The audit committee has reviewed the Company's audited financial statements for the financial year ended December 31, 2023 and has discussed these financial statements with management and the Company's independent registered public accounting firm. The audit committee has also received from, and discussed with, the Company's independent registered public accounting firm various communications that such independent registered public accounting firm is required to provide to the audit committee, including the matters required to be discussed by the applicable requirements of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board ("PCAOB") and the SEC. [...] The Company's independent registered public accounting firm also provided the audit committee with a formal written statement required by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB describing all relationships between the independent registered public accounting firm and the Company, including the disclosures required by the applicable requirements of the PCAOB regarding the independent registered public accounting firm's communications with the audit committee concerning independence. In addition, the audit committee discussed with the independent registered public accounting firm its independence from the Company. The audit committee also considered whether the independent registered public accounting firm's provision of certain other non-audit related services to the Company is compatible with maintaining such firm's independence. [...] Pursuant to the charter of the audit committee, the audit committee pre-approves audit and non-audit services, provided that de minimis non-audit services may instead be approved in accordance with the available exceptions under the rules of the SEC. The audit committee delegated its authority to pre-approve services to the Chairperson of the audit committee on September 19, 2017, and the Chairperson must present any such approvals to the full audit committee at the next audit committee meeting.