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James B. Lockhart III

Vice Chairman

James B. Lockhart III is the Vice Chairman of WL Ross & Co. where he focuses on financial services and the mortgage recovery fund. Prior to joining in September 2009 he was the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the twelve Federal Home Loan Banks, and its predecessor agency, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, since May 2006. He served as the Chairman of Federal Housing Finance Oversight Board and a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Board with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the Secretaries of Treasury and HUD, and the Chairman of SEC. For the prior 4 years Mr. Lockhart was the Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of Social Security, Secretary to Board of Trustees and a member of the President Bush’s Management Council. Mr. Lockhart also served in the previous Bush Administration as Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from 1989 until 1993. Mr. Lockhart co-founded and served as managing director of NetRisk, a risk management software and consulting firm serving major financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and investment management firms worldwide. He held senior positions at National Reinsurance, Smith Barney, Alexander & Alexander and Gulf Oil, in Europe and the U.S. He has served as a member of the American Benefits Council’s Board of Directors and of the Advisory Board to the Task Force for the Critical Review of the US Actuarial Profession. He is a director of Virgin Money and the American Securitization Forum (ASF).Mr. Lockhart graduated from Yale University with a BA and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy aboard a nucle