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<br />Selective Insurance Company of America
<br />S E L E C T I V E 40 Wantage Avenue
<br />BE UNIQUELY INSUREDBranchville, New Jersey 07890 BoadNO.B 1318103
<br />973-948-3000
<br />POWER OF ATTORNEY
<br />SELECTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY OF AMERICA, a New Jersey corporation having its principal office at 40
<br />Wantage Avenue, in Branchville, State of New Jersey ("SICA'), pursuant to Article VII, Section 1 of its By -Laws, which
<br />state in pertinent part:
<br />The Chairman of the Board, President, Chief Executive Officer, any Executive Vice President,
<br />any Senior Vice President or any Corporate Secretary may,. from time to time, appoint attorneys
<br />in fact, and agents to act for and on behalf of the Corporation and they may give such appointee
<br />such authority, as his/her certificate of authority may prescribe, to sign with the Corporation's
<br />name and seal with the Corporation's seal, bonds, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and
<br />other writings obligatory in the nature of a bond, recognizance or conditional undertaking, and
<br />any of said Officers may, at any time, remove any such appointee and revoke the power and
<br />authority given him/her.
<br />does hereby appoint Jason A Braatz
<br />,its true and lawful attomey(s)-in-fact, full authority to execute on SICA's behalf fidelity and surety bonds or undertakings
<br />and other documents of a similar character issued by SICA in the course of its business, and to bind SICA thereby as fully
<br />as if such instruments had been duly executed by SICA's regularly elected officers at its principal office, in amounts or
<br />penalties not exceeding the sum of: $15,000,000.00
<br />Signed this 16th day of July 2024
<br />SELECTIVE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CQ
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<br />Its SVP, Strategic Business Units,
<br />STATE OF NEW JERSEY :
<br />:as. Branchvi le
<br />COUNTY OF SUSSEX
<br />On this 16th day of July 2024 before me, the undersigned officer, personally appeared Brian Cr„4risky, who
<br />acknowledged himself to be the Sr. Vice President of SICA, and that he, as such Sr. Vice President, beirtg Ii(WeUgq
<br />do, executed the foregoing instrument for the purposes therein contained, by signing the name of the cyduon bylirn�¢
<br />as Sr. Vice President and that the same was his free act and deed the free act and deed of SICATA9�.
<br />Charlene Kimble jTARY PUBLIC
<br />STATEOFNEW JERSEYAVB�.�G
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<br />The power of attorney is signed and sealed by facsimile under and by the authority of the following Resolu[i6H'aduptT d by
<br />the Board of Directors of SICA at a meeting duly called and held on the 6th of February 1987, to wit:
<br />"RESOLVED, the Board of Directors of Selective Insurance Company of America authorizes and approves the use of a
<br />facsimile corporate seal, facsimile signatures of corporate officers and notarial acknowledgements thereof on powers of
<br />attorney for the execution of bonds, recognizances, contracts of indemnity and other writing obligatory in the nature of a
<br />bond, recognizance or conditional undertaking."
<br />CERTIFICATION PA
<br />I do hereby certify as SICA's Corporate Secretary that the foregoing extract of SICA's By -Laws and Reso gq�
<br />force and effect and this Power of Attorney issued pursuant to and in accordance with the By -Laws is vat' a SEAL
<br />Signed this loth day of July 20240 if n n _ �I y��t ,L_ 1928 _.L
<br />Important Notice: If the bond number embedded within the Notary Seal does not match the number in the upper B91� (4-14)
<br />right-hand comer of this Power of Attorney, contact us at 973-948-3000.
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