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Michael Sabel is one of the Company's co-founders. Mr. Sabel has served as the Company's Chief Executive Officer and as Executive Co-Chairman of the Company's Board since September 2023. Mr. Sabel has also served as the sole Chief Executive Officer of Venture Global LNG, Inc. (VGLNG), a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since October 2020 and has served as Executive Co-Chairman of VGLNG's board of directors since August 2014. Mr. Sabel is also currently Managing Partner of Venture Global Partners II, LLC (VG Partners), the Company's controlling shareholder. Prior to founding Venture Global, Mr. Sabel spent decades working in the energy, technology and financial service sectors in senior leadership, new company formation, technology licensing and corporate business development.

Robert (Bob) Pender is one of the Company's co-founders. Mr. Pender has served as an Executive Co-Chairman of the Company's Board since September 2023. Prior to October 2020, Mr. Pender served as Co-Chief Executive Officer of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company. Mr. Pender has also served as an officer of VGLNG as Executive Co-Chairman since October 2020 and as Executive Co-Chairman of VGLNG's board of directors since August 2014. Mr. Pender is also Managing Partner of VG Partners, the Company's controlling shareholder. Mr. Pender previously practiced law for over 28 years, specializing in alternative energy project finance, including during the early years of the sustainable energy transition in the U.S. Mr. Pender has worked on over $35 billion of energy, infrastructure and power projects, including cogeneration, biomass, wind, hydro, geothermal, LNG and nuclear. Prior to founding VGLNG, Mr. Pender previously served as a partner at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm, where he was the Chair and Practice Group Director of its Project & International Finance Group for a decade. Mr. Pender has led large-scale energy infrastructure transactions throughout North America, Central and South America, and South Asia, including representations of nation states, such as the Government of India (through its Ministry of Power), the Republics of Ecuador and Guyana and the People's Republic of China (through its state-owned enterprises, Sinosure and China Development Bank), lenders, equity investors and developers. Mr. Pender also provided several years of pro bono support to, among others, the American Red Cross for tsunami relief in South Asia, Accion for micro-finance capital projects in Africa and the Republic of Haiti, beginning with legal support to the Interim Haiti Recovery Commission, then serving as a counselor to the Minister Delegate for Energy Security, Republic of Haiti.

Thomas Earl has served as Chief Commercial Officer of VG LNG Marketing, LLC since 2017 and will be appointed Chief Commercial Officer of the Company in connection with this offering. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Earl worked for Total (NYSE: TTE) from 1998 to 2017, where he focused on the development of Total's global LNG business, where he most recently served as head of Total's North America commodity trading business, including its LNG, gas, power, coal, petcoke and LPG operations, and represented Total in its U.S. LNG liquefaction transactions from 2012 to 2015.

Jonathan (Jack) Thayer has served as the Company's Chief Financial Officer since September 2023 and has served as VGLNG's Chief Financial Officer since June 2020. Mr. Thayer has over 25 years of finance, strategy and mergers & acquisition leadership experience including serving as Chief Financial Officer at two Fortune 500 energy companies. Prior to joining VGLNG, he served as Vice Chairman, Corporate Operations and Chief Financial Officer from 2019 to 2020 of Woodward, Inc. (Nasdaq: WWD), an independent designer, manufacturer, and service provider of control system solutions and components for the aerospace and industrial markets, as Chief Financial Officer from 2012 to 2018 of Exelon Corporation (Nasdaq: EXC), a leading utility, power marketing and generation holding company, and, from 2008 to 2012, Chief Financial Officer of Constellation Energy Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: CEG), a large, integrated energy company, with power generation, gas and electric distribution utilities and energy marketing and risk management services. Mr. Thayer has also held roles in investment banking, first with SBC Warburg Dillon Read, and subsequently with Deutsche Bank Securities.

Keith Larson has served as the Company's General Counsel and Secretary since September 2023 and has served as VGLNG's General Counsel and Secretary since July 2017. Prior to joining VGLNG, Mr. Larson spent 10 years as a partner at Hogan Lovells, a global law firm, where he headed the firm's infrastructure, energy, resources and projects practice for the Americas. Mr. Larson has over 25 years of experience advising on energy project development, project finance and strategic transactions in the oil and gas sector. Mr. Larson's prior experience includes serving as Senior Legal Counsel for Shell (NYSE: SHEL) in The Hague.

Andrew Orekar has served on the Company's Board since September 2023 and has served on the board of directors of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since September 2021. Mr. Orekar is the former Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of GasLog Partners (NYSE: GLOP-A), one of the world's largest LNG shipping companies. Appointed CEO at GasLog Partners' founding in 2014, Mr. Orekar led the company's IPO and oversaw its growth from three to fifteen vessels during his nearly seven years as CEO. Mr. Orekar worked at GasLog Partners in his capacity as CEO until 2020. Prior to joining GasLog Partners, Mr. Orekar served as Managing Director at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he advised natural resources companies on mergers and acquisitions and capital markets transactions. Mr. Orekar joined Goldman Sachs in 1998 and held several leadership positions in the investment banking division. Mr. Orekar also previously served on the boards of directors of Tortoise Acquisition Corp. and Parabola Acquisition Corp. Following his tenure as CEO of GasLog Partners, Mr. Orekar has provided consulting services to investors and companies in the energy and shipping sectors

Sari Granat has served on the Company's Board since September 2023 and has served on the board of directors of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since January 2022. Ms. Granat also currently serves on the board of Assurant, Inc. (NYSE: AIZ), a global provider of risk management products and services, where she serves as chair of the board's Compensation and Talent Committee and also serves on the board's Information Technology Committee, as well as the board of VideoAmp, a private media performance technology company. Ms. Granat has also served on the boards of ComplySci, a provider of regulatory technology solutions for the financial services sector, and Opening Act, a nonprofit that advances arts equity by providing free theater programs to New York City's highest need public schools, the CxO Advisory Council for VMware and on the General Counsel Steering Committee for the National Association of Corporate Directors. From 2022 to 2025, Ms. Granat was president and chief operating officer of Chainalysis, the blockchain data platform, where she managed the company's general and administrative functions, including finance, human resources, legal, information security and information technology and the company's sales organization. During the Fall of 2024, she served as the company's Chief Executive Officer and assisted with CEO transition. From 2012 to 2022, Ms. Granat was with IHS Markit, a formerly NYSE-listed $45+ billion data, analytics and technology company prior to its merger with S&P Global in February 2022, where she most recently served as chief administrative officer and general counsel, leading information security, information technology, legal, risk management, privacy and compliance functions.

Thomas Reid has served on the Company's Board since September 2023 and has served on the board of directors of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since January 2022. Mr. Reid is chief legal officer and secretary of Comcast Corporation (Nasdaq: CMCSA), a position he has held since April 2019. Mr. Reid oversees Comcast's legal, corporate governance and strategic intellectual property functions and the company's government and regulatory affairs and political affairs functions. Mr. Reid joined Comcast in 2019 after a successful career at Davis Polk & Wardwell, LLP. Mr. Reid began his career there in 1987 and served as chairman and managing partner of the firm from 2011 until his transition to Comcast. Mr. Reid also served as a Managing Director in the Investment Banking division of Morgan Stanley from 2000-2003. Mr. Reid's private legal practice and banking career were heavily focused on the global energy and utilities sector, advising on privatizations, mergers and acquisitions, financings and board investigations for leading international oil and gas companies and national oil companies. Mr. Reid serves as trustee for the Archdiocese of New York's Inner-City Scholarship Fund and as a trustee of the National Urban League.

Jimmy Staton has served on the Company's Board since September 2023 and has served on the board of directors of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since August 2014. Mr. Staton was formerly VGLNG's Executive Vice President from January 2015 to November 2016. Mr. Staton is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of the South Carolina Public Service Authority (Santee Cooper), a state owned electric and water utility company that provides power directly or indirectly to 2 million South Carolinians and clean water to over 200,000 customers, and has served in such capacity since March 2022. Prior to this, Mr. Staton served as President and CEO of Southern Star Central Corporation, a privately held natural gas pipeline company with assets throughout the Midwest United States, from 2017 to 2022. Additionally, Mr. Staton also served as Executive Vice President and Group CEO for NiSource, Inc. (NYSE: NI) from 2008 to 2014. Prior to his tenure at NiSource, Mr. Staton held several senior executive level positions at Dominion Resources, Inc. (NYSE: D) from 1993 to 2008. Mr. Staton has also been active in industry organizations having served on the board of directors for the Edison Electric Institute, the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, the American Gas Association, the American Gas Foundation and the Southern Gas Association.

Roderick Christie has served on the Company's Board since September 2023 and has served on the board of directors of VGLNG, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, since June 2023. Mr. Christie is a veteran of the electricity and energy sectors, with over 30 years of international experience. From September 2022 to January 2023, Mr. Christie was Executive Vice President of Baker Hughes (Nasdaq: BKR), Industrial & Energy Technology business where he worked with business developments, manufactures and services of a wide range of technologies for the energy, aviation and automotive industries. Prior to that, from January 2016 to September 2022, Mr. Christie was Executive Vice President of Baker Hughes Turbomachinery and Process Solutions business. In 2017, Mr. Christie created and led the Baker Hughes Climate Technology Solutions, developing solutions for hydrogen, CCUS, integrated clean energy, and emissions management to support customers' net-zero emission ambitions and latterly integrated the Baker Hughes Controls, Sensing and Diagnostics businesses to create the Baker Hughes Industrial & Energy Technology Business. From June 2018 to February 2023, Mr. Christie served as a member of the board at Aero Alliance Products & Services LLC. Prior to Baker Hughes, Mr. Christie was President & CEO of GE Energy Subsea Solutions from June 2011 to December 2016, President of GE Energy Central & Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia from September 2004 to June 2011 and CEO of GE Energy Services Europe from June 1999 to September 2004. Before joining GE, he worked for 14 years at Scottish & Southern Energy (LSE: SSE) in the utility power sector, where he held a wide range of engineering, project development and management roles. Accordingly, Mr. Christie has developed significant global experience in the oil & gas, gas processing, LNG, refining, petrochemical and electricity sectors.

Sarah Blake has served as VGLNG's Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer since January 2020, and focuses on financial transformation, SEC reporting and technical accounting. Ms. Blake will be appointed Senior Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer of the Company in connection with this offering. Ms. Blake has over 25 years of accounting experience across a wide range of businesses and firms. Prior to joining VGLNG, Ms. Blake served in various capacities at The AES Corporation (NYSE: AES) from 2006 to 2020, most recently in her capacity as Vice President, Controller and Chief Accounting Officer from 2017 to 2020. Ms. Blake currently is a licensed Certified Public Accountant in Virginia.

On June 23, 2021, the Board of Directors of Vonage Holdings Corp.appointed Stephen M. Ward, Jr. to serve as a member of the Company's Board of Directors effective immediately. Stephen M. Ward, Jr. is a member of the founding team of C3.ai and currently serves on its board of directors as compensation committee chair. Ward served as the Chief Executive Officer of Lenovo Group Limited, the international personal computer company formed by the acquisition of IBM's personal computer division by Lenovo after having held a number of management positions with IBM, including Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Personal Systems and Retail Systems Group, General Manager of the Industrial Sector, General Manager of the Thinkpad and Mobile division, and Chief Information Officer. Ward has also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Carpenter Technology Corporation, a specialty metals company, since March 2001. He also held positions on the boards of KLX Energy Services Holdings, Lenovo, E-Ink, E2Open Corporation, OD Vision, and KLX Aerospace. Ward holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.

Rodolpho Cardenuto, President, Applications Group. Mr. Cardenuto, age 61, joined us in December 2019. Prior to joining Vonage, he held various positions of increasing responsibility at SAP, a market leader in end-to-end enterprise application software, database, analytics, intelligent technologies and experience management. These positions included President of SAP Americas from January 2013 to May 2014 and, most recently, President of Global Partner Operations from May 2014. Before SAP, Rodolpho was Director of Industry Sales and Alliances for Latin America & the Caribbean region at Hewlett-Packard (HP). Mr. Cardenuto has held senior leadership roles at both growth companies and large multinationals. He brings to Vonage more than 20 years of global sales, marketing and operations experience in software, IT and B2B SaaS, with proven results in driving growth in the enterprise space through existing and new channels, globally.

Mr. Levi, age 57, joined us in April 2017 as Senior Vice President and Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Levi has more than 20 years of experience leading global finance teams across numerous companies, including Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), The New York Times and Thomson Reuters. Prior to joining Vonage, Mr. Levi was Executive Director - Global Financial Compliance and Controls, and US Controller at BMS, January 2005 to April 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Levi served in senior Finance positions at other companies as Controller, Financial Reporting Director and as an audit manger at PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Mr. Dudai, aged 44, joined us in May 2012 and serves as our Senior Vice President of Software Engineering. Prior to joining Vonage, Mr. Dudai held engineering leadership roles at various technology companies and positioned three startups -- Mercury Interactive, TelMap & fring -- for acquisition by Hewlett-Packard, Intel and GenBand. Earlier, Mr. Dudai also worked on a number of classified software and hardware engineering projects for Israeli intelligence.

Mr. Lala, age 49, joined us in May 2014 to lead corporate strategy and development, leveraging his cloud technology, corporate investment and strategic advisory experience. Prior to Vonage, Mr. Lala was at Guggenheim Partners, where he was a Managing Director and led principal investments and mergers & acquisitions in cloud technology and communications. Prior to joining Guggenheim in 2011, Mr. Lala was a Managing Director at Deutsche Bank, where he focused on cloud communications services and technology, and counseled global businesses and their boards on corporate strategy and deal execution.

Gary Steele, age 55, joined the Board in July 2016. Mr. Steele is CEO of Proofpoint, a publicly-traded global Security as a Service vendor. Before joining Proofpoint in 2002, Mr. Steele served as the CEO of Portera, an applications company delivering solutions for the professional services industry. Prior to Portera, Mr. Steele served as the Vice President and General Manager of the Middleware and Data Warehousing Product Group at Sybase, Inc. where he initiated and spearheaded many early internet projects. Before joining Sybase, Mr. Steele served in business development, marketing, and engineering roles at Sun Microsystems and Hewlett-Packard. He holds a B.S. degree in computer science from Washington State University.

Alan Masarek, age 57, has been our Chief Executive Officer and a director since November 2014. Mr. Masarek joined Vonage from Google, Inc., where he was Director, Chrome & Apps. Prior to joining Google in 2012, Mr. Masarek was the Co-Founder of Quickoffice, Inc. and served as Chief Executive Officer from July 2007 until June 2012, when Quickoffice was acquired by Google. Mr. Masarek also served as Co-Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AdOutlet, Inc. from April 1999 to September 2001. Previously, he held senior leadership roles, including President, at Advanced Health Corp. from September 1995 to March 1999. Mr. Masarek is a graduate of the University of Georgia and Harvard Business School.

Ms. Kahn, age 60, joined us in May 2014 to lead our business development organization. Ms. Kahn has over 25 years of business development, operating, technology and marketing experience helping to build some of the world's most successful businesses. From 2013 through 2015, Ms. Kahn was a director at Google where she fostered alliances, as well as expanded the strategic partner network within the tech sector. Prior to that, Ms. Kahn was managing partner at 151 Ventures, LLC. a leading advisory and consulting firm that helps mobile, wireless, and web-based software and technology companies build and execute strategies to drive revenue growth.

Mr. Wyatt, age 49, joined us in February 2017 as Chief Revenue Officer. Mr. Wyatt has nearly 20 years of experience in the communications technology space, with expertise in hosted cloud, cloud computing, colocation, data, voice, and managed and IT services. Most recently, Mr. Wyatt was with CenturyLink, where he held various senior executive roles including President of Business Solutions. In this role, he led a $6.5 billion business unit with a team of more than 4,500 professionals who delivered services across the SMB, mid-market and enterprise segments. His responsibilities included sales, revenue operations, and creating an exceptional end-to-end customer experience. Prior to joining CenturyLink in 2009, he served in leadership roles at both Embarq and Sprint, including Vice President, Sales and Customer Care and Vice President, Marketing and Product Development.

Mr. Hybinette, age 55, joined us in April 2017 as our Chief Information Security Officer. Mr. Hybinette has more than two decades of experience in information technology. Prior to joining Vonage, Mr.Hybinette served as CISO at Hosting.com, a major international managed cloud provider, where he managed the company's vast portfolio of compliance certifications and led the organization's risk and compliance transformation to improve overall efficiency and communications. Prior to Hosting.com in June 2014, Johan held both Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Technology Officer roles at Schryver Medical, Inc. beginning in October 2009 Mr. Hybinette has also served in various security and technology leadership roles in the healthcare, data and information security services industries.

Stephen Fisher, age 53, joined our board of directors in January 2013. Currently, Mr. Fisher serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at eBay, Inc. Previously, Mr. Fisher served as Executive Vice President of Technology at Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company. He joined Salesforce.com in 2004 and held several leadership positions including Senior Vice President of Platform Product Management and Vice President, Engineering. Prior to that, Mr. Fisher served as Architect at AT&T Labs, Inc. from 2001 through 2004. Before joining AT&T Labs, he was Founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of NotifyMe Networks, Inc. In addition, he served as Department Manager, Internet Products Group at Apple Computer, Inc. and was a Lecturer at Stanford University. He currently serves on the board of directors of Safeguard Scientifics, Inc.

Carolyn Katz, age 56, joined our board of directors in January 2014. Ms. Katz is the executive chair of Author & Company, a digital publisher, a role in which she has served since 2012. Previously, from May 2000 to October 2001, Ms. Katz served as a principal of Providence Equity Partners Inc., a private investment firm specializing in equity investments in telecommunications and media companies. From June 1984 to April 2000, Ms. Katz was employed by Goldman, Sachs & Co., most recently as a managing director and co-head of Emerging Communications. Ms. Katz has served on the board of directors of NII Holdings, Inc., a multinational cellular telecommunications company, since 2002.

Mr. Pearson, age 52, joined us as Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer effective May 1, 2013, and is responsible for all finance and treasury functions. Mr. Pearson joined the company from Deutsche Bank Securities, where he spent over nine years as a Managing Director and was Global Media & Telecom Group Head. Prior to joining Deutsche Bank, he worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for nine years, in his final position as Managing Director in the firm's Technology, Media & Telecommunications practice. While at Goldman, he focused on advising major telecommunications and wireless providers and also advised on cable, broadcasting and technology transactions. Mr. Pearson started his career as a consultant at Coopers & Lybrand, where he worked on strategy, business process re-engineering and emerging market privatization projects, all within the global telecommunications industry.

Mr. Gilvar, age 51, joined us in April 2015 as Chief Marketing Officer. Mr. Gilvar has more than 25 years of experience leading marketing and advertising for numerous world-class brands. Prior to joining Vonage, Mr. Gilvar was EVP and Chief Marketing Officer at Monster Worldwide, Inc., beginning in 2008 overseeing all aspects of Monster's global marketing function. Prior to joining Monster, Mr. Gilvar was EVP and Managing Director at BBDO, managing advertising for the NFL, Target, AOL and Guinness, among other businesses. He has also held leadership roles at several advertising firms, including McKinney, Hill/Holliday and Mullen.

Mr. Black, age 52, joined us as part of our acquisition of Nexmo in June 2016 and serves as General Manager for Nexmo, the Vonage API Platform. Mr. Black brings more than 20 years of executive experience in the communications technology space with expertise in communications services, networking, communication hardware, enterprise software, cloud and SaaS businesses. Lewis has a broad based background in finance and operations and has extensive experience in building and scaling businesses globally. Mr. Black joined Nexmo in 2015. Prior to Nexmo, Mr. Black was VP of Finance and Operations for Citrix Systems, Enterprise and Service provider Division responsible for driving strategy and portfolio investment decisions across the Division while optimizing operational execution and performance as a member of the executive team. Prior to Citrix, Mr. Black held various finance and operational leadership roles in AT&T, Lucent Technologies and Avaya Communications, among others.

Mr. Rutherford, age 44, has been our Chief Legal Officer since December 2016. Mr. Rutherford joined us in November 2011 as Vice President, Law, and served as Vice President, Law and Deputy General Counsel beginning in October 2015. Previously, Mr. Rutherford was a partner at Day Pitney LLP from January 2009 through November 2011 and has 20 years of experience advising senior management and boards of directors on corporate governance, securities law, executive compensation, capital markets, and mergers & acquisitions matters.

Mr. Javaid, age 46, joined us in August 2015 as Chief Product Officer. Mr. Javaid has more than 20 years of experience creating award-winning products in the technology industry with a focus on telecommunications, media and web product development. He joined Vonage from Rovi Corporation, a cloud-based entertainment discovery company, where he was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Discovery and Cloud Platforms since June 2014. Prior to Rovi, Mr. Javaid held positions as Vice President and General Manager of Commercial Mobility, and Vice President of Product Management and Marketing for Hewlett-Packard. He has also held executive positions at Motorola Mobility and Qualcomm, Inc. An entrepreneur, Mr. Javaid founded and led two successful technology startups.

Ms. Quackenbush, age 53, joined us in November 2015 as Chief Human Resources Officer. Ms. Quackenbush has over 25 years of experience, spending 18 years in human resources and eight years in corporate finance. She joined Vonage from Presidio, Inc., where she served as Chief Human Resources Officer from 2012. Prior to that, Ms. Quackenbush was Vice President of Human Resources at DMG Information & Events. Earlier, she was Head of Human Resources, Global Banking & Financial Markets, for BT (British Telecommunications). Ms. Quackenbush has also held executive roles at Thomson Reuters, R.H. Donnelley, Honeywell and Ford Motor Company.

Mr. McMahon, age 41, joined us in February 2018 as Senior Vice President of Client Operations. Mr. McMahon has spent over 20 years leading various aspects of the end-to-end customer experience including service delivery, repair and care, national operations and sales. Prior to Vonage, from November 201 through February 2018, Mr McMahon was Vice President, Enterprise Sales at CenturyLink. Prior to that he also held several other senior-level roles where he had P&L responsibilities and led large organizations encompassing sales, field operations, and capital investment among others. Prior to that, Mr. McMahon was a Director of Sales Support at EMBARQ, a large independent local exchange carrier acquired by CenturyLink in 2009. He also held several roles managing customer care, support services and business transformation for Sprint.