Robert A. Spass

Aames Financial Corp. provides banking and other financial services. The company offers residential mortgage equity loans through both wholesale and retail channels. It has offices in Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Missouri, and New Jersey. The company was founded in 1954 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Universal American Corp. provides health insurance and managed care products and services to the senior population. The company's health insurance products for the senior market include Medicare Advantage, insured stand-alone prescription drug benefit plans pursuant to Medicare Part D, and Medicare supplement. It also provides administrative services for senior market insurance and non-insurance programs to affiliated and unaffiliated insurance companies and prescription benefit management services. The company was founded on August 31, 1981 and is headquartered in Rye Brook, NY.

Ceres Group Inc. through its insurance subsidiaries, provides health and life insurance products through two primary business segments. The Medical segment includes catastrophic and medical health insurance for individuals, families, associations and small to mid-size businesses. The Senior segment includes senior health, life and annuity products for Americans age 55 and over. The Company also provides medical cost management services to its insureds. Ceres Group is located in Cleveland, OH.

Capital Z Partners Management LLC (Capital Z Partners) is a private equity firm founded in 1990 by Bradley Cooper and Robert Spass. The firm is headquartered in New York.

LendingTree provides online mortgage services. Its online lending exchange connects consumers, lenders, realtors and related service providers. The company offers home mortgage, home equity, automobile, personal, debt consolidation and credit cards. LendingTree was founded by Douglas R. Lebda in 1996 and is headquartered in Charlotte, NC.

U.S.I. Holdings Corp. engages in the provision of property, casualty, life and health insurance brokerage services. The company was founded in 1994 and is headquartered in Briarcliff Manor, NY.

Endurance Specialty Holdings Ltd. operates as a holding company with interest in providing insurance and reinsurance products. It focuses on underwriting specialty lines of personal and commercial property and casualty insurance and reinsurance on a global basis. The company operates the following business segments: Insurance and Reinsurance. Endurance Specialty Holdings was founded on June 27, 2002 and is headquartered in Pembroke, Bermuda.