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Rakesh Sachdev

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Rakesh Sachdev, Director, Chairman of the Board of Directors

Mr. Sachdev most recently served as the interim Chief Executive Officer of Axalta Coating Systems, a S&P 400 company and a global supplier of paints and coatings to the automotive and industrial markets, from August 2022 until the end of 2022, after which he was appointed as the independent chairman of the Axalta board. Prior to that role, Mr. Sachdev served as the Chief Executive Officer of Platform Specialty Products Corporation (renamed Element Solutions Inc.), a global diversified producer of high-technology specialty chemicals; he served as the Chief Executive Officer from 2016 to 2019 and a director from 2016 to 2020. Prior to that role, Mr. Sachdev served as a director and the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a leading S&P 500 life science and technology company, from 2010 to 2015 and as the Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, from 2008 to 2010. Mr. Sachdev also served in various executive positions at Meritor, Inc. , a global supplier of automotive systems and components, and Cummins Inc., a global engine and power systems manufacturer. Mr. Sachdev currently is a senior advisor at New Mountain Capital, a private equity firm. Mr. Sachdev has served as a director of Edgewell Personal Care Company since 2015, Herc Holdings since 2021, and Axalta Coating Systems since 2020. In the past, Mr. Sachdev served as a director of Avantor, Inc., from 2019 to 2021, a board member and Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis and as a member of the Board of Trustees of Washington University in St. Louis. Mr. Sachdev has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois, and an M.B.A. from Indiana University.