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Patrick Kaltenbach joined the company in January 2021 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in April 2021. Prior to joining the company, he served as the lead of the Life Sciences Segment at Becton Dickinson since 2018. He was President of the Life Sciences and Applied Markets Group at Agilent from 2014 to 2018. Previously, he held wide-ranging roles of increasing leadership responsibility at Agilent and its predecessor company, Hewlett Packard, since joining in 1991. Mr. Kaltenbach is located at the company's headquarters in Greifensee, Switzerland. He and his wife reside in Zurich. Patrick Kaltenbach is a German national.

At the end of February 2016 after four years in the role, I retired as President of The Knowles Teacher Initiative. Prior to that, I spent over 35 years in the Financial Industry as an Investment Banker and Venture Capitalist. Over the years, I have served on the Board of Directors of numerous publicly-held and private Corporations, including Metrologic Instruments, Inc., Mothers Work, Inc. (now Destination Maternity), Intelligent Electronics, Inc., and The JPM Company. I am currently on the Board of CSS Industries, Inc., a NYSE listed consumer products company.I have been a Trustee of numerous non-profit organizations, including, most recently the Knowles Teacher Initiative,the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Woodlynde School.I have been a guest lecturer on the topic of Investment Banking at The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, The Fox School of Business at Temple University and Drexel University's LeBow College of Business.

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