Ms. Lane retired in 2002 as managing director and group leader of the global Retailing Investment Banking Group of Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. (“Merrill Lynch”), an investment banking firm. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch in 1997, she was a managing director at Salomon Brothers, Inc., an investment banking firm, where she founded and led the retail industry investment banking unit, having joined Salomon Brothers in 1989. Ms. Lane is a director of the TJX Companies, Inc. (since 2005) and Fedex Corp (since 2022). Ms. Lane has been a director of NextEra Energy since 2015.