Joan Binstock has served as a member of the Company’s Board of Directors and Chair of the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee since October 2021. Ms. Binstock also serves as a member of the board of directors and the Chair of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the MS BDCs. Ms. Binstock serves as an Advisor at Lovell Minnick Partners, LLC since June 2018, where she is responsible for assisting the firm on deal and operational due diligence activities across all portfolio companies.  She has been a Director of Brown Brother Harriman US Mutual Funds since September 2019 and serves as a member of the board of directors and the Audit Chair of KKR Real Estate Select Trust, Inc., a closed-end management investment company, since August 2020. Ms. Binstock was a Director of SimCorp A/S from April 2018 to March 2023 and a Partner at Lord, Abbett & Co. LLC from 2000 to April 2017, where she served as the Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. Previously, Ms. Binstock was the Chief Operating Officer at Morgan Grenfell Asset Management. Prior to that, she was a Principal and National Director of the Regulatory and Risk Management Practice at Ernst & Young LLP, the Chief Administrative Officer at BEA/Credit Suisse, and the Chief Administrative Officer of the Capital Markets Group at Goldman Sachs. She served as a Member of the Association of Institutional Investors Board of Directors, was a Director of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and was a Member of the Global Board of Managers of Omgeo LLC until January 2018. Ms. Binstock is on the board of the Greyston Foundation and on the Advisory Council of NY/NJ Year Up, both of which are nonprofit organizations. Ms. Binstock is a licensed Certified Public Accountant. She holds a M.B.A. from New York University and a B.A. from the University of Binghamton. Ms. Binstock’s investing experience and experience as a senior executive officer in several finance companies led the Company’s Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee to conclude that Ms. Binstock is qualified to serve as a Director.