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Mr. Brent J. Guerisoli was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company effective August 1, 2022. He previously served as the President of the Company from January 2021 until his appointment as CEO. He has served as a member of the Company's board of directors since February 2023. Prior to his appointment as President of Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli served as President of Cornerstone Healthcare, Pennant's home health and hospice segment, helping lead the segment through a period of transformational growth, breakout financial performance and enhanced clinical excellence. Since joining the Company in 2012, Mr. Guerisoli has made significant contributions to the financial, clinical, and cultural achievements of Cornerstone and has played a key role in the organization's overall leadership recruiting and training. Throughout his tenure at Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli has developed dozens of leaders and directed the organization's growth efforts across several states. Mr. Guerisoli received his Master of Business Administration from the Walter A. Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to joining Pennant, Mr. Guerisoli completed the executive training program and later served as a business manager at AT&T.

Mr. John J. Gochnour was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Pennant upon its formation in 2019 and was appointed President of Pennant on August 1, 2022. As President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Gochnour oversees the Company's operations across the country and leads Cornerstone Healthcare, the Company's home health and hospice segment. In this role, John has contributed to the Company's dramatic organic and inorganic growth, along with its successful clinical, cultural and financial performance. Prior to the formation of Pennant, Mr. Gochnour served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Cornerstone since January 2013. Mr. Gochnour played a critical role in the acquisition and integration efforts of Cornerstone and Ensign's other new business ventures, by sourcing, negotiating and helping to integrate acquisitions across 12 states and multiple industries. Mr. Gochnour also founded the Cornerstone Service Center, which provides consulting and management services in the areas of finance, legal, human resources, and information technology to operations across the Cornerstone platform. Prior to joining Cornerstone, Mr. Gochnour was an attorney at the law firm Paul Hastings LLP in Costa Mesa, California, where he litigated complex civil disputes and advised clients related to risk management, general liability, and employment issues. Mr. Gochnour received his law degree from the Duke University School of Law.

Ms. Lynette B. Walbom was appointed Chief Financial Officer of the Company on May 22, 2023. Prior to joining Pennant, Ms. Walbom was Vice President of Financial Reporting and Tax for Raising Cane's Restaurants, LLC, a national restaurant chain operating in 35 states, which more than doubled in size-based on number of restaurants and geographic footprint-during her tenure. At Raising Cane's, from 2016 to 2023, Ms. Walbom had broad responsibility for financial reporting, acquisitions, tax, accounting systems, and equity management. From 2003 to 2016, Ms. Walbom was Chief Financial Officer of a family office with investments in companies in several industries, including financial services, software development, real estate development and franchising. Ms. Walbom began her over 25-year career in accounting as a public company auditor at Deloitte. Ms. Walbom received her B.S. degree in accounting from Northern Arizona University-The W.A. Franke College of Business and is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Jason P. Steik is the Chief Clinical Officer of the Company. Since 2020, Mr. Steik has led the Company's clinical and quality teams, helping set Pennant apart as the provider of choice in its local communities. Mr. Steik has a broad spectrum of healthcare leadership experience, including serving as Chief Nursing Officer of a regional Acute Care Medical Center for LifePoint Health from 2018 to 2020. Mr. Steik previous experience includes Emergency, Trauma, and Heart & Vascular department leadership. Mr. Steik is a Certified Professional in Patient Safety (CPPS) through the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. With more than 15 years of acute and post-acute care experience, Mr. Steik is passionate about bridging the acute to post-acute spectrum of care and bringing high quality, compassionate healthcare into the home. Mr. Steik received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree from Boise State University and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Mr. Kirk S. Cheney is Pennant's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary. In this role, Mr. Cheney oversees acquisitions and government relations, along with the legal, regulatory, and risk management functions of the Company. He also plays a key role leading the Company's Service Center to help ensure that its performance accelerates Pennant's overall results. Mr. Cheney joined the Pennant Group in 2019 and was appointed an Executive Vice President in March 2025. Prior to Pennant, Mr. Cheney served as General Counsel for Click Sales, Inc., a technology company that provides payment attribution and processing for online sales. Previously, Mr. Cheney practiced corporate law at the international and national law firms of Vinson & Elkins, LLP and Holland & Hart, LLP, where he counseled clients on litigation matters, corporate transactions, and debt restructuring and investments. Mr. Cheney received his law degree from Yale Law School, where he was an editor of the Yale Law Journal.

Mr. Scott E. Lamb served as the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer of ICU Medical, Inc. (ICU Medical) (NASDAQ: ICUI), a publicly traded company that develops, manufactures, and sells medical technologies used in vascular therapy, oncology, and critical care applications, from February 2008 to March 2020. From 2003 to February 2008, Mr. Lamb served as ICU Medical's Controller. From 2000 to 2003, Mr. Lamb served as Senior Director of Finance for Vitalcom, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Lamb held various finance and accounting roles at other start-up and manufacturing companies. Mr. Scott E. Lamb serves as lead independent director.

Dr. John G. Nackel, PhD is currently the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Three-Sixty Advisory Group, LLC (Three-Sixty) and Founder and General Partner of Wavemaker Three-Sixty Health, LP (Wavemaker 360) venture fund. Three-Sixty, which was founded in 2007 by Dr. Nackel, consults with leading health systems, payers, physicians, medical technology companies, and other providers. Wavemaker 360, founded in 2018, invests in early-stage health care companies in the value-based payment space. Dr. Nackel is a 25-year veteran of Ernst & Young where he advised health care companies in his role as a Global Managing Director of Health Care. Dr. Nackel also served as Chief Executive Officer of Ingenix Consulting (now Optum), a division of United Healthcare. During his career, Dr. Nackel has also served as a board member or chairman of several privately held start-ups and emerging companies, including Visual Health Solutions, Vitalacy, HealthTask, ConnectedHealth, NetStrike, and Sertan, Inc. He earned his bachelor's degree at Tufts University, master's degrees in public health and industrial engineering at the University of Missouri, and a Ph.D. in industrial engineering (health systems design) at the University of Missouri. He is a fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society. He is a senior member of the Institute of Industrial Engineers.

Mr. Barry M. Smith served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Magellan Health, Inc., the nation's largest provider of behavioral health services and a leading national provider of radiology benefit management services, specialty pharmacy and prescription benefit management services, from 2013 until 2019. He founded and served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of VistaCare, Inc., a national provider of hospice services, from 1996 to 2002, and he served as Chairman of VistaCare in 2003. From 1990 through 1995, Mr. Smith served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Value Rx, Inc., which was then one of the country's largest pharmacy benefit management companies and, prior to that, served as vice president of operations for PCS Health Systems, also a pharmacy benefit management firm. Mr. Smith has served as a member of the board of directors of Ensign since 2014.

Mr. Gregory K. Morris, M.D. has been a partner since 2012 in MorrisHuml LLC, a consultancy that supports Fortune 1000 firms across industry sectors, where his areas of focus include strategy implementation, strategic alignment, prospective risk mitigation and shaping culture through action learning. Prior to MorrisHuml, he was a partner at Morris & Gunter Associates, LLC. From 2002 until 2004, he was senior vice president for strategy and business development for Advocate Health Care, and from 1995 until 2001, he worked at Cap Gemini Ernst & Young as Vice President as well as Senior Partner. His insurance experience includes serving as senior vice president health care delivery and corporate medical director for Blue Cross and Blue Shield National Capital Area, Eastern Region Medical Director for MetLife and Medical Director for CIGNA Healthcare of Georgia. He achieved the rank of Major with the Army National Guard/U.S. Army and was awarded the Bronze Star. Dr. Morris graduated from Morehouse College and received his M.D. from Emory University School of Medicine.

Stephen M. R. Covey has served as the Chief Executive Officer of CoveyLink Worldwide, LLC, a global business management consulting firm, since 2004, and is the co-founder of FranklinCovey's Speed of Trust Practice, where he has taught trust and leadership in 61 countries to business, government, and nonprofit organizations. Mr. Covey is the former President and Chief Executive Officer of the Covey Leadership Center, where he grew the company to become one of the largest leadership development firms in the world. He is the former Executive Vice President of the Franklin Covey Co., where he also served as President of the Education & Training business unit. Mr. Covey is The New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Speed of Trust and Trust & Inspire: How Truly Great Leaders Inspire Greatness in Others. Mr. Covey received his MBA from Harvard Business School. Mr. Covey serves on the Government Leadership Advisory Council, and he has been recognized with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Top Thought Leaders in Trust from the advocacy group, Trust Across America/Trust Around the World.

Mr. Christopher R. Christensen served as President of the Ensign Group, Inc. (Ensign), a leading publicly traded provider of skilled nursing services, from 1999 to 2019, as its Chief Executive Officer from 2006 to 2019, and as its Executive Chairman from 2019 to 2025. Mr. Christensen served as a member of Ensign's board of directors from Ensign's formation in 1999 until 2025 and oversaw its growth throughout that period. Prior to the formation of Ensign, Mr. Christensen served as acting Chief Operating Officer of Covenant Care, Inc., a California-based provider of long-term care. In addition, Mr. Christensen served on the board of directors of CareTrust REIT from June 2014 to April 2015.

Ms. Suzanne D. Snapper is the Chief Financial Officer of the Ensign Group, Inc. (Ensign) (NASDAQ: ENSG), a leading publicly-traded provider of skilled nursing services. In this role, which Ms. Snapper has held since 2009, Ms. Snapper is responsible for Ensign's accounting, finance, information technology, tax, internal controls, investor relations, managed care, treasury and finance risk management functions. During her tenure, Ms. Snapper has helped Ensign generate significant stockholder value, including through multiple spin-offs that have met marketplace needs and benefited stockholders. Ms. Snapper has served as a member of Ensign's board of directors since 2022. Prior to Ensign, Ms. Snapper acquired additional invaluable experience in financial management and reporting while employed at KPMG from 1996 to 2007. Ms. Snapper is a certified public accountant.