During his tenure at Clarus, Kuehne has established himself as a skilled strategic leader, implementing Clarus' operating model, and supporting the Company's organic and inorganic growth. In his new role as chief operating officer, Kuehne will have responsibility for Clarus' operating model, business integration and optimization as well as the Company's operational support functions. Yates has nearly 35 years of financial management, executive leadership, accounting and M&A experience and joins Clarus from IDEX Corporation IEX ("IDEX"), a S&P 500 diversified engineered products company. At IDEX, he held multiple accounting and financial executive leadership positions, including most recently serving as chief accounting officer, a role which he held since 2010. Other positions at IDEX included interim CFO and corporate controller. Prior to IDEX, Yates worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers and KPMG. He is a certified public accountant and received his Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from Indiana University.