Effective November 13, 2020, Atanas H. Atanasov, Kraton Corporation's Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, will serve as the Company’s principal accounting officer on an interim basis until a successor can be identified and appointed to the principal accounting officer position. Mr. Atanasov, age 47, brings more than 20 years of financial leadership experience in the energy and real estate sectors as well as proven expertise in banking and capital markets, most recently with Empire Petroleum Partners, LLC, a leading motor-fuel distributor in North America, where he served as Chief Financial Officer from February 2016 until May 2019. Prior to joining Empire, Mr. Atanasov held various positions at NGL Energy Partners LP (“NGL”), a NYSE traded midstream master limited partnership based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He joined NGL in November 2011 as Treasurer and Senior Vice President of Finance and was promoted to Chief Financial Officer in May 2013.