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David Endicott, Chief Executive Officer

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A lifelong healthcare executive with leadership experience at global pharmaceutical and medical device companies, David J. Endicott is the Chief Executive Officer of Alcon and brings to the Board an in-depth knowledge of Alcon as well as the healthcare industry. He joined the Alcon Division while operating under the Novartis group as President, Commercial and Innovation and Chief Operating Officer in July 2016. Prior to joining the Alcon Division in 2016, Mr. Endicott was President of Hospira Infusion Systems, a Pfizer company. Before joining Hospira, Mr. Endicott served as an officer and executive committee member of Allergan, Inc., where he spent more than 25 years of his career in leadership roles across Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. Mr. Endicott served on the board of directors of Zeltiq, Inc. and Orexigen Therapeutics, Inc. He currently serves on the board of AdvaMed.

He holds an undergraduate degree in Chemistry from Whitman College and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, both in the U.S.

Key Competencies: Global Business Operations, Healthcare Industry and Marketing

Laurent Attias, Head Corporate Development, Strategy, Business Development and Licensing (BD&L) and Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A)

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Laurent Attias is Head of Corporate Development, Strategy, BD&L and M&A, where he leads the development of long-term strategic plans for the Surgical and Vision Care segments of Alcon and is responsible for Alcon’s BD&L, M&A, partnerships and alliance activities—a role he has held since 2015. Since 1994 when Mr. Attias joined Alcon, he has had various roles with increasing responsibility beginning with positions in Alcon’s Sales and Marketing functions and then holding the positions of Vice President, Refractive Sales and Marketing from 2002 to 2007; Vice President/General Manager of Alcon Canada from 2007 to 2009; Vice President, Central & Eastern Europe, Italy and Greece from 2009 to 2010; and President, Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) from 2010 to 2012. From 2012 to 2015, as Senior Vice President of Global Commercial Franchises, Mr. Attias led all commercial execution and product pipeline activities of Alcon’s Surgical, Pharmaceutical and Vision Care franchises.

Mr. Attias holds both a Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and a Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University in the U.S.

Ian Bell, President, Global Business & Innovation

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Ian Bell has been the President, Global Business & Innovation, since September 2021, where he oversees the development of new products and digital health solutions as well as the Alcon Surgical and Vision Care businesses. From January 2019 until he was appointed to his current role, he was President, International, overseeing the Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, Japan, and Latin America and Caribbean markets. He joined Alcon in March 2016 as President of EMEA. From 2014 until joining Alcon, Mr. Bell served as Corporate Vice President and President of the EMEA region for Hospira, Inc. Mr. Bell was based in Singapore as the Corporate Vice President and President of Allergan, Inc.’s Asia Pacific region from 2008 to 2014. Mr. Bell joined Allergan in 2005 as Vice President and Managing Director of its neurosciences division for the EMEA region. He began his career at GlaxoSmithKline plc, where he held roles of increasing responsibility and scope in sales, marketing and strategy for more than 10 years.

Mr. Bell has a Bachelor of Arts with honors in Economics from the University of York in the United Kingdom.

Sergio Duplan, President, North America

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Sergio Duplan has served as President, North America, overseeing the U.S. and Canadian markets since 2015. Mr. Duplan joined Alcon in 2012 and served as Alcon’s President of Latin America and Canada for three years. He began his career with Novartis in 2004 as Vice President of Sales in General Medicines in Mexico, then served as Head of Marketing and Sales for Latin America, General Medicines, and Pharma from 2006 to 2008, and then as Country Pharma Organization Head and Country President of Novartis Mexico from 2008 to 2012. Before joining Novartis, Mr. Duplan held several positions of increasing responsibility in sales, finance and country management at Procter & Gamble Company and Eli Lilly & Co. He is also a board member of The Alcon Foundation and Helen Keller International.

Mr. Duplan holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Iberoamericana in Mexico and a Master’s of Business Administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in the U.S.

Sue-Jean Lin, SVP, Chief Information & Transformation Officer

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Sue-Jean Lin is Senior Vice President, Chief Information and Transformation Officer, where she leads the technology initiatives within Alcon and is responsible for leading the development and implementation of Alcon’s transformation programs. Ms. Lin joined Alcon in August 2018 as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer. Prior to joining Alcon, Ms. Lin was Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Hill-Rom Holdings, Inc., a global medical technology company. Prior to joining Hill-Rom in 2016, she spent more than two decades with Allergan, Inc., including as its Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer and, before that, its Vice President of Finance & Regional Controller for Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific regions. In 2015, she also served as Interim Executive for Presbyterian Healthcare Services in the capacity of Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. She has served on the board of directors of Arcutis Biotherapeutics, Inc. since June 2021.

Ms. Lin holds both a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Nevada, Reno. She completed the Executive Leadership Program from the University of Southern California, Marshall School of Business, and holds a Cybersecurity Oversight certificate from the Software Engineering Institute of Carnegie Mellon University.

Rajkumar Narayanan, President, International

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Rajkumar Narayanan has been the President, International, since September 2021, where he oversees the Europe, Russia, Middle East and Africa, Asia Pacific, China, Japan, Latin America and Caribbean markets. From April 2019 until he was appointed to his current role, he was Senior Vice President, Operational Strategy and Chief Transformation Officer and was responsible for leading the development and implementation of Alcon’s transformation programs. He joined Alcon in June 2017 as President of Asia Pacific region from Allergan, Inc., where he worked for more than 20 years in roles of increasing responsibility, including Senior Vice President Asia Pacific Region from 2014 to 2017; Vice President and Managing Director of the Medical Aesthetic Franchise for Europe Africa and Middle East from 2011 to 2014; and Vice-President, Greater China & Japan from 2008 to 2011. Prior to those roles, Mr. Narayanan was a part of Allergan’s Finance function in a number of country, region and corporate finance roles. He started his career in finance with Hindustan Unilever India in 1987.

Mr. Narayanan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and Finance from Mumbai University. He is also a Chartered Accountant and a Cost and Works Accountant in India.

Tim Stonesifer, Chief Financial Officer

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Tim Stonesifer has been the Chief Financial Officer of Alcon since April 2019. Before joining Alcon, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise from November 2015 through September 2018. Prior to that role, Mr. Stonesifer acted as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Enterprise Group since 2014. Before joining HP Co., he served as Chief Financial Officer of General Motors’ International Operations from 2011 to 2014. Previously, he served as Chief Financial Officer of Alegco Scotsman, a storage company, from 2010 to May 2011; Chief Financial Officer of Sabic Innovative Plastics (formerly GE Plastics) from 2007 to 2010; and various other positions at General Electric since joining the company in 1989.

Mr. Stonesifer holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from the University of Michigan in the U.S.