CORPORATE GOVERNANCESHAREHOLDER ENGAGEMENT AND COMMUNICATIONS At FARO, we believe that corporate governance includes frequent, clear, and honest communication with our shareholders. We actively engage with a directorportion of our shareholders, including our top institutional investors, to discuss topics of interest including, among other things, our operating performance, corporate governance, and environmental and social matters. We do this as part of our commitment to be responsive to our shareholders and to listen to our shareholders' insights into emerging issues which include feedback on our efforts. More information about investor relations is available on our website at www.faro.com/about-faro/investor-relations. Information on our Shareholder Engagement and Communications efforts, are available through our website, and are not part of or incorporated by reference into this Proxy Statement.
Shareholders may contact our Board of Directors about genuine issues or questions by sending a letter to the following address: c/o FARO Technologies, Inc. 250 Technology Park, Lake Mary, Florida, 32746, Attention: Board of Directors (or the individual director(s)). Communication should be sent by overnight or certified mail, with return receipt requested. The letter should be specific and include the addressee or addressees to be contacted, the topic of the Company since 2000communication, and served as Lead Director from 2005 until May 2018. Since May 2013, Mr. Cole has been Presidentthe number of Seeonee Inc.,shares of our stock that are owned of record (if a financialrecord holder) or beneficially. We reserve the right not to forward communication to Board members containing any abusive, threatening or otherwise inappropriate materials.
GOVERNANCE, SUSTAINABILITY & STRATEGY
The Board of Directors approves and valuation advisory firm. From 1975 until June 2010, Mr. Cole was President and Founding Partner of Cole & Partners, a Toronto, Canada-based mergers and acquisition and corporate finance advisory service company. In June 2010, Cole & Partners was sold to Duff & Phelps Corporation. From June 2010 to May 2013, Mr. Cole was President of Duff & Phelps Canada Limited. Mr. Cole is a Fellowresponsible for the implementation of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario, Fellow ofCompany's mission, vision, and values. During the Canadian Chartered Institute of Business Valuators, Senior Member of the American Society of Appraisers and Full Member of the ADR Institute of Canada, Inc. He serves as lead director of The Westaim Corporation, a TSX Venture Exchange-listed company where he also serves as a member of the audit committee and chairman of the compensation committee and nominating and governance committee. Previously, Mr. Cole was a director of H. Paulin & Co. Limited, a TSX-listed company, where he also served as chairman of the audit committee. Mr. Cole has also held or currently holds positions as an advisory committee member or director of various private companies and charitable and professional organizations.
Relevant experience and skills: mergers and acquisitions, financial management, corporate finance, financial reporting, accounting, oversight of financial performance, and corporate governance.
Lynn Brubaker has served as a director of the Company since July 2009. Ms. Brubaker is a seasoned executive with over 35 years of experience in aviation and aerospace in a variety of executive, operations, sales, marketing, customer support and independent consultant roles. She has over 15 years of board experience and over ten years of experience advising high technology, international, multi-industry and global companies. Since 2005, Ms. Brubaker has had an advisory practice focused on strategy and business development. She is currently a director of Hexcel Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange-listed company in leading advanced materials and technology, and QinetiQ Group plc, a London Stock Exchange–listed leading research and technology company. Ms. Brubaker previously served on the board of directors of Force Protection, Inc., a developer and manufacturer of military survivability technology listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market (“Nasdaq”) from March 2011 until its merger with an affiliate of General Dynamics Corporation in December 2011. Ms. Brubaker spent 10 years at Honeywell International, Inc., retiring as Vice President and General Manager—Commercial Aerospace for Honeywell International, a position she held from 1999 to 2005. Prior to Honeywell International, Ms. Brubaker held a variety of management positions with McDonnell Douglas Corporation, Northwest Airlines Corporation, and ComAir Limited. Ms. Brubaker currently serves on the board of a variety of private companies and other business organizations.
Relevant experience and skills: sales and marketing management, executive management, technology, business development, international operations, manufacturing, financial reporting, and audit, nominating and compensation committee experience.
Jeffrey A. Graves Ph.D. has served as a director of the Company since December 2017. Dr. Graves has served as President and Chief Executive Officer and a director of MTS Systems Corporation, a leading global supplier of high-performance test systems and sensors, since May 2012. From July 2005 to May 2012, he served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of C&D Technologies, Inc., a manufacturer, marketer and distributer of electrical power storage systems for the standby power storage market. Dr. Graves previously served in various executive positions at Kemet Electronics Corporation from 2001 to 2005, including Chief Executive Officer; various leadership positions with General Electric Company’s Power Systems Division and Corporate Research & Development Center from 1995 to 2001; and prior to 1995, various positions of increasing responsibility at Rockwell International Corporation and Howmet Corporation. Dr. Graves has served as a director of Hexcel Corporation since 2007 and previously served as a director of Teleflex Incorporated from 2007 to 2017.
Relevant experience and skills: senior operations and engineering management, executive and financial management, and research and development management.
Simon Raab, Ph.D. is a co-founder of the Company and served as Chairman ofyear, the Board of Directors is provided an update on our sustainability progress. Management of economic, environmental, and social topics is delegated to our CEO and his staff, which is comprised of senior executives responsible for our corporate functions. We renamed our Governance and Nominating Committee to the Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee due to a change in the Committee's charter to focus on our sustainability efforts and strategy.
We embrace our responsibility and commitment to minimize the impact of our operations on others. For us, sustainability is about reducing our energy usage, protecting workers, partnering with suppliers that subscribe to our supplier code of conduct, and maintaining relationships with others to share sustainable solutions for a better world. Environmental considerations are an integral part of our business practices. We endeavor to reduce or eliminate solid waste, wastewater and air emissions through the implementation of appropriate conservation measures in our production, maintenance and facility processes.
While the Board is attentive to sustainability, it is a primary focus of our Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee. Our sustainability strategy includes the following:
Supply increasingly sustainable products and services;
Promote a culture focused on sustainability and attract employees that want to make a difference;
Lead partnerships with our suppliers and customers that increase our sustainability impact;
Monitor and improve our sustainability performance through metrics and tracking progress; and
Show our commitment from the top of our organization.
We strive to incorporate effective corporate governance practices and we encourage sound policy and decision making at both the Board of Directors and management level. In April 2020, we amended and restated the Nominating and Governance Committee charter to, among other things, change the name of the committee to the “Nominating, Governance and Sustainability Committee” and to task the committee with responsibility for implementing and overseeing the Company’s sustainability strategy. We publish our corporate governance guidelines, board committee charters, company code of ethics and corporate responsibility documents on our website at www.faro.com/about-faro/leadership-and-governance, including our articles of incorporation, bylaws, committee charters, company code of ethics, conflict minerals policy and supplier code of conduct. These documents serve as a framework to assist our Board of Directors in the exercise of its governance responsibilities, among other matters. Our Code of Ethics provides guidelines for business conduct and applies to members of our Board of Directors, our executive officers, employees, contractors, consultants, and others working on our behalf. We intend to satisfy the disclosure requirement under Item 5.05 of Form 8-K regarding