excerpt taken from last news release detailing replacement info:

"Director Resignation
The Company is announcing that effective March 14, 2024, Peter Charbonneau, our lead independent director and chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee is stepping down from the Board of Directors for personal reasons. “Peter has served on the Board since March 18, 2018,” stated POET Chairman & CEO, Dr. Suresh Venkatesan “and in that time, Peter took a leadership role in establishing effective governance policies that has allowed the Company to be acknowledged by outside professionals as one of the most effectively governed companies. We are sorry to see Peter go as his leadership and professionalism will be missed. We wish Peter well in his new endeavors”.

Jean-Louis Malinge has been appointed as lead director and chairman of the Corporate Governance and Nominating Committee effective March 15, 2024 and Michal Lipson has been appointed to the vacancy in the Audit Committee left by Mr. Charbonneau."