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Elizabeth A. LaPuma has served as a Director of Ionic Digital since January 2024 and as Chair since September 2024. Ms. LaPuma brings over two decades of financial advisory and board expertise across diverse industries. With a strong background in originating and structuring complex financial transactions, she is a trusted advisor to numerous business leaders. Ms. LaPuma's principal occupation is serving as a director of several public and private companies, including, from January 2025 through November 2025, Big Lots, Inc., a discount retailer; from April 2024 through April 2025, ContextLogic Inc., an e-commerce platform; from September 2023 through August 2024, Ebix Inc., a software solutions company; from August 2023 through June 2024, WeWork Inc., a workspace provider; and from June 2023 through October 2023, Surgalign Holdings, Inc., a global medical technology company. Ms. LaPuma is a board member for several private businesses within the fintech, AI, healthcare, consumer, and real estate sectors. Prior to these roles, from January 2020 to August 2023, Ms. LaPuma was a Managing Director and Head of Balance Sheet Advisory at UBS, the global investment bank. Prior to UBS, from July 2013 to January 2020, she was a Managing Director and Head of Asset Management Services at Alvarez & Marsal, where Ms. LaPuma advised governments and financial institutions on diverse assets. Ms. LaPuma previously held positions at BlackRock, Lazard Freres & Co. LLC, Credit Suisse and Perella Weinberg Partners L.P. Ms. LaPuma received her M.B.A. in Finance as a Palmer Scholar and B.S. in Finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and her B.A. in International Relations, magna cum laude, from The School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. Ms. LaPuma has been selected to serve as a Director due to her extensive financial advisory experience (including with complex capital raising and other financial transactions), experience as an advisor to and board director for companies in the AI sector, service as a fiduciary for public and private companies, and her leadership with the Company since its inception.

Scott Flanders has served as a Director of Ionic Digital since July 2024. Mr. Flanders is a seasoned executive with extensive experience in the media, entertainment, and technology industries. His principal occupation is as the Chairman of Fathom Holdings Inc., a publicly listed, national technology driven real-estate platform company since November 2023, and brings a wealth of leadership and governance expertise to the Ionic Digital board. He also served as Chairman of the board of Digital Media Solutions, Inc. a digital performance marketing provider, from June 2023 to February 2025. Mr. Flanders has a distinguished career, having served as the CEO of several prominent companies, including eHealth, Inc, Playboy Enterprises, Freedom Communications, and Columbia House. As the CEO of eHealth, Inc., a position he held from May 2016 until October 2021, Mr. Flanders developed and executed a strategic growth plan that significantly expanded the company's market share in the Medicare Advantage and small business insurance markets. His leadership was also pivotal in transforming Playboy Enterprises (CEO May 2009-May 2016 and Director July 2009-2019) into a brand management company. Mr. Flanders served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Freedom Communications, Inc., including as a member of its Board of Directors from 2001 to 2009. From September 1999 to July 2005, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Columbia House Company, which was acquired by Bertelsmann AG in July 2005. Mr. Flanders is both an attorney and a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), and he holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of Colorado and a J.D. from the Maurer School of Law at Indiana University.

Thomas DiFiore has served as a Director of Ionic Digital Inc. since January 2024. Since 2021, Mr. DiFiore has served as President of DOBAC LLC, a business consulting firm providing strategic guidance on operational and management issues. From 2015 to 2021, he was the CEO of Fullerton Auto Group, a franchised automotive dealership network. Since 2015, Mr. DiFiore has also served as President of Fullerton Reinsurance Company, overseeing claims management and investment strategy for the company's reinsurance asset pool. Mr. DiFiore served as the Co-Chair of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors (UCC) in the Celsius Network LLC bankruptcy from July 2022 through February 2024, playing a leading role in the reorganization process of one of the largest crypto bankruptcy cases to date. In August 2024, Mr. DiFiore was named an advisor to World Liberty Financial, a cryptocurrency platform focused on decentralized finance and tokenized real-world assets, which just recently launched the stable coin, USD1. Earlier in his career, Mr. DiFiore was among the earliest adopters of bitcoin, beginning to mine in 2010 using custom-built miners and open-source software. His hands-on involvement with the network's foundational infrastructure gave him deep technical insight into the evolution of cryptocurrencies over the past fifteen years. In addition to his business experience, Mr. DiFiore has served for more than eight years as a member of the Advisory Council for the Somerset Patriots, the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees. In 1999, Mr. DiFiore graduated from the National Automobile Dealers Association's Dealer Academy.

Scott Duffy has served as a Director of Ionic Digital since January 2024, bringing deep subject matter expertise in blockchain, bitcoin mining, decentralized finance, and cryptocurrency management. Mr. Duffy served as the Co-Chair of the Official Committee of Unsecured Creditors in the Celsius Network LLC bankruptcy from July 2022 through February 2024, playing a leading role in the reorganization process of one of the largest crypto bankruptcy cases to date. Mr. Duffy oversaw billions of dollars in workload transition to ERP systems at the Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS), facilitating major base realignment and closure initiatives for armed services and defense agency customers. He established and chaired the Columbus Mission Focus Group while at DFAS implementing the first pilot telework program for over 2,000 civilian employees. Since December 2017, he has served as CEO of ICB Solutions, a family investment firm of which he is the sole shareholder. Mr. Duffy's commitment to education and community is reflected in his service on the Ohio Dominican University Finance Advisory Board and, until recently, on the Oakstone Community School Board as a member of the Finance Committee. Mr. Duffy holds a B.S. in Finance and Business Administration from Ohio Dominican University.

Oliver Wiener has served as a Director of Ionic Digital since July 2025. Mr. Wiener is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kensington Merchant Partners, a merchant bank, investment management and corporate development advisory business focused on Financials, Fintech, Insurance, Insuretech and Blockchain verticals, since January 2023. Previously, he served as a Portfolio Manager at Standard Investments from May 2021 until December 2022. Prior to that, Mr. Wiener served as Founding Team Member and Partner at BTIG, LLC, a global financial services firm from March 2003 until May 2021. Mr. Wiener has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Chain Bridge I (NASDAQ: CBRGU) since February 2024, and The National Security Group, Inc., an insurance holding company since October 2024. In addition, Mr. Wiener serves as a board observer at Figment Inc., a leading provider of blockchain infrastructure since 2022, an advisory board member at Extend since 2021, as well as advisor to investment firms Figment Capital since July 2021 and Hangar since March 2023. Mr. Wiener served as a founding member and former President of the board of the Association for Digital Asset Markets, a private, non-profit, industry-led, broad-based association of firms operating in the cryptocurrency space from November 2018 until May 2021. He is an active member of the Economic Club of New York and the University of Wisconsin College of Letters and Science Board of Visitors, as well as the UW Technology Entrepreneurship Office Advisory Council. He received a B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Michael Abbate has served as a Director of Ionic Digital since July 2025. Mr. Abbate is the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of GreenWulf Asset Management, an opportunistic asset management firm focused on AI infrastructure and financial technology, since July 2025. He also served as an Advisor to Figure Technology Solutions, Inc. (Figure) through February 2026 following his tenure as Chief Information Officer from January 2024 through February 2025. Mr. Abbate served as Managing Partner of NovaWulf Digital Management, LP an investment manager focused on distressed cryptocurrencies and energy infrastructure from June 2021 through December 2023. From 2012 through December 2020, Mr. Abbate was a Partner at King Street Capital Management, L.P., a leading global alternative asset manager. Mr. Abbate started his career as an investment banker in global technology at Morgan Stanley and received a Bachelor of Computer Science and Engineering from Dartmouth College.

Andy Stewart has served as Chief Executive Officer and Director of Ionic Digital since November 2025. Mr. Stewart has more than 25 years of experience in the digital infrastructure industry, most recently serving as an independent advisor and consultant regarding digital infrastructure businesses from 2024 through 2025 and as the Chief Executive Officer of Evoque Data Center Solutions (Evoque) from 2020 until 2023. At Evoque, he successfully implemented a strategy to optimize its portfolio of data centers and shift sales efforts to hyperscale edge and large enterprise deployments. Prior to his time at Evoque, Mr. Stewart served as Chief Executive Officer of TierPoint, leading the company through a series of eleven acquisitions and over $2 billion of equity and debt financing transactions from 2010 until 2016. He later served as Chief Strategy Officer of TierPoint, with responsibilities encompassing service delivery, product development, and corporate strategy from 2016 until 2018. Prior to TierPoint, he served in various senior leadership roles at Cequel III, where he held roles across finance, corporate development, and operations across several communications infrastructure businesses including Suddenlink (cable), AAT (towers), and Broadwing (fiber) from 2002 until 2010. Mr. Stewart started his career in New York at JP Morgan and later worked for American Express and Charter Communications. He previously served on the Board of Directors of Flexential and as a Senior Advisor at Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners from 2024 until 2025. He earned a BA from Denison University and holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University in St. Louis.

Chris Hickman has served as Chief Financial Officer of Ionic Digital since May 2026. Mr. Hickman has more than 20 years of experience in finance across the digital infrastructure and energy sectors. From January 2025 until April 2026, Mr. Hickman served as Chief Executive Officer of Tillman Infrastructure, LLC, and from April 2024 until December 2024, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Tillman Infrastructure, LLC. Mr. Hickman has held senior leadership roles at Crown Castle International Corp., a publicly traded U.S. wireless infrastructure company, including as Vice President of Investor Relations & Capital Markets from January 2021 until April 2024, where he was responsible for investor relations, capital markets and strategic planning functions, and as Vice President of Finance & Strategy from October 2018 until January 2021, where he was responsible for operational finance and strategy. Earlier in his career, Mr. Hickman held senior finance, strategy and corporate development roles at Noble Energy, Inc., where in 2018, he served as the commercial lead for deal structuring and negotiations for the company's largest domestic asset, and in prior roles through which he led the successful initial public offering of Noble Midstream Partners and established the finance organization supporting a multi-billion-dollar joint venture. Mr. Hickman received his Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from Texas A&M University.

Mark Lambourne has served as Chief Development Officer of Ionic Digital since March 2026. Mr. Lambourne brings over 30 years of experience in the digital infrastructure industry. He has worked with numerous data center operating businesses as well as private equity and real estate investment companies, where he has overseen the development of new facilities, acquisitions and transformation of existing assets, and investment opportunities in digital infrastructure operating companies in major markets. Mr. Lambourne has served as the Managing Director and President for DC Capital Group, an independent business advisory, strategy and investment firm, since January 2009. He was also President of Digital Infrastructure Advisors Ltd. from September 2022 until its sale in 2025. Mr. Lambourne has overseen the predevelopment of a Hyperscale Build to Suit project, the commercial due diligence of several successful platform acquisitions for capital funds, completed the packaging of numerous Powered Land development projects and provided investment management advisory services on numerous data center assets. Other roles previously held by Mr. Lambourne include: (i) European Managing Director for Digital Realty Trust from 2006 to 2008, where he was responsible for establishing corporate operations and acquiring existing data center assets and development sites throughout Europe, (ii) Chief Executive Officer of ClearBlue Technologies from 2001 to 2004, where he oversaw the acquisition of eight companies in the data center business leading to a reverse merger into Navisite, a publicly traded Nasdaq entity, and (iii) Chief Operating Officer for Global Switch from 1999 to 2001, where he helped develop their data center properties throughout Europe and Asia. Mr. Lambourne received his Bachelor of Arts in Human Movement from the University of Kent and a Masters in Physical Education from the University of California, Berkeley.

Antonio Piraino has served as Chief Strategy Officer of Ionic Digital since February 2026. Mr. Piraino brings 30 years of experience in digital infrastructure, data centers, cloud computing, and AI-enabled technology platforms. From 2011 to 2020, he served as Chief Technology Officer of ScienceLogic, where he led the company's technology vision and product strategy as it expanded its infrastructure monitoring and AIOps platform for global enterprises, data center operators, and managed service providers. From 2007 to 2011, he served as Vice President of Research at Tier1 Research (a division of 451 Research, now part of S&P Global Market Intelligence), where he led research and advisory coverage of managed hosting, colocation, CDN, and cloud infrastructure markets. Following his tenure at ScienceLogic, Mr. Piraino served in senior advisory leadership roles at Uptime Institute, including as Global Head of its Technical Advisory Group, leading international engagements focused on data center strategy, site selection, capacity planning, risk mitigation, and technical due diligence. He has also advised private equity firms, including ORIX Capital Partners and Hg Capital, on technology investment strategy and acquisition diligence, and founded early-stage ventures focused on AI-enabled cloud and digital infrastructure solutions. Mr. Piraino holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Natal, an International MBA from Georgetown University, and has completed professional education in Applied Data Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Richard Carson has served as General Counsel of Ionic Digital since May 2026. Mr. Carson has over 30 years of experience as a corporate attorney and executive, with a focus on energy infrastructure, capital markets, and regulated industries, including initial public offerings and other capital markets transactions. Mr. Carson has served as a member of the Board of Directors of Prahsys Inc., a financial technology company, since 2024, where he also served as Chief Legal Officer until May 2026. Prior to that, Mr. Carson served as Associate General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Magellan Midstream Partners, L.P. (NYSE: MMP) from 2022 to 2023. From 2013 to 2022, he served as Vice President and General Counsel, and later as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, of Cypress Energy Partners, L.P. (NYSE: CELP), a publicly traded energy infrastructure services company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Carson served in various legal roles at The Williams Companies, Inc. (NYSE: WMB) from 1999 to 2008, where he advised on securities, corporate finance, and capital markets matters, including initial public offerings and other financing transactions, and also previously served as a shareholder, director and officer at GableGotwals, a law firm, where he represented public and private companies in securities offerings, financings, mergers and acquisitions, and other corporate transactions. Mr. Carson received a Juris Doctor from the University of Oklahoma and a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, from the University of Tulsa.