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Mr. Friedman has served as a director and our President since March 2013 and served as a director and executive officer of legacy Jefferies Group since July 2005 until its merger with Jefferies in November 2022. Since 1997, Mr. Friedman has also served as President of Jefferies Capital Partners (formerly, FS Private Investments), a private equity fund management company controlled by Mr. Friedman in which we have an ownership interest, and that is in the process of completing the wind down of its last legacy investment. Mr. Friedman was previously employed by Furman Selz LLC and its successors, including serving as Head of Investment Banking and a member of its Management and Operating Committees. Prior to his 17 years with Furman Selz and its successors, Mr. Friedman was an attorney with Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Mr. Friedman serves as a director of Vitesse Energy, Inc. which was spun off to our shareholders in January 2023. As a result of his historic management of various private equity funds and the significant equity positions those funds held in their portfolio companies, Mr. Friedman served on a large number of boards of directors of such private and public portfolio companies. Mr. Friedman also served as our representative on the boards of Fiesta Restaurant Group from 2012 through April 2021 and HomeFed Corporation from 2014 to July 2019. Mr. Friedman is also engaged in a range of philanthropic efforts personally and through his family foundation and serves as the Co-Chairman of the Board of Strive, a workforce training effort, and as a Board Member of the HC Leukemia Foundation. Mr. Friedman also serves as the Co-Chair of the Employee Resource Group Council at Jefferies. Mr. Friedman received a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.S. in Economics, summa cum laude, and M.S. in Accounting from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Handler was with Jefferies Group since 1990 and served as its CEO since 2001, and Chairman since 2002, making him the longest serving CEO on Wall Street. Mr. Handler has served as a director and as Chief Executive Officer of Jefferies since 2013. Prior to Jefferies, Mr. Handler worked at Drexel Burnham Lambert in the High Yield Bond department. Mr. Handler previously served as a Director, Co-Chairman and President of Landcadia Holdings II, Inc. from 2019 to 2020, a Director, Co-Chairman and President of Landcadia Holdings III, Inc. from 2020 to 2021 and a Director, Co-Chairman and President of Landcadia Holdings IV, Inc. from 2021 to 2024. Mr. Handler is Chairman and CEO of the Handler Family Foundation, a non-profit organization that focuses on philanthropic areas, including providing four-year all-inclusive fully paid college educations each year to 15 of the most talented and deserving students coming from challenging backgrounds and circumstances. The Foundation also works to protect the environment by protecting endangered species, primarily endangered wolves. Mr. Handler also serves as Co-Chair of the Employee Resource Group Council at Jefferies. Mr. Handler received an M.B.A. from Stanford University and a B.A. in Economics (magna cum laude, High Distinction) from the University of Rochester, where he now serves as Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees.

Mr. Sharp has been our Executive Vice President and General Counsel since March 2013. Mr. Sharp also served as Jefferies Group's Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary from November 2010 until the merger of Jefferies Group into Jefferies in November 2022. Prior to joining Jefferies Group in September 2010, Mr. Sharp had been a partner with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP. Previously, Mr. Sharp was Deputy General Counsel of Citigroup and General Counsel of Citigroup's Global Wealth Management, Global Consumer Bank and Global Credit Card business units. Before his 12 years at Citigroup, Mr. Sharp was a litigation associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore, which he joined in 1992. Mr. Sharp began his legal career as a judicial clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. Before embarking on a legal career, Mr. Sharp traded U.S. Treasury Bonds from 1981 to 1988. Mr. Sharp received a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law (where he was editor-in-chief of the Law Review), an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.A. from Fordham University.

Mr. Larson has been our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since March 2023. Prior to March 2023, Mr. Larson served as our Executive Vice President, Co-Chief Financial Officer, and Principal Financial Officer from November 2022 to March 2023 in connection with the merger of Jefferies Group into Jefferies. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Jefferies Group from August 2020 until November 2022. Prior to joining Jefferies, Mr. Larson was employed as the Chief Financial Officer of Barclays Americas and Barclays PLC Global Markets from 2017 to 2020, and Managing Director, America's Controller of Barclay's Investment Bank from 2014 to 2017. Prior to that, Mr. Larson was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs where he held several roles in the Finance Division. Mr. Larson graduated from Idaho State University, where he obtained a Bachelor of Science in Finance.

Our Chairman, with 47 years of executive leadership experience and ownership of approximately 10% of Jefferies common stock, has the requisite managerial and investing experience necessary to continue as one of our senior executives. Beginning in 2008, Mr. Steinberg served as a director of the legacy Jefferies Group and continued after the merger with Leucadia National Corporation in 2013, until today. Mr. Steinberg has served as a director since December 1978, our Chairman since March 2013 and was our President from January 1979 until March 2013. Mr. Steinberg serves on the Board of Directors of Crimson Wine Group, Ltd., which was spun off to our shareholders in February 2013. Mr. Steinberg serves as a director of Vitesse Energy, Inc., which was spun off to our shareholders in January 2023. Mr. Steinberg served on the Board of Directors of Pershing Square Tontine Holdings, Ltd, a special-purpose acquisition company, from July 2020 until 2022. Previously, he served as our representative as a board member at HRG Group from 2014 to 2018, HomeFed Corporation and Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc. through 2019 and Fidelity & Guaranty Life from 2015 to 2017. Mr. Steinberg received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and an A.B. in Government from New York University.

Ms. Adamany has served as a director of Jefferies since 2014 and has been a director of Jefferies International Limited (our UK business) since March 2021. Ms. Adamany served in several capacities at BP plc from 1980 until her retirement in August 2007, including from April 2005 until August 2007 as a member of the five-person Refining & Marketing Executive Committee responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and human resources management of BP plc's Refining and Marketing business segment. She also served as Executive Assistant to the Group Chief Executive from October 2002 until March 2005 and as Chief Executive of BP Shipping from October 1999 until September 2002. Ms. Adamany has served as a director of Coeur Mining Inc. since March 2013 and is a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance, Compensation and Leadership Development and Executive Committees and Chair of the Audit Committee. Coeur Mining Inc. is the largest U.S.-based primary silver and gold producer and is listed on the NYSE. Ms. Adamany also has been a director of BlackRock Institutional Trust Company, N.A. since March 2018, where she serves as a member of their Audit and Risk Committees. In addition, Ms. Adamany serves as a director of Vitesse Energy, Inc., which was spun off to our shareholders in January 2023. Ms. Adamany serves on Vitesse's Audit, Compensation (Chair) and Nominating, Governance and Environmental and Social Responsibility Committees. From October 2017 through April 2019, Ms. Adamany also served as a director and member of both the Audit Committee and the Safety, Assurance and Business Ethics Committee of Wood plc, a global leader in the delivery of project, engineering and technical services to energy and industrial markets, listed on the London Stock Exchange, following its acquisition of AMEC Foster Wheeler plc. Prior to that time, from October 2012 until October 2017, Ms. Adamany served as a member of the board of directors of AMEC Foster Wheeler plc, and chaired the Health, Safety, Environmental and Reputation Committee and served as a member of the Audit, Nominations & Governance and Compensation Committees. Ms. Adamany served as a member of the board of directors of National Grid plc from October 2006 until October 2012. Ms. Adamany is a C.P.A. and holds a B.S. in Business Administration with a major in Accounting, magna cum laude, from John Carroll University.

Mr. Katz, a director of Jefferies since 2018, Jefferies Group from September 2016 until its merger with Jefferies in November 2022 and Jefferies International Limited (our UK business) since November 2017. Mr. Katz was the national managing partner and global leader of financial services at Grant Thornton LLP, a member firm of one of the world's leading organizations of independent audit, tax and advisory firms, from 2013 until his retirement in July 2016. Mr. Katz was employed by Grant Thornton for nearly 40 years, during which time he led Grant Thornton's financial services practice for approximately 20 years. He held various other leadership roles at Grant Thornton, including as the Northeast region managing partner from 2010 to 2013, as the New York office managing partner from 2003 to 2013 and as a member of the firm's partnership board from 1999 to 2012, holding the title of chairman of the board for much of that time. Mr. Katz chairs the Risk Committee and also serves as a member of the Audit, Nominations and Remuneration Committees of Jefferies International Limited. He served on the board of Herc Holdings Inc., a NYSE listed equipment rental supplier for five years, and was the Audit Committee Chair at the company for part of his term. Mr. Katz is an advisor to private companies, including a Board Advisor of a data solutions and protection company, and has served on the boards of various not for profit organizations. Mr. Katz is a member of The National Association of Corporate Directors. Mr. Katz also served for a number of years on the Global Public Policy Committee (GPPC) Bank Working Group, the global forum of representatives from the six largest international accounting networks. Mr. Katz is a C.P.A. and received an M.B.A. in taxation from the City University of New York and a B.A. in accounting from Brooklyn College.

Mr. Beyer is a director of Jefferies Group since November 2018 until its merger with Jefferies in November 2022. Mr. Beyer is Chairman of Chaparal Investments LLC, a private investment firm and holding company. He was Executive Chairman of Crescent Acquisition Corp, a special-purpose acquisition company, until its merger with LiveVox Holdings, Inc. in 2021. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Beyer served as Chief Executive Officer of The TCW Group, Inc., a global investment management firm. Mr. Beyer previously served as President and Chief Investment Officer from 2000 until 2005 of Trust Company of the West, the principal operating subsidiary of TCW. Mr. Beyer serves on the boards of the University of Southern California, the Harvard-Westlake School and the Advisory Board of the Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club. Mr. Beyer formerly served as a director of LiveVox Holdings, Inc., a NASDAQ listed company, from 2021 to 2023, The Kroger Co., a NYSE listed company, from 1999 to 2019, and The Allstate Corporation, a NYSE listed company, from 2006 to 2016. Mr. Beyer was also formerly a director of Societe Generale Asset Management, S.A. and its subsidiary, The TCW Group, Inc. Mr. Beyer received an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management and a B.S. from the University of Southern California.

Mr. Jones was Founder and Senior Partner of TWJ Capital, an investment firm, from 2005 until his retirement in December 2024. Mr. Jones is former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Investment Management at Citigroup and former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Citigroup Asset Management with approximately $500 billion assets under management. Mr. Jones was appointed asset management CEO in August 1997, and sector CEO in August 1999, and continued in that capacity until October 2004. This business sector included Citigroup Asset Management, Citigroup Alternative Investments, Citigroup Private Bank and Traveler's Life & Annuity. Prior to joining Citigroup, Mr. Jones was Vice Chairman and Director of TIAA-CREF since 1995, President and Chief Operating Officer from 1993 to 1997 and Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer from 1989 to 1993. Mr. Jones was Senior Vice President and Treasurer and held other positions with John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Company from 1982 to 1989 and spent the previous eleven years in public accounting and management consulting primarily with Big 8 public accounting firm Arthur Young & Company (predecessor firm to Ernst & Young). Mr. Jones is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Jones is a Director of Assured Guaranty Ltd. and serves on their Audit, Compensation and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees. Mr. Jones is Trustee Emeritus of Cornell University and Trustee of Episcopal Church Pension Group. Past board positions include Vice Chairman of Federal Reserve Bank of New York and director of Altria Group, Freddie Mac, Fox Entertainment Group, Travelers Group, Pepsi Bottling Group, TIAA-CREF, Eastern Enterprises, Thomas & Betts Corporation, Howard University, Investment Company Institute and Economic Club of New York.Mr. Jones holds Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Science degrees from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration degree from Boston University. Mr. Jones has been awarded honorary doctoral degrees by Howard University, Pepperdine University and College of New Rochelle. Mr. Jones has been designated Board Leadership Fellow by the National Association of Corporate Directors.

Ms. Gilmartin's tenure as a director since 2018, and as a director of Jefferies Group from March 2014 until its merger with Jefferies in November 2022, provides us with continued oversight of our financial services businesses. Ms. Gilmartin is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of MAG Partners LP, a real estate development company she founded in 2018. In partnership with Sagamore Ventures, Goldman Sachs Asset Management and MacFarlane Partners, MAG Partners led the development of Baltimore Peninsula, a 235-acre masterplan in Baltimore, Maryland from 2022-2025. From 2020-2021, Ms. Gilmartin also served as interim Chief Executive Officer and Chair of the Board of Directors of Veris Residential Inc. (formerly Mack-Cali Realty Corporation). She was on the board of directors for the company from June 2019 to June 2021. Previously, Ms. Gilmartin was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Forest City Ratner Companies from April 17, 2013 until January 2018, where she oversaw a period of game-changing, ground-up development and managed its multimillion square foot residential, commercial and retail portfolio. In her tenure at Forest City Ratner Companies, Ms. Gilmartin spearheaded the development of some of the most high-profile real estate projects in New York City. Ms. Gilmartin led the efforts to build Barclays Center, the state-of-the-art sports and entertainment venue and the centerpiece of the $4.9 billion, 22-acre mixed-use Pacific Park Brooklyn development. Ms. Gilmartin also oversaw the development of The New York Times Building, designed by world-renowned architect Renzo Piano; New York by Gehry, designed by award-winning architect Frank Gehry; and the Tata Innovation Center at Cornell Tech, a new office building that is a first-of-its-kind space for tech innovation, designed by Weiss/Manfredi on Roosevelt Island. Ms. Gilmartin is a civic leader in the New York metropolitan area serving as Chair Emeritus of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, member of the Executive Committee of The Brooklyn Academy of Music, member of the New York Public Radio Board of Trustees and member of the Executive Committee and Board of Governors of The Real Estate Board of New York. At Columbia University, Ms. Gilmartin is part of the Industry Advisory Board of the MS Real Estate Development Program, as well as a member of the real estate advisory board in the Center for AI in Business Analytics & FinTech. Ms. Gilmartin graduated with a B.A. in Political Science (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) and a Master of Public Administration, both from Fordham University.

Ms. Weiler was formerly a Managing Director and a member of the Management Committee of Crescent Capital Group, a Los Angeles-based asset management firm (Crescent), where she served from January 2011 until she retired in December 2020. During that time, Ms. Weiler was responsible for the oversight of Crescent's CLO management business from July 2017 through December 2020 and managed several multi-strategy credit funds from January 2011 through June 2017. During her tenure at Crescent, she also served on the Risk Management and Diversity & Inclusion committees. From October 1995 to December 2010, Ms. Weiler was a Managing Director at Trust Company of the West, a Los Angeles-based asset management firm (TCW). At TCW, she managed several multi-strategy credit funds from July 2006 to December 2010 and served as lead portfolio manager for TCW's high-yield bond strategy from October 1995 to June 2006. Ms. Weiler serves as a director of the Board of Blue Owl's five business development companies: Blue Owl Capital Corporation, a NYSE listed specialty finance company that provides direct lending solutions to middle market companies, Blue Owl Technology Finance Corporation, a NYSE listed specialty finance company focused on making debt and equity investments to technology related companies, Blue Owl Capital Corporation II, Blue Owl Technology Income Corp. and Blue Owl Core Income Corp. Ms. Weiler is also a member of the Nominating and Corporate Governance and Audit Committees for all five Blue Owl boards as well as a member of the Compensation Committee for Blue Owl Capital Corporation and Blue Owl Technology Finance Corporation. Ms. Weiler also served on the Board and was a member of the Audit, Compensation, and Nominating and Corporate Governance Committees of Blue Owl Capital Corporation III until its merger with Blue Owl Capital Corporation in January 2025. Ms. Weiler is a member of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors. Ms. Weiler holds a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. O'Kane's years as a director of Jefferies Group from January 2006 through April 2014, and again from 2018 until its merger with Jefferies in November 2022, and as a director of Jefferies since 2013. From 1986 to 2004, Mr. O'Kane served in various capacities for TIAA, first as a Managing Director - Private Placements from 1986 to 1990, then as Managing Director - Structured Finance from 1990 to 1996 and finally as Senior Managing Director - Securities Division from 1996 to 2004, when he was responsible for approximately $120 billion of fixed income and $3.5 billion of private equity assets under management. Mr. O'Kane served on the Board of Directors of Assured Guaranty, until his retirement in May 2022. During his tenure at Assured Guaranty, he served on its Audit Committee, as Chair of its Finance Committee and as a member of its Risk Oversight Committee. In addition, Mr. O'Kane served on the Board of Trustees of Scholarship America, a non-profit company engaged in providing scholarships for young students to attend college, from 2001 to 2006. Mr. O'Kane was also the Chief Financial Officer of Motor Coils Manufacturing Company during 1984 and 1985. Mr. O'Kane received an M.B.A. in Finance from Rutgers Graduate School of Business and an A.B. in Economics from Lafayette College.

Ms. Ellis Kirk is the CEO of Ellis Kirk Group, a full service executive search firm, focusing on governance, succession and building leadership teams. Ms. Ellis Kirk was a Managing Director and a member of the Executive Committee at RSR Partners, an executive search firm from 2014 to 2021. Previously she was with the international executive search firm, Heidrick & Struggles, from 1999 to 2014. From 1996 to 1999, Ms. Ellis Kirk was a director of Spencer Stuart, an executive search firm. Prior to her career in executive search, Ms. Ellis Kirk was a Vice President of Apex Securities, an investment banking firm, from 1992 to 1996. From 1986 to 1992, she was Director of the Office of Management and Budget for Dallas Area Rapid Transit, a regional transit agency, and prior to that, from 1982 to 1986, she held several positions with MBank Dallas, the predecessor of the Dallas office of JPMorgan Chase Bank. Ms. Ellis Kirk is Vice Chair of the Communities Foundation of Texas. Ms. Ellis Kirk previously served as Chair of the AT&T Performing Arts Center. She served as the Dallas City Council appointed board Chair of the DFW Airport Authority until March 2022 and resigned from the board in January 2023. Ms. Ellis Kirk served as a director of ACE Cash Express from December 2005 until October 2006 when ACE Cash Express was acquired by JLL Partners. Ms. Ellis Kirk also served as a director of Chancellor Media, which later became AMFM, Inc., from 1996 until October 1999, when it was acquired by Clear Channel. Ms. Ellis Kirk graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in Economics.

Mr. Hyakutome is standing for election at the Annual Meeting. The Strategic Alliance between Jefferies and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group, Inc. (SMFG), Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), SMBC Nikko Securities Inc., and SMBC Nikko Securities America Inc. (collectively, the SMBC Group), first announced in 2021 and then further expanded in 2023, 2024 and 2025, is becoming increasingly operational. With the Strategic Alliance partners preparing for the Japan equities joint venture commencing operations in January 2027, SMBC Group determined to have the Co-Head of its Global Business Unit become an active member of the Jefferies Board. Mr. Hyakutome joined SMBC in 1988 and has served as the Deputy President Executive Officer, Co-Head of Global Business Unit of SMBC Group since April 2025. In April 2024, Mr. Hyakutome was appointed Co-Head of Global Banking, SMBC and Co-Head of Global Business Unit of SMFG. In April 2022, Mr. Hyakutome was appointed Senior Managing Executive Officer, Group Chief Compliance Officer of SMBC Group. Prior to this assignment, he was CEO of SMBC Americas Division from April 2019 to March 2022, and he was Deputy Head of the Asia Growing Markets Division, SMBC Group from April 2018 to March 2019 and was based in Jakarta, Indonesia. Mr. Hyakutome was based in Tokyo between 2011 and 2017 where he was General Manager of SMBC's Head Office departments. Mr. Hyakutome was based in New York from 1993 until 2011, and held managerial positions in the special credit, corporate finance, structured finance, and leasing finance departments. Mr. Hyakutome has served as a director on the Board of Asian Bankers Association since July 2024. He is also a director of SMBC Aviation Capital Limited since April 2024. Previously, Mr. Hyakutome has served as a director of SMBC from 2022-2024, JRI America Inc. from 2019-2022, SMBC Rail Services LLC from 2019-2022 and SMBC America Holdings, Inc. from 2021-2022. Mr. Hyakutome graduated with a B.A. from Osaka University of Foreign Studies and received an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.