From 1978 – 1980, Mr. Kanter served as a Legislative Assistant to former Congressman Abner J. Mikva (D-Ill.). In that
position, Mr. Kanter provided support to Congressman Mikva with respect to activities related to his position on the House
Judiciary Committee. In particular, Mr. Kanter was intimately involved in efforts then underway to reform the Federal
Criminal Code. Mikva subsequently became the Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, and then served as White House Counsel to President Clinton.

From 1980 – 1983, Mr. Kanter served as Special Assistant to the National Association of Attorneys General. In that position,
he represented the interests of the State Attorneys General in Washington, D.C. in the criminal justice and environmental
arenas. In particular, Mr. Kanter was involved in the legislative efforts to reenact the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and
to enact the original Superfund Legislation.

From 1983 – 1985, Mr. Kanter served as the Staff Director of the House Rules Committee’s Subcommittee on Legislative
Process Chaired by the late Congressman Gillis W. Long (D-La.). He also lent considerable support to the activities of the
House Democratic Caucus, which was also Chaired by Congressman Long. In particular, Mr. Kanter was intimately involved
in the effort to provide a new debate format that was first used during the Democratic Primary in New Hampshire in 1984, and
was moderated by Phil Donahue and Ted Koppel. He was also involved in authoring a House Democratic Caucus publication
called Blueprint for America which served as the basis for several subsequent Democratic Platforms and the policy efforts of
the Democratic Leadership Council. Congressman Long passed away in early 1985.

From April 1985 through June 1986, Mr. Kanter served as Managing Director of The Investors’ Washington Service, an
investment advisory company specializing in providing advice to large institutional clients regarding the impact of federal
legislative and regulatory decisions on debt and equity markets. Clients included Amoco Oil, AT&T, Bankers Trust, Chase
Manhattan Bank, General Motors, and J.C. Penney.

Mr. Joel Kanter has served as President of Windy City, Inc., a privately held investment firm, since July 1986.
From 1989 to November 1999, Mr. Kanter also served as the President, and subsequently as the President and Chief Executive
Officer of Walnut Financial Services, Inc., a publicly traded company (NMS: WNUT). Walnut Financial’s primary business
focus was the provision of different forms of financing to small business, by providing equity financing to start-up and early
stage development companies, providing bridge financing to small and medium-sized companies, and providing later stage
institutional financing to more mature enterprises. The Company was sold to Tower Hill Capital Group in 1999 in a
transaction valued at approximately $400 million.

Mr. Kanter serves on the Boards of several companies including Fibralign Corporation, which has developed and
manufactures a collagen-based proprietary scaffolding technology that can mimic human tissue structure in a way that allows
repair of tissue, blood vessels, and nerves; Orpheus Biosciences, Inc., a life sciences company that has developed a novel
approach to addressing autoimmune diseases by targeting the auto reactive cells that cause the adverse problems; Primal
Therapies, Inc., which develops naturally safe, non-toxic biofilm solutions to various health problems in the elder care, home
care, animal care, and agricultural markets that arise from the communities of bacteria and viruses that coat most living and
nonliving surfaces, which the National Institute Of Health estimates cause 80% of infections; Rheos Medical, which has
developed a new ventilator for use in hospitals that will allow critical care patients to take many drugs using inhalation therapy
rather than narcotics, therby avoiding the delirium and dementia side effects; and Thesus Health, which has developed a
device that ensures much greater compliance for at home patients, in part by tracking that medication is taken, and in part
through frequent telehealth visits.

Mr Kanter is also a current Trustee Emeritus and past President of the Board of Trustees of The Langley School in McLean,
Virginia, a former Trustee of the Georgetown Day School in Washington, D.C., and of the Union Institute & University, the
Country’s first Online University. He has served as the Board Chair of the Independent School Chairpersons Association and
remains a Board Member there. And, Mr. Kanter is also the current Board Chair of the Black Student Fund in Washington,
D.C. He also serves on the Board of the School of Science & Engineering at his alma mater, Tulane University, as well as on
the Board of their newly formed Innovation Institute. And is the Board Co-Chair of the Kennedy Center’s National Committee

For The Performing Arts, which oversees their Arts Education Programs, which the Kennedy Center spends more on than any
other organization in the world.

In the political arena, Mr. Kanter serves as the Advisory Board Co-Chair of the Johns Hopkins Center For Gun Violence
Solutions; and on the Board and Executive Committee of Voices For Progress; as well as on the Brookings Institution Council.