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Barbara R. Hege, Senior Vice President, Finance (Taxation). Ms. Hege has been Senior Vice President, Finance (Taxation) since
December 2000. Ms. Hege joined the Company as Vice President, Taxation, in 1991. Prior to joining the Company, she was Vice President,
Finance and Taxation at Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company. Earlier in her career she was a Senior Manager with KPMG LLP in Chicago.
She is a Certified Public Accountant and a Chartered Life Underwriter. She is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants, the New Jersey Society of Certified Public Accountants, the American Woman’s Society of Certified Public Accountants, The
Society of Financial Service Professionals and a past president of the Chicago Society of Women Certified Public Accountants.
Lance R. Wilson, Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer. Mr. Wilson has been our Senior Vice President, Shared
Services, and Chief Information Officer since April 2000. Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Wilson was Chief Information Officer at
Sunbeam Corporation from 1999 to 2000, and also worked for Honeywell Corporation from 1997 to 1999 as Vice President and Chief
Information Officer. From 1989 to 1997, Mr. Wilson provided leadership for the information systems activities of the Pillsbury Company,
where he was Vice President, Management Information Systems. From 1979 to 1989, Mr. Wilson held various positions with Land O’Lakes,
Inc., where he was responsible for the creation and implementation of a marketing and sales decision support system. Mr. Wilson started his
career in 1974 at the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Navy, where he was responsible for Management Systems Analysis.
John Sondej, Senior Vice President, Controller and Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Sondej has been Senior Vice President and
Controller of the Company since January 2005. He is currently responsible for managing several functional departments at the Company,
including SEC Reporting and Compliance, Accounting Policies & Procedures, Budgeting & Analysis, and Corporate Accounting. Mr. Sondej
joined Assurant in 1998 as Assistant Vice President & Assistant Controller. He was named Vice President & Assistant Controller in January
2001 and Controller in April 2001. Mr. Sondej is the Company’s Principal Accounting Officer. Prior to joining Assurant, Mr. Sondej worked
for Reliance Insurance Group as Assistant Vice President & Director of Financial Audit from 1994 to 1997. He also worked at KPMG from
1987-1994, where he held the position of Senior Audit Manager.
Miles B. Yakre, Senior Vice President, Corporate Actuary and Treasurer. Mr. Yakre has been Senior Vice President, Corporate
Actuary and Treasurer of Assurant, Inc. since January 2005. Mr. Yakre joined Assurant Health’s John Alden Life Insurance Company as an
Associate Actuary in 1991. He served in several positions within the John Alden organization including Vice President and Corporate Actuary.
After the Company’s acquisition of John Alden in 1998, Mr. Yakre joined the Company’s Corporate Actuarial department in April 1999 as
Vice President. He became Treasurer of the Company in February 2002. Mr. Yakre currently serves as co-chair of Assurant’s Risk
Management Policy Committee and oversees the Company’s capital management and cash flow as well as the debt and commercial paper
programs. He is also responsible for actuarial and reinsurance oversight at the Company. Mr. Yakre is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries,
Fellow of the Life Management Institute, and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
(1) New Executive Officer. Subsequent to February 15, 2005, we hired the following executive officer:
William D. Greiter, Senior Vice President, Corporate Development. Mr. Greiter was hired as Senior Vice President, Corporate
Development of the Company effective March 21, 2005. Mr. Greiter is responsible for the Company’s corporate development and mergers and
acquisitions and is involved in implementing the Company’s broad-based growth initiatives and diversified specialty insurance strategy.
Mr. Greiter first joined the Company in 1985 as Assistant to the Chairman and has served in various staff and line management positions at the
Company and several of its business segments. In 2001, as Senior Vice President, Mergers and Acquisitions, Mr. Greiter led the Company
through its sale of Fortis Financial Group and then left the Company in 2003 to pursue consulting opportunities with several companies,
including Assurant. Prior to joining the Company in 1985, Mr. Greiter worked as a corporate and tax attorney in private practice in
Philadelphia and New York. He has also functioned as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives and as a Lecturer in Law at
Boston University Law School. Mr. Greiter is currently a director of two Minnesota not-for-profit organizations, the Metropolitan Boys Choir
and the Minnesota Life College.
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