EX-99.16 PWR OF ATTY 9 simplifyetf_fiona-poa.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

POWER OF ATTORNEY

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS:

 

WHEREAS, SIMPLIFY EXCHANGE TRADED FUNDS, a statutory trust organized under the laws of the State of Delaware (hereinafter referred to as the “Trust”), periodically files amendments to its Registration Statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended and the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended; and

 

WHEREAS, the undersigned is the Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer of the Trust.

 

NOW, THEREFORE, the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints JOANN M. STRASSER, MICHAEL V. WIBLE, ANDREW DAVALLA, PHILIP B. SINENENG, CASSANDRA W. BORCHERS, and BIBB L. STRENCH as attorneys for her and in her name, place and stead, and in her office and capacity in the Trust, to execute and file any Amendment or Amendments to the Trust’s Registration Statement hereby giving and granting to said attorneys full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing whatsoever requisite and necessary to be done in and about the premises as fully to all intents and purposes as she might or could do if personally present at the doing thereof, hereby ratifying and confirming all that said attorneys may or shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has hereunto set her hand this 8th day of February 2024.

 

By: /s/ Fiona Ho
    Fiona Ho, Treasurer and Principal Financial Officer

 

STATE OF CALIFORNIA )    
  ) ss:  
COUNTY OF ORANGE )    

 

Before me, a Notary Public, in and for said county and state, personally appeared Fiona Ho, who represented that she is duly authorized in the premises, and who is known to me to be the person described in and who executed the foregoing instrument, and she duly acknowledged to me that she executed and delivered the same for the purposes therein expressed.

 

WITNESS my hand and official seal this 8th day of February 2024.

 

/s/ Javid I. Amliwala
Notary Public
My commission expires: 08/28/2025