Biography

William D. Pearce has served on our Board of Directors since March 2013 and as Lead Non-Management Director since June 2017. He is currently Chairman of the Board for RichRelevance, Inc., a personalized shopping experience firm, and a Board Director of SpendGo, Inc., a marketing solutions company for restaurants and retailers. Mr. Pearce is also a Marketing Faculty member at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior positions include 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 fast food restaurant company and subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., and Vice President 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.