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Paresh Patel

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Paresh Patel is a founder of the Company and currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer. He has been a director of the Company since its inception and has served as the Chairman of our Board of Directors since May 2007. He has served as Chief Executive Officer since 2011. Mr. Patel is also President of our insurance subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc., a position he held from 2011 to 2012 and reassumed in June 2015. In addition, Mr. Patel is President and Chairman of the Board of TypTap Insurance Company, our technology-based homeowners and flood insurance subsidiary corporation formed in January 2016. Mr. Patel has broad experience in technology and finance. He developed and continues to oversee development of the Company’s policy administration systems. From 2011 to 2015, he served as Chairman of the Board of First Home Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company in Seminole, Florida and from 2014 to March 2018 he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Oxbridge Re Holdings Limited, a NASDAQ-listed Cayman Islands reinsurance holding company. He was a founder of NorthStar Bank in Tampa, Florida and from 2006 to 2010 served on the Board of Directors of its parent company, NorthStar Banking Corporation. From 1998 to 2000, he was Director of Customer Care and Billing with Global Crossing. In that position, Mr. Patel defined business processes and systems, hired and trained department staff and led the integration of the customer care and billing systems with the systems of companies that Global Crossing acquired. As an independent software and systems consultant from 1991 to 1998, Mr. Patel worked with large international telephone companies. Mr. Patel holds a Bachelor’s and a Master’s degree in Electronic engineering from the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom.

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Mark Harmsworth

Chief Financial Officer

Mark Harmsworth has served as the Chief Financial Officer of our Company since May 2017. He joined HCI in December 2016 as Senior Vice President of Finance. Prior to that, Mr. Harmsworth was President of JMH Consultancy Group, where he served as consulting Chief Strategy Officer for Stewart Information Services, a New York Stock Exchange listed global real estate services company. Mr. Harmsworth has served in a range of executive leadership positions throughout his career, including Chief Financial Officer of First American Title Insurance Company, a global specialty insurance company; Senior Executive Vice President of First Canadian Title Insurance Company; and Executive Vice President of RE/MAX Ontario-Atlantic Canada Inc., a regional sub-franchisor of RE/MAX real estate brokerage services in eastern Canada, the eastern United States and Europe. He is a Certified Public Accountant. Mr. Harmsworth holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Toronto.

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Andrew L. Graham

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary

Andrew L. Graham has served as our General Counsel and Corporate Secretary since June 1, 2008. Mr. Graham served from 1999 to 2007 in various capacities, including General Counsel, for Trinsic, Inc. (previously named Z-Tel Technologies, Inc.), a publicly held provider of communications services headquartered in Tampa, Florida. From 2011 to 2016, Mr. Graham served on the Internal Audit Committee of Hillsborough County, Florida. From 2007 to 2011, he served on the Board of Trustees of Hillsborough Community College, a state institution serving more than 43,000 students annually. Since 2015, he has served as a director for LM Funding America, Inc., a NASDAQ listed specialty finance company headquartered in Tampa, Florida. Mr. Graham holds a Bachelor of Science degree with a major in Accounting from Florida State University and a Juris Doctor, as well as a Master of Laws (L.L.M.) in Taxation, from the University of Florida College of Law.

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Karin Coleman

Executive Vice President

Karin Coleman has served as the Executive Vice President of HCI since December 2017. She joined the Company in 2009 as Vice President of Corporate Services. Ms. Coleman oversees human resources, regulatory and legislative affairs, vendor management and community relations. Prior to joining HCI, Ms. Coleman served nine years as Vice President of Take Stock in Children, located in Miami, Florida, the state’s largest public-private partnership providing college access and assistance to at-risk children, overseeing legislative and strategic partnerships. Previously, she served in various roles over 13 years at Florida Progress Corporation located in St. Petersburg, Florida. Ms. Coleman holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the University of South Florida and has earned her senior professional in human resources certification (SPHR).

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Anthony Saravanos

Director & President, Greenleaf Capital

Anthony Saravanos has been a director of the Company since May 2007 and President of Greenleaf Capital, LLC, our real estate division, since 2013. Beginning in 2011, Mr. Saravanos has served as a director of First Home Bank in Seminole, Florida, and has also served as Chairman of the Board of that bank’s holding company, First Home Bancorp, Inc., since 2015. He has been the managing partner of several commercial property entities since 2001 with a combined total of 13 properties in Florida and New York. From 2005 to 2013, Mr. Saravanos served as Vice President of The Boardwalk Company, a full-service commercial real estate company, located in Palm Harbor, Florida. From 1997 to 2001, he served as District Manager, Marketing and Sales, for DaimlerChrysler Motors Corporation in Malvern, Pennsylvania. Mr. Saravanos graduated from Ursinus College in Collegeville, Pennsylvania with a double major in Economics and Spanish. He earned a Master of Business Administration with an emphasis in marketing from Villanova University and was inducted into the Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Society. Mr. Saravanos also attended Quanaouac Institute in Cuernavaca, Mexico for intensive Spanish studies and a cultural immersion program. A licensed real estate broker, Mr. Saravanos is a Certified Commercial Investment Member as well as a Certified Development Design and Construction Professional. He was named #1 Top Producer for 2010 by the Florida Gulfcoast Commercial Association of Realtors in the General Brokerage Category. Since 2013, Mr. Saravanos has served as Vice President of the Greek Children’s Fund of Florida. Mr. Saravanos has also served as a Trustee on the Johns Hopkins All Children’s Foundation Board since 2017.