ESCO Technologies Inc. announced that effective May 4, 2022, the Company added an additional independent director, Janice L. Hess, to the Company's Board of Directors. She was also named to the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee of the Board of Directors. Since 2014, Ms. Hess has been the President of the Engineered Systems Segment (ESS) and Teledyne Brown Engineering of Teledyne Technologies Incorporated, a diversified multinational company which provides enabling technol ogies for industrial growth markets that require advanced technology and high reliability.

She has full responsibility for ESS strategic positioning, growth, and profitability. Serving energy, space, maritime, and defense markets, ESS designs, develops and delivers a diverse array of advanced technology-driven solutions, systems, products, and services for complex and harsh environments.   She previously served in a number of positions of increasing financial, operational, and executive responsibility with Teledyne from 2000 to 2014, including as ESS's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. She was selected to serve on the Company's Board on the basis of her four decades of operational, financial, and leadership experience, her commitment to continuous improvement, and her performance in growing traditional, adjacent, and emerging markets similar to those served by the Company, which will enable her to assist the Board in guiding Company strategy at the highest level.