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Arshia Sarkhani is the Chief Marketing Officer of Strive and serves on the Strive Board. Prior to this, Arshia was the Chief Executive Officer of Asset Entities, which he co-founded, since September 2021 and as President and director since March 2022 until Asset Entities' combination with Strive in 2025. Mr. Sarkhani was Head of Monetization of Asset Entities from August 2020, when Asset Entities began its operations as a general partnership, until September 2021. From April 2020 and July 2020 to December 2021, Mr. Sarkhani was the sole owner and chief executive officer of Sarkhani Inc. and Shiazon Inc., respectively. Before co-founding Asset Entities, Mr. Sarkhani actively invested and developed a social media following which he and his co-founders utilized when starting Asset Entities. From May 2019 to September 2020, Mr. Sarkhani was a legal intern at The TDM Legal Group. From September 2015 to May 2018, Mr. Sarkhani attended the University of California, Merced, and subsequently, from September 2018 to May 2019, Grossmont Community College. From September 2019 to May 2021, Mr. Sarkhani attended San Diego State University where he received his bachelor's degree from in Humanities.

Benjamin Pham has served as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Strive since July 2024 and serves as a member of the Strive Board. Mr. Pham was Strive's first executive officer and employee when the company was founded in early 2022 and was promoted to Chief Operating Officer in November 2022. He has an extensive background in corporate finance and strategy, having previously held various roles of increasing seniority and encompassing several transformative corporate transactions at Roivant Sciences, a publicly traded biopharmaceutical company, and serving as Chief of Staff to Vivek Ramaswamy, co-founder of Strive. Earlier in his career, he was an investment banker at Citigroup, where he focused on raising equity and equity-linked financing for healthcare companies. Ben received his B.S. in Applied Economics and Management from Cornell University.

Matthew Cole has served as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Strive since April 2023, and serves as the Chairman of the Strive Board. Mr. Cole previously served as Chief Investment Officer (CIO) of Strive until October 2025. A long-time Bitcoin investor and advocate, Mr. Cole has extensive experience in institutional asset management and fixed income, having spent 15 years at CalPERS in global fixed income, where he oversaw over $70 billion in actively managed Fixed Income assets. Mr. Cole joined Strive Asset Management in May 2022 as Head of Investment Office & Global Fixed Income. He was promoted to Chief Investment Officer, Global Head of Fixed Income in February 2023 before also becoming CEO of Strive. As CEO, Mr. Cole is focused on delivering innovative Bitcoin solutions and transforming how Americans interact with Bitcoin - making it accessible, practical, and central to their financial futures - while Strive remains committed to empowering investors through its pro-stockholder focused equity ETFs and actively managed Fixed Income ETFs. Mr. Cole is a CFA charterholder and holds an MBA from California State University - Sacramento.

On January 16, 2026, Avik Roy was appointed as Chief Strategy Officer of Strive. Avik Roy is President and CEO of the National Institute for Health Care Management. Prior to that role, from 2016 to 2025 he served as Co-Founder and President of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. Mr. Roy will become a member of the Board upon the Closing. Mr. Roy has an extensive career in medicine, policy, and finance. He started his career at Bain Capital and J.P. Morgan as an institutional investor focused on biotechnology and healthcare. He later became a prominent writer about healthcare, Bitcoin, and other public policy topics. He served for more than a decade as the Opinion and Policy editor at Forbes, and as a policy advisor to several presidential campaigns, including those of Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, and Marco Rubio. He serves on the Boards of Advisors of the Bitcoin Policy Institute and Sats Center, and on the Boards of Directors of FREOPP and the Texas Bitcoin Foundation. He was educated at MIT and at Yale Medical School. Mr. Roy, a Class II director, resigned from the Strive Board of Directors, effective January 16, 2026.

Pierre Rochard is the Founder and CEO of the Bitcoin Bond Company since April 2025, a financial technology firm focused on developing Bitcoin-backed financial products and serves on the Strive Board. Prior to that role, he servedas Vice President of Research for Riot Platforms Inc. from July 2022 to March 2025, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies in North America. Before that, he was a product manager at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange, from October 2019 to June 2022. Mr. Rochard has an extensive career in Bitcoin economics, policy and technology. He started his career in public accounting and later co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, an educational initiative dedicated to archiving and promoting Bitcoin's intellectual history. He became a prominent writer and speaker on Bitcoin, energy policy and financial regulation, and has advised policymakers, institutional investors and corporations on Bitcoin adoption and integration into the traditional financial markets. Mr. Rochard was educated at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Bachelor of Business Administration and master's degrees in accounting.

James A. Lavish is the Co-Founder and has been Managing Partner of the Bitcoin Opportunity Fund, a value investment fund focused on public and private opportunities within the Bitcoin ecosystem, since August 2023, and serves on the Strive Board. From March 2006 to January 2022, Mr. Lavish served as Chief Operating Officer of LKCM Alternative Investments, LLC, an asset management firm. Before that, Mr. Lavish cofounded and served as Managing Partner at Ranger Arbitrage, a risk arbitrage hedge fund. Mr. Lavish earned his B.A. in Political Science from Yale University in 1993 and has been a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) since 2002.

Mahesh Ramakrishnan is the Co-Founder and has been Managing Partner of Escape Velocity (EV3) Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on early-stage investments in blockchain infrastructure and decentralized technologies, since April 2022, and serves on the Strive Board. From August 2020 to March 2022, he served as a Private Equity as Vice President of Research for Riot Platforms Inc. from July 2022 to March 2025, one of the largest publicly traded Bitcoin mining companies in North America. Before that, he was a product manager at Kraken Digital Asset Exchange, a cryptocurrency exchange, from October 2019 to June 2022. Mr. Rochard has an extensive career in Bitcoin economics, policy and technology. He started his career in public accounting and later co-founded the Satoshi Nakamoto Institute, an educational initiative dedicated to archiving and promoting Bitcoin's intellectual history. He became a prominent writer and speaker on Bitcoin, energy policy and financial regulation, and has advised policymakers, institutional investors and corporations on Bitcoin adoption and integration into the traditional financial markets. Mr. Rochard was educated at the University of Texas at Austin, where he earned his Bachelor of Business Administration and master's degrees in accounting.

Jonathan R. Macey been the Sam Harris Professor of Corporate Law, Corporate Finance and Securities Law at Yale University, a Professor in the Yale School of Management since 2004 and serves on the Strive Board. Professor Macey is also a Member of the Executive Committee of the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Governance, and of the Members Consultative Group for the American Law Institute, Restatement of the Law, Corporate Governance. Professor Macey previously served as Chair of the Yale University Advisory Committee on Investor Responsibility (ACIR) and as Chair of the Yale University Committee on Fossil Fuel Investment Principles (CFFIP). Prior to joining the faculty at Yale, Professor Macey served as J. DuPratt White Professor of Law at Cornell University. He has served as an independent director of two public companies. Professor Macey previously served as a member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.'s (FINRA) Economic Advisory Committee, as a member of the FINRA National Adjudicatory Council and is Co-Chair of the Bipartisan Policy Center Task Force on Capital Markets. Professor Macey is the author of several books and over 150 articles on corporate law and banking law. He has served as a member of the Legal Advisory Committee to the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange. Professor Macey earned his B.A. from Harvard College and his J.D. from Yale Law School.

Shirish Jajodia has served as Vice President, Corporate Treasurer and Head of Investor Relations at Strategy Inc. since November 2022 and serves on the Strive Board. Mr. Jajodia previously served as the Senior Director of Treasury and Investor Relations since October 2021. Mr. Jajodia holds a B.Tech. in Metallurgical Engineering and Materials Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and has completed Level 2 of the CFA program and passed Level 1 of the Financial Risk Manager (FRM) certification. He is proficient in multiple languages, including English, Hindi, and Marathi, and has a strong background in treasury management, investor relations, and corporate finance strategies, particularly in the context of digital assets like Bitcoin.

Brian Logan Beirne. Brian Logan Beirne has served as the Chief Legal Officer of Strive since February 2025 and serves as a member of the Strive Board. Before joining Strive, Mr. Beirne served as Chief Executive Officer of Matterhorn Transactions, Inc., a technology company he sold to DealPulse, Inc. in 2023, and has founded and built multiple companies, including Artusi Music. Mr. Beirne previously worked as an attorney with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, in investment banking at J.P. Morgan, and in private equity at GE Equity. Mr. Beirne teaches financial markets and corporate law at Yale Law School and is an award-winning author. He speaks frequently across the United States and has been featured by The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, The New York Times, Reuters, ABC News and other media outlets. Mr. Beirne graduated first in his class with a B.S. from Fairfield University, was Fulbright Scholar at Queens University, and earned his J.D. from Yale Law School. He is admitted to the New York and Connecticut Bars.

mr eric semler was appointed upon the consummation of the merger effective january 16 2026 eric semler has served as a member of and chairperson of the semler scientific board of directors since april 2023 and became the executive chairman in june 2025 mr semler is a public and private market investor in technology and media his long short investment fund tcs capital management which he founded in 2001 and converted into a family office in 2017 was at its peak among the largest independent technology media and telecom investment funds worldwide he currently serves on the board of fundstrat global advisors an independent financial services firm mr semler has previously served on three public company boards angie s list inc the maven inc now known as arena group holdings inc and geeknet inc mr semler received a b a from dartmouth college and a j d and m b a from harvard university