Executive Officers

Betsy Z. Cohen, 82
Chairman of the Board of Directors, President and Chief Executive Officer

Betsy Z. Cohen has served as Chairman of our board of directors, Chief Executive Officer and President since October 2021. She has served as Chairman of the board of directors of FTAC Emerald since April 2021, a managing member of the general partner of Cohen Circle FinTech Ventures, L.P., a fintech focused venture capital fund, since January 2023, and as a managing member of the general partner of Radiate Capital Fund, L.P., an impact investment fund with a focus on the financial services and health sectors, since June 2024. Ms. Cohen served as Chairman of FinTech VI’s board of directors from November 2020 until December 2022, FinTech V’s board of directors from June 2019 until December 2022, FinTech IV’s board of directors from May 2019 until June 2021, FTAC Olympus’ board of directors from June 2020 until June 2021, FinTech III’s board of directors from March 2017 until October 2020, and FinTech II’s board of directors from August 2016 until July 2018. She served as a director of FinTech I and its successor, Card Connect Corp., a provider of payment processing solutions to merchants, from November 2013 until May 2017, and previously served as Chairman of the board of directors of FinTech I from July 2014 through July 2016 and as FinTech I’s Chief Executive Officer from July 2014 through August 2014. She served as Chief Executive Officer of Bancorp and its wholly-owned subsidiary, Bancorp Bank, from September 2000 and Chairman of Bancorp Bank from November 2003, and resigned from these positions upon her retirement in December 2014. She served as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees and as a trustee of RAIT Financial Trust, a real estate investment trust, from its founding in August 1997, through her resignation as of December 31, 2010 and served as RAIT’s Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2006. Ms. Cohen served as a director of Hudson United Bancorp (a bank holding company), the successor to JeffBanks, Inc., from December 1999 until July 2000 and as the Chairman of the Jefferson Bank Division of Hudson United Bank (Hudson United Bancorp’s banking subsidiary) from December 1999 through March 2000. Before the merger of JeffBanks, Inc. with Hudson United Bancorp in December 1999, Ms. Cohen was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of JeffBanks, Inc. from its inception in 1981 and also served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of each of its subsidiaries, Jefferson Bank, which she founded in 1974, and Jefferson Bank New Jersey, which she founded in 1987. From 1985 until 1993, Ms. Cohen was a director of First Union Corp. of Virginia (a bank holding company) and its predecessor, Dominion Bancshares, Inc. In 1969, Ms. Cohen co-founded a commercial law firm and served as a senior partner until 1984. Ms. Cohen also served as a director of Aetna, Inc. (NYSE: AET), an insurance company, from 1994 until May 2018 and as a director of Metromile, Inc., the successor to INSU II, from February 2021 until July 2021.

R. Maxwell Smeal, 34
Chief Financial Officer

R. Maxwell Smeal has been our Chief Financial Officer since October 2021. From July 2021 to December 2023 he served as the Head of Finance and since January 2024 he has served as Chief Financial Officer of Cohen Circle, LLC (formerly FinTech Masala, LLC), the parent company of the sponsor of FinTech II, FinTech III, FinTech IV, FinTech V, FinTech VI, FTAC Olympus, FTAC Athena, FTAC Zeus, FTAC Parnassus and FTAC Emerald. Mr. Smeal also serves as a Director at Cohen & Company, Inc., since July 2021. Previously, he served as a Director in KPMG LLP’s Deal Advisory practice from October 2019 through July 2021. Prior to being named a Director at KPMG, he served in various roles within KPMG LLP in their Deal Advisory and Audit practices from October 2012 to October 2019. Mr. Smeal has been a Certified Public Accountant since June 2014 and graduated from the Pennsylvania State University with a B.S. in accounting.

Board of Directors

Rochael Adranly, 52
Director Nominee

Rochael Adranly will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Ms. Adranly served as a director of FTAC Zeus from November 2021 to September 2023. Ms. Adranly is the owner and operator of Adranly Ventures, LLC, a family office investing in start-ups founded by women and people of color who are seeking to create economic opportunities and/or build sustainable, environmental solutions for the planet. Ms. Adranly has also been a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, MA. Ms. Adranly was a Partner and Chief Legal Officer at IDEO LP, a global design and innovation company, where she served in numerous roles both inside and outside of the company since December 2004. Through her role as Chief Legal Officer of IDEO, Ms. Adranly also had oversight for D4V (Design for Ventures), a Tokyo-based venture capital firm that invests in disruptive, consumer and enterprise technology startups, as well as in IDEO CoLab Distributed Web Fund I (“Dweb Fund I”), a distributed web fund. She was also a strategic advisor to IDEO CoLab Ventures and Dweb Fund I. Before IDEO, Ms. Adranly was in private practice. She also previously served as an advisor to FTAC Olympus. Ms. Adranly has been featured in Modern Counsel magazine for her role as a creative counselor, as well as in GC Magazine as a lawyer who “thinks like a designer.” In 2017, she was chosen by the Financial Times as one of 20 top general counsel worldwide. Ms. Adranly received a BA in Psychology and BS in Political Science from Texas Christian University, a JD and LLM from Duke University School of Law.

Jan Hopkins Trachtman, 77
Director Nominee

Jan Hopkins Trachtman will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of this prospectus. Ms. Hopkins Trachtman is President of The Jan Hopkins Group, a communications consulting company, which she founded in 2005. Since 2009, Ms. Hopkins Trachtman has served as an independent director of three Franklin Templeton mutual fund boards of directors, including Mutual Shares and Alternative Investment funds, where she also serves as Chair of the Nominating, Governance and Compensation Committees. She serves on the Advisory Board of the Knight Bagehot Fellowship at Columbia University School of Journalism and is a former member of the Advisory Board of Houlihan Lokey, an investment bank. Ms. Hopkins Trachtman served as a director of FTAC Parnassus from March 2021 to March 2023, a director of FTAC Olympus from August 2020 to June 2021, and also served as a director of FinTech III from November 2018 to October 2020. Previously, Ms. Hopkins Trachtman was a Managing Director and Head of Global Client Communications at Citigroup Private Bank and is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning anchor and business correspondent at CNN. She was also President of the Economic Club of New York from 2007 to 2015. Ms. Hopkins-Trachtman received a B.A. in Psychology from Hiram College and an M. A. in American Studies from Case Western Reserve University.

Ellen F. Warren, 67
Director Nominee

Ellen F. Warren will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of the registration statement of which this prospectus forms a part. Ms. Warren served as a director of FTAC Parnassus from March 2021 to March 2023. She also served as a director of FinTech VI from June 2021 to December 2022. Ms. Warren is an experienced independent director of public companies, having served as a director of Atlas Energy Group, LLC from February 2015 until May 2020, a director of the general partner of Atlas Energy, L.P. from February 2011 until February 2015, a director of Atlas Energy, Inc. from September 2009 until February 2011, and a director of Atlas Energy Resources, LLC from December 2006 until September 2009. She is founder and President of OutSource Communications, a marketing communications firm that she founded in August 2005 that services corporate and nonprofit clients. Before founding OutSource Communications, she was President of Levy Warren Marketing Media, a public relations and marketing firm she co-founded in March 1998. Before that she was Vice President of Marketing/Communications for Jefferson Bank from September 1992 to February 1998, and President of Diversified Advertising, Inc. from December 1984 to September 1992, where she provided marketing services to various industries. As a prior member of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Ms. Warren also offers expertise in corporate governance matters.

Walter C. Jones, 61
Director Nominee

Walter C. Jones will serve as an independent director immediately upon the effective date of this prospectus. He served as a member of the board of directors of FTAC Parnassus from March 2021 to March 2023, and served on the board of FTAC Olympus from August 2020 until June 2021. Mr. Jones is based in Washington, DC. He is currently a director at DFC. Mr. Jones was previously the Founder and CEO of Daana Technologies, Inc., a fintech firm based in Washington, DC. He served as a director of the general partner of Atlas Growth Partners, L.P., an oil and gas company, from July 2017 to April 2020. Mr. Jones served as a director of Atlas Energy Group, LLC, from February 2015 until July 2017. Mr. Jones served as a director of the general partner of Atlas Energy, L.P. from October 2013 until February 2015, a director of Atlas Energy Resources, LLC from December 2006 until September 2009, and a director of Atlas Energy, Inc. from September 2009 until March 2010. From November 2013 until mid-2017, Mr. Jones was the managing director of the Jones Pohl Group (JPG), an investment firm based in Dubai, UAE, which invested in clean energy projects, primarily in developing and developed markets around the globe. JPG also was the majority shareholder of a Dubai-based geothermal energy developer, RG Safa Energy. From April 2010 to October 2013, Mr. Jones served as the U.S. Executive Director and Chief-of-Mission to the African Development Bank in Tunis, Tunisia, having been nominated for the position by President Barack Obama in 2009, and confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2010. In that position, he represented the United States on the African Development Bank’s Board of Directors and served as chair of the bank’s audit committee and vice-chair of both the ethics and development effectiveness committees. Mr. Jones served as the Head of Private Equity and General Counsel at GRAVITAS Capital Advisors, LLC from June 2005 until May 2007. Mr. Jones served in a number of positions at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation from May 1994 to May 2005, and then again from September 2007 until April 2010, including Manager for Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and the Caribbean and Senior Investment Officer in the Finance Department; and was an International Consultant at the Washington, D.C. firm of Neill & Co. before that. Mr. Jones began his career at the law firm of Sidley & Austin, where he was a transactions attorney specializing in leveraged buyouts. Mr. Jones’ combination of private and public sector experience, as well as his international work, has afforded him a unique combination of management and leadership experience.