Alexander Taussig has served as a director of the Company since February 2026. Mr. Taussig is a Board Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, a multi-stage venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California with over $40 billion in assets under management. He is a seasoned venture capitalist and business leader with 15+ years of experience supporting global technology companies from inception through IPO. Mr. Taussig joined Lightspeed in 2016 and has since served in multiple roles with investment and management responsibilities, including Partner (2016-2021), Co-Head of the Consumer Practice (2021-2024), and Board Partner (2025–present). His investment and board experience includes scaled marketplace businesses such as Faire, Vinted, Whatnot, and Zola, spanning multiple segments of the digital commerce landscape. Prior to Lightspeed, Mr. Taussig was a Partner at Highland Capital Partners, where from 2009 to 2016 he supported more than a dozen companies across both consumer and enterprise software, including thredUp (IPO, 2021) and Carbon Black (IPO, 2018; acquired by VMWare, 2019). Mr. Taussig currently serves or has recently served on private company boards, including Archive Resale (2021–present), Daily Harvest (2017–2025), Table22 (2024–present), and Vinted (2022–2025). He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School (2009, Baker Scholar), an MS in materials science & engineering from MIT (2007), and an AB in physics from Harvard University (2005). The Board believes Mr. Taussig brings deep expertise in scaling technology-enabled marketplaces and platforms, with a demonstrated track record advising management teams from early-stage formation through substantial revenue scale. His experience spans multiple sectors and geographies, including the Americas and Europe, which informs a global perspective on growth strategy, go-to-market execution, and unit economics for platform businesses. In addition, his work with companies that have reached public market exits and strategic acquisitions equips him with capital markets acumen, governance insight, and operational benchmarking relevant to board oversight of innovation, risk, and long-term value creation.
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