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On February 18, 2025, the Board appointed Sean Windeatt as Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective as of February 18, 2025. Sean A. Windeatt, age 51, has served as BGC's Chief Operating Officer since 2009, which position he will continue to hold. He has served as a Global Co-Head of Financial Services Brokerage from 2023 to 2025 and Chief Executive Officer of BGC Brokers, L.P. from 2012 to 2025. Prior to that, Mr. Windeatt served as BGC Partners' Interim Chief Financial Officer from 2018 until 2019. Prior to these positions, Mr. Windeatt was Executive Managing Director and Vice President of BGC Partners from 2007 to 2009 and served as a Director of Cantor Fitzgerald International from 2004 to 2007. Mr. Windeatt also provides services to our operating partnerships and subsidiaries. Mr. Windeatt also served as a Business Manager and member of the finance department of Cantor Fitzgerald International from 1997 to 2003. Mr. Windeatt began his career at United Assurance in 1996. In 1996, Mr. Windeatt graduated from the University of Bedfordshire with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (Finance).

On February 18, 2025, the Board appointed Stephen Merkel, our Executive Vice President and General Counsel, to serve as a member of the Board, effective February 18, 2025. Stephen Merkel, age 66, has served as our Executive Vice President and General Counsel since 2001. He is also on the Board of Directors of our FMX business. Mr. Merkel is Executive Vice Chairman, Executive Managing Director, and General Counsel for the Cantor group of companies, including Cantor, CFGM and Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. Mr. Merkel has been Chief Legal Officer, Executive Vice President and Assistant Corporate Secretary of Newmark Group, Inc. (Newmark) since 2019. Mr. Merkel also holds offices at and provides services to various other affiliates of Cantor and provides services to BGC's and Newmark's operating partnerships and subsidiaries, as applicable. Prior to joining Cantor in 1993, Mr. Merkel was Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Goldman Sachs & Co., dedicated to the J. Aron Division, and prior to that, he was an associate with the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Prior to that, he was a law clerk for the Honorable Irving R. Kaufman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Mr. Merkel received a Bachelor's degree with a major in History and Sociology of Science from the University of Pennsylvania and received his law degree from the University of Michigan Law School.

Jason W. Hauf, 56, has been our Chief Financial Officer since June 6, 2022. Prior to his time at the Company, Mr. Hauf was at Exos Technology and Financial Partners, a private firm specializing in financial services for B2B institutional finance starting in 2017, and where he served as Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer from 2018 to 2022. Prior to his time at Exos, Mr. Hauf was Managing Director and Chief Financial Officer at Royal Bank of Scotland, Corporate and Institutional Banking Division, Americas and Vice President of AIG Financial Products Corp. He began his career at Coopers & Lybrand, where he was a Manager. Mr. Hauf holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Delaware.

Mr. Mbanefo has been a director of our Company since October 2021. Since January 2023, Mr. Mbanefo has been the Managing Partner of Phoenix Merchant Partners LP, a merchant banking and private credit business, where he previously served in the same role from September 2019 until February 2020. From February 2020 to June 2022, Mr. Mbanefo was the Chief Investment Officer and Head of Principal Business and Asset Management for ORIX Corporation USA, the U.S. subsidiary of ORIX Corporation, a publicly owned, Tokyo-based international financial services company. In this role, he led investments across private equity, private credit and real estate, with a focus on the U.S. middle market. He was also an Advisory Director of the Board of ORIX Corporation USA. Mr. Mbanefo served as the Chief Investment Officer of Barclays Bank PLC from March 2017 until June 2019 where he was responsible for all the investment of the balance sheet of Barclays Bank PLC across corporate and investment banking, markets, pension and asset management, cards and payments. Prior to this role, he was a Head of Markets at Barclays from September 2015 to February 2017 and a Managing Director at the firm in various market leadership roles from May 2009 to September 2015. Prior to Barclays, Mr. Mbanefo served as Chief Investment Officer and Chief Executive Officer of two alternative investment management firms. In addition, since May 23, 2022, he has been the Chairman of the advisory board of Datatailr Inc., a financial and data analytics and development firm. Mr. Mbanefo graduated with a Bachelor of Science with Honours from Loughborough University. He is also a Fellow Chartered Accountant.

Dr. Bell has been a director of our Company since July 2013. Dr. Bell is currently the Claire Tow Professor of Economics and Provost Emerita of Barnard College, Columbia University, which she previously served as Provost and Dean of Faculty since 2012. Prior to joining Barnard, Dr. Bell was the Provost and John B. Hurford Professor of Economics at Haverford College from 2007 to 2012 and a member of the faculty since 1992. Prior to her tenure at Haverford, Dr. Bell held visiting faculty appointments at Stanford University; the University of California, San Diego; the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University; and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Administration at Princeton University and has taught at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. Dr. Bell has also served as a research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) in Bonn, Germany since 2003, and as a senior consultant for the labor practice group of the National Economic Research Associates since 2006. Dr. Bell holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University.

Mr. Addas has been a director of our Company since July 2023. From 2008 to 2023, Mr. Addas held numerous senior positions at BofA Securities, Inc., including Co-Head of Global Financial Institutions Group from 2021 to 2023, Co-Head of Americas Financial Institutions Group from 2019 to 2021, and Head of Specialty Finance from 2018 to 2019. From 2003 to 2008, he was a Managing Director and Head of Financial Technology and Specialty Finance at Deutsche Bank. From 2005 to 2006, he served on the board of Delta Financial Corp., a residential mortgage company. From 1996 to 2003, he was a Managing Director at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a U.S. investment bank. From 1993 to 1996, he served as a Director of NatWest Markets Securities, a U.S. based broker-dealer. From 1984 to 1992, he practiced as an attorney at Manatt, Phelps, Phillips, Rothenberg and Tunney, where he was an Associate and later a Partner, and Wasserstein Perella, where he was an Associate. Since November 2024, Mr. Addas has been a member of the board of directors of Rithm Capital Corp. Mr. Addas holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, and a Juris Doctor from the George Washington University Law School.

Mr. Richards has been a director of our Company since December 2017. Mr. Richards is the Chairman of Prodrive Holdings Ltd., a British motorsport and advanced engineering group, a position in which he has served since the firm's founding in 1984. He previously served as Chairman of Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd., a British manufacturer of luxury sports cars, from 2007 until 2013, and as a non-executive director of BGC European GP Limited from May 2009 until June 2017. Mr. Richards currently serves in the role of Chairman of the U.K. governing body of the Motor Sports Association. In December 2023, Mr. Richards was appointed as Chairman of the Board of Trustees at the FIA Foundation, an international charity focused on issues in the automotive world. Mr. Richards previously served as a director of Phytome Life Sciences, a U.K. plant-based medical research company from 2019 to 2023. In the 2005 Queen's New Year's Honours, Mr. Richards was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to motorsport. Mr. Richards attended Brynhyfryd School in North Wales followed by five years of articles with a Liverpool firm of chartered accountants. He holds honorary doctorates and fellowships from the Universities of Wales, Coventry, Warwick and Cranfield.

On February 18, 2025, the Board appointed Jean-Pierre Aubin as Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective as of February 18, 2025. JP Aubin, age 56, has served as BGC's Chief Executive Officer of EMEA since 2008, which position he will continue to hold. He has served as a Global Co-Head of Financial Services Brokerage from 2020 to 2025. Mr. Aubin joined BGC in 2005 and helped drive the company's rapid expansion in Europe, which included the acquisitions of ETC Pollak in 2005 and Aurel BGC in 2006, of which he was made President in 2012. In 2008, Mr. Aubin was named Global Head for Listed Products. Prior to these positions, from 2008 to 2020, Mr. Aubin was an Executive Managing Director for BGC and from 2005 to 2008, Mr. Aubin was President of the Continental European region for BGC. Prior to his positions at BGC, Mr. Aubin began his career at the Viel-Tradition Group in 1999 after being part of the Barclays Bank student training program. After trading futures and options for 10 years in both London and Paris, he was promoted in 2000 to President and Global Head of Listed Products for Continental Europe. Mr. Aubin has been a member of the board of the French cultural organization Reunion des Musees Nationaux since 2015. In 2022, JP Aubin founded the JP Aubin Family Foundation, a charitable organization which focuses on providing children with access to museums and other cultural opportunities. In 2023, Mr. Aubin was awarded Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres. Mr. Aubin graduated in 1989 from the French business school Ecole d'Administration et de Direction des affaires (EAD) with a Master's degree in economics.

On February 18, 2025, the Board appointed John Abularrage as Co-Chief Executive Officer of the Company, effective as of February 18, 2025. John Abularrage, age 47, has served as BGC's Chief Executive Officer of the Americas since 2021, which position he will continue to hold. Mr. Abularrage joined BGC Group in 2021, bringing more than 20 years of financial services experience to the business. He has served as a Global Co-Head of Financial Services Brokerage from 2021 to 2025. Prior to BGC, Mr. Abularrage held various senior positions at TP ICAP plc, a financial services firm, from 2011 to 2021, including Chief Executive Officer of the Americas and Head of Global Brokering. Prior to that, Mr. Abularrage held positions at Collin Stewart, Inc. from 2000 to 2011 including Chief Executive Officer of North America and prior to that Head of Equities. In 1999, Mr. Abularrage graduated from Georgetown University McDonough School of Business with a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration.

On February 18, 2025, the Board appointed Brandon Lutnick to serve as a member of the Board, effective February 18, 2025. Brandon Lutnick, age 27, is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of Cantor Fitzgerald, L.P. (Cantor), our controlling stockholder, and Cantor Fitzgerald Securities, and Chief Executive Officer of CF Group Management, Inc., the managing general partner of Cantor (CFGM). Brandon joined Cantor in 2022 and most recently has worked in the Office of the Chairman, managing strategy and overseeing other special projects relating to Cantor and its affiliates. Since 2024, Brandon Lutnick has also served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cantor's special purpose acquisition companies, commonly referred to as SPACs, including Cantor Equity Partners, Inc. and Cantor Equity Partners I, Inc. Brandon Lutnick joined Cantor in 2022 in equity sales and trading. Prior to his positions at Cantor, Brandon Lutnick began his career as a Credit Analyst at Oak Hill Advisors, L.P. In 2021, Brandon Lutnick graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelor's degree in Symbolic Systems.