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Operations
Management and Personnel
Executive Officers
The Company’s executive officers, and information about each, are listed below. There is no family
relationship between any of the Company’s directors and executive officers.
Name Age Position
T. Brent Stuart 46 President and Chief Executive Officer
Thomas A. Bessant, Jr. 57 Executive Vice President – Chief Financial Officer
J. Curtis Linscott 50 Executive Vice President – General Counsel and Secretary
Victor L. Pepe 51 Executive Vice President – Chief Marketing and Technology Officer
Clint D. Jaynes 49 Executive Vice President – Chief Human Resources Officer
T. Brent StuarthasbeentheCompany’sPresidentandChiefExecutiveOfficersinceNovember2015.
Mr.StuartservedastheCompany’sPresidentandChiefOperatingOfficer from May 2015 through October 2015
and served as the Company’s Executive Vice President—Chief Operating Officer from January 2015 through April
2015. Prior to that, Mr. Stuart served as the Senior Vice President—Operations for the Company’s U.S. retail
services storefront lending business from July 2010 to January 2015 and as a Regional Vice President from
November 2008 to July 2010. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Stuart held various senior leadership roles in the
financial services industry, including the position of Vice President with Fremont Investment and Loan from 2006
to 2008, Senior Vice President with Nationstar Mortgage from 2004 to 2006 and Vice President with Novastar
Financial, Inc. from 2002 to 2004. He also held various leadership positions with CitiFinancial from 1994 to 2002.
Mr. Stuart started his career in financial services with Norwest Finance in May 1992. Mr.StuartholdsaBachelorof
Science degree in Business Administration from Southeast Missouri State University.
Thomas A. Bessant, Jr. has been the Company’s Executive Vice President—Chief Financial Officer since
July 1998. He joined the Company in May 1993 as Vice President—Finance and Treasurer and became the Senior
Vice President—Chief Financial Officer in July 1997. Prior to joining the Company, Mr.BessantwasaSenior
Manager in the Corporate Finance Consulting Services Group of Arthur Andersen&Co.,S.C.fromJune1989to
April 1993. Prior to that, Mr.BessantwasaVice President in the Corporate Banking Division of a major bank
where he started his professional career in 1981. Mr.BessantholdsaBachelorofBusinessAdministration degree in
Accounting and Finance from Texas Tech University and a Masters of Business Administration degree in Finance
from Vanderbilt University.
J. Curtis Linscott has been Executive Vice President—General Counsel and Secretary since May 2006. He
was appointed Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary in May 2005. Mr.Linscottjoinedthe
Company in 1995, serving as Associate General Counsel, and became Vice President—Associate General Counsel
in June 1997. Before joining the Company, he was in private law practice with Kelly,Hart&Hallman,P.C. for five
years. He received his Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Kansas School of Law and a Bachelor of
Science degree in Marketing from Kansas State University.
Victor L. Pepe has been the Company’s Executive Vice President—Chief Marketing and Technology
Officer since August 2015, and prior to that, he served as the Company’s Executive Vice President—Chief
Information Officer from April 2014 to August2015.PriortojoiningtheCompany, Mr. Pepe was employed by
Nationstar Mortgage, a leading residential mortgage services company, where he served as the Executive Vice
President and Chief Information Officer, from July 2012 through April 2014. In addition, Mr. Pepe was the Senior
Vice President of Origination TechnologyofNationstarMortgagefromFebruary2012throughJuly2012.Priorto
that, Mr. Pepe was a Managing Director at JPMorgan Chase & Co. from March 2008 through February 2012, where
he had various leadership responsibilities in the mortgage banking sector. Prior to that, Mr. Pepe was the Senior
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