Renée Hornbaker

Renée Hornbaker has served as Board Chair since March 2024, a director since January 2021 and as Audit Committee Chair since that time.

Ms. Hornbaker has been Chief Executive Officer of Storey & Gates LLC, a consulting firm providing business advisory services including executive coaching and board governance training for boards, since founding the company in 2018. Ms. Hornbaker is also a member of the Board of Directors of Eastman Chemical Company (NYSE: EMN), where she is chair of its Finance Committee and also serves on the Compensation and Management Development Committee, Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee, and Environmental, Safety and Sustainability Committee; she previously served as chair of its Audit Committee. She also serves on several boards of directors for private companies.

Ms. Hornbaker previously served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Stream Energy, a retail energy company from 2011 to December 2017, and was a member of the Board of Directors from 2011 until 2019 when it was acquired by NRG Energy. Ms. Hornbaker served as Chief Financial Officer of Shared Technologies, Inc., a provider of converged voice and data networking solutions, from 2006 to May 2011, and was a consultant to the Chief Executive Officer of CompuCom Systems, Inc., an information technology services provider, from 2005 to 2006. She was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Flowserve Corporation, a global provider of industrial flow management products and services, from 1997 until 2004, and served as Vice President of Business Development and Chief Information Officer from 1997 to 1998. In 1977, Ms. Hornbaker joined the accounting firm Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, where she became a senior manager of its audit practice in the firm’s Chicago office. Following that, she served in senior financial positions with several major companies from 1986 until 1996.

Ms. Hornbaker is chair emeritus of the National Association of Corporate Directors (“NACD”) North Texas chapter. She also serves on NACD’s national risk advisory committee, is an NACD Leadership Fellow and Certified Director, and earned the NACD Cyber SEcurity Oversight Certification. Additionally, she is a member of Women Corporate Directors, the Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Ms. Hornbaker received a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Indiana University and is a CPA.

Ms. Hornbaker brings knowledge and expertise in finance and accounting matters to the Board, including audit and financial reporting oversight experience from her role as a finance executive and as well as from her membership on the boards of other public companies. She also has significant experience in corporate governance, business development, strategy, information technology, health and safety, and human capital management.