Ms. Popoff has served as a member of our Board of Directors since the Merger in 2022. She was previously a director at Second Sight from 2021 until the Merger in 2022. Ms. Popoff currently serves as the Program-Related Investments Pipeline Director and General Counsel to the Venn Foundation, a national nonprofit foundation that facilitates concessionary capital through donor-advised fund investments into for-profit and non-for-profit enterprises, utilizing the U.S. Tax Code’s Program-Related Investments tool. Prior to joining Venn, Ms. Popoff served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Williams International, a privately held designer and manufacturer in the aerospace and defense industry, from 2019 until June 2024.  Prior to Williams International, Ms. Popoff was Legal Director and Associate General Counsel at Amcor Rigid Packaging, a global packaging company, from 2013 to 2019. Ms. Popoff also served as Corporate Counsel at Compuware Corporation, a software company with products aimed at the information technology departments of large businesses, from 2012 to 2013, and Associate in the Mergers & Acquisitions practice of the global law firm Baker and McKenzie, in its New York office, from 2008 to 2012. Ms. Popoff has also held roles at the New York Stock Exchange, Enforcement Division, and the United States Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. Ms. Popoff is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School (Ann Arbor), Hamilton College in Clinton, New York, and the University of Tennessee, Knoxville Haslam College of Business’s Aerospace & Defense MBA Program. We believe Ms. Popoff is qualified to serve on our Board due to her extensive legal and business experience, and strategic leadership skills.