Lewis Ferguson Biography and Net Worth

Lewis H. Ferguson, III has served on our Board since October 2018. He was appointed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") to two terms as a board member of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB"), the oversight body for auditors of U.S. public companies, serving from 2011 to 2018. Mr. Ferguson served as Vice-Chair and Chair of the International Forum of Independent Audit Regulators, the international coordinating body of more than 50 independent audit regulators throughout the world, from 2012 to 2015. Mr. Ferguson also served as the first general counsel of the PCAOB from 2004 to 2007.  Prior to his service at the PCAOB, Mr. Ferguson was a partner at the law firm of Williams & Connolly, LLP from 1979 to 1993 and 1998 to 2003, and at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP ("Gibson Dunn") from 2007 to 2011, specializing in securities controversy work, board counseling, representation of audit firms and corporate financial restructurings. While he was a partner at Gibson Dunn he served as acting General Counsel and part of the senior management team at Sunrise Senior Living, the nation's largest provider of senior living facilities, during its financial restructuring from 2009 to 2010. He also served as Senior Vice President and General Counsel of Wright Medical Technology from 1994 to 1997, a publicly traded medical device manufacturer, where he was also head of strategic planning and acquisitions, completing approximately 25 acquisitions of companies and technologies and raising approximately $100 million of equity capital.  Mr. Ferguson has at various times served on the boards of seven companies, two public and five private. The two public companies were Wright Medical Technologies (1994-1997) and Cogent Communications Group, Inc., a predecessor of the Company (2007 to 2009). His roles as a board member included board chair of one company and audit committee chair, compliance committee chair or member of several others. Mr. Ferguson also taught tax, securities and business planning law at Georgetown University Law Center from 1985 to 2000 and has lectured widely on accounting regulation, the role of audit committees and corporate governance.