Emily Fairbairn serves as Lead Independent Director of the Board of Corvex, Inc. and previously served as Chair of the Board from 2018 through June 2026. Ms. Fairbairn brings more than 40 years of experience in institutional asset management, capital markets, and operations. She is the co-founder and served as Chief Executive Officer of Ascend Capital, a multi-billion-dollar institutional hedge fund specializing in long/short equity strategies for global pension funds, endowments, and public entities, a position she held for approximately two decades. Prior to founding Ascend Capital, Ms. Fairbairn managed equity portfolios for high-net-worth clients at Merrill Lynch, and earlier in her career served as a process engineer and production supervisor at Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo, where she gained experience in manufacturing operations, large-scale capital projects, and workforce management. Ms. Fairbairn has served as an Independent Director of IN8bio, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on γδ T cell therapies for the treatment of cancer, since 2021, and has served as a Funding Board Member of the MIT Sandbox Innovation Fund, which supports early-stage technology ventures, since 2017. She also serves as a Board Advisor to Acelab Inc., an AI-driven materials platform serving the architecture and design industry. Ms. Fairbairn holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, and is an active philanthropist supporting medical research in Lyme disease, long COVID, and women’s health.