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Mr. Terrence J. Murphy, Co-President of Franklin since October 2025 and Head of Public Market Investments of Franklin since October 2022; Chairman since 2014 and Chief Executive Officer and President since 2012 of ClearBridge Investments, LLC, a subsidiary of Franklin; officer and/or director of certain other subsidiaries of Franklin. Formerly, Executive Vice President of Franklin from October 2022 to October 2025, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of ClearBridge from 2006 to 2011, Chief Financial Officer of Citigroup Asset Management a financial services firm from 2005 to 2006 and Director of Planning from 2000 to 2005; and business Controller for various product lines at Citigroup's Corporate and Investment Bank from 1997 to 2000.

Mr. Matthew Nicholls, Co-President of Franklin since October 2025, Chief Financial Officer of Franklin since May 2019 and Chief Operating Officer since April 2022; officer and/or director of certain subsidiaries of Franklin. Formerly, Executive Vice President of Franklin from May 2019 to October 2025, and formerly with Citigroup, Inc. a financial services firm from 1995 to May 2019, as Managing Director, Global Head of Financial Institutions, Corporate Banking, and Global Head of Asset Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, from 2017 to May 2019, as Managing Director, Co-Head, Financial Institutions Corporate and Investment Banking, North America, and Global Head of Asset Management, Corporate and Investment Banking, from 2014 to 2017, as Managing Director, Co-Head, North America, Financial Institutions Corporate and Investment Banking from 2011 to 2014, as Managing Director and Co-Head, North America, Financial Institutions Corporate Banking from 2007 to 2011, and as Managing Director and Co-Head of Asset Management Banking from 2006 to 2007.

Ms. Jennifer M. Johnson, Chief Executive Officer and director of Franklin since February 2020; formerly, President of Franklin from December 2016 to October 2025, Chief Operating Officer of Franklin from February 2017 to February 2020, Co-President of Franklin from October 2015 to December 2016, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Franklin from March 2010 to September 2015, Executive Vice President - Operations and Technology of Franklin from December 2005 to March 2010, and Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Franklin from May 2003 to December 2005; officer and/or director of certain subsidiaries of Franklin; officer, director and/or trustee of certain funds registered as investment companies managed or advised by subsidiaries of Franklin. Director of Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. since July 2023.

Mr. Alexander S. Friedman, Career Highlights: Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Novata Inc., a public benefit corporation committed to simplifying the process of collecting, analyzing and benchmarking sustainability data; Co-Founded Jackson Hole Economics, a non-profit private economic research firm, in January 2019; Chief Executive Officer of GAM Holding AG, a publicly listed international investment management firm, from September 2014 to November 2018; Global Chief Investment Officer of UBS AG Wealth Management and Wealth Management Americas, Chairman of the UBS Global Investment Committee and Group Managing Director from February 2010 to September 2014; Chief Financial Officer of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation from March 2007 to February 2010; Director, Investment Banking at Lazard from June 2001 to March 2007. Mr. Friedman currently serves as Co-Chairman of Project Syndicate, an international non-profit focused on original editorial content in economics and politics. He is a board member of the American Alpine Club, a non-profit member organization representing more than 24,000 American climbers, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and also serves on the advisory council of Social Finance, a non-profit organization dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and the advisory board of America Needs You, a non-profit organization focused on college access for first generation college students.

Mr. Geoffrey Y. Yang, Career Highlights: Managing Director and Founding Partner of Redpoint Ventures, a private equity and venture capital firm, since 1999; General Partner with Institutional Venture Partners from 1987 to 1999; Director of Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc. since April 2022; Director of AT&T, Inc. from July 2016 to April 2022; Director of Liberty Media Acquisition Corp. from January 2021 to December 2022; Director of BigBand Networks from 1999 to 2011; Director of TiVo from 1997 to 2009; A member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee for the United States from 2003-2007. Mr. Yang co-founded Redpoint Ventures in 1999, after having previously been a General Partner with IVP since 1987. With approximately 6.5 billion of capital under management, Redpoint invests in venture capital and early growth stage technology companies. Some of the companies in which Redpoint has invested include DraftKings, Hashicorp, Netflix, Snowflake, Stripe and Twilio. In addition, Mr. Yang is the CEO/founder of Performance Health Sciences (d/b/a Apeiron Life), the CEO/founder of The Odds, the Chairman/founder of Rock the Bells, the Chairman/Founder of Sake Ono, and serves on the board of these companies as well as Esquel, Tastemade and Scribd. These experiences bring strategic direction, growth and technology expertise to the Board. Mr. Yang's current and prior service on the boards of several private and public companies as well as with non-profit organizations including as current Chairman of the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Foundation, the Naval Postgraduate Advisory Board, the Workday CEO Advisory Board, the President's Advisory Committee at Princeton University, McLaren Advisory Team, and formerly serving on the Advisory Council for the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Chairman of the Nanea Admissions Committee, provides our Board with the benefit of his perspectives on business, corporate governance and citizenship, and finance.

Mr. John W. Thiel, Career Highlights: Partner and Senior Advisor with MyNextSeason, an executive coaching firm, since 2018; Formerly with Bank of America Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 1989 to 2018, serving as Vice Chairman of Global Wealth and Investment Management of Bank of America Merrill Lynch from 2017 to 2018; Head of Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 2011 to 2016; Head of Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 2005 to 2011; Pacific West Regional Managing Director of Private Banking and Investment Group at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 2001 to 2005; Market Executive at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 1997 to 2001; District Sales Manager at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 1995 to 1997; Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management from 1989 to 1995.

Mr. Anthony J. Noto, Career Highlights: Chief Executive Officer and a director of SoFi Technologies, Inc. (SoFi), a mobile-first personal finance platform, since March 1, 2018; Chief Operations Officer from 2017 until 2018, Chief Operations Officer and Chief Financial Officer from 2016 to 2017, and Chief Financial Officer from 2014 to 2016, of Twitter, Inc., a global social media company; Partner, Co-Head, Global Technology, Media and Telecom Investment Banking from 2011 to 2014, and Partner, Investment Banking Division from 2010 to 2011, at Goldman Sachs & Co; Chief Financial Officer from 2008 to 2010 of the National Football League. He also brings valuable leadership, strategic, financial and operations experience, having previously served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Twitter, Inc., and as Chief Financial Officer of the National Football League. During his nearly 13 years at Goldman Sachs & Co., Mr. Noto developed a deep understanding of the technology, media and telecommunications industries, including serving as Co-Head of Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Investment Banking, and Co-Head of Communications, Media and Entertainment Investment Research.

Mr. John Y. Kim, Career Highlights: Founder and Managing Partner of Brewer Lane Ventures LLC, an early stage fintech venture capital firm, since 2019; President of New York Life Insurance Company from 2015 to 2018; Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of New York Life Investment Management from 2008 to 2015; President of Prudential Retirement from 2004 to 2007; President of Cigna Investments and Retirement from 2002 to 2004; Chief Executive Officer of Bondbook, a financial technology company, from 2001 to 2002; Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Aeltus Investment Management, an investment subsidiary of Aetna, from 1994 to 2000; Board of Trustees, Eversource Energy since 2018; Director of FiServ, a global provider of financial services technology, from 2016 to 2018.

Mr. Daniel E. Gamba, Co-President and Chief Commercial Officer of Franklin since October 2025; formerly, President of Northern Trust Asset Management and Executive Vice President of Northern Trust Corporation financial services firms from April 2023 to September 2025; and formerly spent over two decades at Blackrock, Inc. financial services firm where, among other roles, he served as Co-Head of Fundamental Equities from 2020 to February 2023, Global Head of Active Equity Product Strategy from 2016 to 2020, and Head of Americas Institutional iShares Business and Co-Head iShares U.S. from 2011 to 2016.

Mr. Thomas C. Merchant, Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Franklin since May 2022 and Assistant Secretary since December 2024; formerly, Corporate Secretary from July 2021 to December 2024; oversaw global regulatory compliance of Franklin as Deputy General Counsel from August 2020 to May 2022; officer and/or director of certain subsidiaries of Franklin. Formerly, General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Legg Mason, Inc. from 2013 and Secretary from 2008, until its acquisition by Franklin Templeton in July 2020; joined Legg Mason as Associate General Counsel in 1998, serving as Corporate General Counsel and Deputy General Counsel. Formerly, served as a Corporate Associate at Shearman & Sterling, a law firm, in New York from 1993 to 1998.

On February 6, 2024, the Board appointed Ms. Lindsey H. Oshita, currently Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer - Americas for the Company, as Chief Accounting Officer and the principal accounting officer of the Company. Ms. Oshita, age 41, has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer - Americas for the Company since September 2019. She previously served as Director of Global Accounting Policy for the Company from October 2014 to September 2019. She has served as a corporate officer of certain subsidiaries of the Company since September 2019. She joined the Company in December 2009.