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Mr. Casale is our founder and President and Chief Executive Officer, and has served a member of our Board of Directors since 2008, including as the Chairman of the Board of Directors since 2013. Mr. Casale has more than 25 years of financial services management experience, including senior roles in mortgage banking, mortgage insurance, bond insurance and capital markets. Founded in 2008 by Mr. Casale with $500 million of equity funding, Essent now manages approximately $248 billion of mortgage insurance in force. Under Mr. Casale's leadership, Essent has become a leading mortgage insurer and reinsurer serving as a trusted and strong counterparty to lenders and GSEs and has enabled over two million borrowers to become homeowners. Mr. Casale continues to evolve the franchise using risk-based pricing and artificial intelligence-driven analytics to support his core mission of prudently growing shareholder value and promoting affordable and sustainable homeownership. Mr. Casale actively champions Essent's philanthropic mission to support local and national organizations centered around children, housing, health and education. Mr. Casale has served on the boards of several educational organizations in the Philadelphia area, most notably the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph's University from 2014 to 2023 and La Salle College High School as Trustee from 2017 to 2023 and elected to Emeritus Trustee in 2024, and served as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Philadelphia from 2019 to 2025. Mr. Casale holds a BS in accounting from St. Joseph's University and an MBA in finance from New York University.

Mr. Curran has more than 25 years of mortgage insurance, mortgage banking and financial services experience in the areas of operations, financial management, pricing, secondary marketing, capital markets, investor relations and corporate development. Prior to joining Essent, Mr. Curran served as senior vice president of pricing and operations for another mortgage insurer and held leadership positions with JP Morgan Chase and Advanta Corp. He began his career as a certified public accountant with Arthur Andersen LLP, specializing in financial services and securitization. Mr. Curran holds a BS in accounting from LaSalle University.

Ms. Gibbons has more than 25 years of experience in the mortgage industry. From 2003 to 2008, Ms. Gibbons served as chief legal officer of Wilmington Finance, Inc., a mortgage lender. Ms. Gibbons began her career at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court and White and Williams LLP, a law firm. Ms. Gibbons' mortgage-related experience includes senior roles at ContiMortgage Corp. and Advanta Mortgage Corp. Ms. Gibbons holds a BS in marketing from St. Joseph's University and a JD from The Delaware Law School.

Dr. Bhasin has significant mortgage finance industry expertise, including multiple senior management positions specializing in mortgage risk. From 2006 to 2008, Dr. Bhasin served as a managing director of Countrywide Financial Corporation and Bank of America, with responsibility for economic capital assessment, asset liability management, counterparty credit risk measurement and structured credit analytics. Earlier in his career, Dr. Bhasin held management positions with the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), including serving as vice president overseeing development and implementation of a variety of mortgage credit and prepayment models. He has also held research positions with the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) and the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. Dr. Bhasin holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Kurukshetra, India, an MBA in finance and marketing from Southern Illinois University, and a PhD in finance from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Mr. Weinstock has over 25 years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting and controls. Between 1998 and 2009, Mr. Weinstock held a series of senior management positions at Advanta Corp., including serving as its chief accounting officer and vice president of investor relations. Prior to joining Advanta, Mr. Weinstock was a senior manager at Arthur Andersen LLP. Mr. Weinstock holds a BS in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University and is a certified public accountant.

Mr. Spiegel has served as the chief executive officer and a board member of Accredited Global, Inc., a specialty insurance business focused on the rapidly growing MGA market, since its acquisition by affiliates of Onex Partners in 2024. Mr. Spiegel held several roles with R&Q Insurance Holdings Ltd. (the parent company of Accredited prior to its sale in 2024) from 2020 to 2024, including most recently serving as its chief executive officer. Mr. Spiegel has over 30 years of private equity investment experience. Mr. Spiegel was co-president and a founding partner of Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC, an investment firm from 2006 to January 2020, where he was responsible for managing Pine Brook's financial services investing activities. Prior to joining Pine Brook, Mr. Spiegel was with The Cypress Group from its inception in 1994 until 2006, managing its financial services and healthcare investing activities. Prior to joining The Cypress Group, Mr. Spiegel worked in the Merchant Banking Group at Lehman Brothers. He has served on the board of directors of over 20 companies, including eight publicly traded entities. Mr. Spiegel is currently a member of The University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board and the Private Equity Counsel. Mr. Spiegel holds a BSc in economics from The London School of Economics and Political Science, an MA in economics from the University of Western Ontario and an MBA from The University of Chicago.

Mr. Kasmar is currently the president of Kazmar Co. LLC, which provides advisory services to the mortgage and mortgage insurance industry. Mr. Kasmar has over 30 years of experience in the mortgage and mortgage insurance industry. Prior to forming Kazmar Co. LLC, Mr. Kasmar served as the president of Radian Group Inc. and Radian Guaranty Inc., a private mortgage insurer, from 1999 to 2007. Prior to joining Radian, Mr. Kasmar served as the president and chief operating officer of Amerin Guaranty Corporation, a mortgage insurer, from 1996 to 1999. Additionally, Mr. Kasmar has held senior management positions with Prudential Home Mortgage, First Boston Capital Group and Chase Home Mortgage. Mr. Kasmar holds a BS in economics and business administration from Drury College and an MBA in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Ms. Heise served as Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector of Microsoft Corporation from 2022 to 2025, having previously served as Microsoft's Corporate Vice President for Defense and Intelligence since 2021. Ms. Heise served as the president of the civil group at Leidos Holdings, Inc., a provider of services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets, from 2016 to 2019, where she was responsible for providing solutions to US Cabinet-level civil agencies and major elements of the public sector across the globe. Her areas of focus include air traffic automation, energy and the environment, federal infrastructure and logistics, information technology and cybersecurity, and transportation security. Prior to her role with Leidos, Ms. Heise held a number of positions with Lockheed Martin between 1997 and 2016. Most recently, from 2015 to 2016, Ms. Heise served as vice president-commercial markets, where she was responsible for delivery of a portfolio of cybersecurity and information technology solutions and services to Global 1000 customers. Ms. Heise holds a BS in computer science from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.

Dr. Karna has more than 25 years of experience leading digital, data and analytics innovation across the high-tech, consumer packaged goods, risk management and insurance industries. From 2020 to 2023, Dr. Karna served as the global general manager of industry solutions for insurance, reinsurance and risk management at high-tech firm Google (Alphabet Inc.). From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Karna served as executive vice president and global chief data officer of AXA XL, the property and casualty, specialty risk, risk management and reinsurance subsidiary of AXA, a global insurance company. Prior to that, Dr. Karna served from 2015 to 2016 as a managing director and the global actuarial chief information officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), a multinational finance and insurance corporation, and held various roles with Verisk Analytics, Inc., a data and analytics and risk management firm, from 2009 to 2015, including most recently serving as the president of its Verisk Digital Services business unit. Outside of the insurance industry, Dr. Karna has also worked in the fields of artificial intelligence and genetic algorithms for Affinnova Inc., the NSA, and GTE Government Systems. Dr. Karna currently serves as a director of Hamilton Insurance Ltd., a Bermuda-based specialty insurance and reinsurance company. Dr. Karna is a Harvard Fellow focused on AI in the workplace, and holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, PhD and masters degrees from the University of Massachusetts, and a BS in mathematical sciences from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. Dutt has served as a partner and the president of Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused investment fund manager, since July 2021. Mr. Dutt previously held various roles with RenaissanceRe Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, from 2008 to July 2020 including most recently serving as the senior vice president of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., president of RenaissanceRe Underwriting Managers, Ltd. and a member of RenaissanceRe's executive committee. Mr. Dutt's responsibilities with RenaissanceRe included managing RenaissanceRe's reinsurance joint ventures, and portfolio of strategic investments and leading the company's corporate development and M&A efforts. Prior to joining RenaissanceRe, Mr. Dutt served as an executive director in Morgan Stanley's investment banking division in New York and Hong Kong, responsible for executing strategic transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital-raising for the insurance and reinsurance industry. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Dutt worked at Salomon Brothers in the corporate finance and fixed income departments in Hong Kong. Mr. Dutt holds a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College.

Ms. Joyce has over 25 years of experience in insurance and financial services in the United States, London and Bermuda. From 2021 to 2023, Ms. Joyce served as the chief executive officer and director of Beat Capital Partners Americas, a subsidiary of Beat Capital Partners Limited, establishing Beat's U.S. platform, capacity, and initial managing general agent relationships. Prior to that, between 2004 and 2021, she held senior roles with Global Atlantic Financial Group, a global financial services company, formerly the Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group, including most recently as a managing director and its chief culture officer. She also served as Global Atlantic's co-head of operations and co-CEO of Global Atlantic Re in Bermuda. Ms. Joyce began her career as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York in 1999. She also serves as a member of the board of directors of Symetra Financial Corporation, Merio Insurance Limited and Cedar Trace Advisors Limited. Ms. Joyce holds a BS in management from Case Western Reserve University.

Mr. Connor has been employed by Toll Brothers, Inc., a publicly traded national homebuilder, since 2008, where he currently serves as a senior advisor. From 2010 to 2025, Mr. Connor served as the Chief Financial Officer of Toll Brothers, and prior to that as its Vice President and Assistant Chief Financial Officer. From June 2008 to December 2008, Mr. Connor was President of Marcon Advisors LLC, a finance and accounting consulting firm that he founded. From 2006 to 2008, Mr. Connor was Chief Financial Officer and Director of Operations for O'Neill Properties, a diversified commercial real estate developer in the Mid-Atlantic area. Prior to that, Mr. Connor spent over 20 years at Ernst & Young LLP, where he ultimately an Audit and Advisory Business Services Partner responsible for its real estate practice in the Philadelphia marketplace. Mr. Connor currently serves as a director of Univest Financial Corporation, a publicly traded banking and financial services provider serving customers primarily in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Mr. Connor holds a BBA in Accountancy from the University of Notre Dame and is a Certified Public Accountant.