Matthew Lambiase

Matthew Lambiase has served as our President and Chief Executive Officer, and one of our directors since August 2007. Prior to becoming our Chief Executive Officer and President, Mr. Lambiase was a Managing Director and Head of Business Development for Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (“Annaly”). Before that, Mr. Lambiase was a Director in Fixed Income Sales at Nomura Securities International, Inc. Over his 11- year employment at Nomura, Mr. Lambiase was responsible for the distribution of commercial and residential mortgage-backed securities to a wide variety of institutional investors. Mr. Lambiase also held positions at Bear, Stearns & Company as Vice President in Institutional Fixed Income Sales and as a mortgage analyst in the Financial Analytics and Structured Transaction Group. Mr. Lambiase has a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from the University of Dayton.