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Eilif Serck-Hanssen has served as our Chief Executive Officer since January 2018 and became our President in July 2019. From March to December 2017, Mr. Serck-Hanssen served as our President and Chief Administrative Officer as well as our Chief Financial Officer. From 2008 to March 2017, Mr. Serck-Hanssen served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before joining the Company, Mr. Serck-Hanssen served as Chief Financial Officer and President of International Operations at XOJET, Inc. and was part of the team that founded premium airline, Eos Airlines, Inc., where he served Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to starting Eos Airlines, Mr. Serck-Hanssen served in several executive positions at US Airways, Inc. (now American Airlines, Inc.) and Northwest Airlines, Inc. (now Delta Airlines, Inc.), including serving as a Senior Vice President and Treasurer of US Airways, Inc. Before joining the airline industry, Mr. Serck-Hanssen spent over five years with PepsiCo, Inc. in various international locations and three years with PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (formerly Coopers & Lybrand Deloitte) in London. He is an Associate Chartered Accountant (ACA) and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. Mr. Serck-Hanssen earned a B.S. in civil engineering from the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, a B.A. in management science from the University of Kent at Canterbury (United Kingdom), and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Marcelo Barbalho Cardoso has served as our Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since June 2021. Mr. Cardoso has been with Laureate since 2011, holding several leadership positions across our Mexico and Brazil operations including Chief Executive Officer of Laureate Mexico from June 2022 to April 2025 and Chief Executive Officer of Laureate Brazil from 2019 to June 2021, Global Chief Transformation Officer during 2019, Chief Operating Officer of Laureate Brazil from 2017 to 2018, and Vice President of Operations and President of FMU from 2013 to 2017. Prior to joining Laureate, Mr. Cardoso served as Latin America Vice President, Business Ops & CFO for Dell EMC Computer Systems and held senior leadership positions at Johnson Controls. Mr. Cardoso earned an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Brazil) and an MBA in management from the University of Michigan.

Richard M. Buskirk has served as our Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2021. Mr. Buskirk previously served as our Senior Vice President, Corporate Development from 2018 to April 2021 and as our Vice President, Global Financial Planning & Analysis from 2015 to 2018. Prior to joining Laureate, Mr. Buskirk was a CPA with Ernst & Young LLP, and an investment banker with Deutsche Bank, and worked for multiple global brands, including Vodafone, NII Holdings, Inc. (formerly Nextel International) and Sprint/Nextel in a range of financial, strategy and advisory positions. Mr. Buskirk earned a B.S. in accounting from the University of Maryland and a dual M.B.A. from Columbia University and London Business School.

Leslie S. Brush has served as our Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Secretary since April 2024. Ms. Brush previously served as our Deputy General Counsel and Secretary from March 2023 to 2024 and Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Secretary from January 2020 to March 2023. Prior to joining Laureate in September 2019, Ms. Brush was Chief Governance Officer, Vice President-Legal and Secretary for software and solutions services company SunGard Data Systems (now part of FIS) for over 20 years and worked at global law firm Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. Ms. Brush earned a B.S. and M.S. in communication disorders from The Pennsylvania State University and a J.D. from Temple University School of Law.

Mr. Cohen is the Chief Investment Officer and Co-Founder of Cohen Private Ventures, LLC, which invests long-term capital, primarily in direct private investments and other opportunistic transactions, and manages family office activities, on behalf of Steven A. Cohen and his family. From 2002 to 2005 and from 2010 to 2014, Mr. Cohen was an analyst and portfolio manager at S.A.C. Capital Advisors, L.P., an investment management firm and the predecessor to Cohen Private Ventures, LLC. From 2005 to 2009, Mr. Cohen was a Managing Director and Partner of Dune Capital Management LP, an investment management firm. Mr. Cohen began his career at Morgan Stanley, where he was an analyst in the real estate department and principal investing group (MSREF) and then an associate in the mergers and acquisitions group after business school. Mr. Cohen is the Vice Chairman, member of the Board of Directors and a minority owner of the New York Mets Baseball Club. He serves on the Board of Directors and is Chair of the Finance and Audit Committee of the PGA TOUR. Mr. Cohen also is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, a trustee and member of the investment committee of The Gilman School, and a member of the TGL Board of Governors, representing the New York team. Mr. Cohen earned a B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Prior U.S. Public Company Boards (past five years): Republic First Bancorp, Inc.

Mr. Snow is Chief Executive Officer and a Co-Founding Partner of Snow Phipps Group, LLC (Snow Phipps), a private equity firm. Prior to the formation of Snow Phipps in April 2005, Mr. Snow was a Managing Director at Ripplewood Holdings L.L.C., a private equity firm, where he worked from its inception in 1995 until March 2005. He currently serves as a director of each of the following private companies in which Snow Phipps holds an equity interest: Blackhawk Industrial Distribution, Inc., ECRM, LLC, and Teasdale Foods, Inc. From 1996 until 2007, Mr. Snow served as a member of the Board of Directors of Asbury Automotive Group, Inc. (and, from 2006 until 2007, a member of its Audit Committee). Mr. Snow earned a B.A. from Georgetown University.

Mr. Davis is the Chief Executive Officer of ABC Fitness Solutions, LLC, a provider of technology and related services for the fitness industry, which he joined in 2019. Before then, Mr. Davis was the Chief Financial Officer of Paycor, Inc., a payroll and human capital management solution provider, from 2017 to 2018, and Chief Financial Officer of Blackboard, Inc., a global enterprise education technology provider, from 2012 to 2016. Additionally, Mr. Davis was Chief Financial Officer of Veradigm, Inc. (formerly Allscripts Healthcare Solutions), a healthcare information technology provider, from 2002 to 2012, and of Lante Corporation, a technology consulting firm, from 1999 to 2002. From 1991 to 1999, Mr. Davis was a member of the Technology Group of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. Mr. Davis currently serves on the Boards of Directors of ABC Fitness Solutions, Eptura, Inc., The Jack & Jill Late Stage Cancer Foundation and the Health & Fitness Association (HFA), and is Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Cincinnati Foundation. Previously, he was a Board member and Audit Committee Chair of Catamaran Corporation. Mr. Davis is a certified public accountant and earned a Bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Cincinnati and an M.B.A. from Northwestern University.

Ms. Mair has been a Partner of Smart Force, a provider of digital business solutions, since 2019. Before then, Ms. Mair was a Partner of Workforce Digital, a robotic process automation company, from 2018 to 2019 and a Partner in Muktek, a provider of coding bootcamp programs, from 2017 to 2019. From 2012 to 2015, Ms. Mair served as the Chief Executive Officer of Universidades Aliat, a network of universities in Mexico, where she first joined as Chief Operating Officer in 2011. Before then, Ms. Mair served as a Partner of Medida y Compas S.C., a strategic consulting firm, from 2003 to 2010, and she held general manager roles at HP from 2002 to 2003 and at Compaq Computer Corporation from 1993 to 2002. Ms. Mair began her career at Unisys, where she held various systems, marketing, and sales management positions from 1984 to 1993. Ms. Mair has served on various public, private and nonprofit boards of directors in Mexico since 2001. Ms. Mair earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a Masters of Technology in Education from University of British Columbia.

Mr. del Corro is a member of Torreal, S.A., one of the largest private investment firms in Spain. He joined Torreal in 1990 and is currently a Senior Advisor and Member of the Family Counsel. Prior to joining Torreal, Mr. del Corro held various positions with Procter & Gamble in Spain, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Portugal. Mr. del Corro currently is a director of each of Talgo, S.A., Nueva Compania de Inversiones, S.A., and Torreal Sociedad de Capital Riesgo, S.A., Inversiones Naira Sicav, S.A., and Austral Capital SIL, S.A. I Mr. del Corro earned a law degree from the Universidad de Deusto and a business administration degree from ICADE Business School - Universidad Pontificia de Comillas.

Mr. de Macedo Murgel has more than 30 years of international business experience in Latin America. Mr. de Macedo previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Salud Del Peru SAC, a health services start-up, from 2010 to 2011, and held various executive positions with Kraft Foods Inc., including as President of Kraft Andean from 2007 to 2009, President of Kraft Brasil from 2003 to 2006, General Manager of Kraft Venezuela from 2001 to 2003, and General Manager of Kraft Peru from 1999 to 2001. Mr. de Macedo has served on various public and private boards of directors in Latin America and currently serves as a director of Alicorp S.A.A., a Peruvian consumer goods company, since 2010, and Grupo Vazquez, an Ecuadorian company operating in diversified sectors including automotive, retail and insurance, since 2020. Additionally, Mr. de Macedo served as the independent Chairman of the Board of Directors of Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas, a Laureate university, from 2015 to April 2023, after becoming a director in 2012. Mr. de Macedo earned a B.A. in business administration from Fundacao Getulio Vargas (Brazil).

On March 17, 2021, Gerard M. Knauer was appointed as the Company's Vice President, Accounting, Global Controller and principal accounting officer, effective as of March 19, 2021. Mr. Knauer, has served as the Company's Executive Director, Accounting since 2013 and prior to that served as the Company's Director, SEC Reporting from 2011 to 2013. Before joining the Company, Mr. Knauer held accounting positions with Ernst & Young from 2002 to 2011 and with Arthur Andersen from 1997 to 2002. Mr. Knauer holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Delaware.