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Mr. Kim Kelderman, Director, Chief Executive Officer and President. Professional Background: Mr. Kelderman was appointed CEO of Bio-Techne effective February 1, 2024. Previously, Mr. Kelderman was Bio-Techne's President, Diagnostics and Genomics Segment, now called Diagnostics and Spatial Biology Segment, since 2018. Before joining Bio-Techne, Mr. Kelderman led three different businesses of increasing scale and complexity at Thermo Fisher Scientific. For his last three years at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Mr. Kelderman managed the platforms and content of the Genetic Sciences Division, where he was responsible for the Instrumentation, Software, Consumables and Assays businesses and brands such as Applied Biosystems and legacy Affymetrix. Before joining Thermo Fisher, Mr. Kelderman was Senior Segment Leader at Becton Dickinson, managing its Blood Tubes Vacutainer business. Education: B.S. in Applied Sciences, Hogeschool Heerlen, the Netherlands. Other Public Boards: ConMed Corp. (appointed 2025).

James Hippel has been Chief Financial Officer of the Company since April 1, 2014. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Hippel served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Mirion Technologies, Inc and as Vice President, Finance at Thermo Fisher Scientific, and in financial roles at Honeywell International. Mr. Hippel started his career with KPMG LLP.

William Geist has been President of the Protein Sciences segment since January 3, 2022. Prior to Bio-Techne, Mr. Geist most recently served as Chief Operating Officer for Quanterix, and before that in senior management roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific and QuantaBiosciences, a QIAGEN company.

On January 26, 2022, the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors of Bio-Techne Corporation appointed Mr. Shane Bohnen, age 48, as an executive officer of the Company in the position of Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, effective March 3, 2023. Mr. Bohnen has over 20 years of experience as a senior legal advisor, including serving as Bio-Techne's Associate General Counsel since 2019. During his tenure at Bio-Techne, Mr. Bohnen led several initiatives, including commercial support across the entire Bio-Techne enterprise, co-leading recent M&A activities, contributing to the Company's ESG initiatives, including the preparation of the most recent Corporate Sustainability Report, and protecting the enterprise's competitive interests through offensive and defensive litigation. Prior to joining Bio-Techne, Mr. Bohnen spent 10 years in private practice where he developed broad experience in life sciences litigation, practicing in more than sixty U.S. jurisdictions on behalf of life sciences manufacturers and providers, and eventually being elected to the partnership at Bowman & Brooke LLP. Mr. Bohnen also served as in-house corporate counsel at Smiths Medical where he held roles of increasing responsibility including providing conglomerate-wide, global legal support across five distinct enterprises. Additionally, he served briefly as in-house counsel at Resideo where he supported three successful acquisitions, a number of process and culture improvement initiatives and several strategic reorganizations.

Mr. John L. Higgins, Independent Director. Professional Background: Mr. Higgins retired as President and Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board of Directors of Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. in December 2022. From 1997 until he joined Ligand in 2007, Mr. Higgins was with Connetics Corporation, a specialty pharmaceutical company, as its Chief Financial Officer, and also served as Executive Vice President, Finance and Administration and Corporate Development from 2002 until 2006. Mr. Higgins previously was a member of the executive management team and a director at BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. Earlier in his career, Mr. Higgins was a member of the healthcare banking team of Dillon, Read & Co. Inc., an investment banking firm. Mr. Higgins has served as a director of several public and private companies. Education: Bachelor's degree in economics, Magna Cum Laude, Colgate University. Other Public Boards: OmniAb, Inc. (Chair) (since 2022).

Ms. Julie L. Bushman, Independent Director. Professional Background: Ms. Bushman retired in 2020 from 3M Corporation, where she most recently served as Executive Vice President of International Operations. She joined 3M in 1983, and served in various executive positions, including Senior Vice President of Business Transformation and Information Technology; Executive Vice President of Safety, Security and Protection Services; Executive Vice President of Safety and Graphics; Division Vice President of the Occupational Health and Environmental Safety Division; and Chief Information Officer. Education: Bachelor of Science, University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Other Public Boards: Adient, plc. (since 2016); Phillips 66 (since 2018).

Dr. Alpna Seth, Independent Director. Professional Background: Dr. Seth retired as President and Chief Executive Officer of Nura Bio Inc., a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery of novel neuroprotective drugs, in 2022 after serving in that role for three years. From July 2017 through January 2019, she was Chief Operating Officer of Vir Biotechnology, Inc., an immunology company. Prior to joining Vir, Dr. Seth was at Biogen Inc. for nearly two decades, most recently as Senior Vice President and global head of the Biosimilars business, headquartered in Switzerland. For the period from 1998 through 2014, Dr. Seth held a range of senior leadership roles across R&D and commercial arenas. In this capacity, she led several major drug development programs and product launches, along with strategic, business development, and long-range planning initiatives. Dr. Seth led Biogen's foray into Asia as the founding Managing Director of the India affiliate and as a member of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Team. Education: Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School. Conducted post-doctoral research as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellow at Harvard University in Immunology and Structural Biology. Graduated from Harvard Business School's Advanced Management Program. Other Public Boards: Seagen (2018-2023); Keros Therapeutics (since 2023); Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (since 2023).

Dr. Rupert Vessey, Independent Director. Professional Background: Dr. Vessey joined Flagship Pioneering (a life sciences venture capital company) as Executive Partner and Chief Scientist in July 2023 after retiring from Bristol-Myers Squibb, where he had served as the President of Research and Early Development since 2019. Prior to joining Bristol-Myers Squibb, he was President of Global Research and Early Development at Celgene from 2015 to 2019. During that time, Dr. Vessey also served on the board of Juno Therapeutics for one year. Before joining Celgene, Dr. Vessey held various research and development senior management positions during his 10-year tenure at Merck. Education: MA in physiological sciences and BM BCh in clinical medicine from Oxford University. DPhil at the Institute for Molecular Medicine, Oxford.

Dr. Judith Klimovsky, Independent Director. Professional Background: Dr. Klimovsky is the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Genmab, an international biotechnology company that specializes in the creation and development of antibody therapeutics. At Genmab, Dr. Klimovsky has built an R&D team from under 20 to over 500, commercializing multiple products through development and regulatory approval. Before joining Genmab in 2017, Dr. Klimovsky held various senior global clinical and research positions at Novartis Oncology, a division of Novartis AG, including SVP & Global Head, Oncology Clinical Development. Dr. Klimovsky also served as Regional Medical Director, Latin America for Merck & Co. and held several research and development roles of increasing responsibility at Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. Education: M.D. from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Other Public Boards: Bellicum Pharmaceuticals (2018-2023).

Amy E. Herr, Ph.D., Independent Director. Professional Background: Dr. Herr, a Chancellor's Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley, was appointed to the Board on February 1, 2025. Dr. Herr serves as the Vice President of the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub Network, a group of nonprofit research institutes established to create tools required to understand the mysteries of the cell to ultimately prevent, manage, and cure human disease. Dr. Herr has served in several university, national, and international leadership roles, including as the Founding Executive Director of UC Berkeley's Bakar BioEnginuity Hub, an incubator for academic spin-out companies, on the National Advisory Council for Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NACBIB) for the National Institutes of Health, and on several governmental science advisory boards. Education: Dr. Herr holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelor of Science in Engineering & Applied Science from Caltech.

The Company announced the appointment of Mr. Steve Crouse, age 52, as President, Diagnostics and Spatial Biology Segment effective March 1, 2026. Mr. Crouse currently serves as Senior Vice President of Bio-Techne's Analytical Solutions Division. As Senior Vice President, Analytical Solutions Division, he is responsible for Bio-Techne's portfolio of protein analysis instruments and immunoassays and has driven strategic initiatives, successfully launched several innovative platforms and delivered strong growth during his four-year tenure. Before joining Bio-Techne, he most recently served as General Manager of Thermo Fisher Scientific's Protein Detection and Quantification business unit. He has an MBA from the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California and a M.S. in Biochemistry from Georgetown University.