health, and infection prevention products and services, a position he held from 2010 until his retirement in 2012. Prior to leading Ecolab’s EMEA Sector, Mr. Mason had responsibility for Ecolab’s Asia Pacific and Latin America businesses as President of Ecolab’s International Sector from 2005 to 2010 and as Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning in 2004. In addition, Mr. Mason has public company board experience, previously serving as a director of GCP Applied Technologies from 2016 to May 2020.

Mr. Mason has over 35 years of international business experience with experience in establishing businesses in China, South Korea, Southeast Asia, Brazil, India, Russia, Africa, and the Middle East. Mr. Mason’s executive leadership of an international business sector for a U.S. publicly-held company provides him with extensive international business expertise, including starting, developing, and growing businesses abroad in both mature and emerging markets, and in a business-to-business environment, including industrial sectors.