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ANNUAL REPORT 2024 47NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MR. DAVAN MAHARAJ was appointed as an Independent Director of the Board of Guardian Media Limited in 2017. He is an internationally-renowned journalist who served as Editor-InChief and publisher of the Los Angeles Times. Under his leadership, The Times won five Pulitzer Prizes, including the prestigious gold medal for public service. As publisher, he oversaw a company with more than US$400 million in revenue. Maharaj began his journalism career in Trinidad and Tobago, where he won Caribbean Journalist of The Year prize and top awards for investigative journalism. At The Times, Maharaj won numerous awards for his investigation of a Southern California probate lawyer who wrote wills and trusts that bequeathed to himself millions of dollars of his clients%u2019 property. The story resulted in changes in California%u2019s probate laws. His series, Living On Pennies, published during his tenure as the paper%u2019s Nairobi bureau chief, won the Ernie Pyle Award for Feature Writing. As Editor-In-Chief, Maharaj and his team worked with an acclaimed New York digital firm to redesign latimes.com, then one of the world%u2019s largest responsive news websites ever built. Maharaj has a bachelor%u2019s degree from the University of Tennessee, a master%u2019s degree from Yale Law School, and recently was a fellow at Harvard University%u2019s Kennedy School. Maharaj has an honorary doctor of letters (D. Litt) degree from the University of the West Indies.NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR MRS. SONJA GITTENS-OTTLEY was appointed as an Independent Director of the Board of Guardian Media Limited in 2016. She is VP, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Scopely, the number one mobile games company in the United States, and among the top 5 in the world outside of China. At Scopely, she is responsible for providing strategic leadership to execute initiatives that align with the organization%u2019s mission, values and goals, creating an environment that allows everyone to thrive and to do their best work. Prior to her roles in diversity, equity and inclusion at Scopely, Asana and Facebook, she was global policy counsel for Yahoo%u2019s Business and Human Rights Program.Before switching to technology, Mrs. Gittens-Ottley was an attorney-at-law at the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago where she focused on banking, financial compliance, and corporate governance issues, and at the Ministry of Legal Affairs and the Office of the Attorney General of Trinidad and Tobago, where she developed and implemented comparative legal research programs. She started her legal career with Guardian Life of the Caribbean Limited.She is a graduate of the University of the West Indies and The Hugh Wooding Law School.DAVAN MAHARAJSONJA GITTENS-OTTLEYDirectors