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Jacqueline (Jacky) Wright

Director
Jacqueline Wright has been a director since December 2021. Since November 2022, Ms. Wright has served as Senior Partner, Chief Technology and Platform Officer, of McKinsey & Company. Previously, she served as Corporate Vice President & Chief Digital Officer, U.S. Business, of Microsoft Corporation, a multinational technology company, from November 2019 to November 2022. She also served as Chief Digital & Information Officer for HM Revenue & Customs, the tax department of the United Kingdom Government, under a secondment arrangement from October 2017 to November 2019, and served in various roles at Microsoft Corporation from September 2011 to October 2017, including Corporate Vice President, IT Strategic Enterprise Services and Corporate Vice President, Core Services Engineering Platform. Before joining Microsoft, Ms. Wright served in chief information officer roles for multiple large companies, including BP plc and General Electric Company. Ms. Wright has served as a member of the board of directors of nVent Electric plc, a publicly held provider of electrical connection and protection solutions, since March 2020, and as a member of the board of directors of Russell Reynolds Associates, Inc., a privately held global leadership advisory and search firm, since June 2021. In the not-for-profit sector, she is a member of the board of directors of the MxD Manufacturing Council, the board of councilors of the Center for Global Health Innovation, the Industry Advisory Board for the Institute of Coding (UK) and the data analytics advisory board of Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York, having previously served on the board of trustees of Harvey Mudd College and the board of trustees of Prostate Cancer UK. Ms. Wright holds a B.B.A. in Computer Information Systems & Accounting from Bernard M. Baruch College, City University of New York.