Mr. Hass was appointed Chief Legal and Administrative Officer and Secretary in 2025, having previously served as our Chief Legal and Compliance Officer and Secretary since 2022. He joined Kimball Electronics in 2020 as Associate General Counsel and Assistant Secretary. From 2016 through 2020, Mr. Hass served as General Counsel and Secretary of Nasdaq-listed Lifeway Foods. In addition to leading our legal team, Mr. Hass has responsibility for our global safety, environmental, and facilities teams; and our information technology and computing systems, including cybersecurity. He leads global legal, sustainability, and IT strategy and our efforts to leverage applications and analytics to drive operational performance improvements as part of Industry 4.0 and the digital transformation of manufacturing. He has 30 years of legal, management, operations, and network security experience, centered on technology-intensive telecommunication companies and electronics manufacturers. Mr. Hass holds a Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington, Indiana.