Xos, Inc. announced that Stuart Bernstein has joined the Board of Directors, effective October 20th. Mr. Bernstein will serve as a member of the Audit and Compensation committees. Mr. Bernstein will be a Class III director and will serve until the Annual meeting of stockholders in 2024, or such later time if he stands for re-election as a Board member and is re-elected.

Mr. Bernstein will replace Ms. Sara Mathew, a current Class III director, who will be stepping down from the Board. Following the appointment of Mr. Bernstein, the Board will continue to comprise eight directors, six of whom are independent. Mr. Bernstein is the Founder and Managing Member of Sustainable Capital LLC.

Prior to that, he was a long-time partner at Goldman Sachs, where during his 25-year career he founded and managed the Clean Technology and Renewables group within the investment banking division, working with many of the firm's corporate and investor clients focused on sustainability. He also ran the Venture Capital Coverage effort, was co-head of Equity Capital Markets (ECM) and Global Head of the Technology Capital Markets Team where he advised on capital markets strategies and transactions with hundreds of late-stage private and early-stage public growth companies. Mr. Bernstein is also Senior Advisor to G2VP; Story3 Capital Partners; and Kimpact.

Previously, Mr. Bernstein served as an advisor to NextGen Acquisition Corp. (the predecessor company to Xos) and NextGen Acquisition Corp. II, two special purpose acquisition companies.

Mr. Bernstein earned his MBA from the Harvard Business School and his MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from U.C. Berkeley. Mr. Bernstein is a Board Emeritus member of the Haas School of Business and a former Trustee of the UC Berkeley Foundation.

He was also a founder of the Berkeley Energy & Climate Institute, and a former Advisory Board Member to the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. Stuart also served on the board at Generate Capital and the California Chapter of the Nature Conservancy. Mr. Bernstein was awarded Business Leader of the Year by the Haas School of Business and is a recipient of the Distinguished Environmental Advocate Award by Environmental Advocates of New York.