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Co-Chairman of Ernst & Young’s International insurance committee and was a member of the Ernst & Young National Insurance Steering
Committee. He currently chairs the audit committee of Open Solutions and until March 2004, he chaired the audit committee of the
Phoenix National Trust Company, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Phoenix Group. Mr. Carver is a Certified Public Accountant and is a
member of both the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Connecticut Society of CPAs. Mr. Carver also serves on
the boards and/or finance committees of several civic/charitable organizations.
Allen R. Freedman, Director. Mr. Freedman, age 64, has been a member of our Board of Directors since its inception in 1979.
Mr. Freedman is currently the owner and principal of arfreedman&co, a corporate strategy development firm and is the former Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, where he served as Chief Executive Officer until May 2000 and Chairman until his
retirement in July 2000. In 1979, Mr. Freedman became the Company’s president and first employee, initiating the Company’s initial
strategy and orchestrating its growth over the next 21 years. He began his career in 1964 as a tax lawyer, and a year later, he joined the
Internal Revenue Service’s Office of the Chief Counsel. Mr. Freedman served as Vice President of D.H. Magid & Co. from 1967 to 1970.
From there, he served as Vice President of Irving Trust Company (now Bank of New York). In 1975, Mr. Freedman became Executive
Vice President and Treasurer of Lewis R. Eisner & Co., where he managed the creation of what is now Assurant in the United States, along
with several other investments made by predecessors of Assurant. Beginning in 1978, he initiated and supervised most aspects of
Assurant’s U.S. operations. Since his retirement as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company, he has served as a Director of
StoneMar LP (formerly Cornerstone Family Services), Chairman of its audit committee and a member of its investment committee. In
October 2004, he became a member of the board of directors of Indus International, Inc. and serves as Chairman of its compensation
committee. He is also a member of the board of directors of the newly formed Association of Audit Committee Members, Inc. From 1984
to 2004, Mr. Freedman served on the board of directors of Systems & Computer Technologies Corporation (SCTC). In 2002, he was the
Chairman of the Board and was chairman of the audit committee of SCTC.
Gilbert Mittler, Director. Mr. Mittler, age 55, is the Chief Financial Officer of Fortis Group, and has been a member of our Board of
Directors since March 2003. Mr. Mittler joined AG Group, one of the founding companies of Fortis Group, in 1988 and became at the
inception of Fortis Group in 1990, Director of Fortis Group Finance & Development and Secretary of the Executive and Supervisory
Boards of Fortis Group. He began his career as an accountant at Arthur Andersen in 1974, and subsequently worked for Belgian holding
company Sofina as Senior Officer from 1976 to 1988. In 1988, he was recruited to serve as Head of Corporate Development of the AG
Group (now Fortis AG), and in 1993 became Managing Director of ASLK Bank (now Fortis Bank) and a member of its Executive
Committee, responsible for Finance & Control and foreign operations. In 1998, he became a member of the executive committee of Fortis
Group, and a year later, he was named Managing Director of Fortis (B) and Fortis (NL), maintaining various responsibilities at group level.
Since September 2000, he has served as Chief Financial Officer of Fortis Group and since 2001 also as Managing Director and Chief
Financial Officer of Fortis Bank. Mr. Mittler is a member of the board of directors of Caifor, Fortis AG, Fortis Bank and Fortis Insurance
N.V. He is also Vice
-Chairman of the board of directors of the Banque Générale du Luxembourg and a member of Fortis ASR N.V.’s
Supervisory Board.