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CEO

ADAPT HEALTH

Suzanne Foster has been the Chief Executive Officer of AdaptHealth Corp. (“AdaptHealth”), Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania, since May 2024. She is a global leader with more than 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry. Prior to AdaptHealth, Ms. Foster served as President of Beckman Coulter Life Sciences for Danaher Corporation, a global science and technology innovation company, Washington, DC, from April 2022 until May 2024. Ms. Foster also served as President of At Home Solutions for Cardinal Health, Dublin, Ohio, a global, integrated healthcare services and products company, from January 2020 until April 2022, as President of Stanley Healthcare, Waltham, Massachusetts, a healthcare technology operating division of Stanley Black & Decker, from April 2018 until January 2020, and as a general manager of Medtronic Advanced Energy (“Medtronic”), a medical device company, from August 2011 until March 2018. Ms. Foster formerly served as Vice President of Global Business Operations at Salient Surgical Technologies, a medical device company later acquired by Medtronic. She was also formerly employed as an attorney at the law firms of Holland & Knight and Wiggin & Nourie, and she served as Vice President of Legal & Compliance for the Elliot Health System. In 2017, Ms. Foster was appointed to the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees by New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu. She also currently serves on the board of Perimeter Medical Imaging AI, Inc., since 2018, and on multiple boards of private medical technology companies. Ms. Foster holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of New Hampshire, an M.Ed in Psychology from Notre Dame College, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and a Master of Public Health in Law and Health Policy from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

PRESIDENT & CEO

SIMPLICITY GROUP

Mr. Donaldson serves as Simplicity’s President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Donaldson is responsible for defining the Group’s strategic direction and managing its various operating businesses. Prior to Simplicity, Mr. Donaldson was a managing director at an international investment bank. Previously, Mr. Donaldson led the successful start-up of a national insurance company and before that led the start-up of a multi-billion-dollar asset management business. Prior to starting the entrepreneurial phase of his career, Mr. Donaldson held various financial, business, and legal positions in the United States and the United Kingdom. Mr. Donaldson earned an M.B.A. from London Business School, a J.D. from the John Marshall Law School and a B.A. from Hobart Colleg

CEO

AMPIRICAL

Matthew has over thirty-seven years of experience in the transmission and distribution industry, beginning with a multi-state electric utility where he made the transition from installing devices in the field to designing protective relay schemes. Later efforts included transferring to an unregulated affiliate to begin selling services to the broader power delivery marketplace.

In 2006, he and two other key employees formed Ampirical Solutions, LLC to pursue project opportunities in this industry. Ampirical has grown considerably and is currently staffed by almost five hundred employees, most of them occupying firm headquarters in Covington, Louisiana. Other office locations include San Diego, San Ramon, and Sacramento, California; Duluth, Georgia; and remote employees in other US locations. The company performs both stand-alone engineering projects and EPC (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction) projects in the high voltage transmission arena.

Ampirical’s owners formed a few sister companies in the last several years to support changes in the power grid marketplace. Cybirical, LLC blends an optimal mix of power system knowledge and experience with the nascent cyberengineering field to offer unique solutions to the issues transmission owners face in today’s digital environment. GridIntel, LLC was recently formed to provide custom software solutions to asset managers, capitalizing on the inherent talent in both Ampirical and Cybirical. Compere Construction, LLC provides skilled workers for the construction of high voltage substations and distribution lines.

Matthew handles or directs company executive management activities for all four companies, such as business development, strategic planning, risk management, financial management, contract review and negotiation, and more.

He earned a B.S.E.E. from Louisiana Tech University, and also holds an M.B.A. from the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University and a Masters in Engineering from the University of New Orleans. He is a registered Professional Engineer in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, and Ohio. He is also the Qualifying Party for the company’s electrical Contractor’s Licenses in Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas, and Kentucky.