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graduated from Princeton University with a bachelor’s degree in history and completed her doctorate in Latin American History at Yale University.
 has been a member of our Board since November 2014. Mr. Nevels is Chairman of The Swarthmore Group, a firm that he founded in 1991.
He is also Chairman of The Hershey Company and a director of Hershey Trust Company and the board of managers of Milton Hershey School. In 2004, Mr.
Nevels was appointed by the President of the United States to a three-year term on the advisory committee to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
where he served as Chairman from 2005 to 2007. In 2001, he was appointed by the Governor of Pennsylvania as Chairman of the Philadelphia School Reform
Commission overseeing the turnaround of the Philadelphia School System, at that time the ninth-largest school district in the United States. Mr. Nevels has
been a member of the board of directors of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia since January 2010, and served as its Deputy Chairman from January
2012 until his appointment as Chairman in January 2014. Mr. Nevels was formerly a director of Tasty Baking Company from May 2005 to May 2011. He
holds a bachelor’s degree, cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, in political science and philosophy from Bucknell University, a Masters of Business
Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law
School.
 has been a member of our Board since September 2007 and is a Member of KKR. Mr. Nuttall joined KKR in 1996 and is head of KKR’s
Global Capital and Asset Management Group, which includes Credit, Hedge Funds, KKR Capital Markets and KKR’s Client and Partner Group. He has
played a significant role in several of KKR’s private equity investments. Before joining KKR, he was with the Blackstone Group where he was involved in
numerous merchant banking and merger and acquisition transactions. He received a B.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Nuttall
serves as co-Chair of Teach for America - New York, a non-profit organization that aims to eliminate educational inequity.
 has been a member of our Board since September 2007. Mr. Olson joined KKR in 2002 and is a Member and Head of KKR’s Financial
Services industry team. Mr. Olson is on the board of directors of Alliant Insurance Services, Santander Consumer USA, Sedgwick, Inc. and Visant
Corporation, serves as an observer on the board of directors of WMI Holdings Corp. and is also involved with KKR’s investment in Nephila Capital Ltd.
Before joining KKR, Mr. Olson was with Evercore Partners Inc., where he was involved in a number of private equity transactions and mergers and
acquisitions. He holds a B.S. and B.A.S., summa cum laude, from the University of Pennsylvania.
 has been a member of our Board and Senior Advisor of KKR since August 2013 and our Vice Chairman since May 2014. Before joining
us, Mr. Plumeri was Chief Executive Officer of Willis Group Holdings plc from October 2000 to January 2013 and Chairman of its Board from 2001 to
July 2013. Before joining the Willis Group, Mr. Plumeri spent 32 years as an executive with Citigroup Inc. and its predecessors, where his responsibilities
included overseeing the 450 North American retail branches of Citigroup’s Citibank unit. Before that, Mr. Plumeri served as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Citigroups Primerica Financial Services from 1995 to 1999. In 1994, Mr. Plumeri was appointed Vice Chairman of Citigroup’s predecessor,
Travelers Group Inc. In 1993, Mr. Plumeri became the President of a predecessor of Citigroup’s Salomon Smith Barney unit after overseeing the merger of
Smith Barney and Shearson and serving as the President and Managing Partner of Shearson since 1990. He also serves on the boards of the National Center
on Addiction and Substance Abuse; Mount Sinai Medical Center; the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum; the Jackie Robinson Foundation; Carnegie Hall
and the Churchill Centre and Museum at the Cabinet War Rooms in London.
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Our Governance, Compensation and Nominations Committee (Committee) identifies individuals qualified to become members of our Board and recommends
to our Board nominees for election as directors at each annual meeting of shareholders and to fill vacancies on the Board. Our Committee looks for certain
qualities common to all Board members, including integrity, collegiality, and ability and willingness to make a commitment to us. When considering
whether directors and nominees have the experience, qualifications, attributes and skills, our Committee and our Board focused primarily on the information
discussed in each of the directors’ individual biographies set forth above. With regard to Mr. Bisignano, our Board considered his many yearsof executive
experience in the financial industry. With regard to Mr. Forehand, our Board considered his many years’ experience at a publicly held consulting and
technology services company, including service as chairman of our board. With regard to Mr. Kravis, our Board considered his significant experience and
expertise in private equity investments.
With regard to Ms. Miller, our Board considered her executive experience in the financial services industry and her service as a director of a publicly held
company. With regard to Mr. Nevels, our Board considered his expertise in the securities and investment industry with decades of experience in finance, law
and corporate governance. With regard to Mr. Nuttall, our Board considered his broad perspective brought by Mr. Nuttall’s involvement in KKR’s diverse
investments and his extensive knowledge of our business and capital structure through his involvement since the 2007 merger. With regard to Mr. Olson, our
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