Jeremy B. Ford is President and CEO effective 3/11/10.
Jeremy B. Ford, age 35, has worked in the financial services industry for over ten years, primarily focused on investments in and acquisitions of depository institutions and insurance and finance companies. He also is one of the individuals who provided services to the Company under the Management Services Agreement with Diamond A Administration Company, LLC. Accordingly, he has been actively involved in numerous potential acquisitions for the Company, the acquisition of NLASCO, Inc. in 2007, and the divestiture of the Company’s mobile home communities business in 2007. Jeremy Ford also is currently a director of First Acceptance Insurance Company, Inc. (a subsidiary of First Acceptance Corporation) and a principal of Ford Financial Fund, L.P. (a private equity fund). From 2004 to 2008, he worked for Diamond A-Ford Corporation, where he was involved in various investments made by a family limited partnership. Prior to that, he worked at Liberté Investors Inc. (now First Acceptance Corporation) from 2002 to 2004, California Federal Bank, FSB (acquired by Citigroup Inc. in November 2002) from 1999 to 2000, and Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup Inc.) from 1997 to 1999. Jeremy Ford previously served as a director of First Acceptance Corporation from 2000 to 2004. He holds a BBA in finance from The University of Texas at Austin and a MBA from Columbia Business School. Jeremy B. Ford is the son of Gerald J. Ford, the Chairman of the Board of the Company, and the brother-in-law of Corey G. Prestidge, the General Counsel and Secretary of the Company.
Gerald J. Ford remains Chairman of the Board.
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