Company: TIPT
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001393726-25-000028
Chunk: 67

Company: TIPTREE INC.
Filing Date: 2025-03-03
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 67
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 to attract and retain experienced personnel and seasoned key executives who are knowledgeable about their industry and business. We recruit talent in diverse communities. Tiptree’s seven member board of directors includes two women and one underrepresented minority. Our talent strategy is focused on employee engagement and investments in programs to support career development, as well as recognizing and rewarding performance. An important element of our talent strategy is succession planning and building leadership at various levels across the organization.We strive to: •Provide employee wages that are competitive and consistent with employee positions, skill levels, experience, knowledge and geographic location. •Align executives’ long-term equity compensation with stockholders’ interests by linking realizable pay with earnings and total stockholder return. •Ensure that annual increases and incentive compensation are based on merit, which is communicated to employees at the time of hiring and documented through their talent management process as part of the annual review procedures and upon internal transfer and/or promotion. •Ensure that all employees are eligible for health insurance, paid and unpaid leaves, and life and disability/accident coverage as well as access to wellness programs.23

The Fortegra Foundation (the “Foundation”), a non-profit corporation chaired by Fortegra’s Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Richard S. Kahlbaugh, is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity committed to giving back to its communities in which we live and work. The Foundation accomplishes this objective through monetary donations to local, national, and global organizations providing support to military families and improving the health and welfare of children and families— two primary areas of focus. For example, the Foundation has supported clean water initiatives in Africa and, in 2022 alone, helped build three life-changing water wells in The Republic of Zambia.Fortegra has programs that assist employees in developing key skills that enable them to perform their jobs and to advance their careers. For example, Fortegra has a Leadership Development Program (“LDP”), an early career program designed to attract and develop talent. The LDP includes recent college graduates who typically rotate through several departments over a two-year period, with the intent of gaining a deeper understanding of Fortegra and ultimately becoming better equipped with the knowledge and experience needed to excel as future leaders. Fortegra’s N.O.W. (Network of Women), its employee resource group, works to foster a supportive and equitable environment within Fortegra. The group achieves this by providing networking opportunities, educational initiatives, mentoring programs, and policies that support the unique needs of women in the workforce. Although led by women, the programming and resources provided