On July 22, 2023, the board of directors of Energous Corporation (the ?Company?) appointed Susan Kim-vanDongen as Interim Chief Financial Officer, effective July 24, 2023. Ms. Kim-vanDongen will serve as the Company?s principal financial officer and principal accounting officer on such date. William Mannina, the Company?s prior Acting Chief Financial Officer, no longer served in such capacity as of July 24, 2023.

Ms. Kim-van Dongen, age 58, served as the Chief Financial Officer of US Healthcare and Tech Enterprise from June 2016 to February 2023. Prior to that, she served as a financial consultant of Randstad Professionals US, LLC d/b/a Tatum, (?Tatum?) and other boutique international consulting firms from 2005 to 2015. From May 2004 to September 2005, Ms. Kim-van Dongen served as the Chief Financial Officer of Micropicture.

From April 2003 to May 2004, Ms. Kim-van Dongen was the Chief Financial Officer and a director of TomTom B.V. She also held chief financial officer positions at Management Consulting and Technology Holding Company in the Netherlands from September 2000 to March 2003 and Ultiverse Technologies Inc. from June 1998 to September 2000. From October 1996 to September 1998, Ms. Kim-van Dongen served as the Director of FP&A of Interleaf Inc. Ms. Kim-van Dongen holds a BA from San Francisco State University, an accounting degree from Northeastern University and an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School.