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Manon Brouillette, Chair of the Board

Ms. Brouillette serves as Chair of the board of directors of Hydro-Québec, the largest renewable energy company in eastern Canada. Prior to that, she spent two years with the US telecom leader Verizon, where she acted, among other positions, as CEO of the Consumer Group & EVP of Verizon. From 2004 to 2019, she held various executive roles at Vidéotron and acted as President and CEO from 2013 to 2019. Under her leadership, the company became Canada's most rapidly expanding telecommunications provider. Ms. Brouillette has served on the boards of private and public international companies, including the National Bank of Canada (TSX: NA), France-based SFR, U.S.-based Altice USA (NYSE: ATUS), Sonder Holdings (SONG.NA) and Beauty For All Industries (BFAI). Ms. Brouillette provides strategic advice to international private equity and venture capital funds. She holds a Bachelor's degree from Université Laval and completed the Ivey Business School's Executive Program.

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Patrick Pichette, 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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Dax Dasilva, Founder, CEO and Director

Dax Dasilva is the creative mind behind Lightspeed Commerce. Founded in 2005, Lightspeed is the unified POS and payments platform for ambitious entrepreneurs to accelerate growth, provide the best customer experience and become a go-to destination in their space. It powers the world's best businesses in over 100 countries globally.

Dasilva was reappointed as CEO on February 15, 2024. Prior to that, he served as Executive Chair of Lightspeed’s board of directors for two years, and previously led the company’s operations as Chief Executive Officer since its founding in 2005.

Lightspeed employs over 3,000 staff worldwide and powers hundreds of thousands of customer locations worldwide. During Dasilva’s leadership as CEO, the company went public in March 2019 on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the symbol LSPD, becoming one of Canada’s top 10 technology IPOs. In September 2020, the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Lightspeed also undertook 9 acquisitions over the course of a four year period to consolidate the global market and launch two, best-in-class flagship products: Lightspeed Retail and Lightspeed Restaurant.

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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 is a Senior Advisor to BCG Technology group (BCG X).

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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.

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Dale Murray, Lead Independent 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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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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Glen LeBlanc, Director

Glen LeBlanc has 30 years of extensive financial and accounting leadership experience in the telecommunications and technology industries. Mr. LeBlanc currently serves as Vice-Chair, Atlantic Canada with BCE Inc. and as Chair of Northwestel. Mr. LeBlanc previously served as a board member and Chair of the Audit Committee for Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment. Mr. LeBlanc also previously served as the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of BCE Inc. and Bell Canada from 2015 to 2023, and Chief Financial Officer of Bell Aliant from 2005 until 2014 when the company was acquired by Bell Canada. Mr. LeBlanc began with the Bell Group of Companies in 1993. Mr. LeBlanc qualified as a Chartered Professional Accountant with CPA Canada and was honoured with his Fellowship Chartered Professional Accountant designation and holds a Bachelor of Commerce from St. Mary's University.

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