David S. Richter (64), Director since 2025 . Mr. Richter serves as Managing Director Absolute Return Strategies at GCM Grosvenor ( GCM ), which is an alternative investment strategies firm located in the Chicago area. He has served in this capacity since 2002. At GCM, he also serves in the capacity of Chair of the Absolute Return Strategies Investment Committee, Co-Head of Absolute Return Strategies Research, and sits on the Investment Committee for GCM Grosvenor s Belmont Harbor Strategy as well as several other key committees. Mr. Richter is responsible for approving portfolio allocations prior to implementation and shares responsibility for the evaluation, selection and monitoring of absolute return investment strategies and investment managers. From February 1994 to the time Mr. Richter joined GCM, he served as Founder and Managing Partner of Waveland Capital Management, L.P., a U.S. long/short equity hedge fund affiliated with GCM. Previously, he was a Manager with KPMG Peat Marwick (September 1983 August 1988), and then a Vice President of JMB Realty Corporation in the Corporate Acquisitions Group (August 1988 February 1994). He has a high-level of understanding complex transactions and financials with multiple companies. Mr. Richter graduated summa cum laude with his Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a Certified Public Accountant and received the national AICPA Elijah Watt Sells Award from the American Institute of CPAs for his scores on the Uniform CPA Examination. Mr. Richter currently serves as a director of Wintrust Bank. His business and education backgrounds provide him familiarity with financial models and valuation of corporations and banks, as well as of high level investment- and alternative-opportunities, which serves the Company s complexity in structure and products. Additionally, his experience as a director of Wintrust Bank gives him valuable insight into the Company s banking operations.