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Kristin Johnsen

Kristin Johnsen

Director

TERM: Current term expires at the 2026 Annual Meeting

Kristin Johnsen has served as a member of our Board since June 2023. Most recently, Ms. Johnsen served as Corporate Vice President of Microsoft Services, leading the $6 billion, 17,000-person enterprise consulting and support business, serving more than 13,000 customers globally, from July 2017 to November 2020. Ms. Johnsen originally joined Microsoft in 2003, holding various positions, including Senior Director, General Manager and Vice President prior to her appointment to Corporate Vice President. Ms. Johnsen also held executive positions in West coast start-ups, including as Chief Executive Officer at ZKEY from 2000-2003, where she led the turn-around of the digital identity management company, and as Chief Operating Officer & Vice President of Operations at Carparts.com in 2000, where she turned the company around from negative to more than 20% margins and completed a successful company sale. Earlier in her career, Kristin spent seven years at McKinsey & Company, from 1993-2000, specializing in client situations requiring both strategic realignment and revamped operations. Ms. Johnsen currently serves on four private company boards – Parexel, Tango Analytics, FoodChainID, and Access Information Management. She also serves on UC Berkeley’s College of Engineering Advisory board, and is a senior advisor to Opportunity@Work. Kristin earned a M.S. in Management Studies, with Distinction, from J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. She earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering & Operations Research, from the University of California Berkeley. Ms. Johnsen was also a 4-year member of the national championship winning Cal women’s crew. Ms. Johnsen was selected to serve as a director because of her extensive operational and leadership experience, her strategic planning and financial knowledge and her service on the boards and audit committees of other companies.