Timothy J. Conway is our Chief Executive Officer and President and was elected to serve as Chairman of our Board of Directors in September 2006. He has been our Chief Executive Officer and President and has served on our Board of Directors since our inception in June 2004. From July 2002 to June 2004, Mr. Conway worked full-time on our founding. From 1996 to July 2002, Mr. Conway was a Managing Director at FleetBoston Financial Corporation or its predecessors responsible for Corporate Finance and Capital Markets. From 1987 to 1996, Mr. Conway held various senior management positions at Citicorp Securities, Inc. He was a Managing Director and Senior Securities Officer and was responsible for the bank's private placement, loan syndication and acquisition finance businesses. Mr. Conway received his undergraduate degree from Fairfield University and his masters of business administration from the University of Connecticut.

Partner—Lee Equity Partners

Mark K. Gormley has served on our Board of Directors since November 2004 and is currently a Partner of Lee Equity Partners. Prior to joining Lee Equity Partners in May 2006, Mr. Gormley was a founding Partner of Capital Z Partners. Prior to joining Capital Z in September 1998, Mr. Gormley was a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in the Insurance and Asset Management Investment Banking Group. Prior to joining Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in July 1989, Mr. Gormley was a Vice President at Merrill Lynch & Co. Mr. Gormley serves or has served as a director of numerous public and private companies, including Bank Handlowy, British Marine, Ceska Sporitelna, NACOLAH and Permanent General. Mr. Gormley received his undergraduate degree from the University of Denver and his masters in business administration from the Stern School of Business at New York University

Finance professor at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University

Maureen O'Hara is the Robert W. Purcell Professor of Finance at the Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell University, where she joined the faculty in 1979. She has had visiting appointments at UCLA, the London Business School, the University of New South Wales, Cambridge University, and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She has served as President of the Western Finance Association and recently served as President of the American Finance Association. Ms. O'Hara currently serves on the Board of Directors of Investment Technology Group, Inc., where she has been lead director since January 2005 and where she has served on the Compensation Committee, Audit Committee and Nominating Committee. Ms. O'Hara received her undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois and her masters of science in economics and Ph.D. in finance from Northwestern University.

Vice Chairman of Corsair Investments LLC

In February 2006, Mr. Thornburgh joined Corsair Capital LLC as a partner. From 1976 until December 2005, he held several positions at the Credit Suisse Group and its various subsidiaries and predecessor institutions, most recently as Executive Vice Chairman and Member of the Credit Suisse Group Executive Board. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Credit Suisse Group and is on its Risk Committee. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Dollar General Corporation and is on its Finance Committee and Strategic Planning Committee. Mr. Thornburgh received his undergraduate degree from the University of Cincinnati and his masters in business administration from Harvard University College of Business Administration.