James J. McEntee, III has served as our Chief Executive Officer and Chairman since inception. He is the Chairman of the Board of the Bancorp (NASDAQ: TBBK) and has been a Board member since 2000. Mr. McEntee has over 25 years of financial services and technology experience as an executive, board member and investor. He has extensive experience as a SPAC executive and Sponsor. He served as the President and Chief Financial Officer of FinTech III from March 2017 until October 2020, and as President and Chief Financial Officer of FinTech II from May 2015 until July 2018. He served as FinTech Acquisition Corp.’s Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer from August 2014 to July 2016. He has served as the Managing Principal of StBWell, LLC, an owner and operator of real estate, since June 2010. Mr. McEntee was a director of T-Rex Group, Inc., a provider of risk analytics software for investors in renewable energy, from November 2014 to January 2018. Mr. McEntee was the Chief Executive Officer of Alesco Financial, Inc. from the date of its incorporation in 2006 until its merger with Cohen & Company in December 2009 and was the Chief Operating Officer of Cohen & Company from March 2003 until December 2009, and was a managing director of COHN and was the Vice-Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer of JVB Financial through October 2013. Mr. McEntee was a principal in Harron Capital, L.P., a media and communications venture capital fund, from 1999 to September 2002. From 1990 through 1999, Mr. McEntee was a stockholder at Lamb McErlane, PC, and from 2000 until 2004 was of counsel to Lamb McErlane. Mr. McEntee was previously a director of Pegasus Communications Corporation, a publicly held provider of communications and other services, and of several other private companies. Mr. McEntee has served since 2008 as a director of The Chester Fund, a nonprofit organization, and served as its Chairman from July 2012 to January 2018. Mr. McEntee received a B.A. from Boston College, a JD from Rutgers University, an LLM from New York University and an MBA from Pennsylvania State University. We believe that Mr. McEntee’s extensive experience in corporate law and financial institution management, as well as significant managerial experience in real estate, investments, and capital markets operations qualifies him to be a member of our board of directors.