Corporate Governance

Jirka Rysavy has been Chairman since our inception and has served as our Chief Executive Officer, other than during the period from March 2009 to July 2016 and since December 2023. Mr. Rysavy is the beneficial owner of approximately 23% of our outstanding shares. In 1986, Mr. Rysavy founded Corporate Express, Inc., which, under his leadership as Chairman and CEO, grew to become a Fortune 500 company. Mr. Rysavy also founded and served as Chairman and CEO of Crystal Market, a health foods concept, which was sold in 1987 to become the concept and first Wild Oats Market, now Whole Foods Market/Amazon. Mr. Rysavy was also Chairman of Real Goods Solar, Inc., an entity Gaia founded in 1999 and brought public in 2009 and resigned from the board in 2013 after Gaia sold its investment.

Paul Sutherland has worked in the investment and financial advisory business since 1975. Until it was acquired by Mercer Advisors in December 2018, he was President of Financial & Investment Management Group, Ltd., a registered investment adviser that he founded in 1984 and managed investment portfolios on a discretionary basis for individuals, trusts, foundations and retirement plans. Mr. Sutherland is Chairman and a founding board member of the Utopia Foundation, Squaring the Education Pyramid Institute, and is author of various books including Zenvesting.

Kristin Frank has served as Chief Executive Officer of the software company AdPredictive since March 2020 and President since September 2018. Before joining AdPredictive, Ms. Frank spent 23 years at Paramount Global, formerly known as Viacom Inc., where she served from 2015 to 2017 as Chief Operating Officer of the $1B+ division for MTV. From 2013 to 2015, Ms. Frank served as Executive Vice President and Head of Digital for Viacom's Music and Entertainment Connected Content Division. From 2009 to 2012, Ms. Frank served as General Manager for MTV and VH1 Digital. Ms. Frank currently serves on the boards of Beachbody, Inc. and the privately held company board of AdPredictive.

Keyur Patel has served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Fuse+Media Pvt. Ltd. since 2008. Mr Patel was a Co-Founder and a Chairman of Fabrik, LLC, led the turnarounds for Inktomi and Maxtor, and incubated, hatched, and ran a number of successful companies including Brience, Metrius, Webvibe, and Phoenix Software. He served as a General Partner of ComVentures. Mr. Patel has also served as the Managing Partner and Chief Strategy Officer of KPMG Consulting Worldwide, Chief Executive Officer at KPMG Internet business, and Managing Partner and Managing Director of the Price Waterhouse Technology Consulting Practice.

Anaal Udaybabu is the founder of Culture Unplugged, a global platform of documentaries for cultural transformation, which served over 50 million people globally. She founded and recently launched Fasting Culture with a vision to integrate consciousness within through at-home diagnostics and Integral Fasting — the experience she has been exploring at the Center for Healing & Transformation, which she founded in India.