Management Change/Compensation Form 8 K

Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers

(d)           Appointment of New Director

On November 12, 2024, the Company's Board appointed Skyler M. Howton to fill the vacancy in the Board created by the resignation of Francisco J. Coll. Ms. Howton's term as a director took immediate effect and will continue until the Company's 2024 Annual Shareholders' Meeting, where Ms. Howton is standing for election to the Company's Board of Directors for the first time. The Board has determined that Ms. Howton is independent under the rules and regulations of both the Securities and Exchange Commission and the NASDAQ Stock Market. Ms. Howton will serve as a member of the Compensation Committee, the Nominations and Corporate Governance Committee, and the Audit Committee.

Ms. Howton has practiced law as a Dallas-based attorney since 2013, and she currently serves as the Mass Torts Practice Group Leader at the Rogge Dunn Group, PC, where she handles product liability claims against major corporations nationwide. Ms. Howton has also represented small, large, and Fortune 50 companies over her more than ten years' experience at AM Law 100 firms. Ms. Howton is a 2009 graduate of Pepperdine University and a 2012 graduate of Baylor Law School, where she served as Articles Editor of the Baylor Law Review. In 2022, Ms. Howton returned to Baylor Law School to obtain an LLM in Litigation Management. Ms. Howton is active in the Dallas community. Ms. Howton served as a Dallas CASA for more than five years. Ms. Howton currently serves as a committee chair for Attorneys Serving the Community, a position she has held for nearly ten years, and as a Vice President on the Board of Directors for the Dallas Women Lawyers Association.

There are currently no agreements, arrangements or understandings between Ms. Howton and any other person pursuant to which Ms. Howton was appointed to serve as a member of the Board. The Company is not aware of any transaction in which Ms. Howton has an interest requiring disclosure under Item 404(a) of the SEC's Regulation S-K. The Company and Ms. Howton have entered into an indemnification agreement similar to the indemnification agreements the Company entered into with its other directors, and Ms. Howton will be compensated like the Company's other non-employee directors.