Leonard Elmore Biography and Net Worth

Leonard Elmore has been a director since December 2021. He serves as Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee and as a member of the Audit Committee. He previously served as a member of an Ad Hoc Committee during 2021 and 2022 the Product Safety Committee from December 2021 to June 2022 overseeing the establishment of the Company’s stock repurchase program. Mr. Elmore is a retired attorney and business leader, a television sports personality, and an educator. He has a wide spectrum of experience in the private and public sectors, and, through his Co-Chairmanship of the John and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, is involved in public interest initiatives directed at promoting diversity, inclusion, and reform in college athletics. A former collegiate basketball All American at the University of Maryland at College Park and a ten-year professional player in both the ABA and NBA, Mr. Elmore has been a Broadcast Analyst for the BIG Ten Network since November 2020. Since August 2018, Mr. Elmore has also served as Senior Lecturer in Discipline at the Columbia University School of Professional Studies Sports Management Program. Mr. Elmore’s prior business experience includes serving as Chief Executive Officer of iHoops, the official youth basketball initiative of the NCAA and NBA, and as the President of Test University, a leading provider of internet-delivered learning solutions for pre-college students. As a practicing attorney, Mr. Elmore was a Partner with the law firm of Dreier LLP and, before that, Senior Counsel with LeBoeuf, Lamb, et. al. (subsequently, Dewey & LeBoeuf). He began his legal career as an Assistant District Attorney with the King’s County (Brooklyn) District Attorney in New York City. Mr. Elmore has extensive public and private Board experience. Since October 2020, Mr. Elmore has been a member of the Board of Directors of 1800Flowers.com (Nasdaq: FLWS), a leading online and telephonic gift and flower retailer, and is the Chair of its Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. From 2007 until February 2020, Mr. Elmore served as a Director on the Board of Directors of Lee Enterprises, Inc. (Nasdaq: LEE), a newspaper publishing company, where he served on the Audit Committee. He also sat on the Board of iHoops from its foundation. Mr. Elmore has been involved for over a decade in public interest endeavors of the John and James L. Knight Foundation’s Knight Commission on Intercollegiate Athletics, whose focus is to develop, promote and lead transformational change that prioritizes the education, health, safety and success of college athletes, and currently serves as one of the Commission’s Co-Chairs. He chairs the Commission’s Racial Equity Task Force and is a member of its Leadership Committee. He also is on the Board of Advisors of the Shirley Povich Center for Sports Journalism at the University of Maryland College Park Merrill School of Journalism. He received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. from the University of Maryland. Mr. Elmore’s education, business experience and experience as a director of other public companies, including as a member of Audit and Governance committees, bring the Board experience in oversight (including of financial reporting and ESG areas), public relations (including media relationships), and a high degree of financial literacy. During his tenure on the Nominating and Governance Committee Mr. Elmore has been instrumental in the transition to an independent Chair, the restructuring of the Compensation Committee’s responsibilities to improve Board efficiency, improvements to the Board self-evaluation process, and development of new ESG related policies including, development of policies to encourage a Speak Up culture, an Anti-Child Labor Policy, Anti-Human Trafficking Policy, New Stockholder Communication Protocol, adoption of Anti-discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity statements, and development underway of several employee-related programs and sustainability initiatives.