Biography

Howard I. Atkins has been a Director since 2022 and has served as Acting Chief Financial Officer and Chief Transformation Officer of Daktronics since March 2025.

Mr. Atkins is a seasoned financial executive who currently owns and operates a consulting company that helps businesses improve their operating margins and develop and execute company-specific growth strategies, and these experiences uniquely qualify him for election to the Board. He is a former Chief Financial Officer of Wells Fargo & Company, where he helped successfully lead the bank through the 2008 financial crisis, and where he oversaw the acquisition of Wachovia Bank, creating the most prominent coast-to-coast bank in the U.S. at that time. Previously, he was Chief Financial Officer of New York Life Insurance Company (“NYLife”), where he helped identify and acquire non-U.S. insurance organizations as part of NYLife’s international expansion strategy, Chief Financial Officer of Midlantic Bank, which successfully completed a top-to-bottom financial restructuring during his tenure, and Corporate Treasurer of Chase Manhattan Bank, where he was responsible for several of that bank’s markets businesses in the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Mr. Atkins brings to the Board extensive governance experience, having served as a director of various public companies, including Occidental Petroleum (a large energy exploration and carbon sequester company), Ingram Micro (the world’s largest technology distributor), Lake Resources (an emerging “clean lithium” exploration company), and Express Scripts (one of the largest pharmacy benefits manager in the U.S.).