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Ramesh Jayaraman (50) has served as President and CEO of Daktronics and a Director since February 1, 2026 and as an executive of the Company from December 10, 2025 until February 1, 2026. Prior to joining Daktronics, Mr. Jayaraman served as Senior Vice President, Bosch Home Comfort for the Johnson Controls HVAC R&LC Acquisition (Americas), where he led regional integration planning and growth initiatives to build a global champion in the HVAC industry, from November 2024 to August 2025. From April 2021 to October 2024, he served as Regional President of Bosch Building Technologies, where he was responsible for overseeing various functions, including global end-to-end Audio Communications Business Unit, the North America products business, and the Integrator Business Unit for North America, where he led the organization's security, safety, energy services and building management systems business segments with operations spanning across the United States and Canada. Prior to joining Bosch, Mr. Jayaraman served as Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, at Harman Professional Solutions, a provider of professional audio, video, and lighting technologies, from September 2016 to April 2021. Mr. Jayaraman holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois Chicago and a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Delhi College of Engineering.

Howard I. Atkins (75) has been a Director since 2022 and has served as Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Transformation Officer of Daktronics since March 2025. Mr. Atkins' term of employment as Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Transformation Officer of Daktronics will continue until the earlier of the date on which a new Chief Financial Officer is appointed by the Board or the date on which his service as Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Transformation Officer is terminated by the Board. Prior to his appointment as an officer of the Company, Mr. Atkins served as a member of the Compensation Committee, Audit Committee, and Strategy and Risk Committee. Mr. Atkins is a seasoned financial executive who currently owns and operates a consulting company that helps businesses improve their operating margins and develop and execute company-specific growth strategies, and these experiences uniquely qualify him for election to the Board. He is a former Chief Financial Officer of Wells Fargo & Company, where he helped successfully lead the bank through the 2008 financial crisis, and where he oversaw the acquisition of Wachovia Bank, creating the most prominent coast-to-coast bank in the U.S. at that time. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of New York Life Insurance Company (NYLife), where he helped identify and acquire non-U.S. insurance organizations as part of NYLife's international expansion strategy, Chief Financial Officer of Midlantic Bank, which successfully completed a top-to-bottom financial restructuring during his tenure, and Corporate Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was responsible for several of that bank's markets businesses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Mr. Atkins brings to the Board extensive governance experience, having served as a director of various public companies, including Occidental Petroleum (a large energy exploration and carbon sequester company), Ingram Micro (the world's largest technology distributor), Lake Resources (an emerging clean lithium exploration company), and Express Scripts (one of the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S.).

Sheila M. Anderson (53) has served as the Chief Data and Analytics Officer (CDAO) at Daktronics, where she plays a pivotal role in the Company's digital business transformation by integrating data into daily operations and decision-making processes, since March 2025. Ms. Anderson leverages her extensive knowledge of the business, processes, and data to drive these initiatives. From 2012 to March 2025, Ms. Anderson served as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, overseeing the finance and accounting functions. She ensured accurate transaction processes, provided strategic financial insights, and maintained compliance in external reporting. Ms. Anderson also led the financial aspects of the company's digital transformation, strategic planning, treasury management, and acquisition strategy. Additionally, she managed investor relations and directed the company's risk and legal functions. Ms. Anderson assumed the CDAO role in October 2024. Before becoming CFO in 2012, Ms. Anderson was the Corporate Controller of Daktronics for six years, following four years as a project accountant. Prior to joining Daktronics in 2003, she worked as a senior accountant, auditor, and consultant. Beyond her professional responsibilities at Daktronics, Ms. Anderson is actively involved in various organizations including the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce and Industry, where she monitors laws and compliance to improve the business environment in the state and for the Ness School of Business and South Dakota State University. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Southwest Minnesota State University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of South Dakota. Ms. Anderson became a certified public accountant in 1996.

Matthew J. Kurtenbach (57) is our Vice President of Manufacturing. He joined the Company in 1992 as a department manager in manufacturing. He subsequently served as a project manager for sports projects and as a project manager for the Company's process improvements and facility expansions. In 2001, he gained responsibility for all factory operations and facilities in the United States. In 2006, he was appointed Vice President of Manufacturing, and was charged with leading the Company's transformation to lean manufacturing. In the following years, he gained responsibility for sourcing/supply chain, repair center operations associated with after sales services, and factories in Shanghai, China, and Ennistymon, Ireland. Mr. Kurtenbach holds a Master of Science degree in Industrial Management and a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from South Dakota State University.

Andrew D. Siegel (61) has served as a Director and member of the Compensation Committee and Nominating Committee since September 2022 and as Chair of the Board (the Chair) since March 2025. He also serves as the Strategic Transactions Committee Chair since its formation in March 2026. From October 2023 until the date of his election as the Chair, Mr. Siegel served as the Lead Independent Director of the Board (Lead Independent Director). Mr. Siegel has managed PLH, whose sole member is TLI Bedrock, LLC (TLI), a private multi-strategy investment firm of which he is chief investment officer. In 2019, he co-founded and served as Executive Chairman of FourQ Systems, Inc., an enterprise financial technology company which was sold to Blackline, Inc. in January 2022. Mr. Siegel was founding partner of Advance Venture Partners, the investment fund of global media company Advance Publications, Inc. (Advance). From 2010 to 2019, in his role as Executive Vice President, Strategy and Corporate Development of Advance, Mr. Siegel was responsible for growth initiatives at the holding company and its operating units, including Conde Nast and oversaw The Sports Business Journal/SBD. Mr. Siegel joined Advance from Yahoo! Inc. (Yahoo), where he led the digital media company's corporate development team from September 2009 until December 2010. Prior to joining Yahoo, he was an executive with General Electric Company (GE) and its financial arm, General Electric Capital Corporation, from 2004 until 2009. He joined GE upon its acquisition of InVision Technologies, Inc. in December 2004, where he had served as an executive officer since 2001. He began his career as a corporate lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP in New York City. Mr. Siegel received a Bachelor of Arts from the Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University, a D.H.L and a M.A. degree from the Jewish Theological Seminary, and a juris doctor degree (JD) from New York University School of Law.

Dr. Jose-Marie Griffiths (74) has served as a Director and member of the Nominating Committee since September 2020 and as Chairperson of the Nominating Committee and a member of the Strategy and Risk Committee since March 2024. Dr. Griffiths is the chancellor of Dakota State University, a public university in Madison, South Dakota, a position she has held since the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. Prior to being chancellor, she served as president of Dakota State University since July 2015. Dr. Griffiths' career spans research, teaching, public service, corporate leadership, economic development, and higher education administration. She has served in presidential appointments to the National Science Board, the United States President's Information Technology Advisory Committee, and the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. In 2018, she was appointed as a member of the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence, an independent federal entity formed pursuant to the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 for the purpose of reviewing and providing recommendations to the President and Congress related to the use of artificial intelligence for national security. She has led projects for over 28 United States federal agencies, such as the National Science Foundation, NASA, the Department of Energy, and various intelligence and military agencies, and over 20 major corporations, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories and IBM, in over 35 countries, and she has worked with seven major international organizations, including NATO and the United Nations. Dr. Griffiths has received over 20 significant awards in science, technology, teaching, and the advancement of women in these fields. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Doctor of Philosophy in Physics and Information Science from the University College London (UCL). She was a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Computer Science and Statistics and was recently awarded a Doctor of Science honoris causa from UCL.

Dr. Lance D. Bultena (63) has been a Director since September 2021 and currently serves on the Nominating Committee and the Audit Committee of the Board (the Audit Committee) and as chair of the Strategy and Risk Committee of the Board (the Strategy and Risk Committee). Dr. Bultena is the Global Director of Thought Leadership at Hogan Lovells Cadwalader US LLP, a global law firm, where he is currently a senior counsel after serving as a partner for many years. He has been at the firm (and its predecessor Hogan & Hartson) since 1999. He was Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation from 1995 to 1999. He received a doctorate (D. Phil) in Politics and a masters (M. Phil) in Economics from Oxford University which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and did his undergraduate study at the University of South Dakota.

Shereta D. Williams (52) has been a Director since September 2021, has served on the Compensation Committee since September 2021, has served on the Strategy and Risk Committee since March 2024, and has served on the Strategic Transactions Committee since its formation in March 2026. Ms. Williams has served as Executive Vice President of Cox since January 2025. Prior to that time, she held a variety of strategy, corporate development, and business development roles within the Cox family of companies, including Vice President, Business Development of Cox from 2020 to 2021; President of Videa, LLC from 2014 through 2020; Vice President of Development for Cox Media Group from 2010 to 2013; and Director of Development and Digital Services for Cox Television from 2001 through 2006. In between the roles at Cox from 2006 through 2009, she was the managing director of the currency division for Maven Funds, a startup hedge fund in Atlanta, Georgia, where she was responsible for managing traders, implementing automated trading systems, risk management, and operations. She began her career working in investment banking as an analyst for mergers and acquisitions for Lazard Freres & Co, LLC from 1996 through 1998. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering, with a concentration in Economics, from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John P. Friel (72) has been a Director and member of the Audit Committee since September 2015, a member of the Compensation Committee since October 2016, and Chairperson of the Compensation Committee since September 1, 2020. Mr. Friel has served as the Principal and Founder of Five Radicals, which focuses on Baldrige Performance Excellence, strategic planning, general business consulting to entrepreneurial medical device companies, and private equity business development opportunity search efforts, and as a Senior Partner of the Mikan Group, LLC, a general management consulting company. He also is currently a director at Preservation Technologies L.P., American Productivity and Quality Center, and Magvation, Inc., a medical device development company. Mr. Friel started his career as a Certified Public Accountant working for Touche Ross & Co. Mr. Friel served for 30 years in various capacities at MEDRAD, Inc. (MEDRAD), a global affiliate of Bayer, AG that designs, develops, manufactures, sells, and supports medical devices. He served in various roles in MEDRAD's accounting department before earning promotions to Treasurer and Vice President of Corporate Planning in 1986 and Vice President of Business Development in 1987. Mr. Friel joined the MEDRAD management team following another promotion in 1989 and served as Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 1989 to 1995, Senior Vice President and General Manager from 1995 to 1998, and President and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2010. MEDRAD received the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award twice during Mr. Friel's tenure, once in 2004 and again in 2010. Mr. Friel retired as Chief Executive Officer of Vascor, Inc., a pre-clinical medical device development company, in December 2019, and he has served as a member of its board of directors since June 2016. He holds a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy from Tufts University and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Bachelor of Science in Accounting from Pennsylvania State University.

Peter Feigin (56) has served as a Director, a member of the Compensation Committee, and a member of the Strategy and Risk Committee since his appointment to the Board in March 2025. Mr. Feigin was appointed to the Board pursuant to the Alta Fox Cooperation Agreement (as defined below), between the Company and Alta Fox. Mr. Feigin currently serves as an Advisor for We Build Mobile Apps, LLC, the parent company of AthleteApps.com. Prior to such role, Mr. Feigin previously served as the President of the Milwaukee Bucks and as President of Fiserv Forum. Mr. Feigin brings more than two decades of dynamic corporate leadership in sports and entertainment, which are among the key attributes that qualify him for election to the Board. Beyond spearheading the development and launch of the Milwaukee Bucks Foundation, he serves on the boards of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee, the Milwaukee Public Museum, the Milwaukee Public Schools Foundation, and City Year Milwaukee, while co-chairing the African American Chamber of Commerce and the COA Parents of the Year. In 2017, Mr. Feigin served as the chairman of the American Heart and Stroke Association's annual campaign. Mr. Feigin also joined the board of CEOs Against Cancer's Wisconsin chapter. Mr. Feigin's experience cuts across a wide spectrum of business and entertainment corporations, from the NBA to private aviation, and from digital media and motion pictures to theme parks. Prior to joining the Bucks, Mr. Feigin served as the Chief Marketing and Revenue Officer of Deluxe Entertainment Services Group, a major international entertainment company, where he managed global business units and handled branding and business development. Prior to joining Deluxe, Mr. Feigin was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Marquis Jet Partners Inc./NetJets, the world's leading private aviation company. Mr. Feigin was integral in Berkshire Hathaway's NetJets acquisition of Marquis Jet in 2010 and played a central role in the integration of the two companies. After transitioning post-merger to the same responsibilities at NetJets, he led the company to significant revenue growth.

Neil D. Glat (58) has served as a Director and a member of the Nominating Committee and Compensation Committee since September 2025 and as a member of the Strategic Transactions Committee since its formation in March 2026. Mr. Glat has been the Managing Member of NG Strategies, LLC, a consulting firm and Florida limited liability company, where he provides strategic advice to private equity firms and emerging companies in sports, media, and technology businesses, since September 2019. Mr. Glat previously provided similar services through NG Strategies, a New York limited liability company, from September 2019 until it was dissolved in 2025. Mr. Glat has also served as Chair of the Board of Evolv Technologies, Inc. (Evolv), a leader in AI-based weapons detection, since November 2023 and as a member of Evolv's board of directors since July 2021, on the advisory boards for NewHold Investment Corp III and NewHold Investment Corp IV, both of which are publicly-traded special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), and as a Venture Advisor to Lightscape Partners, an AI-focused venture capital platform. He also currently serves on Evolv's investment and nominating & corporate governance committees. Previously, Mr. Glat served on the board of directors of FuboTV, Inc. (Fubo), a sports-centric over-the-top streaming content distributor, from March 2024 until the completion of its merger with Disney's Hulu + Live TV business in October 2025. During his tenure at Fubo, he chaired the compensation committee and served on the nominating and corporate governance committee of the board. From December 2021 until February 2024, Mr. Glat served as Co-President, Americas for SPORTFIVE, a global sports marketing agency, where he led the strategic direction and day-to-day management of the agency's U.S. operations. Mr. Glat also previously served on the board of directors of NewHold Investment Corp. I from July 2020 to July 2021 and NewHold Investment Corp. II from October 2021 to April 2023, both of which were publicly-traded SPACs. In addition, Mr. Glat was on the board of directors of ASM Global, a privately held company and the world's largest venue management company, from 2019 until its sale in August 2024. From April 2012 through August 2019, he served as President of the New York Jets, where he was responsible for all team business operations, and, from September 2019 to March 2020, he was a Senior Advisor to the New York Jets. Prior to that, Mr. Glat was a senior executive at the National Football League for 15 years, where he oversaw corporate development, strategy, stadium development, and club business growth. Mr. Glat had also previously been an Operating Advisor for Arctos Sports Partners, a private equity platform focused on the professional sports industry, and H.I.G. Capital, a private equity firm with over $60 billion under management. Earlier in his career, Mr. Glat worked in management consulting at McKinsey & Company and investment banking at Dillon, Read & Co. Mr. Glat is actively involved with nonprofit and charitable organizations, including serving on the Board of Advisors for the University of Pennsylvania's School of Social Policy & Practice. Mr. Glat earned a Bachelor of Sciences in Economics with a concentration in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School.

Mark F. Bowser (70) has been a Director since September 2025, the Audit Committee Chair since September 2025, and a member of the Strategic Transactions Committee of the Board (the Strategic Transactions Committee) since its formation in March 2026. Mr. Bowser retired as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Cox Automotive Inc. (Cox Automotive), a role he held from 2017 to 2023. Cox Automotive is a subsidiary of family-owned Cox Enterprises, Inc. (Cox) and a global automotive services and software company whose vision is to transform the way the world buys, sells, and owns cars. Mr. Bowser joined Cox in 2006 as vice president of Cox Business, where he was responsible for overseeing the commercial services division of Cox Communications, Inc. In this role, he provided leadership to develop and serve a $7 billion market of diverse business customers. Prior to joining Cox Automotive, Mr. Bowser was vice president of the Large Corporate Accounts business division for Dell Technologies, Inc. (Dell), where he was responsible for providing computing solutions to Fortune 1000 customers. Prior to joining Dell, Mr. Bowser served as president of the $3.5 billion Enterprise Markets division of Sprint Corporation (Sprint), which provided integrated telecommunications solutions to Fortune 500 companies, and as senior vice president of Sprint's business sales. He has held an extensive number of senior-level financial positions including accounting, financial analysis, and mergers and acquisitions at various companies. Mr. Bowser earned a bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from Pennsylvania State University. He has been a board member for the STARTLIGHT Foundation and Ronald McDonald House charities and was named a Penn State Alumni Fellow in 2012.

Brett D. Wendler (54) has served as our Vice President for Design and Development since August 2013. In his current role, Mr. Wendler leads the teams that clarify long-term market trends and develop solutions to fulfill those expanding needs. Before being promoted to his current role, Mr. Wendler served as an Engineering Manager and was responsible for the Company's LED video display systems, leading the Daktronics engineering teams in the U.S. and China from April 2006 to August 2013. Mr. Wendler joined the Company in 1992 as a student to explore a career in electrical engineering. After graduation, he worked full time as a design engineer in the video products engineering group. Mr. Wendler has led improvements in our teams and processes, including leveraging design platforms across products, implementing Lean Agile engineering practices, and bringing together multiple product development personnel into one cohesive unit. He led the way on several generations of video display products, through-hole and surface-mount displays, indoor and outdoor applications, and LED video display modules. He has served on advisory boards at South Dakota State University. Mr. Wendler earned his electrical engineering degree from South Dakota State University, with a minor in mathematics.