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
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 from 1995 until 2000 at Bear Stearns Companies, Inc. (“Bear Stearns”), where he started its credit derivatives businesses in New York; and later as a Senior Managing Director,

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based in Tokyo, managing the firm’s fixed income and derivative businesses. Before Bear Stearns, Mr. Smith spent 10 years with Bankers Trust Company (“Bankers Trust”) as a syndicate manager in its loan syndications group, where he was responsible for the syndication of some of the largest leveraged loan financings ever completed. Afterwards, he transferred to Tokyo and later to Hong Kong, where he was involved in Bankers Trust’s credit trading businesses in Asia. In his last position at Bankers Trust, Mr. Smith was one of the founders of that bank’s credit derivatives business. He has served in the past on a variety of fund boards and investment committees including Tricadia Credit Strategies Ltd. until August 2019, and is currently on the board of trustees of the Hawai’i Nature Conservancy. Mr. Smith holds a B.A. from St. Joseph’s University and an M.B.A. from the American Graduate School of International Management.

Mr. Smith was selected and qualified to serve as a member of our Board of Directors because of his knowledge as a private investor and entrepreneur, experience involving large complex financial transactions and his extensive international relationships.

Michael G. Barnes has been a member of our Board of Directors since August 2010, and he currently serves as the Chairman of our Board of Directors. He is also the Company’s Executive Chairman and a member of the management executive committee. In 2007 Mr. Barnes founded TFP and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2012 and Chairman until its merger with Tiptree in 2018. In addition, Mr. Barnes is a founding partner and principal of Tiptree Advisors Holdings, L.P., formerly known as Corvid Peak Holdings, L.P., and its affiliated companies. Prior to the formation of Tiptree Advisors in 2003, Mr. Barnes spent two years as Head of Structured Credit Arbitrage within UBS Principal Finance LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of UBS Warburg LLC (“UBS”) that conducted proprietary trading on behalf of the firm. Mr. Barnes joined UBS in 2000 as part of the merger between UBS and PaineWebber Inc. Prior to joining UBS, Mr. Barnes was a Managing Director and Global Head of the