BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Thomas W. Ross, Sr.

Lead Independent Director

Mr. Ross has served as Lead Independent Director of the Board since March 2023. He served as Chairman of the Board from July 2022 to March 2023 and served as Lead Independent Director of the Company from May 2022 to July 2022, having served as a director since April 2022. Mr. Ross has also served on the board of directors of Bausch Health Companies since March 2016 and was appointed Lead Independent Director in June 2016.

He served as the President of Volcker Alliance from July 2016 until December 2021. He now serves as a director to the Volcker Alliance. He is President Emeritus of the University of North Carolina (UNC), having served as President from January 2011 to January 2016. Mr. Ross was named the Sanford Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy at the Duke University Sanford School of Public Policy in 2016. Prior to becoming President of the UNC system, Mr. Ross served as President of Davidson College, Executive Director of the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, director of the North Carolina Administrative Office of the Courts, a Superior Court judge, chief of staff to U.S. Congressman Robin Britt, a member of the Greensboro, N.C. law firm Smith, Patterson, Follin, Curtis, James & Harkavy, and as an Assistant Professor of Public Law and Government at UNC Chapel Hill’s School of Government. Mr. Ross holds a B.A. in Political Science from Davidson College and a J.D. from University of North Carolina School of Law.