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Patrick Pichette, Lead Independent Director

Mr. Pichette is a General Partner at Inovia Capital, a Montreal based venture firm, which he joined in April 2018. Mr. Pichette previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Google Inc. from August 2008 until May 2015. Prior to joining Google, from January 2001 until July 2008, Mr. Pichette served as an executive officer of Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., including, in his last position, as President, Operations for Bell Canada, and previously as Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, and Executive Vice President of Planning and Performance Management. Prior to joining Bell Canada Enterprises Inc., from 1996 to 2000, Mr. Pichette was a principal at McKinsey & Company. Prior to that, from 1994 to 1996, he served as Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Call-Net Enterprises Inc., a Canadian telecommunications company. Mr. Pichette was previously a member of the board of directors of Twitter, Inc. from December 2017 to October 2022. Mr. Pichette was also previously a director of Bombardier Inc. from October 2013 to November 2017 and of Amyris, Inc., a renewable products company, from March 2010 to May 2013.

Mr. Pichette holds a Master of Arts degree in philosophy, politics, and economics from Oxford University, where he attended as a Rhodes Scholar, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from Université du Québec à Montréal.

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Jean Paul Chauvet, Director

Mr. Chauvet was appointed to the role of Chief Executive Officer on February 2, 2022. Mr. Chauvet joined the Company in 2012 as Chief Revenue Officer and became a member of the Company's board of directors in 2013. In 2016, Mr. Chauvet was named President of the Company and throughout his tenure has been integral in advancing the Company's mission, including leading many of the Company's strategic acquisitions, its listings on the Toronto Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange, and leading the launch and growth of the Lightspeed Payments platform. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Mr. Chauvet held various leadership positions at Atex Group across Europe and Asia where his last role was CEO, EMEA.

Prior to joining Atex, Mr. Chauvet was the VP, Sales and Marketing of Nstein Technologies and from 2000 to 2005, he was the VP, Sales and Marketing of IXIASOFT Technologies Inc. Mr Chauvet served on the board of directors of Coveo Solutions Inc. (TSX: CVO), a provider of AI-based search technologies, from October 2016 to September 2022. Mr. Chauvet serves on the board of directors of Alaya Care Inc., a cloud-based home care software solutions provider, since he joined in October 2018.

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Dax Dasilva, Founder and Executive Chair

Mr. Dasilva has been a director of Lightspeed since he founded the Company in 2005, and was the Chief Executive Officer until February 2022. In February 2022, the Company announced that, as part of its long-term succession planning process, the Board had appointed Mr. Chauvet to the role of Chief Executive Officer and Mr. Dasilva to the newly-created role of Executive Chair. Under Mr. Dasilva’s leadership, Lightspeed has grown into a global business with offices in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.

Mr. Dasilva has over 20 years of entrepreneurship experience and has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the 2019 Globe and Mail Innovator of the Year, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2012, Startup Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2016 for both Quebec and Canada and Start Proud’s Technology Leader Award in 2018. He was named one of the 100 Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs by Goldman Sachs at the 2017 Builders + Innovators Summit. In addition, in 2015, Mr. Dasilva founded Never Apart, a non-profit organization offering creative space for cultural programming with global reach and impact. In 2021, Mr. Dasilva launched Age of Union, a non-profit environmental alliance that supports and makes visible a global community of changemakers working on-the-ground to protect the planet's threatened species and ecosystems. Age of Union seeks to inspire through conservation efforts that solve critical environmental challenges around the world and spark high-impact change by showing the positive impact that every individual can make.

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Nathalie Gaveau, Director

Nathalie Gaveau is a serial tech entrepreneur, board member and investor. She started out in M&A at Lazard before co-founding PriceMinister, one of the largest e-commerce marketplaces in Europe, subsequently acquired by Rakuten for $250 million, followed by Shopcade, a data-driven social marketplace sold to Lagardère. Nathalie has extensive international experience, including 6 years in Asia Pacific. She sits on the boards of Coca-Cola EuroPacific Partners (NASDAQ: CCEP), Sonepar and PortAventura World, and is a Senior Advisor to BCG Technology group (BCG X).

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Paul McFeeters, Director

Mr. McFeeters retired from OpenText in September 2014 where he had served as the Chief Financial Officer since June 2006. Mr. McFeeters has more than thirty years of C-level business experience, including previous employment as Chief Financial Officer of Platform Computing Inc., a grid computing software vendor from 2003 to 2006, and of Kintana Inc., a privately-held IT governance software provider, from 2000 to 2003. Mr. McFeeters also held President and CEO positions at MD Private Trust from 1997 to 2000. Between 1981 and 1996 Mr. McFeeters worked at Municipal Financial Corporation and held various progressive positions there including Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McFeeters was a member of the board of directors of Constellation Software Inc., a diversified software company, from 2014 to 2022 and served on its audit committee. From 2015 to August 2019, Mr. McFeeters was a board advisor for Hootsuite, a social media management company. From 2007 to January 2016, Mr. McFeeters was a member of the board of Blueprint Software Systems Inc., an enterprise requirements software solutions provider. Mr. McFeeters holds a B.B.A (Honours) from Wilfrid Laurier University and an MBA from Schulich School of Business at York University and is a Chartered Professional Accountant.

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Dale Murray, Director

Ms. Murray is a successful technology entrepreneur with extensive board experience in the UK, US and Australia. Ms. Murray is a non-executive director at Xero, a global cloud accounting company, the Cranemere Group, an investment company, LendInvest plc, a UK property finance company, Jupiter Fund Management plc, a UK asset manager, and Rated People, a UK marketplace for tradespeople.

Ms. Murray started her career at PwC then Vodafone in New Zealand, followed by Pearson in the UK. Ms. Murray co-founded and led the software business Omega Logic, which launched electronic mobile phone top-ups in Britain alongside the mobile phone networks and other top-up solution providers.

Additionally, Ms. Murray has served on the Business Taskforce for David Cameron, the former British Prime Minister, and was a non-executive director at the UK Government's Department for Business. Debretts named Ms. Murray one of the "500 most influential people in Britain" in 2015. Ms. Murray was honoured with a CBE in 2013 by HM Queen Elizabeth II for services to business. Ms. Murray qualified as a Chartered Accountant with the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants and holds an MBA from London Business School.

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Rob Williams, Director

Mr. Williams has over 25 years of leadership experience in eCommerce, retail and SaaS companies. In his near decade at Amazon (2006 to 2015), Mr. Williams held five senior leadership positions on both the Retail and Seller teams. In his last role, Mr. Williams led Amazon’s Tier 1 Vendor team for Global Vendor Management. Prior to that, Mr. Williams led three business teams for Amazon’s Seller Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) division: the Seller Reimbursement and Recovery/Liquidations team, the Contact Reduction team, and the Defect Reduction team. Previously, he led the FBA Product Development Roadmap team. Before that role, Mr. Williams led Product Management for Amazon’s Competitive Strategy and Negotiations Team. Prior to Amazon, Mr. Williams was on the leadership team of Magnolia Hi-Fi when they were acquired by Best Buy. Mr. Williams was promoted to National Director at Best Buy, where he led Sales Development for the Magnolia Home Theater store within a store project. Mr. Williams was at Magnolia Hi-Fi and Best Buy from September 1994 to June 2006. Prior to that in 1994 he was a criminal prosecutor under the City of Seattle’s Trial Advocacy Program. Mr. Williams holds his Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration from the University of Washington and his Juris Doctor, Law from the Willamette University College of Law.

He is also a guest lecturer on International Business for the University of Washington School of Business Administration and a keynote speaker on how to build a company culture of Disruptive Innovation and consults worldwide on eCommerce, retail and technology. Mr. Williams has served as a member of the board of directors of Cymax Group since May 2021.

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