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Jeffrey Eckel is a Board Member at Alliance To Save Energy and Chairman/President/CEO at HANNON ARMSTRONG SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE CAPITAL, INC.. He has worked as Senior Vice President at HANNON ARMSTRONG SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE CAPITAL, INC. and Board Member at HA ENERGYSOURCE HOLDINGS LLC. Jeffrey works or has worked as MEMBER at President's Council of Ceres. He studied at Syracuse University and University of Miami.

Andrew L. Farkas is Chief Executive Officer of C-III Capital Partners. Mr. Farkas also serves as Managing Member, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Island Capital Group, a leading real estate merchant bank that is the controlling parent of C-III Capital Partners. Mr. Farkas founded Island Capital Group LLC in May 2003. Mr. Farkas was previously Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Insignia Financial Group, Inc. (NYSE: IFS), a global real estate services company that he founded in 1990 and was merged with CB Richard Ellis in July 2003 to form the world's largest commercial real estate services company. In its heyday, Insignia was the largest owner and operator of multifamily residential housing and among the largest owners and operators of commercial space in the United States, owning, controlling or managing approximately 350,000 apartments and over 200 million square feet of commercial space. The portfolio had a gross capitalization in excess of $10 billion. Mr. Farkas received a B.A. degree from Harvard University in 1982, where he majored in economics.

Mr. Levine has served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Springleaf since October 1, 2011. Mr. Levine served as President and Chief Executive Officer and as a director of Capmark Financial Group Inc. (“Capmark”) (a commercial real estate finance company) from December 2008 until February 2011. On October 25, 2009, Capmark and certain of its subsidiaries filed voluntary petitions for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. Capmark and certain of its debtor subsidiaries emerged from bankruptcy on September 30, 2011. From 2000 to 2008, Mr. Levine served as President, Chief Executive Officer (Co-CEO from March 2000 until January 2007), and a member of the board of directors of Royal Bank of Scotland Global Banking & Markets, North America (a banking and financial services company) and Chief Executive Officer of its predecessor entity, RBS Greenwich Capital (a financial services company) with responsibility for the company’s institutional business in the United States. Previously, Mr. Levine was co-head of the Mortgage and Asset Backed Departments at RBS Greenwich Capital. Mr. Levine’s extensive experience in the financial industry and his previous experience as an executive officer and director of financial services companies allow him to provide the Board with a broad perspective of our industry.