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Gary
Black Gary Black has been a director since June 2006. He was Chief Claims Executive and Senior Vice President of OneBeacon Insurance Company, a subsidiary of White Mountains Insurance Group, until his retirement in 2006. Prior to joining OneBeacon in January of 2004, Mr. Black spent 35 years with Fireman's Fund Insurance Companies where he was an Executive Vice President and President of the Claims Division. At Fireman's Fund his responsibilities included claims, corporate administration, general counsel, staff counsel and systems. He received his B.A. degree from Southwest Baptist University and is a Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter. David Brown has served as Chief Executive Officer of Flagstone since its inception. From September 2003 until our inception, Mr. Brown served as the Chief Executive Officer of Haverford and as the Chief Operating Officer of West End Capital Management (Bermuda) Limited. Mr. Brown joined Centre Solutions (Bermuda) Limited in 1993, and was its President and Chief Executive Officer at the time of his retirement in 1998. Prior to joining Centre, Mr. Brown was a Partner with Ernst & Young in Bermuda. Mr. Brown is the non-executive Chairman of the Bermuda Stock Exchange and a Director and Trustee for the Schroder Family Trusts. Mr. Brown led the team which analyzed, structured and negotiated the acquisition of Merastar Insurance Company in 2004. As Chairman of Merastar, he led the board's oversight of the successful turn-around strategy. Mr. Brown is also a director of Island Heritage Company. At Centre, Mr. Brown was responsible for the global operations of a group with over $7 billion in assets and offices in several countries. During his ten years with Ernst & Young, he specialized in insurance and was involved in the liquidation of numerous insurance companies in Bermuda, the U.K. and the U.S. Mr. Brown is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and a Member of both the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Bermuda and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants. TopMark Byrne is the Executive Chairman and a Founder of Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings Ltd. Flagstone operates in 9 countries including major operating subsidiaries in Bermuda and Switzerland. Flagstone is listed on NYSE under ticker “FSR”. Prior to founding Flagstone, Mark Byrne founded and managed West End Capital Management (Bermuda) Limited, a Bermuda investment management firm engaged primarily in Fixed Income Arbitrage. Along with his professional staff he managed over $1bn of net assets. Mark has been involved in the insurance and reinsurance business as an owner/investor and board member for many years. He has invested at early stages in several insurance companies and has served on the boards of a number of insurance companies, including three public companies prior to Flagstone: White Mountains Insurance Group, Terra Nova (Bermuda) Holdings and Markel Insurance. Mark is also Chairman of Island Heritage Insurance Holdings in the Cayman Islands. Stephen Coley is Director Emeritus of McKinsey & Company. During his 28+ years of active client service with McKinsey, Mr. Coley led a wide variety of successful business strategy and organization efforts, principally serving technology and basic industrial clients. He is co-author of The Alchemy of Growth, an international best-selling management book. Mr. Coley also led the Firm’s corporate growth practice, which researched and developed important insights regarding the leadership and strategic challenges of developing and sustaining growth in large corporations. In addition, Mr. Coley served for 10 years on McKinsey’s Investment Committee, which oversees employee profit sharing investments and partner alternative investment vehicles. Mr. Coley served as chairman from 2000 to 2004. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Coley served in the U.S. Navy for six years in the naval reactors program, including two years as a nuclear plant electronics and reactor control officer and two years developing, teaching, and supervising instruction in various courses in electrical and nuclear engineering theory and operations. Mr. Coley received an M.B.A., with distinction, from Harvard Business
School, where he was named a Loeb Fellow in finance. He has
a B.S. in electrical engineering from Duke University. Tom Dickson is currently the President and CEO of Haverford Investment
Management (GP) Limited and Haverford Investment Advisors (Cayman)
Limited. Previously, Tom served as President and CEO of the
Centre Group and as its Chief Underwriting Officer. The Centre
Group held assets in excess of $9 billion and capital in excess of
$1billion. He joined the Centre Group at the time of its establishment
in 1988 and, prior to assuming responsibilities as Chief Underwriting
Officer, served in a variety of business production and underwriting
capacities in Bermuda and New York. Prior to joining Centre,
Tom held underwriting positions at the Overseas Private Investment
Corporation (OPIC). Stewart Gross is a Managing Director and member of the Investment Committee of Lightyear Capital, a private equity firm investing in companies in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Lightyear, Mr. Gross spent 17 years at Warburg Pincus where he was a Managing Director and member of the Executive Management Group. Mr. Gross has been a primary investor in many highly successful companies, including BEA Systems, VERITAS Software (OpenVision), Renaissance Reinsurance, SkillSoft, Intuit (ChipSoft), Eagle Investment Systems, SHL Systemhouse, Kansas City Southern Industries and Magma Copper Company. Mr. Gross is currently a Director of BEA Systems, SkillSoft, and Yodlee (a private company). Mr. Gross received an A.B., Magna Cum Laude from Harvard College and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School where he was elected to Beta Gamma Sigma. Mr. Gross is chairman of the Civic Capital Corporation, an affiliate of the New York City Investment Fund, a director of Boys & Girls Harbor and a trustee of The Mt. Sinai Children’s Center Foundation. TopDanny James is a Principal of Lehman Brothers Merchant Banking and a Managing Director of Lehman Brothers. Danny joined LBMB in 1995. Prior to joining LBMB, he was a member of the M&A Group based in London and New York. In 1988, Danny joined Lehman Brothers Financial Institutions Group. He is currently a director of Blount International, Inc. (NYSE: BLT), Phoenix Brands LLC and Flagstone Reinsurance Holdings, Ltd. Danny holds a B.A. in Chemistry, with honors, from the College of the Holy Cross. Dr. Tony Knap is the President, Director and Senior Research Scientist at the Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Inc (a US 501 C3 incorporated in 1926 in NY). Dr. Knap received his Ph.D. in oceanography in 1978 from the University of Southampton, U.K. In 1994 he founded the Risk Prediction Initiative, a partnership between the science community and the Re-insurance industry providing essential information between natural disasters and changing climate. Dr. Knap's principal research interests are climate change, environmental science, atmosphere/ocean interactions, effects of chemicals on the marine environment as well as relationships between ocean health and human health. Dr. Knap is a Professor at the University of Plymouth, UK and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Delaware and NOVA University. Dr. Knap serves on expert panels for several international organizations and has served as the chairman of the Health of the Ocean Committee for the Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS). He is co-chair of the Coastal Ocean Observing Panel for GOOS. He has served on many science panels for the US National Science Foundation. He is the author of over 90 peer-reviewed journal articles and one book on ocean science and climate. TopJan Spiering is former Chairman and Managing Partner of Ernst & Young. During his tenure at Ernst & Young, Jan was a member of the firm’s Global Advisory Counsel, founding member of the International Investment Committee, and was Chairman of the firm’s Offshore Fund’s Group. Prior to joining Ernst & Young in 1979, Jan was with Robson Rhodes. He retired from Ernst & Young in 2002. Jan currently serves on the Board of Directors for WP Stewart & Co Ltd (a NYSE listed company), Montpellier Resources Ltd (a Bermuda Fund of Funds), Corona Capital Ltd, and the Mid Ocean Club. Jan has also held numerous positions on various boards and committees in Bermuda, including Deputy Chairman of Bermuda International Business Association, Chairman of Local Costs Committee for the Competitiveness Committee, Chairman of Bermuda’s International Business Association Mutual Funds Committee, Chairman of the International Business Forum, Chairman of the Board of Governors at the Bermuda College, and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Education. TopWray T. Thorn Peter F. Watson
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