Company: DMRC
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001437749-25-009135
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Company: Digimarc CORP
Filing Date: 2025-03-25
Form: DEF 14A
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 with three Chief Executive Officers and led communications for the strategy renewal that spanned two $10 billion productivity programs and a more focused portfolio of strategic brands. Ms. Kool is also a Board Member at Aspen Aerogels (NYSE: ASPN) and serves as Chair of the Audit Committee and on the Nominating, Governance, and Sustainability Committee. In her personal time, Ms. Kool was Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of KW CrossFit. She is a Co-Founder and President of Impact100 Genesee County, a nonprofit organization that is a giving circle of women who accelerate positive change in their community. She is a Board Member and Chief Financial Officer for Sonje Ayiti, a nonprofit organization focused on providing tools for Haitians to help themselves via education, economic development, and health promotion, and she co-led the creation of the Cima School of Hope in Haiti, a government-licensed school with over 300 students in Pre-K through 11th grade and over 35 employees. Ms. Kool holds a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude from Kalamazoo College and a Master of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. |

| Expertise that Ms. Kool Brings to the Board                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         |
| Ms. Kool’s experience is particularly germane to Digimarc’s initiatives to increase diversity and inclusion at all levels of the Company, and improve the Company’s finance oversight and operations, investor relations program, and business innovation and business process reengineering. She is accomplished across many disciplines with extraordinary leadership qualities and financial and analytical skills, including business analysis and value creation, financial controls and Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, and talent recruitment, development, and retention. She has successfully navigated a business through the COVID pandemic, introduced and managed disruptive business innovation activities, and led the acquisition, integration, and expansion of two start-ups. She has successfully managed investor relations challenges, and has strong controllership skills, leading the General Ledger Accounting organization for the Americas from the San Jose Costa Rica Service Center during the integration of the Gillette acquisition.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    |
| LaShonda Anderson-Williams was elected to our Board in June 2023 and serves as the Chair of the Compensation and Talent Management committee and as a member of the Governance, Nominating, and Sustainability committee. Ms. Anderson-Williams is currently the Chief Customer & Commercial Officer of Salesforce Industries at Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the world’s