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Scott Staples has served as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2017. Prior to joining First Advantage, Mr. Staples co-founded Mindtree Ltd., a digital transformation and IT Services company, and served as President Americas & Global Head of Business Groups for 17 years. Mr. Staples spent the first 10 years of his career in various roles at Cambridge Technology Partners, Gemini Consulting and Prudential. Mr. Staples holds a B.A. from the University of Delaware and an M.B.A. from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Madison, New Jersey.

Joelle M. Smith has served as our President since September 2024. Prior to her appointment, Ms. Smith served as our President, Data, Technology, and Experience from May 2022 to September 2024. Prior to that role, Ms. Smith served as Chief Experience Officer from January 2020 to May 2022, and she served as Executive Vice President, Resident and Investigative Research of the Company from July 2017 to December 2019. Prior to First Advantage, Ms. Smith held various roles as vice president at Mindtree from July 2012 to July 2017. Ms. Smith holds a Bachelor of Science from East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania.

Bret T. Jardine has served as our Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary since November 2024. Mr. Jardine previously served as our Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since January 2011. From November 2009 to December 2010, Mr. Jardine was the head of the legal department of the First Advantage business, which had been an operating division within First American and was later spun off to a company that became known as Corelogic and then was subsequently sold in December 2010. Prior to that, in 2009 when First Advantage was previously a public company, Mr. Jardine was acting General Counsel until November of that year. Before joining First Advantage in August 2004, Mr. Jardine practiced law at Zimmet, Unice, Salzman, Heyman and Jardine PA for nearly a decade, with experience in class actions and regulatory inquiries as well as corporate transactional work and corporate governance. Mr. Jardine holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Florida and a J.D. from Stetson University College of Law.

Douglas Nairne has served as the Global Chief Operating Officer of First Advantage since November 2024. Mr. Nairne previously served as our Chief Operating Officer, International, overseeing operations in the Asia-Pacific (APAC), India, and Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) regions since joining First Advantage in 2021. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Nairne held the position of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Dataflow Group, a background screening company focused on high-risk, internationally mobile professionals. Before his tenure at Dataflow, Mr. Nairne held various positions, including an officer in the Canadian Army, a journalist for the South China Morning Post, and Chief Operating Officer of IntegraScreen. Mr. Nairne holds a B.A. from the University of Manitoba, a Master's in Journalism from Hong Kong University, and a Master's in Business Administration from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Steven Marks has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since November 2024. Mr. Marks previously served as our Chief Accounting Officer since February 2022 and Senior Vice President, Accounting and Controller, along with various other accounting leadership functions, since joining the Company in 2016. Before joining the Company, Mr. Marks held accounting and financial reporting roles at Serta Simmons Bedding, LLC. He began his career in public accounting at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Marks holds a B.S. in Accounting and a Master of Accounting from the University of Florida. Mr. Marks is a licensed CPA.

Susan R. Bell has served as our director since June 2021. Ms. Bell currently serves as a member of the boards of directors of Rollins, Inc., RPC, Inc., and Marine Products Corporation and serves on the audit committees of those corporations. She also serves as chair of the Audit Committee of Rollins, Inc. In 2020, Ms. Bell retired from Ernst & Young LLP (EY) after a 36-year career in public accounting, serving in key leadership roles, including Global Financial Accounting Advisory Services Power & Utilities sector leader, Office Managing Partner of EY Atlanta, GA, and Southeast Region Risk Advisory practice leader. Simultaneous with those respective roles, Ms. Bell served as external audit partner or independent quality review partner on external audits. Prior to leading EY's Southeast Region Risk Advisory practice, Ms. Bell served as an audit and business advisory partner at EY and as an audit partner for Arthur Andersen. Ms. Bell graduated summa cum laude from Mississippi State University with a Bachelor of Professional Accountancy and is a Certified Public Accountant in Georgia and Tennessee.

Judith Sim has served as our director since June 2021. Ms. Sim previously held various customer-related and marketing positions at Oracle Corporation from 1991 to April 2020, including as its Chief Marketing Officer from 2005 to April 2020. She has significant leadership and executive experience from her position as head of marketing programs at Oracle, including experience in field marketing, corporate communications, global customer programs, advertising, campaigns, events, and corporate branding. Ms. Sim has been a member of the board of directors at Fortinet Inc, since 2015, serving as the chair of the Human Resources Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance and ESG Committees. She was also a member of the board of directors of the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce from 2015 to 2020. Ms. Sim received a B.S. in dietetics from the University of California at Davis.

Bridgett R. Price has served as our director since June 2022. In 2023, Dr. Price retired from Marriott International after a long career as a human resources leader, including the Global Human Resources Officer for Consumer, Development, and Operations disciplines. From 2009 to 2016, she was based in London as the Chief Human Resources Officer for Europe for Marriott. Dr. Price has held a variety of human resources executive positions in Fortune 500 hospitality and consumer products companies. Dr. Price also served as a Major in the United States Air Force. Dr. Price earned her Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University and Master of Science in Education and Counseling Psychology from the University of Southern California.

James L. Clark has served as our director since June 2021. Since 2012, Mr. Clark is the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Boys & Girls Clubs of America. Mr. Clark began his career at the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel in 1979, where he served in senior leadership roles in distribution, marketing and customer service operations and advanced to Senior Vice President. He departed the media company after 24 years to become President and CEO of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Milwaukee in 2004, for which he had served as a board member. Mr. Clark previously served as a director of Boxlight Corporation and on the governance committee. Mr. Clark holds a Business Administration degree from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

On August 5, 2026, the Company's Board of Directors appointed Sharon Binger as a director of the Board, effective August 6, 2026. Sharon Binger is a Managing Director, the Deputy Chief Legal Officer, and the Chief Compliance Officer of Silver Lake. In her role, she is deeply engaged in helping to lead all facets of the legal and compliance spectrum at Silver Lake from deal-related and portfolio company legal advising to litigation to firm policymaking, fund formation and risk mitigation. She currently serves on the board of Noam. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Ms. Binger was at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission where she served as the regional director of the Philadelphia Regional Office administering the Commission's enforcement and regulatory programs for the Mid-Atlantic region. She began at the SEC in the enforcement division as an attorney and later served as an assistant director of enforcement in the New York office. Before joining the SEC, Ms. Binger was a senior litigation associate at Willkie Farr & Gallagher in New York. Ms. Binger serves as a member on non-profit boards including as a Board Member of the American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley. Ms. Binger received her B.A. from Northwestern University and her J.D. with honors from Duke University.

John Rudella has served as our director since January 2020. Mr. Rudella has been a Senior Advisor of Silver Lake since August 2025. He joined Silver Lake in 2014 and previously served as Director from January 2020 to July 2025. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Rudella served as a U.S. Navy SEAL where he held a variety of leadership positions, worked in technology development, and made multiple deployments to Africa and the Middle East. Mr. Rudella holds a B.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from the U.S. Naval Academy and a M.S. from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. In addition to First Advantage, Mr. Rudella currently serves on the board of Entrata, EverCommerce, Iterable, and the Station Foundation. He previously served on the board of Ancestry.com.

Mark Gillett is a Managing Director and Head of Value Creation at Silver Lake. Mr. Gillett originally joined Silver Lake in 2009 to lead the value creation efforts of Silver Lake in Europe. He rejoined the firm in his current role in 2013 following a period serving as Chief Development and Chief Operating Officer of Skype Global S.a.r.l, a former Silver Lake portfolio company, and as a Corporate Vice President of Microsoft. Mr. Gillett currently serves on the board of directors of Qualtrics, Relativity, WPEngine, and Zuora. Mr. Gillett recently served as interim Co-CEO of Qualtrics from October 2025 to February 2026. He previously served on the board of directors of Quorum Software and European Directories. Prior to Silver Lake, Mr. Gillett was a Managing Director and Partner leading the High Technology, Telecoms and Private Equity practice at Alvarez & Marsal (A&M). While at A&M, he served in interim leadership positions and advisory or operating roles including at Lehman Brothers Holdings International, ADT/Tyco (France), Navigon AG, and iSOFT plc. Mr. Gillett holds twelve US and several international patents in the fields of networking, communications and security and is a Member of the British Computer Society, a Fellow of the Institute of Directors and Member of the IT Service Management Forum.

Joseph Osnoss has served as a director since January 2020. Mr. Osnoss is a Managing Partner of Silver Lake, which he joined in 2002. From 2010 to 2014, he was based in London, where he co-led the firm's activities in EMEA. Prior to joining Silver Lake, Mr. Osnoss worked in investment banking at Goldman, Sachs & Co. In addition to First Advantage, Mr. Osnoss is currently a member of the board of directors of Carta, Cegid, Clubessential Holdings, EverCommerce, where he serves on the Compensation Committee, Global Blue, where he serves on its Nomination and Compensation Committee, Global Payments, LightBox, and Zuora. He previously served as Chairman of the Board of Cast & Crew and as a board director of Cornerstone OnDemand, Instinet, Interactive Data, Mercury Payment Systems, Sabre Corporation, and Virtu Financial. Mr. Osnoss graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College with an A.B. in Applied Mathematics and a citation in French Language. He has remained involved in academics, including as a Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics; as a member of the Dean's Advisory Cabinet at Harvard's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences; as a participant in The Polsky Center Private Equity Council at the University of Chicago; and as a Trustee of Greenwich Academy.