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Michael Walrath has served as our Chief Executive Officer since March 2022, as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since March 2011 and as a director since November 2009. Mr. Walrath was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Right Media, an online advertising company, from January 2003 until its acquisition by Yahoo! in 2007. Mr. Walrath served on the Board of Directors of a publicly traded corporation, Lerer Hippeau Acquisition Corp., from March 2021 to December 2022, and also sits on the boards of directors of a number of private software and media companies. Mr. Walrath holds a B.A. in English from the University of Richmond.

Darryl Bond has served as Yext's Chief Financial Officer since March 2022 and Chief Administrative Officer since April 2026. Mr. Bond joined the Company in January 2015 as Corporate Controller, and served as the Company's Chief Accounting Officer from March 2017 to April 2025. Prior to joining Yext, he held various roles at Ernst & Young LLP from 2002 to 2014, including as Manager, Assurance Services, and Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory Services. Mr. Bond holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Connecticut and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.

Ho Shin has served as Yext's General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since 2016, responsible for the Company's global legal matters. Prior to Yext, Mr. Shin was General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer of Millennial Media from 2011 to 2015 where he helped guide the company through its international expansion, initial public offering and follow-on offering, through the company's sale to Verizon/AOL. Mr. Shin has also served as a member of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory on matters involving data privacy and integrity. Prior to that role, he held senior legal positions with various companies, and was also a trial attorney with the United States Department of Justice. Mr. Shin received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Georgetown University, and his B.S. from the University of Maryland.

Andrew Sheehan has served as a director since May 2008 and as our Lead Independent Director since March 2022. Since 2014, Mr. Sheehan has served as the Managing Member of Tippet Venture Partners, a venture capital firm. Mr. Sheehan was a Managing Director of Sutter Hill Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 2007 until February 2021. Mr. Sheehan has served on the Board of Directors of QuinStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ: QNST), a publicly held marketing technology company, since February 2017 and also serves on the boards of directors of a number of private companies in the technology industry. Mr. Sheehan holds a B.A. in English from Dartmouth College and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School.

Hillary Smith has served as a director since October 2020. Ms. Smith has served as an operating partner at Craft Ventures since September 2019 and also serves as a consultant to various technology companies. Previously, Ms. Smith served as general counsel at a number of public and private technology companies, most recently Square, Inc. (n/k/a Block, Inc.), from December 2016 to March 2018, as well as Right Media and DoubleClick Inc. From July 2015 to October 2016, Ms. Smith served as general counsel and corporate secretary for Zenefits, and from May 2010 to June 2015, she served as general counsel to SuccessFactors, Inc. Ms. Smith has served on the Board of Directors of QuinStreet, Inc. (NASDAQ: QNST), a publicly held marketing technology company, since April 2021 and on the Board of Directors at Elevate Services, Inc., a private company that offers consulting, technology, and services to law departments and law firms, since November 2018. Ms. Smith holds a B.A. in History from Montana State University-Bozeman and a J.D. from Cornell Law School.

Mark Davis has served as a director since June 2024. From December 2024 to February 2026, Mr. Davis served as Senior Relationship and Growth Advisor at CrossCountry Consulting, where he has served as a member of the Advisory Council since February 2026. From 1997 to September 2024, Mr. Davis served as an audit & assurance partner at Deloitte & Touche LLP, as well as national managing partner of Deloitte Private Enterprises and managing partner of the Long Island office. Mr. Davis has served on the board of directors of Myriad Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a publicly traded molecular diagnostic testing and precision medicine company, since December 2024, where he serves as chair of the audit committee. Mr. Davis currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of Adelphi University. Mr. Davis is also a certified public accountant. Mr. Davis holds a B.B.A. from Adelphi University.

Evan Skorpen has served as a director since October 2022. Mr. Skorpen has served as a Partner and the public portfolio manager at Lead Edge Capital Management, LLC since September 2018. Prior to that, Mr. Skorpen served as an investor at ValueAct Capital from August 2015 to August 2018 and at Hellman & Friedman from July 2013 to July 2015. Mr. Skorpen holds a B.A. in Mathematics and Economics from Williams College.

Seth Waugh has served as a director since March 2020. Since July 2025, Mr. Waugh has served as Chairman of Rafferty Holdings. From August 2018 to June 2024, Mr. Waugh served as the Chief Executive Officer of The PGA of America. Mr. Waugh has served as a Senior Advisor at Silver Lake since 2017. Since 2015, Mr. Waugh has served on the board of directors of Franklin Resources, Inc. (NYSE: BEN), an investment management holding company. He has also served on the advisory board of Workday, Inc. since June 2014 and as the non-executive chairman of Alex Brown, a division of Raymond James, since September 2016. Previously, he was a Managing Director at Silver Lake, in 2018 and Vice Chairman of Florida East Coast Industries, LLC, the parent company of several commercial real estate, transportation and infrastructure companies based in Florida, from 2013 to 2017. He served on the FINRA Board of Governors from 2009 to 2015. From 2000 to 2013, Mr. Waugh served in various roles at Deutsche Bank Americas, including Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Quantitative Financial Strategies, a hedge fund. Mr. Waugh also served in various capacities at Merrill Lynch over eleven years, including Co-head of Global Debt Markets. Mr. Waugh also serves on the boards of directors of numerous private companies. Mr. Waugh holds a B.A. in Economics and English from Amherst College.

On July 7, 2026, the board of directors of Yext, Inc. elected Cynthia Paul as a member of the Board. Ms. Paul has served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of Lynrock Lake LP, an investment management firm she founded, since January 2018. Prior to that, she served as a portfolio manager at Soros Fund Management LLC from 2002 to 2017. From December 2022 until June 2026, Ms. Paul served on the board of directors of Allot Ltd. (NASDAQ: ALLT), a provider of network intelligence and security-as-a-service solutions. From March 2023 until the company's sale in April 2026, Ms. Paul served on the board of directors of ON24, Inc. (NYSE: ONTF), an enterprise SaaS company that provides a cloud-based sales and marketing platform for digital engagement. From April 2018 until the company's sale in December 2021, Ms. Paul served on the board of directors of DSP Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: DSPG), a fabless semiconductor company. Ms. Paul graduated from Princeton University in 1994 with an Independent Major in Statistics and Operations Research, a Certificate from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, and a Certificate in Engineering Management Systems.

Daniel Englander is a new nominee for election to the Board. Mr. Englander was referred to us by a member of our Board of Directors and has been nominated by our Board of Directors as a Class III director. Mr. Englander is the founder and Managing Partner of Ursula Capital Partners, an investment management partnership founded in 2004. Ursula Capital Partners served as a financial advisor to Michael Walrath, our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of our Board of Directors, in connection with his non-binding proposal to acquire all outstanding shares of the Company not already owned by Mr. Walrath. Ursula Capital Partners did not receive any fees from this arrangement. From January 2005 to June 2006, Mr. Englander was a partner of Prescott Securities, an investment fund, and from October 1994 to January 2005, he was employed by Allen & Company, an investment merchant bank. Mr. Englander has served on the boards of directors of America's Car-Mart (NASDAQ: CRMT), a publicly traded automotive retailer, since 2007, Copart, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPRT), a publicly traded online vehicle auction and remarketing services company, since 2006, OneWater Marine, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONEW), a publicly traded recreational marine retailer, since February 2016, and CKX Lands, Inc. (NYSE American: CKX), a land ownership and management company, since October 2018. Mr. Englander also serves on the boards of directors of numerous private companies. Mr. Englander holds a B.A. in History from Yale University.

On April 25, 2025, Yext, Inc. appointed Allan Tang as its Chief Accounting Officer and as its principal accounting officer. Mr. Tang, age 42, served as the Chief Accounting Officer of Alation, Inc. from May 2024 to January 2025, as its Vice President, Corporate Controller from May 2022 to May 2024 and also as its interim Chief Financial Officer from September 2022 to April 2023. Prior to that, Mr. Tang served as Senior Director, Assistant Controller at Okta, Inc., a publicly traded company, from August 2020 to June 2022 and as its Senior Director, Technical Accounting and Financial Reporting from August 2019 to August 2020. Prior to that, Mr. Tang also served in various roles at publicly traded and private companies and as a Director in KPMG LLP's Accounting Advisory Services practice. Mr. Tang is a Certified Public Accountant and Canadian Chartered Public Accountant, Chartered Accountant. Mr. Tang holds a Bachelor of Commerce with Honours from the University of British Columbia.