Biography

Bill Pearce has served on our Board of Directors since March 2013 and as Lead Non- Management Director since June 2017. He is currently a member of the Board for Algonomy, an AI-based personalized shopping experience firm. Mr. Pearce is also a Marketing Faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior positions include being a Partner and Marketing Practice Director at The Partnering Group, a global consumer products and retail management consulting firm, and Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer at Del Monte Foods, Inc., a food production and distribution company. Mr. Pearce also served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Foresight Medical Technology LLC, a medical devices company, and Chief Marketing Officer at Taco Bell Corp., a Quick Service Restaurant company and subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., and Vice President of Marketing at Campbell Soup Company. Mr. Pearce holds a B.A. in Economics from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from the S.C. Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University.

Our board of directors believes that Mr. Pearce is qualified to serve as a director based on his prior experience as an executive at several publicly traded companies and his considerable experience as a board member of several privately held companies.