Embark Trucks, Inc. Appoints Penny Herscher as Independent Chair of its Board of Directors and Chair of its Compensation Committee

Embark Trucks, Inc. announced the appointment of Penny Herscher as independent chair of its board of directors and chair of its compensation committee. Ms. Herscher is an accomplished public company board director, executive, and entrepreneur in the technology industry, with more than 15 years of experience as a CEO in Silicon Valley and more than 15 years of experience serving on public company boards of directors. She currently serves as chair of the board of directors at SGH-SMART Global Holdings, Inc., Lumentum Holdings, Inc., and as a director at Faurecia SA and several private companies.

She also previously served as a member of the board of directors of Verint Systems, Inc., and PROS Holdings, Inc. Since 2004, Ms. Herscher held various executive positions including CEO of FirstRain, Inc., a company in the unstructured data analytics space, CEO of Simplex Solutions, a publicly traded electronic design automation company, and C-level and senior executive positions for Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Synopsys, Inc. She holds a BA Hons, MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University in England.