On November 14, 2022, the board of directors of Xurpas Inc. appointed Mr. Christopher P. Monterola as third Independent Director of the company. Effective date of appointment is November 14, 2022. Christopher P. Monterola current position: Head, Professor, Aboitiz Chair in Data Science Aboitiz School of Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship; Executive Managing Director and Principal Scientist Analytics, Computing, and Complex Systems (ACCeSs@AIM) laboratory Asian Institute of Management; Academician, National Academy of Science and Technology, Philippines.

past positions held: Former Senior Scientist and Founding Head (June 2012-August 2017) Complex Systems (CxSy) Capability Group, Institute of High Performance Computing Agency for Science and Technology (A*STAR), Singapore; Adjunct Senior Research Fellow (2015-2017) Complexity Institute, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore; Postdoctoral Fellow (2003-2005) Max Planck Institute for the Physics of the Complex Systems, Dresden, Germany; Former Associate Professor 7/University Scientists/Centennial Professorial Chair/Academic Personnel Committee chair (1997-2012) National Institute of Physics, University of the Philippines Diliman (NIP-UPD); Supervised nine (9) Doctoral PhD dissertations from NIP-UPD and NTU Singapore, eight (8) M.S. Physics theses, eleven (11) capstone groups or sixty (60) MS Data Science students, and (17) undergraduate theses from NIP-UPD; mentored six (6) students for 1-year research attachment with A*STAR, Singapore all now are PhDs in Ivy League schools (MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Cornell); Principal investigator/Co-investigator of multi-million dollar projects with themes dealing with fundamental research to industry problems and innovations, among the stakeholders are Ayala Corp, Security Bank, SMRT Inc., Singapore's Land Transport Authority, National University of Singapore, Singapore's Ministry of Transport, NTU, Panasonic Avionics, Cisco Systems, Baseride Solutions, Fujitsu Pte Ltd., Housing Development Board Singapore, Globe Telecom Philippines, Manila Water Asia Pacific, DOST Philippines, UP System grants, National Research Council of the Philippines, Department of Trade and Industry, Pulse Asia Inc., Singapore's National University Hospital.