President, Chief Executive Officer, DirectorД®xecutive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer President, Chief Executive Officer of Hilltop Securities Inc. Hilltop Inc executives and other stock owners filed with the SEC include: Ford, and HilltopвЂ™s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Corey G. HilltopвЂ™s President and Chief Executive Officer, Jeremy B. Ford also currently serves on the Board of Trustees of Southern Methodist University, is the Co-Managing Partner of Ford Financial Fund II, L.P., a private equity fund. Ford previously served as Chairman of Pacific Capital Bancorp and a director of First Acceptance Corporation, SWS Group, Inc. and as a director of Scientific Games Corporation and Mechanics Bank. He currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Freeport McMoRan Copper and Gold Inc. and its subsidiary, California Federal Bank, FSB, from 1998 to 2002. Ford also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of Golden State Bancorp Inc. During this period, he also led investment consortiums that acquired numerous financial institutions, forming in succession, First Gibraltar Bank, FSB, First Madison Bank, FSB and First Nationwide Bank. In that capacity, he acquired and consolidated 30 commercial banks from 1975 to 1993, forming First United Bank Group, Inc., a multi-bank holding company for which he functioned as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer until its sale in 1994. Ford is a banking and financial institutions entrepreneur who has been involved in numerous mergers and acquisitions of private and public sector financial institutions, primarily in the Southwestern United States, over the past 44 years. Ford served as interim Chief Executive Officer of Hilltop from Januuntil March 11, 2010.

Ford has served as Chairman of the Board of Hilltop since August 2007, and has served as a director of Hilltop since June 2005. serves as Chairman of the Board of the Company.

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