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Ms. Simms serves as the Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since May 2021. Prior to joining the Company, she served as Vice President, Associate General Counsel (Legal and Corporate Governance) and Corporate Secretary for The ODP Corporation, an office supply retail company that includes Office Depot and OfficeMax among its portfolio of brands, from March 2020 to May 2021, where she was responsible for legal and corporate governance matters, including regulatory compliance, commercial transactions, general corporate matters, corporate reorganizations, corporate policies, stock splits and subsidiary entity management. Prior to this role, Ms. Simms previously served as ODP’s Senior Director, Assistant General Counsel (Securities and Transactions) and Assistant Secretary from January 2018 to February 2020. Prior to joining ODP, Ms. Simms served as Vice President, Chief Securities Counsel and Corporate Secretary for the ADT Corporation, a security solutions company, from November 2012 to September 2016 and as Senior Counsel and Assistant Secretary at The Williams Companies, Inc., an energy company, from 2011 to 2012. During her tenure at ADT and Williams, in addition to the similar responsibilities listed above, she handled capital market transactions, commercial transactions and provided counsel and advice on business matters and other financings. Ms. Simms has previously served as in-house counsel at several other publicly traded companies and began her career in private practice at several New York law firms. Ms. Simms earned her B.A. in Economics and International Relations from Boston University and her J.D. from the New York University School of Law.