Board of Directors

Mark A. Casale is the founder, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Essent Group Ltd. (NYSE: ESNT). Mr. Casale has more than 25 years of financial services experience, which includes senior roles in mortgage banking, mortgage insurance, bond insurance and capital markets. Founded in 2008 by Mr. Casale with $500 million of equity funding, Essent Group Ltd. has grown to a market capitalization of approximately $5 billion and manages more than $200B of insurance in force. Under Mr. Casale's leadership, Essent has become a leading mortgage insurer and reinsurer serving as a trusted and strong counterparty to lenders and GSEs and has enabled over two million borrowers to become homeowners. Mr. Casale continues to evolve the franchise using risk-based pricing and AI-driven analytics to support his core mission of prudently growing shareholder value and promoting affordable and sustainable homeownership. Mr. Casale also champions Essent's philanthropic mission, supporting local and national organizations centered around children, housing, health and education. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for St. Joseph's University, La Salle College High School and the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur. A native of the Philadelphia region, Mr. Casale holds a BS in accounting from St. Joseph's University and an MBA in finance from New York University.

Aditya Dutt has served as a member of the board of directors since 2010 and serves as a member of the Audit Committee and Risk Committee. Mr. Dutt has served as a Partner and the President of Aeolus Capital Management Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance and insurance-linked securities (ILS) focused investment fund manager, since July 2021. Mr. Dutt previously held various roles with RenaissanceRe Ltd., a Bermuda-based reinsurance company, from 2008 to July 2020 including most recently serving as the senior vice president of RenaissanceRe Holdings Ltd., president of RenaissanceRe Underwriting Managers, Ltd. and a member of RenaissanceRe's executive committee. Mr. Dutt's responsibilities with RenaissanceRe included managing RenaissanceRe's reinsurance joint ventures, and portfolio of strategic investments and leading the company's corporate development and M&A efforts. Prior to joining RenaissanceRe, Mr. Dutt served as executive director in Morgan Stanley's investment banking division in New York and Hong Kong, responsible for executing strategic transactions including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures and capital-raising for the insurance and reinsurance industry. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Mr. Dutt worked at Salomon Brothers in the corporate finance and fixed income departments in Hong Kong. Mr. Dutt holds a BA in mathematics from Dartmouth College.

Robert Glanville has served since 2008 as a member of the board of directors, and currently serves as a member of the Risk and Audit Committees. Mr. Glanville currently serves as the managing member of REG Consulting LLC, a financial advisory business. Mr. Glanville was a founding partner and served as a managing director on the financial services investment team of Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC from 2006 to 2015. He was also a member of Pine Brook's investment committee. Mr. Glanville currently serves as a director of At-Bay Specialty Insurance, ClearBlue Insurance Services, ProWriters, and Agritecture, all of which are private companies and an Executive Advisor to Aquiline Capital Partners. From 2003 to 2006, Mr. Glanville was senior vice president, financial and treasury services for Arch Capital Group, Ltd., an insurance and reinsurance company. From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Glanville was with Warburg Pincus, a private equity firm. Before joining Warburg Pincus, Mr. Glanville founded FA Services, an emerging markets financial services and investment boutique based in Moscow. From 1988 to 1992, Mr. Glanville worked in New York and Tokyo for Morgan Stanley, an investment banking firm, specializing in corporate finance and M&A. Mr. Glanville holds a BA in American history from Princeton University.

Angela Heise has served as a member of the board of directors since 2018 and serves as a member of the Technology, Innovations and Operations Committee. Ms. Heise has served as Corporate Vice President, Worldwide Public Sector of Microsoft Corporation since September 2022, having previously served as Microsoft’s Corporate Vice President for Defense and Intelligence since June 2021. Ms. Heise previously served as the president of civil group at Leidos Holdings, Inc., a provider of services and solutions in the defense, intelligence, civil and health markets, from 2016 to 2019, where she was responsible for providing solutions to US Cabinet-level civil agencies and major elements of the public sector across the globe. Her areas of focus include air traffic automation, energy and the environment, federal infrastructure and logistics, information technology and cybersecurity, and transportation security. Prior to her role with Leidos, Ms. Heise held a number of positions with Lockheed Martin between 1997 and 2016, including vice president of enterprise information technology solutions. Most recently, from 2015 to 2016, Ms. Heise served as vice president of commercial cyber, where she was responsible for the delivery of a portfolio of cybersecurity and information technology solutions and services to Global 1000 customers. Ms. Heise holds a BS in computer science from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

Roy Kasmar serves as a member of the board of directors, chairperson of the Risk Committee and a member of the Technology, Innovation and Operations Committee. Mr. Kasmar has been a member of the board of directors since 2013. Mr. Kasmar is currently the president of Kazmar Co. LLC, which provides advisory services to the mortgage and mortgage insurance industry. Mr. Kasmar has over 30 years of experience in the mortgage or mortgage insurance industry. Prior to forming Kazmar Co. LLC, Mr. Kasmar served as the president of Radian Group Inc. and Radian Guaranty Inc., a private mortgage insurer, from 1999 to 2007. Prior to joining Radian, Mr. Kasmar served as the president and chief operating officer of Amerin Guaranty Corporation, a mortgage insurer, from 1996 to 1999. Additionally, Mr. Kasmar has held senior management positions with Prudential Home Mortgage, First Boston Capital Group and Chase Home Mortgage. Mr. Kasmar holds a BS in economics and business administration from Drury College and an MBA in finance from Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Dr. Karna has more than 25 years of experience leading digital, data and advanced analytics across the high-tech, consumer packaged goods, risk management and insurance industries. Since 2020, Dr. Karna has been a global general manager at the high-tech firm, Google (Alphabet Inc.), focusing on strategy, solutions, roadmap, and innovation across the financial services, insurance, reinsurance and risk management industry. From 2017 to 2020, Dr. Karna served as executive vice president and global chief data officer of AXA XL, the property and casualty, specialty risk, risk management and reinsurance subsidiary of AXA, a global insurance company. Prior to that, Dr. Karna served from 2015 to 2016 as a managing director and the global actuarial chief information officer of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), a multinational finance and insurance corporation, and held various roles with Verisk Analytics, Inc., a data and analytics and risk management firm, from 2009 to 2015, including most recently serving as the president of its Verisk Digital Services business unit. Dr. Karna holds an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, doctorate and masters from the University of Massachusetts, and a bachelors in mathematical sciences from Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

Allan Levine rejoined the board of directors in August 2020, after previously serving as a member of the board from 2009 to 2019. Mr. Levine serves as the chairperson of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Levine currently is the chairman and chief executive officer of Global Atlantic Financial Group, a global financial services company, formerly the Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group, which he initially joined in 1997. Prior to the spin-off of Global Atlantic from Goldman Sachs in 2013, Mr. Levine was a partner and managing director of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and global head of the Goldman Sachs Reinsurance Group, and prior to assuming that role, was co-head of the firm's strategy group. Mr. Levine holds a BS from Miami University and an MBA from Columbia Business School.

Douglas Pauls has served as a member of the board of directors since 2013 and serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee and the Technology, Innovation and Operations Committee. Mr. Pauls has over 30 years of experience in the areas of finance, accounting, internal controls, and financial reporting for public companies, including most recently senior roles with financial institutions. Mr. Pauls served as chief financial officer of BankUnited, Inc., a bank holding company, from 2009 until his retirement in 2013, and Mr. Pauls currently serves as a director of BankUnited. From 2008 until 2009, Mr. Pauls served as executive vice president of finance for TD Bank, NA following TD Bank's acquisition of Commerce Bancorp, Inc. in March 2008. Prior to that, Mr. Pauls held several positions with Commerce Bancorp, including serving as its chief financial officer from 2002 up until the acquisition by TD Bank and its chief accounting officer from 1995 to 2002. Earlier in his career, Mr. Pauls was a senior manager in the audit department of Ernst & Young in Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Pauls holds a BA in economics from Dickinson College, and serves on Dickinson’s Board of Trustees.

William Spiegel has served as a member of the board of directors since 2008 and serves as the Company’s lead independent director, Chairman of the Nominating & Corporate Governance Committee and a member of the Compensation Committee. Mr. Spiegel currently serves as executive chairman of R&Q Insurance Holdings Ltd, a UK-based insurance and reinsurance company, where he has held several roles since January 2020. Mr. Spiegel was co-president and a founding partner of Pine Brook Road Partners, LLC, an investment firm from 2006 to January 2020, where he was responsible for managing Pine Brook’s financial services investing activities and also served as a member of Pine Brook’s investment committee. Prior to joining Pine Brook, he was with the Cypress Group from its inception in 1994 until 2006, managing its financial services and healthcare investing activities. Before joining the Cypress Group, Mr. Spiegel worked in the Merchant Banking Group at Lehman Brothers. He has served on the boards of directors of numerous companies, including eight publicly traded corporations. Mr. Spiegel holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the London School of Economics, an M.A. in Economics from the University of Western Ontario and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Mr. Spiegel is currently a member of The University of Chicago Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Advisory Board and the Private Equity Council.