GRANITE RE, INC.
<br />GENERAL POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />Know all Men by these Presents:
<br />That GRANITE RE, INC., a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of MINNESOTA and having its principal office at the
<br />City of OKLAHOMA CITY in the State of OKLAHOMA does hereby constitute and appoint:
<br />WANDA FRANZ; TOM LAHL; TOM KEMP: LISA M. FRANCOUR; JENNIFER BOYLES; ZACHARY PATE; TROY STAPLES; NICHOLAS HOCHBAN its true and
<br />lawful Attorney-in-Fact(s) for the following purposes, to wit:
<br />To sign its name as surety to, and to execute, seal and acknowledge, any and all bonds, and to respectively do and perform any and all acts
<br />and things set forth in the resolution of the Board of Directors of the said GRANITE RE, INC. a certified copy of which is hereto annexed and made a
<br />part of this Power of Attorney; and the said GRANITE RE, INC. through us, Its Board of Directors, hereby ratifies and confirms all and whatsoever the
<br />said:
<br />WANDA FRANZ; TOM LAHL;TOM KEMP: LISA M. FRANCOUR; JENNIFER BOYLES; ZACHARY PATE; TROY STAPLES; NICHOLAS HOCHBAN may lawfully do
<br />In the premises by virtue of these presents.
<br />In Witness Whereof, the said GRANITE RE, INC. has caused this instrument to be sealed with its corporate seal, duly attested by the signatures
<br />of its President and Assistant Secretary, this 31st day of July, 2023.
<br />s a L Kenneth D. Whittincdon, President
<br />STATE OF OKLAHOMA } i
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<br />COUNTY OF OKLAHOMA ) Kyle/P. McDonald, Assistant Secretary
<br />On this 315t day of July, 2023, before me personally came Kenneth D. Whittington, President of the GRANITE RE, INC. Company and Kyle P.
<br />McDonald, Assistant Secretary of said Company, with both of whom 1 am personally acquainted, who being by me severally duly sworn, said, that
<br />they, the said Kenneth D. Whittington and Kyle P. McDonald were respectively the President and the Assistant Secretary of GRANITE RE, INC., the
<br />corporation described in and which executed the foregoing Power of Attorney; that they each knew the seal of said corporation; that the seal affixed
<br />to said Power of Attorney was such corporate seal, that it was so fixed by order of the Board of Directors of said corporation, and that they signed
<br />their name thereto by like order as President and Assistant Secretary, respectively, of the Company.
<br />My Commission Expires;
<br />April 21, 2027Notary Public
<br />Commission #: 11003620
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<br />GRANITE RE, INC.
<br />Certificate
<br />THE UNDERSIGNED, being the duly elected and acting Assistant Secretary of Granite Re, Inc., a`Minnesota Corporation, HEREBY CERTIFIES that the
<br />following resolution is a true and correct excerpt from the July 15, 1987, minutes of the meeting of the Board of Directors of Granite Re, Inc. and that
<br />said Power of Attorney has not been revoked and is now in full force and effect.
<br />"RESOLVED, that the President, any Vice President, the Assistant Secretary, and any Assistant Vice President shall each have authority to
<br />appoint individuals as attorneys -in -fact or under other appropriate titles with authority to execute on behalf of the company fidelity and
<br />surety bonds and other documents of similar character issued by the Company in the course of its business. On any instrument making or
<br />evidencing such appointment, the signatures may be affixed by facsimile. On any instrument conferring such authority or on any bond or
<br />undertaking of the Company, the seal, or a facsimile thereof, may be impressed or affixed or in any other manner reproduced; provided,
<br />however, that the seal shall not be necessary to the i+t}Cut V4jQf any such instrument or undertaking."
<br />IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has subscr�* s`�tf t? Grttsi `6 d the corporate seal of the Corporation this
<br />27th day of December 2023, z7` _' `'�=`•.�}
<br />Ky1�McDonald, Assistant Secretary
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