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Mr. Timm has served as our Co-Founder, CEO and a member of our board of directors since our founding in March 2015. From August 2011 to March 2015, Mr. Timm served in various management roles at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, an insurance and financial services company. Mr. Timm currently serves as a member of the board of directors of GoHealth, Inc. (Nasdaq: GOCO), a digital health insurance marketplace. He is a 2023 Aspen Institute Henry Crown Fellow. He holds a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Arts in Actuarial Science, Accounting and Mathematics from Drake University. He is also a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

Mr. Bonakdarpour has served as our President since February 2024 and Chief Technology Officer since February 2022. Prior to that, he was our Chief Data Science and Analytics Officer beginning in July 2021, and our Vice President of Data Science beginning in July 2018. Mr. Bonakdarpour was a visiting scholar at Yale University from September 2017 until March 2019 and a research assistant at the University of Chicago from September 2014 until March 2019.

Mr. Allison has served as our Chief Administrative Officer since May 2023. Prior to that, he was our General Counsel from 2017 to June 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Allison was an Executive Vice President at CareSource, a managed care plan, from May 2015 to June 2017 and a partner at Carpenter Lipps, LLP, a law firm, from December 2010 to May 2015.

Ms. Binkley has served as our Chief Financial Officer since March 2023. Prior to that, she was Deputy Chief Financial Officer from November 2022 to March 2023 and Chief Accounting Officer from April 2019 to November 2022. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Binkley held roles of increasing responsibility at KPMG LLP, a public accounting firm, from September 2007 until March 2019, at which time she was a senior manager.

Mr. Hilsheimer has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2020. Since May 2014, Mr. Hilsheimer has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Greif, Inc. (NYSE: GEF), an industrial manufacturing company. From April 2013 to April 2014, Mr. Hilsheimer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company (NYSE: SMG), a multinational supplier of consumer gardening products. From October 2007 to March 2013, Mr. Hilsheimer served in various executive roles with Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, beginning as EVP/CFO, then as President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide Direct and Customer Solutions with responsibility for its direct to consumer sales and service, Nationwide Bank and Nationwide Better Health, before taking on the role of President and Chief Operating Officer of Nationwide Retirement Plans with continuing responsibility for Nationwide Bank. Prior to Nationwide, Mr. Hilsheimer served at Deloitte from 1979 through 2007, as a partner from 1988 through 2007, including as a Vice Chairman from 2005 through 2007. Mr. Hilsheimer is a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee of Installed Building Products, Inc. (NYSE: IBP), an installer of insulation products. Since 2017, Mr. Hilsheimer has served as a director of Root Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the Company, and served as Chairman of its Audit Committee until such committee was dissolved in January 2021. Mr. Hilsheimer is certified in cybersecurity oversight by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Ms. Kramer has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2020. Since August 2016, she has served as the Global Chief Evangelist of IBM iX (NYSE: IBM), a digital strategy and marketing services division of IBM. She founded Resource/Ammirati, a marketing and creative agency, in 1981 with Apple Computer as her first client, and served dozens of Fortune 500 companies, until its sale to IBM in 2016. In addition to her role on our board of directors, she has served as a director of M/I Homes, Inc. (NYSE: MHO), a home construction company, since 2015. From 2013 to 2015, Ms. Kramer served as a director of Glimcher Realty Trust, a real estate investment trust, until its sale to Washington Prime Group in 2015. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from The Ohio State University.

Mr. Ulman has served as a member of our board of directors since December 2016. He currently serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Pelotonia, a nonprofit based in Columbus, Ohio that has raised more than $300 million for cancer research since 2009. From December 2014 to January 2024, Mr. Ulman served as Chief Executive Officer of Pelotonia. From 2008 to December 2014, he served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of The LIVESTRONG Foundation. A social entrepreneur and community builder, Mr. Ulman founded the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Adults (now the Ulman Foundation) after his own cancer diagnosis. He also founded Orli in 2022 and serves as the Chair of Signal Ohio's board and is a member of both The Columbus Partnership and Young Presidents' Organization (YPO). He recently served as a Hauser Fellow at Harvard University Kennedy School Center for Public Leadership. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and completed the Executive Program in Leadership at Stanford University.

Jerri DeVard. Ms. DeVard has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2020. She is the Founder of the Black Executive CMO Alliance (BECA), an alliance designed to champion corporate diversity and help build the next generation of C-suite marketing executives. From January 2018 to March 2020, Ms. DeVard served as EVP, Chief Customer Officer of Office Depot, Inc., an office supply retailing company, where she also served as EVP, Chief Marketing Officer from September 2017 to December 2017. Prior to Office Depot, Ms. DeVard served as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer of The ADT Corporation (NYSE: ADT), a home and business security company, from March 2014 through May 2016. She has also served in senior marketing roles at Nokia Corporation, Verizon Communications Inc., Citibank N.A., Revlon Inc., Harrah's Entertainment, the Minnesota Vikings and the Pillsbury Company. Ms. DeVard is a graduate of Spelman College and Clark Atlanta University Graduate School of Business. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Under Armour, Inc. (NYSE: UA), a sports equipment company, Cars.com (NYSE: CARS), an online automotive classified company, and Dow Inc. (NYSE: DOW), a materials-science and packaging company. From 2016 to 2018, she served as a member of the Board of Directors of ServiceMaster Global Holdings Inc., a residential and commercial services company.

Ms. Szudarek has served as a member of our board of directors since July 2022. Since 2023, Ms. Szudarek has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Self Financial, Inc. (Self), a credit building platform working to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience through products that make building credit accessible. Prior to joining Self, Ms. Szudarek served as Chief Executive Officer of Atida Mifarma (Atida), one of the largest online pharmacies in Europe, from 2019 until January 2023. Before joining Atida, Ms. Szudarek held senior leadership roles at Groupon Inc. (Nasdaq: GRPN) (Groupon), an online commerce marketplace, in sales, operations, logistics, and administration from 2011 to 2018. Prior to Groupon, she served in a variety of roles at Orbitz Worldwide, Inc. (acquired by Expedia), an online travel company, from 2005 to 2011. Earlier in her career, Ms. Szudarek worked in management consulting at Accenture plc (formerly Andersen Consulting), a global professional services company. Ms. Szudarek holds a Bachelor of Arts in Finance from Indiana University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Michigan.

Ms. Dorsey has served as a member of our board of directors since October 2023. Since 2015, Ms. Dorsey has served as Executive Vice President and Chief People & Culture Officer for International Motors, LLC (International Motors), a manufacturer of commercial transportation vehicles. In this role, she is responsible for all aspects of human resource strategy and provides strategic business and human capital leadership that has driven change and innovation at the company. Ms. Dorsey has announced that she plans to step down from that role in May 2025. Prior to that role, Ms. Dorsey led strategic human capital direction for all business operations at International Motors while overseeing International Motors' team of human capital business partners. Since 2004, she has held roles of increasing responsibility within International Motors, including human capital leadership within International Motors' Integrated Product Development organization. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Rutgers University and a Juris Doctor from Chicago-Kent College of Law with a certification in labor and employment law.

Ms. Birnbaum has served on our board of directors since March 2022. Ms. Birnbaum currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of Mudstack, Inc., a platform for version control, management and review of digital assets. Previously, Ms. Birnbaum served as Chief Operating Officer at PlayFab, Inc. (PlayFab), the backend service platform for gaming acquired by Microsoft Corporation (Nasdaq: MSFT), from 2017 to 2018. Prior to PlayFab, Ms. Birnbaum served in a variety of roles at GrubHub, Inc., from 2011 to 2016, most recently as Senior Vice President of Product. From 2003 to 2011, Ms. Birnbaum served in a variety of roles at Expedia Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: EXPE), an online travel company, most recently as Vice President of Product and Connectivity. Ms. Birnbaum served on the board of directors of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. (NYSE: WLY and WLYB), a publishing company specializing in scientific, technical, and medical books and journals, from 2018 to 2024. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and International Studies from Yale University and a Master of Business Administration from INSEAD. Ms. Birnbaum is Diligent Climate Leadership Certified.

On April 15, 2024, Ryan Forish, 41, was appointed Chief Accounting Officer of Root, Inc. In this capacity, Mr. Forish will be the Company's principal accounting officer. Mr. Forish has served as Vice President, Accounting of the Company since December 2023. Prior to that, he was Assistant Vice President, Assistant P&C Controller of Kemper Corp., a diversified insurance company, from May 2023 until December 2023; Vice President, Finance of Loop Mobility Inc., an automobile insurance company, from April 2022 until May 2023; Controller of Accounting Operations of the Company from August 2020 until April 2022 and Manager of Accounting of the Company from November 2019 until August 2020; and Technical Director, Accounting Policy & Research at Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company, an insurance and financial services company, from March 2018 until November 2019.