Effective January 17, 2022, the Board of Directors of Brown & Brown, Inc., a Florida corporation, increased the size of the Board from 12 directors to 13 directors and appointed Jaymin B. Patel, age 55, to serve as a director of the Company, effective immediately. Since March 2019, Mr. Patel has served as the Executive Chairman of Perennial Climate Inc., a leading platform measuring, reporting, and verifying soil-based carbon removal and climate-smart agriculture. From March 2015 to August 2018, Mr. Patel was Chief Executive Officer and director of Brightstar Corporation.

From 1994 to March 2015, he served in various executive and financial leadership roles at GTECH (now IGT), including as President and Chief Executive Officer of GTECH Corporation, from 2007 to 2015, and as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the publicly traded GTECH Holdings Corporation from 2000 to 2006. Mr. Patel currently serves as an independent director of Ballys Corporation and as an independent director of SpartanNash Company. Mr. Patels initial term as a director on the Board expires at the Companys 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders.

Mr. Patel was not appointed to any standing committees of the Board, but is expected to be appointed to one or more standing committees of the Board following the Companys 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders, although which specific standing committee(s) has not been determined at the time of the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K. On January 18, 2023, Hugh M. Brown informed the Company that he will not stand for re-election at the Company's 2023 Annual Meeting of Shareholders. Mr. Browns decision not to stand for re-election was not as a result of any disagreement with the Company on any matter relating to the Companys operations, policies and procedures.