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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.

Steven A. Cohen is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Point72, a 1,500+ person registered investment advisor. Mr. Cohen founded S.A.C. Capital Advisors in 1992 and converted his investment operations to the Point72 Asset Management family office in 2014. An avid philanthropist and entrepreneur, Mr. Cohen has founded and holds active leadership roles in a number of nonprofit organizations. Mr. Cohen and his wife, Alexandra, founded the Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation in 2001. The Cohen Foundation is committed to achieving lasting and meaningful change through commitments to children’s health, education, veterans, and the arts. Mr. Cohen created Cohen Veterans Network and Cohen Veterans Bioscience in 2015 to improve the mental healthcare, treatment, and quality of life for recently-returned veterans and their families. Mr. Cohen also serves on the Board of Trustees at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Emeritus Board of the Robin Hood Foundation, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Board of Trustees. Mr. Cohen received a B.S. in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He began his investing career at Gruntal & Co., where he managed proprietary capital for 14 years before starting his own investment business.

Brian is the Founding Partner, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer. He serves on the firm's Compliance, Risk Management, Terms, and Counterparty Credit Committees. Prior to Pine River's inception, Brian began his career at EBF & Associates in 1988 as a trader, becoming head of the convertible arbitrage group in 1994, and was named a Partner in 1997. His responsibilities included portfolio management, marketing, product development, and trading information systems development. He received an MBA with a concentration in Finance and a specialization in Statistics from the University of Chicago in 1988 and a BS in Accounting with a minor in Mathematics summa cum laude from Millikin University in 1986. Brian proudly serves on the Board of Directors for Northside Achievement Zone (NAZ), an organization established to permanently close the achievement gap and end generational poverty in North Minneapolis.

Mark Okada is Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Highland Capital Management, L.P, a Dallas-based investment advisor with $18 billion in assets under management. Highland is one of the largest and most experienced global alternative credit and equity managers and has been instrumental in providing alternative investment solutions for over 20 years. At Highland, Mark is responsible for overseeing the firm’s investment activities for its various strategies. He is also portfolio manager of the Highland Floating Rate Opportunities Fund, which has won the Lipper Fund Award for “Best Loan Participation Fund” in each of the last two years. With more than 30 years of credit and alternatives experience, Mark is widely regarded as a pioneer and leader in the development of bank loans from a niche market into a trillion dollar asset class including trading systems, transaction practices and underwriting procedures. He is responsible for structuring one of the industry’s first arbitrage CLOs and has been instrumental in the development of Highland’s bank loan separate account and mutual fund platforms. Additionally, Mark has been named CNBC “Squawk Master” and is regularly featured on CNBC Squawk Box, Fox Business Opening Bell and many other media outlets. He is a Director of NexBank, member of the Grow South Fund Advisory Board, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Common Grace Ministries, Inc., and member of the Board of Directors for Education is Freedom.

Scout Investment Advisors Inc. is a Scout Investment Advisors Hires Andrew Iseman as Chief Executive Officer at Scout Investments and is based in Kansas City, Missouri. He works or has worked at Seeds of Hope Charitable Trust.