Michael Karfunkel

Michael Karfunkel, Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1998, is a businessman with significant interests in the financial services industry, including insurance, banking and real estate. He is currently Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of National General Holdings Corp. (“NGHC”), an insurance holding company. He has held this position since NGHC was formed in 2009. Mr. Karfunkel’s real estate holdings include major office buildings in New York, Chicago and several other cities, which he holds through entities he controls with his brother, George Karfunkel. The Karfunkels also are co-owners of Worldwide TechServices, LLC, a computer maintenance and services company. Mr. Karfunkel was a director, the former President and co-owner, with George Karfunkel, of American Stock Transfer & Trust Company, LLC, a stock transfer company, which he founded in 1971 with George Karfunkel, and sold in 2008.