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John Couling joined us in 1997 and has held multiple leadership roles at the company, including most recently as Senior Vice President, Entertainment since October 2021 and previously as Senior Vice President, Commercial Partnerships from October 2016 through October 2021. In his current role, Mr. Couling oversees Dolby's businesses, products, and customer and partner relationships across the entertainment industry, leading development, sales, delivery, and integration of Dolby technologies and solutions into partners' services and products. Mr. Couling holds a B.S. degree in astrophysics from the University of Bristol.

Andy Sherman joined us as Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in January 2011. Mr. Sherman oversees Dolby's patent and IP licensing businesses, government relations, and Dolby's worldwide legal affairs, including all corporate, regulatory, IP, litigation, and licensing activities. Mr. Sherman also serves as the chair of the board of directors of Via Licensing Alliance, a leading global provider of multilateral patent licensing solutions. Prior to joining us, from June 2008 to January 2011, Mr. Sherman served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel at CBS Interactive, an online content network, where he led the legal group advising CBS's online entertainment, mobile, technology, sports, news, games, lifestyle, and international business units. Mr. Sherman joined CBS Interactive following CBS's acquisition of CNET Networks, an online content network, where from June 2007 to June 2008 he was Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Before CNET, Mr. Sherman served as Vice President, Legal at Sybase, an enterprise software and services company, from November 2006 to May 2007, following Sybase's acquisition of Mobile 365, where he was Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary. Prior to joining Mobile 365, he held senior legal positions with global responsibility at a variety of public technology companies including PeopleSoft and Epiphany. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sherman worked in private practice with Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich (now DLA Piper), focusing on the representation of emerging technology companies. Mr. Sherman holds a J.D. from the University of the Pacific, as well as a B.S. degree from the University of Southern California. He is the executive sponsor of Mundo, Dolby's employee network dedicated to the Hispanic members of the Dolby community.

Shriram Revankar joined us as Senior Vice President, Advanced Technology Group in May 2022. Dr. Revankar oversees teams creating and delivering innovations that transform immersive entertainment experiences, including the office of the Chief Technology Officer, image and sound research and development, prototyping, and technical operations. He previously served in various positions at Adobe from 2009 through 2022, most recently as Vice President and Fellow at Adobe Research, where he focused on delivering high impact technologies to Adobe's Digital Experience and Document Cloud businesses. Prior to joining Adobe, Dr. Revankar was a Xerox Fellow and the head of Smart Systems Lab and also the Chief Architect of the Production Solutions business at Xerox Corporation. He has a masters and Ph.D. in computer science from State University of New York at Buffalo.

Peter Gotcher has served as a director since June 2003 and as Chair of the Board of Directors since March 2011. Mr. Gotcher served as Executive Chair of the Board of Directors from March 2009 to March 2011. Mr. Gotcher is an independent investor. Mr. Gotcher was a venture partner with Redpoint Ventures, a private investment firm, from September 1999 to January 2003. Prior to joining Redpoint Ventures, Mr. Gotcher was a venture partner with Institutional Venture Partners, a private investment firm, from 1997 to September 1999. Prior to joining Institutional Venture Partners, Mr. Gotcher founded and served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Digidesign from 1984 to 1995. Digidesign was acquired by Avid Technology, a media software company, in 1995 and Mr. Gotcher served as the General Manager of Digidesign and Executive Vice President of Avid Technology from January 1995 to May 1996. Mr. Gotcher has served on the board of directors of GoPro, Inc. since June 2014, and served on the board of directors of Pandora Media, Inc. from September 2005 to May 2017. Mr. Gotcher also serves on the boards of directors of several private companies. Mr. Gotcher holds a B.A. degree in English literature from the University of California at Berkeley.

Avadis Tevanian, Jr. has served as a director since February 2009. Dr. Tevanian serves as a Managing Director of NextEquity Partners, a firm he co-founded in July 2015, making venture capital investments. Previously, Dr. Tevanian served as the Software Chief Technology Officer of Apple Inc. from 2003 to 2006. As Software CTO, Dr. Tevanian focused on setting the company-wide software technology direction for Apple. Prior to his tenure as Software CTO, Dr. Tevanian was Senior Vice President of Software at Apple, a role he took on when Apple acquired NeXT, Inc. in 1997. As Senior Vice President of Software, Dr. Tevanian led the software engineering team responsible for the creation of macOS and worked as part of Apple's executive team. Before joining Apple, he was Vice President of Engineering at NeXT, Inc. and was responsible for managing NeXT's engineering department. Dr. Tevanian started his professional career at Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a principal designer and engineer of the Mach operating system upon which Nextstep, and now macOS and iOS, are based. Dr. Tevanian previously served on the board of directors of Tellme Networks, Inc., an internet telecom company, from May 2006 until the company was acquired by Microsoft in March 2007. He holds a B.A. degree in mathematics from the University of Rochester and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Emily Rollins has served as a director since February 2021. She served in various positions at Deloitte & Touche LLP from 1992 to 2020, including as an Audit and Assurance Partner from 2006 until her retirement in September 2020. At Deloitte, Ms. Rollins served technology and media companies and guided hundreds of clients through complex audit and reporting processes. Ms. Rollins also served in positions of increasing responsibility, including leadership roles in Deloitte's US Technology, Media, and Telecommunications industry group, Audit Innovation and Transformation, and Diversity and Inclusion. She led firmwide initiatives to recruit, develop, and retain women and diverse professionals as well as transform and modernize Deloitte's audit platform. Ms. Rollins has served on the board of directors of Xometry, Inc., an AI-enabled marketplace for on-demand manufacturing enabling buyers to efficiently source on-demand manufactured parts and assemblies, since March 2021 and serves as chair of Xometry's Audit Committee and member of the Environmental and Social Governance Committee. She also has served on the board of directors of Science 37 Holdings, Inc., a research company that specializes in decentralized clinical trials to enable universal access to clinical research, since October 2021 and is chair of Science 37's Audit Committee. Ms. Rollins also serves on the boards of three private technology companies and several non-profit entities and associations. Ms. Rollins is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a B.A. degree in Accounting and International Relations from Claremont McKenna College.

Simon Segars has served as a director since February 2015. From 1991 to 2022, Mr. Segars worked for Arm Ltd (known as Arm Holdings Plc prior to 2017), a designer and provider of microprocessors, software development tools and related technologies that was publicly held until its acquisition by SoftBank Group Corp. in September 2016. Mr. Segars served as Arm's Chief Executive Officer from July 2013, and as a member of its board of directors from 2005, to February 2022, respectively. Mr. Segars also served as a member of SoftBank Group Corp.'s board of directors from June 2017 to June 2021. He served as President of Arm in 2013 before being promoted to Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Segars held the position of Executive Vice President and General Manager, Physical IP Division, from 2007 to 2012. Prior senior roles at Arm include Executive Vice President, Engineering; Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales; and Executive Vice President, Business Development. Mr. Segars worked on many of the early Arm CPU products and led the development of the ARM7 and ARM9 Thumb families. He holds a number of patents in the field of embedded CPU architectures. Mr. Segars received his Bachelors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Sussex, and obtained a Masters of Computer Science from the University of Manchester. In recognition of his extraordinary lifetime accomplishments and his impact on the global technology industry, Mr. Segars was conferred an Honorary Doctor of Science from the University of Sussex in 2019. In July 2024, Mr. Segars was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society. Mr. Segars has served on the board of directors of Vodafone Group Plc, a multinational telecommunications company, since July 2022, where he serves as a member of the ESG Committee, and has served as chair of the Technology Committee since July 2023. Mr. Segars also serves on the boards of directors of Edge Impulse, a development platform for machine learning on edge devices, Silicon Quantum Computing Pty Ltd, a developer of quantum computing systems where he is board Chair, and TechWorks, a UK industry association.

Tony Prophet has served as a director since December 2021. Mr. Prophet was formerly the Chief Equality and Recruiting Officer at salesforce.com, inc. (Salesforce), which he joined in September 2016 until July 2021. Before Salesforce, Mr. Prophet served as Corporate Vice President, Education Marketing, of Microsoft Corporation, from June 2015 to September 2016, as Corporate Vice President, Windows and Search Marketing, from February 2015 to June 2015, and as Corporate Vice President, Windows Marketing, from May 2014 to February 2015. Prior to Microsoft, Mr. Prophet held leadership roles at HP Inc. from 2006 to 2014, including leading worldwide PC and printing operations. Before that, Mr. Prophet served in positions of increasing responsibility at multiple organizations, including leading worldwide operations for the Carrier Business unit of United Technologies and rising to Partner at Booz Allen Hamilton. In addition to his operating roles, Mr. Prophet served on the board of directors of Gannett Co., Inc., a subscription-led and digitally focused media and marketing solutions company, from 2013 to May 2019. Mr. Prophet is also a Board Advisor to Aviso AI, a provider of a predictive revenue intelligence platform, since September 2021. He holds a BS in industrial engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University) and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Anjali Sud has served as a director since May 2019. Ms. Sud has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Tubi, Inc., a subsidiary of the Fox Corporation that provides free ad-supported TV streaming service in the United States, since September 2023. Before Tubi, from July 2017 to August 2023, Ms. Sud served as the Chief Executive Officer of Vimeo, Inc., a provider of cloud-based software tools that enable creative professionals, marketers and enterprises to stream, host, distribute and monetize videos online and across devices. She also served on Vimeo's board of directors from May 2021 to August 2023. Prior to that, Ms. Sud held various positions at Vimeo since July 2014, before being promoted to CEO in July 2017. Before Vimeo, Ms. Sud served in various positions at Amazon.com, Inc. from 2010 to 2014, most recently as Director of Marketing. Ms. Sud holds a B.S. degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.

Todd Pendleton joined us in July 2018 as Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. He leads Dolby's marketing efforts and is responsible for promoting the brand globally to consumers and through its partners. Prior to Dolby, Mr. Pendleton led his own marketing creative agency, Defi 9, working with start-ups and entertainment personalities. Prior to leading his own business, Mr. Pendleton served as Chief Marketing Officer of Samsung Telecommunications America from June 2011 to April 2015, where he, among other things, led the launch of the Samsung Galaxy mobile franchise. Prior to Samsung Telecommunications America, Mr. Pendleton was with Nike for over 15 years, where he held country, regional, and global leadership roles working across North America, Europe, and Asia. Mr. Pendleton earned his B.A. degree in Political Science and International Business from Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts.

On February 5, 2019, the Board of Directors of Dolby Laboratories, Inc. approved the appointment of Mr. Ryan Nicholson as the Company's principal accounting officer, effective immediately. Mr. Nicholson joined Dolby in September 2011 and has served as Vice President, Corporate Controller since July 2015. He currently leads Dolby's global accounting and external reporting. Prior to Dolby, Mr. Nicholson spent eleven years in public accounting in Ernst & Young's Silicon Valley office. During his tenure with Ernst & Young, Mr. Nicholson served as a Senior Manager on two Fortune 100 Companies and spent two years as a Pacific Northwest resident in the Professional Practice Group. He also spent four years advising on the accounting for complex transactions at eBay Inc. Mr. Nicholson earned his B.S. degree in Accounting from the University of Wyoming.