Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form Type: DEF 14A
Source: 0001393726-25-000038
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Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-17
Form: DEF 14A
Chunk 26
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 Structured Credit Products Group of PaineWebber. Prior to joining PaineWebber in 1999, he spent 12 years at Bear Stearns, the last five of which he was head of their Structured Transactions Group. Mr. Barnes was the Chairman of the Board of Philadelphia Financial Group, Inc., a private placement life insurance, annuity and administration company, from June 2010 until June 2015 and Care Investment Trust Inc., a senior living real estate company, from August 2010 until February 2018. Mr. Barnes received his A.B. from Columbia College.

Mr. Barnes was selected and qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of his extensive senior level experience in the investment management industry and his extensive knowledge of our business and industries.

Dominique Mielle has been a member of our Board of Directors since January 2020 and was appointed as the Chairperson of the CNG Committee in August 2020. Ms. Mielle was a partner and senior portfolio manager at Canyon Partners (“Canyon”) from 1998 to 2017, focusing on the transportation, technology, retail and consumer products sectors, corporate and municipal bond securitizations and leading Canyon’s collateralized loan obligations business. She was named one of the “Top 50 Women in Hedge Funds” by Ernst & Young in 2017. Prior to joining Canyon in 1998, Ms. Mielle worked at Libra Investment Services, Lehman Brothers Inc. and Credit Lyonnais. She was a director of Anworth Mortgage Asset Corporation, a mortgage REIT investment firm where she was the chair of the compensation committee and a member of the audit committee from 2018 until its merger with Ready Capital Corp. in 2021. In connection with the merger, Ms. Mielle became a director of Ready Capital Corp., where she is the chair of the audit committee and serves on the compensation committee. She is also a director of Studio City International since 2018, where she is the chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee and serves on the compensation and audit and risk committees. Ms. Mielle was formerly a director of PG&E Corporation and Pacific Gas and Electric Company from April 2019 until June 2020, where she was the chair of the audit committee, and formerly a director of Osiris Acquisition Corp. from 2021 until May 2024, where she was the chair of the audit committee. She was also formerly a director of Digic