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Jayme Mendal has served as our president, chief executive officer and a member of our board of directors since November 2020. Previously Mr. Mendal served as our chief operating officer from February 2019 to November 2020 and as our chief revenue officer from August 2017 to February 2019. Mr. Mendal previously served as the vice president of sales and marketing at PowerAdvocate, Inc., an energy intelligence company, from May 2017 to August 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Mendal served in multiple positions at PowerAdvocate, Inc., including senior director of sales and marketing from June 2015 to May 2017, director of corporate strategy and marketing from August 2014 to December 2015, and manager of corporate strategy from August 2013 to August 2014. From August 2007 to July 2010, he was a management consultant within the growth strategy division of Monitor Deloitte (formerly Monitor Group). Mr. Mendal serves on the board of directors and compensation committee of Gambling.com Group Limited, a provider of marketing and sports data services for the global online gambling industry. Mr. Mendal holds a B.S. degree in finance and economics from Washington University in St. Louis and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

Joseph Sanborn has served as our chief financial officer and treasurer since June 2023 and assumed the additional roles of secretary in October 2025 and chief administrative officer in February 2026. Mr. Sanborn joined the company as senior vice president of corporate development and strategy in September 2019, then served as executive vice president of strategy, finance and operations from March 2022 to March 2023 and as chief strategy officer from March 2023 to June 2023. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Sanborn had a 20-plus year investment banking career. From August 2014 to August 2019, he was the Managing Director and Co-Head of Technology Banking at the Jordan Edmiston Group, Inc., where he led the firm's expansion into new coverage areas in software, internet and tech-enabled services solutions. From 2007 to 2014, Mr. Sanborn was the Managing Director and Head, Mergers & Acquisitions at Rutberg & Company, where he led the firm's strategic advisory business. Prior to that, Mr. Sanborn held investment banking roles at SVB Alliant, Robertson Stephens and J.P. Morgan. Mr. Sanborn holds an M.P.P. in Business Regulation Policy from Harvard University and a B.S. in Business Administration from Georgetown University.

David Brainard has served as our chief technology officer since January 2021 and was previously head of engineering starting in December 2019. Previously, he was head of ad tech systems at Wayfair, Inc., a specialty retail company, from June 2019 to December 2019. Prior to that, he led the voluntary benefits engineering organization at Liberty Mutual, an insurance company, from March 2016 to May 2019. Prior to his role at Liberty Mutual, Mr. Brainard was architecture leader at Bank of America from 2010 to 2016. He also previously served as a principal consultant in IBM's global integration group, and a manager and architect at BMC Software. Mr. Brainard holds a B.A. degree from Wayne State University and an M.A. degree from Boston University.

Jon Ayotte has served as our chief accounting officer since June 2023. He joined the company in September 2020 as vice president of accounting & reporting. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Ayotte worked for Ernst & Young from July 2006 to August 2020, where he served in various accounting and auditing roles. Mr. Ayotte holds a B.S. degree in Accounting from Quinnipiac University and is a Certified Public Accountant in Massachusetts.

George Neble has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2018. Since July 2017, Mr. Neble has served as a business consultant. Mr. Neble has also served as a director of Intapp, Inc., a publicly held leading provider of cloud-based software solutions for the financial services industry, since June 2021. Mr. Neble served as the audit committee chair and a board member of LumiraDx, a diagnostics company, from July 2020 to April 2024, and as a director of Real Goods Solar, Inc., a publicly held provider of solar equipment from June 2019 to July 2021. From November 2012 to June 2017, Mr. Neble served as managing partner of the Boston office of Ernst & Young LLP, an accounting firm. Prior to that, Mr. Neble was a senior assurance partner at Ernst & Young from 2002 to 2012. Mr. Neble is a certified public accountant. He holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Boston College.

Paul Deninger has served as a member of our board of directors since April 2019. Mr. Deninger was a senior advisor with Evercore, an investment banking advisory firm, from April 2015 to February 2020. He joined Evercore as a senior managing director in 2011 and was previously a vice chairman at Jefferies, a global securities and investment banking firm, since 2003. Prior to Jefferies, Mr. Deninger served as chairman and chief executive officer of Broadview, a technology investment banking firm he joined in 1987, from 1996 until its acquisition by Jefferies in 2003. Mr. Deninger also serves as a director, chair of the finance committee and member of the audit, technology and nominating and corporate governance committees of Resideo Technologies Inc., a publicly held provider of home automation products and services. He served as a director of Iron Mountain Inc., a publicly traded information storage and retrieval company, from August 2010 to June 2021, and as vice chairman of the board of Epiphany Technology, a publicly held blank check company seeking to acquire a business in the enterprise IT market, from January 2021 to January 2023. Mr. Deninger holds a B.S. degree from Boston College and an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School.

Mira Wilczek has served as a member of our board of directors since February 2017. Since December 2019, Ms. Wilczek has served as a general partner of XLIX Ventures, a family investment office. Ms. Wilczek has also served as an Advisor at Link Ventures LLLP, a venture capital firm, since January 2020, and previously served as a managing director from July 2015 to December 2019. She previously served as president and chief executive officer of Cogo Labs, Inc., a startup incubator, from February 2017 to November 2019 and was entrepreneur in residence at Cogo Labs from December 2013 until February 2017. Prior to joining Link Ventures, Ms. Wilczek founded Red Panda Security, a research consultancy specializing in mobile behavioral analytics, and served as its chief executive officer from 2012 to 2013. From 2009 to 2012, she served as director of business development at Lyric Semiconductor, a fabless semiconductor company. Ms. Wilczek holds an S.B. degree in electrical engineering and computer science and an M.B.A. degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

John Shields has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2018. He has served as the president of Advisor Guidance, Inc., a business consulting firm, since August 2018, as a trustee, audit committee chair and lead independent director of Domini Investment Trust, a registered investment company, since 2004, as a director and audit committee member of Vestmark, Inc. since December 2015, as a director of Cogo Labs, Inc., a startup incubator, since May 2008, and as a consultant in the financial services industry since 2002. From October 2016 to June 2018, Mr. Shields served as managing director, head of risk and regulatory compliance at CFGI, LLC, a financial consulting firm. From January 2014 to October 2016, he served as director, head of investment management consulting at Navigant Consulting, Inc. From 1998 to 2002, he served as chief executive officer of Citizens Advisers, Inc., an investment management company, chief executive officer of Citizens Securities, Inc., a registered broker-dealer, and president and interested trustee of the Citizens Funds mutual fund complex. Mr. Shields is a certified public accountant (inactive). He holds a B.S. degree in accounting from Saint Peter's University.

Sanju Bansal has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2014. Mr. Bansal has served as chief executive officer of Hunch Analytics, LLC, a data analytics company, since November 2013. Prior to funding Hunch Analytics, Mr. Bansal served in various executive leadership positions and as a director of MicroStrategy Incorporated, a worldwide provider of business intelligence software, including as executive vice president from 1993 to 2013 and chief operating officer from 1994 to 2012. Mr. Bansal also served as a member of MicroStrategy's board of directors from 1993 to 2013, including as vice chairman from November 2000 to November 2013. Mr. Bansal served as a director of SimilarWeb Ltd., a digital data and analytics company, from August 2021 to June 2024. Mr. Bansal also served as a director of Cvent, Inc., an event management software company, from November 1999 to June 2022, and as a director of CSRA Inc., an information technology services company specializing in national security, from November 2015 to April 2018. Mr. Bansal served as a director of The Advisory Board Company from 2009 until the company's sale in November 2017. Mr. Bansal holds an S.B. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University. We believe that Mr. Bansal is qualified to serve on our board of directors because of his deep background in consulting and information and systems technology, his leadership experience as a senior executive of a public company, his corporate governance experience from serving as a member of public company boards of directors, and his extensive knowledge of relevant technologies. Hunch Analytics, Mr. Bansal served in various executive leadership positions and as a director of MicroStrategy Incorporated, a worldwide provider of business intelligence software, including as executive vice president from 1993 to 2013 and chief operating officer from 1994 to 2012. Mr. Bansal also served as a member of MicroStrategy's board of directors from 1993 to 2013, including as vice chairman from November 2000 to November 2013. Mr. Bansal served as a director of SimilarWeb Ltd., a digital data and analytics company, from August 2021 to June 2024. Mr. Bansal also served as a director of Cvent, Inc., an event management software company, from November 1999 to June 2022, and as a director of CSRA Inc., an information technology services company specializing in national security, from November 2015 to April 2018. Mr. Bansal served as a director of The Advisory Board Company from 2009 until the company's sale in November 2017. Mr. Bansal holds an S.B. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an M.S. degree in computer science from The Johns Hopkins University.

David Blundin, one of our co-founders, has served as chairman of our board of directors since August 2008. Mr. Blundin is the founder of Link Ventures LLLP, a venture capital firm, where he has served as managing partner since January 2006. He is also the co-founder of Vestigo Ventures LLC, a venture capital firm, where he has served as managing partner since January 2016. Mr. Blundin is also chairman of the board of Vestmark, Inc., a portfolio management solutions company, where he served as chief executive officer from 2001 to 2008. In June 2005, Mr. Blundin co-founded Link Studio, Inc., a venture studio located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he has served as chairman since its founding and also served as chief executive officer until February 2017. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Blundin was the chief executive officer and chairman of DataSage, Inc., a company he founded that used neural network technology for data analytics in industrial applications including online marketing. In 2000, DataSage was acquired by Vignette Corporation, where Mr. Blundin served as chief technologist until 2002. Since 2002, Mr. Blundin has founded and co-founded at least 10 software and internet companies in addition to Vestmark, including Autotegrity, Inc., a data analytics and online marketing company, and CourseAdvisor, an online research company. Prior to 1997, Mr. Blundin was president and chief executive officer of Cirrus Recognition Systems, one of the first commercially successful machine-learning companies. Mr. Blundin holds an S.B. degree in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he researched neural network technology. His thesis at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory was entitled, Neural Network Simulations on a Connection Machine.