Company: MHLA
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001412100-25-000020
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Company: Maiden Holdings, Ltd.
Filing Date: 2025-03-20
Form: 10-K/A
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2015 through September 2016. Mr. Nigro began his career with Arthur Young and Co. and is a Certified Public Accountant in New York. Mr. Nigro graduated from the University at Albany with a major in Accounting and minor in Economics. In July 2022, Mr. Nigro was awarded The Corporate Director Certificate from Harvard Business School, having completed qualifying programs in the areas of board leadership, oversight of financial reporting and internal control, and executive compensation.

Keith A. Thomas , 67, has been a member of our Board of Directors since December 2019, and he currently serves as Chair of the Compensation Committee and a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee. Mr. Thomas has over 35 years of experience in capital markets, asset management and alternative investment sales and is currently the Managing Member of KATNET LLC. Since 2006, Mr. Thomas has served as a senior executive for marketing and business development at a number of institutional funds, including Blueprint

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Capital Advisors, EIM Management (USA) Inc., Muirfield Capital Management, and as an advisor to a number of emerging managers. Previously, Mr. Thomas served as Senior Vice President in derivative products departments at Smith Barney servicing institutional clients such as New York State Common Fund and the Inter-American Development Bank. Mr. Thomas attended Montclair State University. Mr. Thomas serves as a Trustee of The Lincoln Fund. He also was a founding board member of New York Cares and served as a trustee of the WNYC Radio Foundation for 25 years.

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### CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

#### Board Independence
Ms. Blanchard and Messrs. Lyons, Neff, Nigro and Thomas are “independent directors” under the rules of the NASDAQ Capital Market ("NASDAQ") and the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE"). The NASDAQ and the NYSE rules require that a majority of the Board of Directors be independent, and we are in compliance with these requirements. The independent directors held separate executive sessions without senior management on at least four occasions in 2024, and neither the chairman, chief executive officer, president nor any member of management, at any level, attended any of the executive sessions of the independent directors.

Board Meetings and Committees; Attendance at Annual General Meeting

The Board of Directors held 16 meetings in 2024. Each director attended at least 75% of the aggregate of the total number