Hope B. Woodhouse

Hope B. Woodhouse is an independent member of our Board of Directors and has served as a director of our company since May 2012. She also currently serves as a director for Granite Point Mortgage Trust Inc. (NYSE: GPMT). Ms. Woodhouse has over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry at top-ranked, global alternative asset management firms and broker dealers. From 2005 to 2009, she served as Chief Operating Officer and as a member of the management committee for Bridgewater Associates, Inc. Between 2003 and 2005, Ms. Woodhouse was President and Chief Operating Officer of Auspex Group, L.P., and was Chief Operating Officer and a member of the management committee of Soros Fund Management LLC from 2000 to 2003. Prior to that, she held various executive leadership positions, including Treasurer of Funds at Tiger Management L.L.C. from 1998 to 2000 and Managing Director of the Global Finance Department at Salomon Brothers Inc. from 1983 to 1998. She has previously served as a director of Piper Jaffray Companies (NYSE: PJC) and as a member of its audit and compensation committees, Seoul Securities Co. Ltd., Soros Funds Limited, Bottom Line New York and The Bond Market Association. She has also served as a member of the investment committee at Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts. Ms. Woodhouse also serves on the boards of the Kindergarten Reading Collaborative, Children’s Services Advisory Committee and the John’s Island Community Service League, and is a trustee of the Tiger Foundation. Ms. Woodhouse received an A.B. degree in Economics from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.