Our accomplished directors are committed to sound corporate governance and ensuring full compliance and accountability to shareholders in accordance with all laws and regulations. We believe that dedication to these principles and the highest ethical standards are essential to both short- and long-term value creation and preservation. We also embrace Board diversity in all its facets—skills, experience, gender, ethnicity, race—as essential to maintaining our competitive advantage and attaining our strategic objectives. Our directors bring to the Boardroom broad experience gained from outstanding careers, personal and professional integrity, the ability to make independent and analytical inquiries, financial literacy, mature judgment, high performance standards, familiarity with our business and industry, and the ability to work collegially.