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Mr. Nawabi has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since May 2016. Previously, Mr. Nawabi served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from January 2016 to May 2016 and as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer from April 2015 to January 2016. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Manager, EES from December 2011 to April 2015. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Nawabi served as Vice President, Global Sales of Altergy Systems, a designer and manufacturer of fuel cell power systems, from March 2010 through November 2011, and as Vice President, Americas, and Vice President, Global Sales for C&D Technologies, a producer and marketer of electrical power storage and conversion products, from February 2009 through March 2010. Prior to joining C&D Technologies, Mr. Nawabi worked for 16 years with American Power Conversion Corporation, a provider of power protection products and services, in a succession of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President, Enterprise Segment, North America and Canada. During his 16-year tenure at American Power Conversion, Mr. Nawabi was instrumental to the company's growth into global market leadership positions in power protection and data center physical infrastructure, with significant roles in starting and growing the company's data center physical infrastructure business and in developing and expanding the company's business across Europe and Asia. Mr. Nawabi currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of LiquidStack, Inc., a provider of next-generation cooling solutions to many of the world's largest cloud services, semiconductor, manufacturing and IT hardware providers. Mr. Nawabi has a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Melissa Brown has served as our Executive Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since May 1, 2025. Prior to that, she served as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary since May 2023. She also served as our Chief Compliance Officer from 2021 to March 2026. She began serving as Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary beginning in December 2016. She was appointed as our Corporate Secretary in September 2016 and previously she served as our Corporate Counsel from April 2015 to December 2016. Prior to joining the company, Ms. Brown served as an associate attorney at various law firms, including K&L Gates LLP from 2007 to 2014. Ms. Brown also serves as a director for our direct and indirect wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries. Ms. Brown earned a B.S. in Microbiology and Molecular Genetics from the University of California, Los Angeles and a J.D. from Arizona State University.

Mr. Muller has served as a member of our board of directors since 2013. Mr. Muller served as Vice Chairman of NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE: NRG), a U.S.-based producer and retail supplier of electricity, from December 2012 to February 2017. Prior to the merger in 2012 of NRG and GenOn Energy Inc., Mr. Muller served as the Chairman and Chief Executive of GenOn, which also produced and sold electricity in the United States, a position he held beginning in 2010. From 2005 to 2010, Mr. Muller was Chairman and Chief Executive of Mirant Corporation, which produced and sold electricity in the United States and internationally. Previously, Mr. Muller served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Edison Mission Energy until 2000, which produced electricity in the United States and internationally. Mr. Muller previously served as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and Secretary of Whittaker Corporation, a conglomerate with activities in aerospace, chemicals, healthcare and metals. From 2007 to 2024, Mr. Muller served as a director of Transocean Ltd. (NYSE: RIG), an offshore oil and gas driller. Mr. Muller currently serves as the Chairman of the Advisory Board of the UCLA Institute for Carbon Management and of CarbonBuilt, Inc., a provider of low carbon concrete technology, Concrete, AI, Inc., a provider of AI-assisted concrete production and carbon reductions, Equatic, Inc., a carbon-capture technology company, Nextli Technologies, Inc., a cement decarbonization company, and, Specifx, Inc., developer of lithium extraction technologies. He previously served as a director of Contact Energy, Ltd., Edison Mission Energy, Interval, Inc., Oasis Residential, Inc., Ormat Technologies, Inc., RealEnergy, Inc., RigNet Inc., Strategic Data Corp., The Keith Companies, Inc., and Whittaker Corporation. Mr. Muller is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy, and previously was Chairman of the U.S.- Philippines Business Committee, Co-Chairman of the International Energy Development Council and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Riverview School. Mr. Muller received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

General Joseph L. Votel has served as a member of our board of directors since November 2023. Mr. Votel is a retired four-star general with 39 years of military experience. He most recently served as the Commanding General of the United States Central Command and before that was the Commander of the United States Special Operations Command. He served in the Pentagon, Operation ENDURING FREEDOM, and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, among others. Following his retirement from military service, General Votel served as President & CEO of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) from 2020 to 2023. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Noblis Corporation, and a Strategic Advisor for Sierra Nevada Corporation, both of which are positions he has held since 2019. Mr. Votel is a Board Director with Minnesota Wire & Cable Company, a custom design, development and manufacturing company for wire, cable and interconnect assemblies, DC Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity investment firm, and Helix Decision Science, LLC, a technology company focused on the interaction of AI systems, supporting technologies and data across businesses, a member of the Government Advisory Board for Insight Partners and a member of the Draper Corporation. He is also a member of the Board of Governors at the Middle East Institute, the Veterans Defense Project, and the Distinguished Chair of the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point. Mr. Votel also serves as an advisor to Ansys Government Initiative, Orbis Operations, LLC and NtelSec, Inc. Mr. Votel is a member of the Executive Boards at the UPenn Center for Ethics and the Rule of Law (CERL). He is a current member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Votel graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1980 and earned a master's degree from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College in 1991 and from the Army War College in 2001.

From July 1998 to June 2023, Ms. Lewis served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of AirBorn Consolidated Holdings, Inc., a middle-market, employee-owned company specializing in high reliability electronics manufacturing. She served as Chairperson of AirBorn from November 2013 to June 2024. Ms. Lewis has served in the manufacturing industry for over 40 years, with experience in accounting and finance, supply chain and manufacturing, information technology, business development, distribution and general management. From approximately 2006 through 2019, Ms. Lewis served in various board and officer roles for the National and Southwest Chapter of the ESOP Association, which promotes employee ownership awareness, best practices and provides strong lobbying efforts in Congress. Ms. Lewis currently serves on the Georgetown, Texas Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Ms. Lewis earned her Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from The University of Texas at Arlington - College of Business and completed an Executive Development Program at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Science, Technology and Innovation Experience: Ms. Lewis career includes management, development and oversight of various types of technologies. With electronic products that require heavy engineering and collaboration with customers for design, Ms. Lewis managed new product development for AirBorn, as well as new manufacturing processes and automation technologies. AirBorn filed for and received numerous patents under Ms. Lewis' leadership. Ms. Lewis was the original architect of cybersecurity strategy for AirBorn and is the board cyber sponsor with a certificate of cybersecurity oversight from Carnegie Mellon. Ms. Lewis sponsors digital transformation and digital progression projects to ensure the company keeps pace with the rapid acceleration of software technology in all aspects of the business. Related Industry Experience- Customer Relationships: Ms. Lewis was directly responsible for managing various key customer relationships, ensuring service, expectations and contract negotiations provided a favorable partnering environment for both AirBorn and its customers. Four of AirBorn's five original customers from the 1950s remained top ten OEM customers through Ms. Lewis' retirement as President and Chief Executive Officer of AirBorn. Her primary industry experience includes Military Aerospace, Medical, Semiconductor, and Energy. Investment and M&A Expertise: Ms. Lewis led AirBorn through five acquisitions since 2002, broadening the company's capabilities and providing strategic market diversification. Ms. Lewis was directly involved in all negotiations with acquisition targets as well as funding for these acquisitions and directed subsequent integration activities. Ms. Lewis also led AirBorn through numerous major refinancing transactions over the years to fund acquisitions and growth capital investments. She led the selection of financial institutions for fund raising for major transactions and was directly involved in all related contract negotiations. Ms. Lewis additionally led the strategy and execution of the refinancing which transitioned AirBorn to a 100% ESOP owned subchapter S corporation in 2003.

Admiral Davidson has served as a member of our board of directors since June 2023. Mr. Davidson retired from the U.S. Navy in May 2021, following a highly distinguished military career which spanned nearly 39 years of service and culminated in his appointment as a four-star Admiral and in service as Commander of United States Indo-Pacific Command (INDOPACOM) from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as the commander of U.S. Fleet Forces Command/Naval Forces U.S. Northern Command and as the commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, and the commander, Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO, while simultaneously serving as the deputy commander, U.S. Naval Forces Europe and U.S. Naval Forces Africa. Mr. Davidson founded and now runs Davidson Strategies LLC, a management, technical and strategic advisory firm. Mr. Davidson is currently on the board of directors of Par Pacific Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: PARR), an oil and gas exploration and production company, and Norfolk Southern Corporation (NYSE: NSC), a freight transportation network operator. He is also the Chair of the Board at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, an independent, non-partisan policy research institute, and serves on military advisory group to the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1982 and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Naval War College in 1992.

The Honorable Mary Beth Long has served as a member of our board of directors since August 2023. Ms. Long is an American foreign policy expert, entrepreneur, and former U.S. Government official. From 2007-2009, Ms. Long served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense under Secretary of Defense Robert E. Gates, where she was the first woman confirmed to a four-star military equivalent position by the U.S. Senate and oversaw all international weapons sales. This role was the culmination of 17 years of intelligence and defense related government service where she held multiple leadership roles including Chair of NATO's nuclear and missile defense High Level Group (HLG), Principal Deputy Secretary of Defense for Asia and Southeast Asia, and Deputy Secretary of Defense for Counter Narco-terrorism. Ms. Long is the Principle at MB Long and Associates, PLLC, a law firm specializing in international defense sales and compliance. She is the founder of Metis Solutions, LLC and Askari Defense & Intelligence, LLC, firms focused on national defense and international weapons sales. Ms. Long is also a Senior Advisor to AWS Global and Upsher Wealth Management, as well as on the advisory board for Liberty Defense Holdings, Ltd. and X-Bow Systems, Inc. Ms. Long was also a director for Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: RCAT), a drone company, from November 2022 through July 2023. Ms. Long additionally previously served as a Senior Advisor to Lockheed Martin and FLIR. She was also a consultant for Global Alliance Advisors, Inc., an international advisory firm, from 2017 to November 2021. In addition, Ms. Long is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Spy Museum and the Defense Intelligence Memorial Fund. Ms. Long is an Honors Graduate, magna cum laude, and Phi Beta Kappa from Penn State University, where she studied the Chinese language abroad in Taiwan. She currently serves on the university's Provost's Global Advisory Council. She also received her law degree, with honors, from Washington and Lee School of Law. Defense and Related Industry Experience: Ms. Long is regularly called upon to be a policy expert based on her many post government roles, including as Senior Subject Matter Expert for the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO, Senior Advisor to the Director of USAID at the Department of State, and as a Senior International Advisor to the Minister of Defense of Colombia. Ms. Long is a member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Defense and Aerospace Export Council and is a Cipher Brief Expert. She also is an active member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and has presided over meetings regarding NATO, Ukraine, Afghanistan and other timely topics.

Sean Woodward has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since May 1, 2026. Prior to that he served as the Chief Financial Officer of the Company's Autonomous Systems segment from May 2025 to the present. He has held several positions of increasing responsibility since joining the Company in 2010, including as Senior Vice President of Finance from September 2024 to May 2025, Vice President of Global Operations Finance from February 2021 to September 2024, and as Vice President of Finance from June 2019 through February 2021. Mr. Woodward holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of South Florida and an M.B.A. with a concentration in finance from the University of Tampa.

On September 23, 2019, the Company also appointed Brian Shackley, 42, as its interim Chief Financial Officer and Chief Accounting Officer, upon the effective October 18, 2019. Mr. Shackley joined the Company in January 2016 and has served as the Company's Vice President and Corporate Controller since December 2017. He previously served as the Company's Director of SEC Reporting from January 2016 to December 2017. Prior to joining the Company, from June 2014 to January 2016, Mr. Shackley served as an audit senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP in Los Angeles, California. He has a total of approximately 9 years of experience in public accounting with PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP. Mr. Shackley is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.S. in Business Administration with an emphasis in Corporate Finance from San Diego State University. On January 23, 2020, AeroVironment, Inc. announced that Brian Shackley who has served as the Company's interim Chief Financial Officer since October 2019 effective February 10, 2020 will remain with the Company as Vice President and Controller.

On August 5, 2026, the Board increased the size of the board appointed Michael Ruppert to the Board as a Class II director, effective immediately.

On June 24, 2026, the Board of Directors of AeroVironment, Inc., the Board appointed William J. Lynn, III to the Board as a Class I director, effective immediately. Lynn served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Leonardo DRS, Inc. (NASDAQ: DRS), a leading defense electronics company, from 2012 until 2026. Previously, he served as the 30th U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2009 to 2011 under Secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, where as the Department's chief operating officer he led the development of the Department's first cyber strategy. Earlier in his career, he held senior roles at Raytheon Company (now NYSE: RTX) and within the Department of Defense, including as Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) and Chief Financial Officer. Lynn is a graduate of Dartmouth College, holds a J.D. from Cornell Law School and an M.P.A. in international affairs from Princeton University.