On July 18, 2017, the Board of Directors of Jason Industries, Inc. increased the size of the board from seven members to eight members and elected the company's President and Chief Executive Officer, Brian Kobylinski, as a new director to fill the vacancy created by such increase. Mr. Kobylinski will serve as a class I director with a term expiring at the company's 2018 annual meeting of stockholders. Mr. Kobylinski has not yet been appointed to serve on any Committee of the Board.