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Mr. Stuewe has served as our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer since February 2003. From 1996 to 2002, Mr. Stuewe worked for ConAgra Foods, Inc. (ConAgra) as executive vice president and then as president of Gilroy Foods. Prior to serving at ConAgra, he spent twelve years in management, sales and trading positions at Cargill, Incorporated. Mr. Stuewe currently serves as a director and chair of the compensation committee of Teays River Investments LLC, a privately held agribusiness holding company.

Jan van der Velden has served as our Executive Vice President - International Rendering and Specialties since October 2017. He has served in a number of different capacities for Darling Ingredients International (formerly known as VION Ingredients) since June 1989. Most recently, he has served as the Executive Vice President - ERS from January 2014 to October 2017, Managing Director of ERS for VION Ingredients from March 2012 to January 2014, and the Vice President Raw Materials & Logistics for VION Ingredients from January 2001 to March 2012. From May 2005 to March 2012, he also served as the managing director of VION Ingredients Germany. He also served as a member of the board of VION Ingredients.

Ms. Goodspeed is the retired Chief Operating Officer and a Managing Partner at WealthStrategies Financial Advisors, a registered investment advisory firm, positions she held from 2007 until her retirement in 2017, and currently serves as a member of the board of directors of each of the following companies: AutoZone, Inc., where she serves as the chairwoman of the audit committee and has been designated a financial expert, and Empower Brands (private). She had served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of The ServiceMaster Company, a provider of home services, from 2011 to 2014. From 2008 to September 2011, Ms. Goodspeed served as Vice President, Information Systems and Chief Information Officer for Nissan North America, Inc., a subsidiary of Nissan Motor Company, a global manufacturer of vehicles. From 2001 to 2008, Ms. Goodspeed served as Executive Vice President at Lennox International Inc., a global manufacturer of air conditioning, heating and commercial refrigeration equipment. During the past five years, Ms. Goodspeed also served as a director of American Electric Power Company, Inc. and Williams Industrial Services Group Inc. (f/k/a Global Power Equipment Group Inc.).

Mr. Stoffel served as an Executive Partner of L. Stroetmann Group, a food wholesale and retail, petfood, seeds trading and real estate development company, from 2018 to 2023. Before, he had been a member and later Chairman of L. Stroetmann's Advisory Board for almost 20 years. From 2007 until 2018, Mr. Stoffel served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Executive Board of SARIA Group, a global company headquartered in Germany and engaged in the business of converting products of animal origin and other organic materials into highly valuable and sustainable ingredients for the food, animal feed, pet food, pharmaceutical, and energy sectors. He previously served as its Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director from 2002 to 2007 and took over the responsibility for the Spanish operations of SARIA Group and for its biodiesel division in this period, becoming the President of the German Biodiesel Association from 2008 to 2009. From 1994 to 2001, Mr. Stoffel served in a variety of management positions, including as the Chief Financial Officer responsible for two brewery operations, at Oetker Group, an international company whose business activities include the production of branded food and beverages, banking, insurance and hotels. He also currently serves as a Member of the respective Advisory Boards of AVO Group, a leading spice processing specialist based in Germany, and FRICKE Group, a global service provider for agricultural machinery also based in Germany.

Since 2021, Mr. Hill has been a partner at Opportune LLP, a business advisory firm focused on consulting, outsourcing and investment banking. Prior to that, Mr. Hill spent over 37 years at KPMG LLP, where he served in roles of increasing responsibility during his lengthy tenure as a partner in KPMG's audit practice, including serving as Audit Partner-in-Charge in the KPMG Dallas office. Throughout his career, he has focused on providing business and accounting advisory services and served as a lead audit partner to significant public entities in a variety of industries.

Mr. Barden is a retired partner of Sidley Austin LLP, a global law firm, where he served as Chairman of the Management Committee from 2014-2022 and as a member of the firm's Executive Committee since 1999. During his 40 years of legal practice, Mr. Barden advised clients across diverse industries on a wide range of public and private company transactions, both domestically and cross-border. His principal areas of practice were mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance, regulatory compliance and strategic counseling/corporate governance. He has extensive experience working with boards of directors on complex corporate transactions and governance and compliance matters. Mr. Barden also serves on the boards of various civic and education-related organizations.

In 2017, Mr. Guimaraes retired as the President and Chief Operating Officer for Laureate Education, Inc., positions he held since September 2015. Prior to that, from 2012 to July 2015, he served in various executive roles at PepsiCo, Inc., including Executive Vice President, Global Categories and Operations from December 2014 through July 2015, Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo Europe and Sub-Sahara Africa from September 2012 to December 2014, and President of PepsiCo Global Operations from October 2011 to September 2012. In addition, Mr. Guimaraes previously served as Executive Vice President of Electrolux and Chief Executive Officer of its major appliances business in Europe, Africa and the Middle East from 2008 to 2011, and held various leadership positions during his 10 years at Philips Electronics and also worked in various marketing positions at Danone and Johnson & Johnson. He is also currently serving as Chairman of the Board of Alphia, Inc., a private pet food contract manufacturing business. During the past five years, Mr. Guimaraes also served as a director of AutoZone, Inc.

Carlos Paz has served as our Executive Vice President - Renewables, North American Specialty and Global Risk Management since January 2026. Prior to that, he served as Darling Ingredients' Executive Vice President - Global Risk Management, Ingredients from January 2025 to January 2026. He is also currently a board member and Vice President of Diamond Green Diesel. He joined Darling Ingredients from Ceres Global Ag Corp., where he served as President and CEO from August 2022 to December 2024, and Vice President and Commercial Director from 2020 to August 2022. From June 2018 to 2020, he served as Vice President, Agricultural Trader with Freepoint Commodities. Prior to that, Mr. Paz held a variety of senior management roles in Europe, Mexico and the United States over 23 years with Cargill, Incorporated. Mr. Paz holds a bachelor's degree in General Business Management and Agricultural Economics from Kansas State University.

Robert Day has served as Executive Vice President - Chief Financial Officer since February 26, 2025. Mr. Day joined Darling Ingredients in August 2023 and served as Executive Vice President - Chief Strategy Officer until his transition to the CFO role. He also currently serves on the board of Diamond Green Diesel. Mr. Day joined Darling Ingredients with 30 years executive management and investment banking experience in agriculture, soft and energy commodity industries. Prior to Darling Ingredients, beginning in January 2023, he served as a partner at Ascendant Partners, an investment bank and advisory firm, where he was licensed with FINRA as a registered investment banking representative. From 2015 to 2022, Mr. Day was with Ceres Global Ag Corp., where he served as CEO and a member of the board from 2016 to 2022. Prior to that, he was Managing Director Asia at ED&F Man; and he held a variety of executive and senior management roles in Asia, Latin America and the United States over 19 years with Cargill, Incorporated. Mr. Day holds an MBA from St. Thomas University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Minnesota.

Mr. Schroder served as the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Bunge Global SA, a global agribusiness and food company, from 2013 to 2019. Prior to that, since joining Bunge in 2000, he served in a variety of agribusiness leadership roles at Bunge in the United States and Europe, including serving as CEO, Bunge North America from 2010 to 2013, leading Bunge's business operations in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Prior to joining Bunge, he worked for over 15 years at Continental Grain Company and Cargill, Incorporated. During the past five years, Mr. Schroder also served as a director of Tilray, Inc.

Jeroen Colpaert has served as our President - Rousselot since January 2026. Prior to that, he served as Darling Ingredients' Executive Vice President - Rousselot from January 2023 to January 2026. Since joining Darling Ingredients in 2014, Mr. Colpaert has also held various other leadership roles, including serving as Managing Director of Rendering and Specialties in Belgium and the Global Food Grade Casings business, where he oversaw a number of acquisitions and integrations around the world. From 1999 to 2014, he managed several businesses at a predecessor of Linde Gas. He is fluent in Dutch, English, French, German and Spanish.

Brandon Lairmore has served as our Executive Vice President - Darling U.S. Rendering Operations since July 2023. Mr. Lairmore joined Darling Ingredients in 2016 and served as Senior Vice President-North Central Region from 2018 to 2023 and Regional Vice President-Great Lakes Region from 2016 to 2018. Mr. Lairmore's career in the rendering industry began in 1999 at Tyson Foods, where he worked for more than a decade in numerous operational leadership roles. From 2010 to 2011, Mr. Lairmore worked as a Plant Manager at Protein Products. In 2011, he joined Pilgrim's as General Manager of the Mount Pleasant, Texas, Protein Conversion Facility until 2013 when he assumed the role of Pilgrim's Director of Protein Conversion Business Unit until 2016. Mr. Lairmore holds a bachelor's degree in agricultural, food and life sciences from the University of Arkansas and a master's degree in business administration from William Woods University.

On February 25, 2026, the Board elected Robert Aspell to the Board effective immediately. Mr. Aspell brings 40 years of global, agriculture-based business experience from his leadership at Cargill. During his senior assignments in China, Egypt, Europe and Mexico, he successfully navigated regulatory and geopolitical complexity while managing risk across diverse environments. His career includes leading operational, supply chain and commercial organizations, and advancing strategic growth in both mature and emerging regions. He also played a key role in driving mergers, acquisitions and integrations across the global food and agriculture value chain.