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Edward R. Rosenfeld has served as our Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer since August 2008 and has been a director of the Company since February 2008. Mr. Rosenfeld, who joined our executive management team in May 2005, has more than two decades of experience focused on the retail, apparel and footwear industries and possesses particular knowledge and experience in the industry that strengthens the Board's collective qualifications, skills and experience. He has strong leadership skills and an in-depth understanding of the Company and its goals from his positions as the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. His background in finance and his analytical skills gained through his years as a Vice President with Peter J. Solomon Company, an investment banking firm, where he specialized in mergers and acquisitions in the retail, apparel and footwear industries, provide the Board with insight and guidance with respect to, among other things, strategic business development matters. Mr. Rosenfeld served as a director and chairman of the Audit & Risk Management Committee of PVH Corp. (NYSE: PVH), one of the world's largest apparel companies, from March 2013 until December 2023.

Amelia Newton Varela has served as President of the Company since September 2015 and has been a director since 2016. Prior to this tenure, Ms. Varela was Executive Vice President of Wholesale of the Company since April 2008 and Executive Vice President of Wholesale Footwear of the Company from November 2004 to April 2008. Previously, she was Vice President of Sales for Steve Madden Women's Wholesale Division from January 2000. Ms. Varela began her career with the Company in 1998 in the role of Account Executive for Steve Madden Women's Wholesale Division. She graduated from The Fashion Institute of Technology in 1995.

Zine Mazouzi has been our Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President of Operations since January 1, 2024. He has served as our Chief Financial Officer since January 1, 2021 and previously served as our Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance and Operations from January 2019 until his appointment as our Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, he held various senior positions at Sears Holdings, a holding company for department stores, as the Chief Financial Officer of Sears Footwear Group from 2016 to 2017, Head of the Footwear Group from 2017 to 2018 and Head of the Footwear, Home and Jewelry Groups in 2018. Prior to that, he worked at Nine West Group from 1998 to 2015, where he held a number of increasingly senior positions, including Chief Financial Officer from 2014 to 2015. Mr. Mazouzi received a Bachelor's Degree in Finance and a Master of Business Administration from Iona University.

Lisa Keith has been our General Counsel since November 2019 and our Corporate Secretary since January 2021. Ms. Keith joined Steve Madden's Legal Department in May 2017 and previously served as Vice President and Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Keith was a senior associate at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP, a law firm, where she represented clients in the fashion, technology and luxury goods industries. Ms. Keith began her legal career at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where she practiced in the litigation department. She earned her J.D. from New York University School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Brandeis University, where she was Phi Beta Kappa.

Al Ferrara has served as a director of the Company and as a member of the Audit Committee since July 2019. In May 2020, Mr. Ferrara became the Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee. He is a retired certified public accountant having retired from his position as a partner with BDO USA, LLP, a major international accounting firm, in August 2016 after 25 years with the firm, most recently serving as National Director of the Retail & Consumer Products Division. Mr. Ferrara also served as a director on the firm's Board of Directors from 2003 through 2010 and was also a director and BDO representative on the Board of Directors of BDO Capital Advisors, LLC from 2000 to 2015. Mr. Ferrara served as a member of the Board of Directors of Barnes & Noble, Inc., the nation's largest retail bookseller, from 2016 until its sale in August 2019 and also served on its Audit Committee and Compensation Committee. In September 2020, Mr. Ferrara was appointed to the Board of Directors of VIVAKOR, Inc. (NASDAQ: VIVK), a socially responsible operator, acquirer and developer of clean energy technologies and environmental solutions, where he served as the Chairman of its Audit Committee. Mr. Ferrara voluntarily resigned from VIVAKOR's Board of Directors in November 2022.

Peter Migliorini has served as a director of the Company since October 1996 and has served on the Nominating/ Corporate Governance Committee, as its Chair, since July 2004 and the Compensation Committee, as its Chair, since July 2004. Mr. Migliorini formerly served on the Audit Committee, from October 1996 until June 2018. Mr. Migliorini is the Presiding Director over all executive sessions of the independent directors. Mr. Migliorini possesses extensive executive level financial, sales and operations experience. Mr. Migliorini currently serves as sales manager for Greschlers, Inc., a building supplies company. Prior to joining Greschlers, Mr. Migliorini served as Director of Operations for Mackroyce Group, a construction company, from 1987 to 1994. Earlier, Mr. Migliorini held various positions of increasing responsibility from Assistant Buyer to Chief Planner/Coordinator for several shoe companies, including Meldisco Shoes, Perry Shoes and Fasco Shoes.

Arian Simone Reed has served as a director of the Company and as a member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee since January 2022, and as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee since July 2024. Ms. Reed is the Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer of the Fearless Fund, a venture capital fund that invests in women of color led businesses, which she co-founded in 2018. Prior to Fearless Fund, Ms. Reed was the owner of AR PR Marketing, a publicity and marketing strategy firm from 2004 to 2017. Ms. Reed serves as a member on the Board of Directors for the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. In 2021, she was the recipient of the 15th Annual General Motors African Ancestry Network Black History Month Celebration Entrepreneurial Spirit Award and the Detroit Branch NAACP Great Expectations Award.

Rose Peabody Lynch has served as a director of the Company since April 2014, as a member of the Compensation Committee since June 2014, and as a member of the Audit Committee since July 2024. Ms. Lynch formerly served on the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee from August 2019 to July 2024, when she became a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Lynch previously operated her own New York-based consulting business, Market Strategies, LLC, which focused on strategic marketing and operating issues for small to medium-sized companies. She possesses over 30 years of business experience, including tenures as President and in other senior executive officer positions of major companies in the beauty and fashion industries, and has extensive executive level financial and operating experience. Her experience serving as a director and as a senior executive for a range of companies, including Victoria's Secret; Trowbridge Gallery, a supplier of fine art to the interior design trade; and Danskin, Inc., a leading manufacturer of women's dance and active wear, enhances the Board's leadership and oversight capabilities. Ms. Lynch has served on several boards, including The Harmony Group-LeRoi Princeton (a manufacturer of children's apparel), Salant Corporation (Perry Ellis Menswear) and Frederick's of Hollywood (a retailer of women's apparel and lingerie). Currently, Ms. Lynch serves on the board of General American Investors Company, Inc. (NYSE: GAM). In her role on the GAM Board, she serves on the Compensation Committee, along with the Pension and Nominating Committees. She was a member of the Audit Committee and Nominating and Governance Committees during her tenure at Salant and chaired the Compensation Committee during her tenure on the board of Frederick's of Hollywood. In addition, Ms. Lynch has held leadership positions with a variety of not-for-profit organizations. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Princeton University Varsity Club. She also served two terms on the Board of Trustees of Concord Academy in Concord, Massachusetts and rotated off the Board in July 2021. Ms. Lynch is a member of the Women and Foreign Policy Advisory Council at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Lynch graduated from Princeton with a B.A. in Art History and earned a Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

Mitchell S. Klipper has served as a director of the Company since April 2018, as a member of the Audit Committee since June 2018 and as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee since August 2019. Mr. Klipper served as the Chief Executive Officer of Barnes & Noble, Inc.'s Retail Group, one of the nation's largest retail booksellers, from March 2010 to May 2015. Mr. Klipper began his career at Barnes & Noble as Chief Financial Officer of B&N College in June 1986. He subsequently held several executive positions at Barnes & Noble, Inc., including Executive Vice President, President of Barnes & Noble Development and Chief Operating Officer. Prior to joining Barnes & Noble, Inc., Mr. Klipper was an Audit Manager with KMG Main Hurdman, a certified public accounting firm and predecessor to KPMG. He also served on the advisory board of Modell's Sporting Goods, a sporting goods retailer, from 2006 through 2018.

Ravi Sachdev has served as a director of the Company as a member of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee since August 2019 and as a member of the Audit Committee from September 2008 until March 2025. As a Partner of the private equity firm Clayton Dubilier & Rice, LLC since June 2015, Mr. Sachdev focuses on the healthcare sector. Earlier, Mr. Sachdev worked at several investment banks. He was a Managing Director and Co-Head of Healthcare Services at J.P. Morgan from November 2010 until June 2015 and prior to that held the positions of Managing Director at Deutsche Bank Securities, Inc. from January 2009 until November 2010 and Director at Deutsche Bank from January 2007 until January 2009. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank in 2006 as a Vice President, Mr. Sachdev served as a Vice President at Peter J. Solomon Company, an investment banking boutique, specializing in mergers and acquisitions in the healthcare sector, from 1998 to 2006. Mr. Sachdev possesses knowledge of finance and the financial analytics used to measure business performance. His 20 years of professional experience in investment banking and private equity brings to the Board a thorough understanding of the financial issues affecting public companies and greater insights in business valuation together with a practical orientation with respect to acquisitions and integrations. Mr. Sachdev also serves on the Board of Directors of Agilon Health, Inc. (NYSE: AGL), a technology-enabled services platform for the physicians' market and served on the Board of Directors and the Strategy Committee and Compensation Committee of Covetrus, Inc. (NASDAQ: CVET), a global animal-health technology and services company, from February 2019 until October 2022.

Peter A. Davis has served as a director of the Company and as a member of the Compensation Committee since January 2022. Mr. Davis has over 40 years of experience in the footwear and apparel industry, having held executive leadership positions in sales and marketing with companies including Skechers, Fila, Reebok, Joy & Mario and Dynasty Footwear. He also founded The Infamous Black Sheep Brand, an urban action sports lifestyle brand. A former player in the NBA, Mr. Davis founded Pete Davis Basketball, LLC, a grassroots community youth basketball organization, in 2019 and today serves as its Managing Director. Prior to founding Pete Davis Basketball, LLC, Mr. Davis was the Senior Vice President of Footwear for Joy & Mario Footwear from 2013 to 2018.

Maria Teresa Kumar has served as a director of the Company and as a member of the Corporate Social Responsibility Committee since January 2021. Ms. Kumar is the President and CEO of Voto Latino, America's largest Latinx voter registration and advocacy organization, which she co-founded in 2004. She is also a regular on-air contributor for MSNBC. Ms. Kumar serves on the boards of Emily's List and the World Economic Forum's Global Shapers and is a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and a Council on Foreign Relations Life Member. Ms. Kumar graduated from U.C. Davis with a B.A. in International Affairs and earned a Master's degree in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School.

On July 29, 2026, the Board, also upon the recommendation of the Nominating/Corporate Governance Committee, unanimously appointed Mr. Kenneth Pilot to fill the newly-created directorship resulting from the expansion in the size of the Board from ten members to eleven members, such appointment to be effective as of October 1, 2026.Mr. Pilot is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ken Pilot Ventures, an advisory and investment firm focused on retail, consumer and commerce technology, which he founded in 2015. From 2010 to 2015, Mr. Pilot was President of ABC Carpet & Home. Mr. Pilot has also held senior executive roles at leading retail organizations, including serving as President of the Gap Brand Global division at Gap, Inc., Chief Executive Officer of J.Crew, President of the Martin + Osa division at American Eagle Outfitters, and President of Factory Stores and New Business Development at Ralph Lauren. Mr. Pilot currently serves in board and advisory roles at Provenance Digital, Fernbrook Capital and Leap.