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Corporate Governance Highlights:
          Creating Sustainable Long-Term Shareholder Value

           Recent Updates
           • Directors elected annually to serve one-year terms
           • Elimination of excise tax gross-up, walk-right and value of perquisites in the severance calculation in Employment
             Protection Agreements
           • Elimination of single-trigger vesting in equity award agreements for grants beginning in 2019

           • Adoption of Stock Ownership Guidelines
           • Adoption of Hedging and Pledging Policy
           • Adoption of Clawback Policy

           • Our shareholders have the ability to nominate director candidates and have those nominees included in our proxy statement,
             subject to meeting the requirements in our Bylaws, a shareholder right known as proxy access

           Board of Directors

           • Lead Independent Director who is a former public company CEO
           • 10 current Directors; 9 or 90% are independent
           • Key committee Chairs are independent, consisting of independent Chairs of the Audit Committee, Management
             Development and Compensation Committee, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee
           • Executive sessions of non-management Directors at each regularly-scheduled meeting
           • All Directors attended 100% of all Board and committee meetings during their term of service in 2019

           • 90% of our Board has experience on other public company boards and 60% are current or former public company CEOs
           • Code of Ethical Business Conduct and ethics program reports to a Board Committee

           • Annual Board and individual performance evaluations are conducted, including Director peer review
           • Risk oversight by full Board and Committees
           • Chair/CEO is the only Board member who is currently also management

           • Only one member of our 10-member Board of Directors standing for reelection is currently or formerly management
             of the Company

           Shareholder Interest

           • Majority voting standard for uncontested Director elections
           • No shareholder rights plan
           • Annual advisory vote to ratify independent auditor

           • Annual advisory vote to approve executive compensation
           • Longstanding active shareholder engagement
           • We publish annually a Sustainability Report that discusses our commitment to our shareholders, employees and the
             communities that we serve.
               • We also created a new position to better focus on these important issues
               • Our Board committees review the Company’s accomplishments with regard to sustainability
           • No shares with enhanced voting rights




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