Paresh Patel is a founder of the company and currently serves as chairman of the Board of Directors and chief executive officer of the company. He has been a director of the company since its inception and has served as the chairman of our Board since May 2007. He has served as chief executive officer since 2011. From 2011 to 2012, he also served as president of our insurance subsidiary, Homeowners Choice Property & Casualty Insurance Company, Inc. Mr. Patel has broad experience in technology and finance. He developed and continues to oversee development of the company’s policy administration systems. Since 2006, Mr. Patel has served as president of Scorpio Systems, Inc., a software development company, and since 2011, has served as chairman of the board of First Home Bancorp, Inc., a bank holding company in Seminole, Florida. He is a founder of NorthStar Bank in Tampa, Florida and from 2006 to 2010 served on the board of directors of its parent company, NorthStar Holding Company. 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 merger 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 United Kingdom.
Richard R. Allen has served as the chief financial officer of our company since November 2006 and also serves as a director of our subsidiary, Claddaugh Casualty Insurance Company, Ltd. Mr. Allen has over thirty years of experience in property and casualty insurance finance and management to include agency/broker relations, reinsurance and financial controls and reporting and third party administration. He has held various positions with several insurance companies as chief financial officer, controller and senior accounting manager. From 1999 to 2005, Mr. Allen served as the internal auditor of Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Allen served as controller for Symons International Group. From 1994 to 1996, Mr. Allen served as controller/treasurer of Coronet Insurance. In addition, Mr. Allen served as the budget/cost manager of Bankers Life and Casualty from 1982 to 1990, and as the controller of Bankers Standard Insurance Company, an affiliate of CIGNA, from 1969 to 1981. He has experience in forensic accounting and has participated as a consultant in numerous projects with state insurance departments. Mr. Allen earned his Bachelor of Science Degree from Quincy University in Quincy, Illinois.
Andrew Graham has served as General Counsel to the company since 2008. From 1999 to 2007, he served in various positions, including General Counsel, for Trinsic Inc. (previously named Z-Tel Technologies, Inc.), a publicly-held provider of communications services. Since 2011, he has 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. Mr. Graham holds a Bachelor of Science, major in Accounting, from Florida State University. He earned his Juris Doctor, as well as a Master of Laws (L.L.M.) in Taxation, from the University of Florida College of Law.