Cheryl Mills was appointed to our Board of Directors on October 1, 2020. Ms. Mills is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the BlackIvy Group, a values-driven company that builds and operates commercial enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to BlackIvy, Ms. Mills served as Chief of Staff to Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State, where she managed foreign policy and operational priorities of the $55 billion agency that employs more than 50,000 officials across 160 countries, and directly supervised specific policy areas, including the Obama Administration’s $3.5 billion global hunger and food security initiative. From 2002 – 2009, Ms. Mills served as Senior Vice President for Administration and Operations and as General Counsel at New York University. She previously served as Senior Vice President for Corporate Policy and Public Programming at Oxygen Media. Prior to joining Oxygen Media, Ms. Mills served as Deputy Counsel to President Clinton and as the White House Associate Counsel. She began her career as an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson. Ms. Mills currently serves on the board of directors of BlackRock, Inc., a financial services company, the Clinton Foundation and the See Forever Foundation / Maya Angelou Public Charter School. She previously served on the board of directors of Cendant Corporation (now Avis Budget Group, Inc.), a consumer real estate and travel conglomerate, and Orion Power, an independent electric power generating company.