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Robin A. Bienfait

Director since May 7, 2020

Ms. Bienfait is Chief Executive Officer of Emnovate, an executive advisory firm delivering enterprise-class services to emerging businesses, a position she has held since 2017, and is the founder of Atlanta Tech Park, a global technology accelerator. She previously served as Executive Vice-President and Chief Enterprise Innovation Officer at Samsung Electronics from 2014 to 2017 and, prior to that, she was Chief Information Officer at BlackBerry from 2007 to 2014. Ms. Bienfait is a director of Canada Life and Empower. She is also a director and Chair of the board of Global Aviation, a trustee of the Georgia Institute of Technology Applied Research Corporation, a director of Quantum Valley Ideas Lab and a director of the Atlanta Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors. She previously served as a director of Putnam Investments and as an independent director and Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee for Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, Inc. from July 2018 to December 2022, and as a member of the Cisco Strategic Advisory Board and the Hewlett-Packard Advisory Board. Ms. Bienfait holds a Masters in Technology Management from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from Central Missouri State University.