FSI Group, LLC

Steven N. Stein

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of FSI Group, LLC
Chairman of FSI Capital, LLC

441 Vine Street, Suite 1300
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tel: 513.746.2200
Fax: 513.746.2201

Mr. Stein, along with John M. Stein, oversees all aspects of FSI's business and investment portfolios. He is a director of Privee LLC, a Florida-based bank holding company, and from 2000 through May 2008 was a director of The Bancorp Inc., a Philadelphia-region bank holding company, and its subsidiary, The Bancorp Bank. From 2006-2007 he was a director of R-G Crown Bank, located in Florida, and from 1989 through 1999, he was a director of Signal Corporation, a $1.5 billion bank holding company based in northern Ohio. He is a founder and Managing Director of Trapeza Capital Management, LLC, a provider of debt financing to financial services companies, and Vice Chairman of FSI Realty Trust, a specialty finance real estate company. Mr. Stein is also a founder and is President, a director and a principal shareholder of the Belvedere Corporation, a developer and manager of commercial real estate properties and hotels. He was also a partner in Taft, Stettinius & Hollister LLP, a Cincinnati-based law firm. He received a B.A. in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Williams College in 1975, and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1978.