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Mr. Meyercord has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer since April 2015. Mr. Meyercord joined our Board of Directors as an independent director in October 2009 and served as Chair from March 2011 until August 2015. Prior to assuming his operating role at Extreme Networks in April 2015, Mr. Meyercord was Chief Executive Officer and Director at Critical Alert Systems, LLC, a privately held software-driven, healthcare information technology company from 2011 to 2015. Prior to that, Mr. Meyercord served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director of Cavalier Telephone, LLC, a privately held voice, video, and data services company, from 2006 to 2009. He served as Chief Executive Officer, President, and Director of Talk America Holdings, Inc., a publicly traded company that provided phone and internet services to consumers and small businesses throughout the United States, from 1996 to 2006. Earlier in his career, Mr. Meyercord served as a VP in the investment banking division of Salomon Brothers Inc. (now part of Citigroup, Inc.), a Wall Street investment bank, from 1993 to 1996. He also served on the board of Tollgrade Communications, Inc., a then publicly traded telecommunications company, from August 2009 to May 2011. Mr. Meyercord has served as a director of SpayFirst, a non-profit animal welfare organization, since 2017. Mr. Meyercord holds a B.A. in economics from Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and an M.B.A. from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

Kevin Rhodes has served as the Company's EVP, Chief Financial Officer, and Treasurer since May 30, 2023. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Rhodes served as EVP & Chief Financial Officer of Boston-based Duck Creek Technologies, a publicly traded leading provider of insurance software solutions, from 2022 to 2023. He previously held Chief Financial Officer positions at Finvi from 2020 to 2022, Markforged from 2018 to 2020, and Brightcove from 2014 to 2018. Mr. Rhodes is a Certified Public Accountant since 1994 and holds a B.S. degree from Merrimack College with a dual major in accounting and finance. Mr. Rhodes was awarded an M.B.A. from Babson F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business, graduating summa cum laude. Mr. Rhodes currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Merrimack College.

Katayoun (Katy) Motiey was hired by the Company in 2015 and serves as EVP, Chief Legal, Administrative & Sustainability Officer, and Corporate Secretary. Ms. Motiey has served in roles of various responsibility and currently serves as the Company's Chief Legal, Administrative & Sustainability Officer, as well as EVP and Corporate Secretary. Before joining the Company, Ms. Motiey was Corporate SVP, General Counsel & Secretary at Spansion spanning from 2013 to 2015. Prior to that, she was General Counsel & Secretary and VP of Human Resources at InvenSense in 2012, and General Counsel & Secretary at Magellan Navigation & Ashtech spanning from 2004 to 2012, and Maple Optical Systems, as well as being Senior Corporate Counsel at Alta Vista. She began her career as a law clerk to the late Judge Manuel Real, who was then the Chief Judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California, followed by time as an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Ms. Motiey holds B.A. and J.D. degrees from Georgetown University. Ms. Motiey served on the Georgetown Law Alumni Board from 2016 to 2021, chairing the board from 2019 to 2021. In 2022, she joined the Georgetown University Law Center Board of Visitors as a member, and she continues to serve in that capacity.

Mr. Shoemaker has served as one of our directors since October 2007 and has been the Chair of the Board since February 2017. He currently serves as a consultant to the high technology industry and also serves as a mentor to corporate executives. Since April 2023, Mr. Shoemaker has served as an advisor/investor of TalentSky, Inc., a private startup in the career development space. He served as a director for NYRIAD, a privately held software development company, from 2017 until 2025, and served on the board of directors of Altera Corporation, a publicly traded provider of programmable logic solutions, from 2007 until it was acquired by Intel Corporation in 2015. Mr. Shoemaker was a member of the board of directors of SonicWall, a then publicly traded firewall and cybersecurity solutions company, from 2004 to 2010, serving as its chair from 2007 to 2010. Mr. Shoemaker is a member of the Board of Trustees at Hanover College and a member of the Indiana University School of Business Dean's Advisory Council for the school of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering, and the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship Board. Mr. Shoemaker's executive management experience includes various positions from 1990 to 2004 at Sun Microsystems, Inc., where he held roles that included EVP, Worldwide Operations Organizations and EVP and General Manager for its Computer Systems Division. Mr. Shoemaker previously held a number of senior executive positions with the Xerox Corporation, a provider of document management technology and services, including as SVP, Worldwide Marketing. Mr. Shoemaker earned a B.A. in political science and business administration from Hanover College and an M.B.A. from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business. Mr. Shoemaker was named the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Kelley School of Business in 2019 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree that same year.

Mr. Khanna has served as one of our directors since December 2014. Since 2012, Mr. Khanna has served as an independent consultant, assisting companies with finance and internal audit issues. From 2004 to 2011, Mr. Khanna served as VP of Corporate Audit at Qualcomm, Inc., a publicly-traded semiconductor company. Prior to Qualcomm, Mr. Khanna held various finance roles at Sun Microsystems, Inc., from 1991 to 2004, including International Controller, VP Finance for Global Services Business and Senior Director of Finance for Strategic Business Units, and at Xerox Corporation, a provider of document management technology and services, from 1974 to 1991. Mr. Khanna holds a B. Tech in mechanical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology and a M.B.A. from the University of Rochester, New York. Rajendra Khanna will not be standing for re-election at the AGM on 04th November 2026.

Ms. Holmgren has served as one of our directors since November 2015. In May 2026, Ms. Holmgren joined the Board of Directors of Mission Produce, Inc., a publicly traded agricultural, marketing, and distribution company. She also is a member of the Board of Directors of Automation Anywhere, Inc., a privately held American global software company that provides an AI-powered platform for end-to-end process automation, where she serves as chair of their compensation committee. Ms. Holmgren was also the Chief Operating Officer for Automation Anywhere, Inc. from March 2013 through August 2015 and then served as Chief Officer - Future Workforce until March 2018. Ms. Holmgren joined the board of directors of Calavo Growers, Inc., a publicly traded food and distribution company, in January 2017 and was serving as chair of the board at the time of the company's acquisition in May 2026 by Mission Produce. From May 2017 through January 2021, Ms. Holmgren was a member of the Board of Directors of Fresh Realm, LLC, a privately held delivery and business platform for the perishable food industry, representing Calavo Growers' interests. In June 2021, Ms. Holmgren became an advisor to Circle Security, a cybersecurity platform powered by a patented decentralized cryptographic architecture purpose-built to deliver true prevention. She served on the Board of Group Delphi, a private design and media production company, from July 2014 through December 2019, and from October 2009 to December 2016, she served as a director at the Alliance of Chief Executives, LLC, an organization for chief executives. Since 2008, Ms. Holmgren has served as a Principal at Sage Advice Partners, a management consulting firm specializing in the high-tech and green-tech markets. She held the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Mendocino Software, a privately held enterprise-class application data developer, from November 2007 to March 2008. Prior to November 2007, Ms. Holmgren spent over 20 years at Sun Microsystems, Inc., a publicly held enterprise software company acquired by Oracle Corporation in 2010, where she held increasingly senior roles, culminating in SVP, Storage Systems. Ms. Holmgren holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from California Polytechnic State University and an M.B.A from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Carinalli has served as one of our directors since October 1996. Mr. Carinalli has been a Principal of Carinalli Ventures since January 2002. Mr. Carinalli has extensive public and private board experience, having served as a director of Algorithmic Intuition, Inc., a privately held medical electronics company, from 2020 to 2023; Dhaani Systems, a privately held IT-energy management company from 2009 to 2023; Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc., a publicly traded semiconductor company from 2002 until its acquisition by ON Semiconductor, a publicly traded semiconductor company, in 2016; Atmel Corporation, a publicly traded semiconductor company, from 2008 until its acquisition by Microchip Technology in 2016; and Clearwater Communications, Inc., a privately held telecommunications company, from 2000 to 2001. From 1999 to May 2002, Mr. Carinalli was Chief Executive Officer and a director of Adaptive Silicon, Inc., a privately held developer of semiconductor products. From December 1996 to July 1999, Mr. Carinalli served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and a director of WaveSpan Corporation, a developer of wireless broadband access systems until the company was acquired by Proxim, Inc., a broadband wireless networking systems company. From 1970 to 1996, Mr. Carinalli served in various positions at National Semiconductor Corporation, a publicly traded semiconductor company that developed and sold analog-based semiconductor and integrated communication products, most recently serving as SVP and Chief Technical Officer. Mr. Carinalli holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.S. in electrical engineering from Santa Clara University.

Mr. Kennedy has served as one of our directors since April 2011. Mr. Kennedy served on the Board of Directors of Motionworks, a predictive population intelligence platform, from May 2023 to December 2024. He has previous public company board experience, having served as a director of Visual Networks, Inc., a network and performance management solutions provider, from 2002 until it was acquired by Fluke Electronic Corporation, an electronic test tools and software company, in 2006. He also served on several private boards: Avizia from 2014 until its merger with American Well in July 2018; Hatteras Networks from 2005 to 2011, when Hatteras Networks merged with Overture; and Imagine Communications from 2007 until its acquisition by Harris Broadcast in 2010. He also served as a board member of the Grid Wise Alliance, a leading industry coalition driving the modernization of the U.S. electric system from 2013 to 2017. He currently serves on the Virginia Tech Dean of Engineering Advisory Committee. He served on the Executive Parent Board of Villanova University from 2015 through 2025 and was a Trustee of Flint Hill School, a private JK-12 college preparatory school in Oakton, Virginia, from 2011 to 2020. Since September 2018, Mr. Kennedy has been a Principal at Kenko Partners, a consulting and investment firm focused on technology and real estate. From June 2017 until September 2018, Mr. Kennedy served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Cenx, Inc., a leader in service orchestration solutions for software-defined and virtualized networks before the company was acquired by LM Ericsson in 2018. From June 2010 to April 2017, Mr. Kennedy served as the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Tollgrade Communications, Inc., a telecommunication and smart grid company which he took private to Golden Gate Capital and then later divested the Smart Grid business to Hubbell (Aclara) and divested the Telco business to Enghouse Systems, a Canadian-based, publicly traded software and services company, in April 2017. Mr. Kennedy previously served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Rivulet Communications, Inc., a medical video networking company, from 2007 until it was acquired by NDS Surgical Imaging, LLC, a medical imaging and informatics systems company, in 2010. He also previously served as President of Tellabs North American Operations, an optical network technology company, and as EVP of Tellabs, Inc. from 2002 to 2004. Mr. Kennedy co-founded Ocular Networks, Inc., a provider of optical networking technologies, in 1999 and served as its Chief Executive Officer and President until it was sold to Tellabs, Inc. in 2002. He has also held various executive positions at several telecommunications equipment companies, including Alcatel-Lucent S.A. (previously Alcatel Data Network), a publicly traded French global telecommunications equipment company, and Newbridge Networks Corporation, a then publicly traded Canadian digital networking equipment company. Mr. Kennedy was a Venture Partner at Columbia Capital, a private equity investment firm, from 2005 to 2007, where he advised regarding investments into new and existing portfolio companies. Mr. Kennedy holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.

Ms. Burton has served as one of our directors since August 2019. She serves as a member of the board of directors of FemtoAI (formerly Femtosense), an AI neuromorphic computing company. She serves as an advisor to Luminous.AI, a software startup focused on AI risk and audits, a position she has held since October 2022. From May 2024 to October 2024, she served as the marketing leader at Groq, an AI inference technology company. She was an advisor to Dataiku, a leader in enterprise AI, from June 2021 to March 2024. From May 2022 to October 2023, she was a member of the board of directors of Fogo de Chao. Ms. Burton previously served as Chief Marketing Officer for Quantcast, a global advertising technology company, which position she held from November 2020 to March 2022. She served as Chief Marketing Officer at H2O.ai, an open source AI and machine learning technology company from February 2018 to August 2020. Previously, from July 2015 to March 2017, Ms. Burton was Chief Marketing Officer of Hortonworks, a data software company. From January 2013 to June 2015, Ms. Burton was SVP for Technology and Innovation Marketing, with SAP, a global enterprise software company. Ms. Burton previously held chief marketing officer positions with Silver Spring Networks and Plantronics, and held various executive and senior management positions in marketing over 20 years with Sun Microsystems. Ms. Burton holds a B.A. in Mathematics with a focus in Computer Science from San Jose State University. In addition, she holds the National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Directorship Certification and has completed the NACD Cybersecurity course, earning the CERT Certificate in Cyber-Risk Oversight. This certificate, developed by NACD, Ridge Global, and the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, demonstrates her commitment to advanced cybersecurity literacy.

Mr. Pasek has served as one of our directors since January 2026. He is a seasoned technology executive with more than 30 years of finance, operations, strategy, and board experience. Mr. Pasek served from 2016 to 2020 as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Committee member of NetApp, Inc., a publicly traded hybrid cloud and data services company, where he led finance, IT, internal audit, workplace resources, and customer leasing functions. Prior to NetApp, Mr. Pasek served as Chief Financial Officer of Altera Corporation, a publicly traded semiconductor company, from 2009 until the company's acquisition by Intel in 2015, and he previously held several senior finance positions during his 19-year career at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Mr. Pasek currently serves as a director and audit committee chair of SunPower Inc., a publicly traded company, and as a director of Astroscale Holdings Inc., a company traded on the Tokyo Stock Exchange. He previously served on the boards of directors of Spectra7 Microsystems, Zendesk, and SADA. Mr. Pasek holds a B.S. in finance from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. from Santa Clara University and is a member of NACD.