Dominic J. Addesso has served as a director of Amynta Ultimate Holdings LLC since June 2022, as the Non-Executive Chairman of BMS RE, and as a director of Core Specialty Holdings, Inc. since December 2020, where he is chair of the audit committee. Mr. Addesso has served as the chair of Dellwood Insurance, LLC since March 2024. Mr. Addesso also serves in an executive advisory role with Madison Dearborn Partners. Prior to 2020 Mr. Addesso served in various leadership roles with Everest Re Group, Ltd. (NYSE: RE), a reinsurance and insurance provider, including as President and CEO from January 2014 to December 2019, previously serving as President, leading group operations from 2011 and as CFO from 2009 to 2011. He served on the Everest Board from 2012 and retired from that board in May 2020. Prior to joining Everest Mr. Addesso served as Senior Vice President, Financial Products and then later as President of US Treaty, and President of regional clients from November 1997 to May 2009 for Munich Re America. In addition, Mr. Addesso served in various roles with Selective Insurance Group, Inc. from 1978 to 1997, including as Chief Financial Officer from 1983 to 1993, and then as head of corporate underwriting, claims, and technology. Mr. Addesso began his career at KPMG where he also obtained his CPA designation. Mr. Addesso holds a B.A. in Accounting from the University of Notre Dame.
Michael A. Bless has served as Special Advisor to the CEO and the Board of Directors of Century Aluminum Company (Nasdaq: CENX) since July 2021. Mr. Bless served as Century's President and Chief Executive Officer from November 2011 to July 2021, he was a member of Century's Board of Directors from December 2012 to July 2021. Mr. Bless served as Century's Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 2006 to November 2011. Prior to Century, Mr. Bless served as the Chief Financial Officer of Maxtor Corporation (NYSE: MXO) from 2004-2006 and Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) from 2001 to 2004, and in several other leadership positions with Rockwell. Mr. Bless began his career as an investment banker with Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. from 1987 to 1997. He holds an A.B. degree in history from Princeton University.
Mr. Bless has served as an independent director of CNA Financial Corporation (NYSE: CNA), where he is chair of the Compensation Committee, since 2017. He served as an independent director of Simpson Manufacturing Company (NYSE: SSD) from 2017 to 2021.
John D. Fisk has served as a director of AGNC Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) since 2019. Mr. Fisk retired in March 2019 as the CEO of the FHLBanks Office of Finance, a division of the Federal Home Loan Banks that issues and services all debt securities for the regional Federal Home Loan Banks, supporting borrowings of $1 trillion. Mr. Fisk had previously served as the Deputy Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer of the FHLBanks Office of Finance from 2004 until 2007 when he became the CEO. Prior to joining the FHLBanks Office of Finance, Mr. Fisk was the Executive Vice President of Strategic Planning at MGIC Investment Corporation, one of the nation’s largest providers of mortgage insurance, from 2002 until 2004. Mr. Fisk holds an M.B.A. in Finance and Public Management from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. from Yale University.
Rohit Gupta has served as our President and CEO since March 2013, as one of our directors since March 2013, and as Chairperson of our Board of Directors from July 2020 to September 2021. Mr. Gupta is also the current President and CEO for our primary insurance subsidiary, Enact Mortgage Insurance Corporation (“EMICO”), a role he assumed in May 2012. Mr. Gupta joined EMICO in 2003 and, prior to serving as our President and CEO, Mr. Gupta held roles of increasing responsibility, including serving as EMICO’s Chief Commercial Officer and Senior Vice President of Products, Intelligence, and Strategy. Prior to that, Mr. Gupta held both marketing director and senior product manager roles with GE Capital from 2000 to 2003. Mr. Gupta began his career with FedEx Corporation in Strategic Marketing, where he was responsible for competitive intelligence and market analysis supporting FedEx senior management. Mr. Gupta has served on the board of the Mortgage Bankers Association since October 2022, and is currently the chairman of the Board of Directors. He also serves on the board of the Housing Policy Executive Council. Mr. Gupta served on the board of the Mortgage Bankers Association Residential Board of Governors until October 2022. He also serves as Chairperson of the U.S. Mortgage Insurers trade association and served on the board of Genworth MI Canada Inc. (TSX: MIC) from June 2016 to December 2019. Mr. Gupta received an undergraduate degree in Computer Science & Technology from Indian Institute of Technology and an M.B.A. in Finance from University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Sheila Hooda is the CEO and President of Alpha Advisory Partners, which she founded in 2013 and advises on strategy, turnaround and transformation, customer centricity and digital business models for companies in the financial and business services sectors. Prior to founding Alpha Advisory Partners in 2013, she served as the global head of strategy and business development in the Financial & Risk division, Investors segment at Thomson Reuters, and earlier as senior managing director in strategy, M&A and corporate development roles at TIAA. Ms. Hooda previously was managing director in the Global Investment Banking Division at Credit Suisse, and prior leadership roles include Bankers Trust, Andersen Consulting and McKinsey & Co. Ms. Hooda holds a B.S. in Mathematics from Savitribai Phule Pune University, a PGDM in management from Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Ms. Hooda has served on the board of trustees of AGL Private Credit Income Fund since November 2024 where she is the chair of its nominating and corporate governance committee. Ms. Hooda has served on the board of the Alera Group, Inc. since February 2024. Ms. Hooda served on the board of Mutual of Omaha Insurance Company from March 2016 to March 2023, where she was the chair of its risk committee and member of its compensation and evaluation committee and ScION Tech Growth I (Nasdaq: SCOA), from December 2020 to December 2022, where she was the chair of the audit committee, and ScION Tech Growth II (Nasdaq: SCOB) from February 2021 to February 2023, where she was the chair of the audit committee. She previously served on the board of Virtus Investment Partners (Nasdaq: VRTS) from 2016 to 2020, where she was a member of its audit and risk & finance committees, and served on the Board of Directors of ProSight Global, Inc. (NYSE: PROS) from 2019 to August 2021, where she was chair of the nominating & governance committee and a member of the audit committee and the human resources committee.
Thomas J. McInerney has served as our director since May 2021. Mr. McInerney has served as the President and CEO of our controlling stockholder, Genworth (NYSE: GNW) and as a director of that company since January 2013. Before joining Genworth Financial, Inc., Mr. McInerney had served as a Senior Advisor to the Boston Consulting Group from June 2011 to December 2012, providing consulting and advisory services to leading insurance and financial services companies in the United States and Canada. From October 2009 to December 2010, Mr. McInerney was a member of ING Groep NV’s Management Board for Insurance, where he was the Chief Operating Officer of ING’s insurance and investment management business worldwide. Prior to that, he served in a variety of senior roles with ING Groep NV after serving in many leadership positions with Aetna, where he began his career as an insurance underwriter in June 1978. Mr. McInerney is also on the boards of United Way Worldwide, Virginia Learns, Global Research Institute at the College of William & Mary, the US Ski and Snowboard Foundation and the Conference Board and its Committee on Economic Development. Mr. McInerney is a member of the American Council of Life Insurers and serves, and has served, on its CEO Steering Committees and Board. Mr. McInerney received a B.A. in Economics with Honors from Colgate University and an M.B.A. from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College.
H. Elizabeth Mitchell was Chief Executive Officer of Renaissance U.S. Inc., and its predecessor Platinum Underwriters Reinsurance Inc., from 2007, and the company’s President from 2005, until her retirement in 2016. Ms. Mitchell has served as an independent director of Selective Insurance Group Inc (NASDAQ: SIGI) since 2018. She also serves as an independent director of Principal Financial Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFG) since 2022. Ms. Mitchell previously served as an independent director of StanCorp Financial Group, Inc. from 2017 to 2022, chairperson of the board of Weston Insurance Holdings from 2020 to 2022, and member of the board of advisors of Hudson Structured Capital Management Ltd. from 2018 to 2024. Prior to those roles, she served in various executive leadership roles at that company and its predecessor St. Paul Re Inc., beginning in 1993. Ms. Mitchell was a consulting actuary at Tillinghast Towers Perrin (now part of Willis Towers Watson) from 1986 to 1992. Ms. Mitchell is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Member of the American Academy of Actuaries. She is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Certified Director and has earned the CERT Certificate in CyberSecurity Oversight from Carnegie Mellon University. Ms. Mitchell holds a B.A from the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, MA.
Robert P. Restrepo Jr. retired from State Auto Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: STFC) in 2015, having served as its Chairman from 2006 to December 2015 and as its President and CEO from 2006 to May 2015. Mr. Restrepo has over 40 years of insurance industry experience, having held executive roles at Main Street America Group, Hanover Insurance Group Inc. (formerly Allmerica Financial Corp), Travelers, and Aetna. Mr. Restrepo has served as a director of RLI Corp. (NYSE:RLI), a property and casualty insurance company, since July 2016 serving as chair of the nominating/governance committee. Mr. Restrepo also has served on the board of Genworth Financial, Inc. (NYSE: GNW), since 2016, where he is chair of its audit committee and member of the management development and compensation committee. Mr. Restrepo also currently serves on the board of directors of The Larry H. Miller Group of Companies. He also previously served as a director of Majesco, a provider of insurance software and consulting services, from August 2015 to September 2020. Mr. Restrepo received a B.A. in English from Yale University. Mr. Restrepo has obtained the Professional Director – Public Company credential from the American College of Corporate Directors.
Debra W. Still, CMB, is Vice Chair of Pulte Financial Services, which includes Pulte Mortgage LLC, PGP Title and Pulte Insurance Agency. Pulte Financial Services is the mortgage lending, title, and insurance operations of PulteGroup, one of America’s largest homebuilders. Ms. Still is a member of the board of managers of Pulte Mortgage, LLC, a nationwide lender headquartered in Englewood, Colorado. Ms. Still served as the President and CEO of Pulte Financial Services from 2010 to April of 2023, overseeing Pulte Mortgage, PGP Title and PIA Insurance. She also served as the President of Pulte Mortgage, LLC, from July 2004 until April 2020.
Ms. Still served as the 2013 Chairman of the Mortgage Bankers Association and is currently a member of the association's Board of Directors, and a member of MBA’s Consumer Affairs Advisory Council. Ms. Still is a member of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s Advisory Committee on Affordable, Equitable, and Sustainable Housing. Ms. Still also serves on the Housing Policy Council Executive Council. She has been the Chairman of the MBA Opens Doors Foundation since 2013. Opens Doors provides rent and mortgage assistance to help keep families with critically ill or injured children in their homes while their child is in treatment. Ms. Still is a graduate of Ithaca College, Ithaca, N.Y., with a Bachelor of Science degree and has completed graduate work at George Washington University.
Ms. Still serves on the Board of Directors of Chimera Investment Corporation (NYSE: CIM) since March 2018, where she is a member of the compensation committee and is chair of the nominating and corporate governance committee. In 2023, Ms. Still joined Fannie Mae’s Affordable Housing Advisory Council.
Westley V. Thompson retired in 2023 as President and CEO of M Financial Group, a life insurance company, and as a member of the M Financial Holdings Incorporated Board of Directors where he served in this capacity since 2017. Prior to joining M Financial Group, Mr. Thompson served as CEO of Emerge.me, LLC, an insurtech company that he founded in 2015. Mr. Thompson has served the board of directors of Constellation Insurance, Inc. since July 2023. In addition, Mr. Thompson served on the board of Majesco, Inc. (Nasdaq: MJCO) from September 2016 until April 2018. From October 2008 until April 2014, Mr. Thompson served as President of Sun Life Financial U.S. Prior to joining Sun Life, Mr. Thompson held executive roles at Lincoln Financial Group from January 1998 to September 2008 and at CIGNA Individual Insurance from April 1994 to December 1997. Mr. Thompson holds a B.A. from Brown University.
Jerome T. Upton is the Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for our controlling stockholder, Genworth (NYSE: GNW). From April 2022 through February of 2023, Mr. Upton served as the Senior Vice President, Deputy Chief Financial Officer, and Controller (Principal Accounting Officer) for Genworth. From June 2010 to April 2022, Mr. Upton served as a Vice President of Genworth (during which time he also served as Deputy CFO from August 2020 to April 2022, as interim CFO of Genworth’s U.S. Life Insurance segment from August 2019 to August 2020, as the Chief Financial and Operations Officer of Genworth’s Global Mortgage Insurance businesses from May 2012 to August 2019, and Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the international mortgage insurance businesses of Genworth from June 2010 to May 2012). Prior to joining Genworth’s predecessor in 1998, Mr. Upton was with KPMG Peat Marwick, where he served in accounting positions of increasing authority before attaining the position of Senior Manager – Insurance. Prior to KPMG, Mr. Upton was the Controller and Director of Financial Reporting for Century American Insurance Company and obtained the status of Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Upton received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Accounting from the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. Mr. Upton served as a director of Genworth Mortgage Australia Limited (ASX: GMA) from February 2012 until September 2020, and as a director of Genworth MI Canada Inc. (TSX: MIC) from May 2014 until December 2019.