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Thomas V. Taylor, Jr. has served as the Chief Executive Officer and a member of the Board since December 2012. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Taylor began his career at age 16 in 1983 at a Miami Home Depot store. He worked his way up through various manager, district manager, vice president, president, and senior vice president roles to eventually serve as the Executive Vice President of Operations with responsibility for all 2,200 Home Depot stores and then the Executive Vice President of Merchandising and Marketing, again for all stores. After leaving Home Depot in 2006, for the next six years, Mr. Taylor was a Managing Director at Sun Capital Partners. During his tenure, he was a board member for over twenty portfolio companies in the United States and Europe. Mr. Taylor currently serves on the board of directors of National Vision Holdings Inc. and Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurants.

Sherry Bahrambeygui has been Chief Executive Officer of the Company since January 2019. She has served as a director of the Company since November 2011. She previously served as Interim CEO from November 2018 to January 2019. Ms. Bahrambeygui has been an instrumental component of the evolution of the Company’s governance and has led several efforts of strategic importance to the Company, including identification and recruitment of key talent for executive leadership, execution of strategic negotiations, and leading the acquisition of the technology and online business, Aeropost, Inc. Ms. Bahrambeygui served as Vice Chair of the Board from October 2016 to October 2017. During her tenure on the Board, she has also served as Chair of the Compensation and Nominating/Corporate Governance Committees and as a member of the Real Estate and Executive Committees. Ms. Bahrambeygui has served as a Senior Executive and Managing Member of The Price Group, LLC from January 2007 to November 2018 and serves on the Boards of Price Philanthropies Foundation and the Aaron Price Fellowship Foundation. Ms. Bahrambeygui was previously the Chief Executive Officer of PS Ivanhoe, LLC, a commercial real estate investment company. Ms. Bahrambeygui was also a founding partner of the law firm Bahrambeygui & Hosey LLP and practiced law with an emphasis on international business, corporate and employment law. In this capacity, prior to joining the Board of Directors, Ms. Bahrambeygui represented the Company in several complex litigation matters achieving favorable outcomes. Ms. Bahrambeygui studied at Columbia University and graduated with a B.A. from the University of California San Diego and a J.D. from California Western School of Law.

Gary Friedman is the chairman and chief executive officer of home furnishings retailer Restoration Hardware, Inc.

Laura J. Alber (born 1968) is an American businesswoman who in 2010 became the CEO of Williams-Sonoma, Inc.

Dennis Swanson is a CEO at Lamps Plus.

John J Ling is a Chief Executive Officer at MacKenzie Childs and Chief Executive Officer at Aurora Brands and is based in Aurora, New York. He has worked as Executive Advisor at Feather; Manufacturing, Industrial Engineering, Plant Manager at PEPSICO INC; and VP/General Manager at Medco Health Solutions, Inc.. John studied at Southern Methodist University between 1986 and 1989 and University of Michigan between 1978 and 1982.

Michael F. Heines is a Chief Executive Officer at Discount Dance LLC and is based in Anaheim, California. He has worked as Vice President & General Manager Beauty Systems Group - Innovations Companies / CosmoProf at Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.; Group Vice President - Beauty Systems Group / CosmoProf at Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.; and Vice President & General Manager - Beauty Systems Group West at Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc.. Michael studied at University of Washington between 1985 and 1989.