Biography

Ms. Joanna C. Burkey has served as a director of Bed Bath & Beyond, Inc. since March 2023. She is the founder of Flat Rock Strategic Advisors, LLC, focused on delivering technology and cybersecurity advisory services to enterprise clients. Ms. Burkey served as the Chief Information Security Officer for HP Inc. (NYSE: HPQ) from April 2020 until December 2023. In this role, she and her team had responsibility for HP’s global cybersecurity operations, strategy/architecture and business alignment. Prior to that, she served as the Global Head, Cyber Defense and Deputy Chief Cybersecurity Officer of Siemens AG from September 2018 to April 2020. Ms. Burkey is lead independent director at ReliabilityFirst Corporation, a privately held entity tasked with helping to ensure the reliability of the North American Bulk-Power System, where she also chairs the finance and audit committee. Ms. Burkey also serves on the board of CorVel Corporation (CRVL), a public company in the healthcare and insurance vertical, where she is a member of the Audit Committee. Ms. Burkey holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Angelo State University. The specific experience, qualifications, attributes, and skills that led the Board to conclude that Ms. Burkey should serve as a director considering our business and structure were Ms. Burkey’s 25-year career in cybersecurity across a broad variety of roles, including software engineering, product strategy and security research.

As a result of the above and other experiences, Ms. Burkey possesses particular knowledge, skill and/or experience in a number of other areas that strengthen the Board’s collective knowledge, experience, and capabilities, including but not limited to senior leadership, finance or accounting, risk management, regulatory or government, technology, information/cyber security, global or international business, strategic planning, Environmental, Social and Governance (‘‘ESG’’) understanding, and business transformation.