b"A LETTER FROMTHE PRESIDENT & CEOFor ACCO toactively educating employees on best practices continue to beto help maintain our network integrity and prevent successful as wecyber-attacks. We all receive the monthly Ninjio grow, we mustcourses (that I expect we all complete) and continue to getsupplemental information via the digital screens it right as a company. Our Human Resourcesin the office. A recently conducted phishing test department (HR) plays a pivotal role in our successindicates their efforts might be paying off as wethey help us identify our people needs withinperformed well as a company. This is encouraging, ACCO. HR Partners with key departments tobut do not get complacentwe continue to face recruit, develop and retain employees; manage ourcyber threats every day and are counting on you to benefits and compensation to keep us competitive.maintain your vigilance!Additionally, they develop and enforce policies and procedures to ensure that the companys valuesThe future of our company and industry is in and culture are maintained in a manner consistentgood hands. I say this with confidence because with company expectations. This way, employeesthe Construction department has been holding remain engaged and know they are an integral partProject Engineer and Project Manager training of the company's success.successively over the last few years. Similarly, our Engineering department recently brought New HR Vice President Eric Reaves believesits leaders together in Oakland for a leadership that the 2024 corporate theme, Elevate: People,conference. Held every two years, this conference Production and Offerings, aligns seamlessly withaligns with the departments goals to develop the the departments goals. It brings a sharper focusbest engineers. ACCO also partnered with the into the three areas where HR aims to improve theACE Mentor Program to host more than 200 high companys overall performance. In this issue ofschool students from the ACE Mentor LA/OC ACCOLADES, we highlight the holistic approachProgram at our Goodrich facility in Commerce, CA Reaves and his HR team are taking to help ACCOin April. At this Build Day, the students received remain a top tier company as we grow our people,exposure to the trades.production and offerings. Summer is a time of the year when the work we Tom Reynolds started at ACCO 40 years ago asdo makes us shine as a companyespeciallyan HVAC Service Technician and excelled in thatthe Facility Service team. We continue to win new role. But in true ACCO fashion, the Facility Serviceproject awards, complete existing projects and leaders saw his potential and worked with him tocontinue to receive recognition for our work.grow his career. Today, as the end of his careerI could not be prouder to lead such a great teamdraws near, Tom is Senior Vice President, Facilityof employees!Service. Read on to find out why Tom got into construction and trace his ascent atop FacilitySincerely,Service at ACCO.In an age when cybersecurity threats are rampant and cyber terrorists are holding businesses ransom,Jeff Marrs our IT departments Cybersecurity team has beenPresident and Chief Executive Officer ACCOLADES|3"