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Paresh Patel, is a founder of the company and serves as its chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. He has been a director of the company since its inception and has served as the Chairman of the Board since May 2007. He has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2011. In addition, Mr. Patel, since 2012, has served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Exzeo Group Inc. and its predecessors, our majority owned subsidiary which provides technology-based services to the property and casualty insurance industry. Exzeo completed an initial public offering in November of 2025. Its shares trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol XZO. Mr. Patel has broad experience in technology and finance. He developed the company's initial insurance policy administration systems and continues to oversee the company's use of technology. From 2011 to 2015, Mr. Patel served as Chairman of the Board of BayFirst Financial Corp., a bank holding company in St. Petersburg, Florida, and, from 2014 to 2018, served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited, a Nasdaq listed Cayman Islands reinsurance holding company. He was a founder of NorthStar Bank in Tampa, Florida and from 2006 to 2010 served on the board of directors of its parent company, NorthStar Banking Corporation. Mr. Patel holds a bachelor and a master degree in electronic engineering from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

Mark Harmsworth has served as the Chief Financial Officer of our Company since May 2017. He joined HCI in December 2016 as Senior Vice President of Finance. Since 2014, Mr. Harmsworth has served as President of JMH Consultancy Group, L.L.C., of which he is the sole member and through which, from 2014 to 2016, he served as consulting Chief Strategy Officer for Stewart Information Services Corporation, a New York Stock Exchange listed global real estate services company. Mr. Harmsworth has served in a range of executive leadership positions, including, from 2011 to 2013, as Chief Operating Officer for Ipromoteu.com, Inc., technology-enabled outsourced service provider to the promotional products industry headquartered in Wayland, Massachusetts; from 2006 to 2011, as Chief Financial Officer of First American Title Insurance Company, a global specialty insurance company headquartered in Santa Ana, California; from 2002 to 2006, as Senior Executive Vice President of First Canadian Title Insurance Company, a title insurance company located in Oakville, Ontario, Canada; and, from 1989 to 1999, as Executive Vice President of RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc., a regional sub-franchisor of RE/MAX real estate brokerage services in eastern Canada, the eastern United States and Europe. Mr. Harmsworth is a Certified Public Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto in Canada.

Andrew L. Graham has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since June 1, 2008. Since 2015, Mr. Graham has served as a director and Chairman of the Audit Committee for LM Funding America, Inc. (NASDAQ: LMFA), a Nasdaq listed specialty finance company headquartered in Tampa, Florida. From 1999 to 2007, he served in various capacities, including general counsel, for Trinsic, Inc. (previously named Z-Tel Technologies, Inc.), a publicly held provider of communications services headquartered in Tampa, Florida. From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Graham served on the Internal Audit Committee of Hillsborough County, Florida. From 2007 to 2011, he served on the Board of Trustees of Hillsborough Community College, a state institution serving over 46,000 students annually. Mr. Graham holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in accounting from Florida State University (1981) and a Juris Doctor (1987), as well as a Master of Laws (L.L.M.) (1988) in Taxation, from the University of Florida College of Law.

Anthony Saravanos, has been a director of the company since May 2007 and President of Greenleaf Capital, LLC, our real estate division, since 2013. Since 2015, Mr. Saravanos has served as Chairman of the Board of BayFirst Financial Corp. (NASDAQ: BAFN) (formerly First Home Bancorp, Inc.), a Nasdaq listed bank holding company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Florida and the parent company of BayFirst National Bank., which operates 11 full-service banking offices throughout the Tampa Bay-Sarasota, Florida region and offers a broad range of commercial and consumer banking services to businesses and individuals. Mr. Saravanos has served as a director of BayFirst National Bank since 2011. Since 2001, he has been the managing partner of several commercial property entities with a combined total of 12 properties in Florida and New York. From 2005 to 2013, Mr. Saravanos served as Vice President of The Boardwalk Company, a full-service commercial real estate company, located in Palm Harbor, Florida. From 1997 to 2001, he served as District Manager, Marketing and Sales, for DaimlerChrysler Motors Corporation, Malvern, Pennsylvania. Mr. Saravanos graduated from Ursinus College, Collegeville, Pennsylvania, with a double major in Economics and Spanish. He holds a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing from Villanova University, where he was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. Mr. Saravanos also attended Quanaouac Institute, Cuernavaca, Mexico, for intensive Spanish studies and a cultural immersion program. A licensed real estate broker, Mr. Saravanos is a Certified Commercial Investment Member as well as a Certified Development Design and Construction Professional. He was named #1 Top Producer for 2010 by the Florida Gulfcoast Commercial Association of Realtors in the General Brokerage Category. From 2013 to 2020, Mr. Saravanos served as Vice President of Greek Children's Fund of Florida. From 2018 to 2020, Mr. Saravanos served as a Trustee on the Johns Hopkins Hospital All Children's Foundation board of directors.

Wayne Burks, has been a director of our company since June 2013. From October 2019 to June 2021, Mr. Burks served as a director and chair of the Audit Committee for Romark LC, which is a vertically integrated multinational biopharmaceutical company, headquartered in Tampa, Florida. From 2016 until his retirement in July 2019, he served as Romark's Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From April 2012 to June 2016, he served as a director and the Chief Financial Officer for WRB Enterprises, Inc., a Tampa, Florida based holding company with investments in Caribbean electric utilities, renewable energy development, cable television, real estate and financial institutions. From July 2010 to April 2012, he was a principal of Sterling Financial Consulting where he provided financial and operational consulting services for privately held and pre-initial public offering stage companies. From December 2008 to June 2010, Mr. Burks served as Chief Financial Officer of Prepared Holdings, LLC, a Florida-based insurance holding company. Mr. Burks is a certified public accountant (inactive license). He is a former audit partner of Coopers & Lybrand, where he performed auditing services approximately 23 years. None of the foregoing companies is an affiliate of HCI Group, Inc. Mr. Burks earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting and business administration at Troy University in Alabama.

Sue Watts, joined our board of directors in April of 2019 after participating in our Board Observer Program. Since December 2021, Ms. Watts has served as President of Sapience Analytics Corporation, an advanced workforce analytics firm headquartered in McKinney, Texas. From 2017 to 2021, she served as an Executive Vice President for Capgemini SE (EPA: CAP), a global technology services and digital transformation consulting firm. From 2014 to 2017, she served as Chief Operating Officer & Corporate Officer of Business Process Outsourcing for Xerox Corporation (NYSE: XRX). From 2010 to 2014, she served as Corporate Vice President of Application Services and as Chief Executive Officer of Americas Outsourcing for Capgemini. From 2009 to 2010, she served as Vice President of Americas Global Service for Orange Business Services, a global information technology and communications services provider. From 1985 to 2009, she served in many roles at Unisys Corporation (NYSE: UIS). Ms. Watts earned her Bachelor of Science in Business from Indiana University and her Master of Business Administration from the University of Notre Dame with a concentration in Finance.

Gregory Politis, is a founder of the Company and has been a director since its inception. He has served also as the Board's Lead Independent Director since 2017. Mr. Politis has been in the real estate business since 1974 and is President of Xenia Management Corporation, a real estate portfolio management company he established in 1988. Mr. Politis has interests in more than 50 real estate developments in the Miami-Dade County, Orlando and Greater Tampa Bay areas as well as in Montreal, Canada. Xenia Management Corporation is not affiliated with HCI Group, Inc. During his career, Mr. Politis has developed and retained ownership of retail, office and industrial spaces, with a primary focus on buildings housing federal and state government agencies. He is a founding member of the Hellenic American Board of Entrepreneurs and a recipient of the Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Building of the Year Award. Mr. Politis has served as a director of NorthStar Bank and Florida Bank, both in Tampa, Florida. Gregory Politis is the father of Director Peter Politis.