Board of Directors

Brian L. Libman oversees our Company’s business strategy and has served as the Chairman of our board of directors since the closing of the Business Combination. He is the architect of the Company’s unique business model, and it is his vision that guides the Company. Mr. Libman has spent his entire career in the specialty finance area and has been involved in structuring and consummating the acquisitions of more than twenty businesses. Prior to creating Finance of America in 2013, he was the managing partner and CEO of Green Tree Servicing and became the Chief Strategy Officer of its public market successor. He began his career at Lehman Brothers and spent more than a decade developing the loan acquisition, servicing and lending businesses there, including the creation of Aurora Loan Services, one of the nation’s leading alternative mortgage originators and servicers. Through his deep knowledge of the lending space, he invented and was awarded patent: US20070136186A1 for his Automated Loan Evaluation System, which is a system and method for providing a loan pricing model for various lending scenarios. Mr. Libman submatriculated with honors from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, having earned both his M.B.A. and B.S.E.

Norma C. Corio joined the Company’s board of directors upon the closing of the Business Combination. In August 2022, Ms. Corio retired from One Equity Partners (“OEP”) where she served as a Senior Managing Director. Prior to joining OEP in 2018, Ms. Corio served as the CFO of American Express Global Business Travel from June 2014 to June 2017. Prior to her role at American Express Global Business Travel, Ms. Corio served as Co-President of Miller Buckfire from April 2013 to May 2014. Ms. Corio previously worked for JPMorgan Chase for over 30 years from October 1982 to March 2013 where she held various positions, including Treasurer (August 2008 through December 2010) and, previously, Head of Restructuring within the Investment Banking division, where she led corporate financings from June 1995 to August 2008. Ms. Corio also held positions in credit and risk management and investor relations. Ms. Corio serves as a member of the board of directors of AlTi Global, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALTI), chairing the Human Capital and Compensation Committee and is a member of the Audit Committee. Additionally, she serves as a director of Cicor Technologies Ltd. (SWX: CICN-CH), a publicly listed company in Switzerland, where she is a member of the Audit Committee. She also serves on the boards of private companies: Omni Environmental Solutions, Wood Technologies International, and Bibliotheca. Ms. Corio is Chair of the Audit Committee of Omni Environmental Solutions, a member of the Audit Committee of Wood Technologies International, and Chair of the Compensation Committee of Wood Technologies International. Ms. Corio previously served as a member of the board of directors of GO Acquisitions (public) and Intren (private). Ms. Corio received her MBA in Banking & Finance from Pace University and her B.A. in Economics from LeMoyne College.

Robert W. Lord joined the Company’s board of directors upon the closing of the Business Combination. Mr. Lord has served as an IBM Senior Vice President of the Weather Company and IBM Alliances since January 2022 and recently retired in December 2023. Mr. Lord currently is self-employed and runs a consultancy services business. Mr. Lord also served as Senior Vice President of Cognitive Applications, Blockchain, and Ecosystems at IBM from February 2019 to January 2022. He also served as the Chief Digital Officer for IBM from April 2016 to February 2019. From August 2013 until February 2016, Mr. Lord served as both President of AOL and CEO of AOL Platforms at Verizon Communications Inc. Mr. Lord also held a number of leadership roles at Razorfish, Inc. from November 2002 to July 2013, serving most recently as Global CEO. Mr. Lord has served as a member of the board of directors of Aqua Finance, Inc. from October 2020 to July 2022 and previously served as a member of the boards of directors of Williams-Sonoma, Inc. from October 2017 to December 2019 and ScreenVision Media, Inc. from February 2016 to April 2018. Mr. Lord holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from Syracuse University and an M.B.A. from Harvard University.

Tyson A. Pratcher joined the Company’s board of directors upon the closing of the Business Combination. Mr. Pratcher currently serves as Senior Managing Director at Artemis Real Estate Partners and CEO of Artemis Strategic Capital Partners. Prior to joining Artemis, Mr. Pratcher was Senior Advisor at 7 Acquisition Corporation and the RockCreek Group. Before joining the RockCreek Group in 2020, Mr. Pratcher served as the Head of Investments at TFO USA from 2017 to 2019. Prior to his role with TFO USA, Mr. Pratcher served as the Director of Opportunistic Investments and the Director of Absolute Return Strategies at the New York State Common Retirement Fund from 2007 to 2017. Mr. Pratcher serves as a member of the board of trustees of FS Multi-Alternative Income Fund. Mr. Pratcher previously served as a member of the board of directors of Organix Recycling, Inc. from 2018 to 2020 and on the boards of directors of Citizens Parking and GripInvest from 2017 to 2019. Mr. Pratcher holds a J.D. from Columbia Law School and a B.S. in Political Science from Hampton University.

Lance N. West joined the Company’s board of directors upon the closing of the Business Combination. Mr. West is currently a Senior Partner at 26North Partners, and previously served as Partner and Senior Managing Director of Centerbridge Partners and was former Chairman & CEO of Centerbridge Partners Europe prior to his retirement from the firm. Before joining Centerbridge in 2006, Mr. West was a Partner Managing Director at Goldman Sachs & Co, where he headed the firm’s Principal Finance Group. Prior to joining Goldman Sachs & Co in 1999, he was founder and CEO of Greenthal Realty Partners LP and GRP Financial LLC from 1992 to 1999. Prior to founding GRP, Mr. West was an executive vice president-principal with The Charles H. Greenthal Group, Inc. and began his career as a Member of the Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories from 1982 to 1984. Mr. West earned his M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology in 1983, and graduated magna cum laude with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University in 1982.