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Mr. Sills has served as our Chairman of the Board since May 2023, a director of the Company and our Chief Executive Officer since March 2016, and as our President since February 2015. Prior to serving as our President, Mr. Sills served as our Vice President Global Operations from 2013 to 2015, and our Vice President Engine Management Division from 2006 to 2013. From 1991 to 2006, Mr. Sills served in various capacities in our Company, including as General Manager, LIC Operations, Director of Product Management, and Plant Manager, Oxygen Sensor Business Unit. Mr. Sills has completed an Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School, and holds an M.B.A. from Columbia University and a B.A. from Bowdoin College.

Mr. Sills’ qualifications to serve as a director include his extensive knowledge of our business and its operations, and the experience that he has acquired throughout his thirty-one year career in the automotive aftermarket industry and our Company. Mr. Sills has served in a variety of management positions across our organization, in which he has cultivated strong financial experience, corporate governance insight and extensive leadership, strategy and risk management skills. As our Chief Executive Officer, he has developed and executed global strategies to expand the Company’s footprint and its customer base. His demonstrated experience and success earned Mr. Sills recognition as leader in the automotive aftermarket industry, and he has been awarded the 2022 Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association Member Advocacy award (which recognizes his advocacy efforts on behalf of the automotive aftermarket). Mr. Sills has served on the Board of Governors of the Automotive Aftermarket Suppliers Association since 2017, and is currently its chairman. Mr. Sills has also testified before Congress on behalf of the manufacturing community on supply chain challenges and investing to strengthen American manufacturing and competition. In addition, we believe Mr. Sills’ qualifications to serve as a director include his and his family’s significant ownership interest in the Company, which serves to align his interests with the interests of our other shareholders, and the fact that he represents the fourth generation of the Sills family which established the Company in 1919.