James B. Lockhart

James B. Lockhart III is Vice Chairman of WL Ross & Co. LLC and a member of the Management Committee and Investment Committees for the WLR Recovery Funds, Invesco Mortgage Recovery Funds as well as other funds. His responsibilities include overseeing financial services portfolio companies and sourcing new opportunities in the financial services industry. Prior to joining WL Ross in September 2009, he was the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency, regulator of Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the twelve Federal Home Loan Banks, and its predecessor agency, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, since May 2006. He served as the Chairman of Federal Housing Finance Oversight Board and a member of the Financial Stability Oversight Board with the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, the Secretaries of Treasury and HUD, and the Chairman of SEC. For the prior 4 years Mr. Lockhart was the Principal Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer of Social Security, Secretary to its Board of Trustees and a member of President Bush’s Management Council. Mr. Lockhart also served in the previous Bush Administration as Executive Director of the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation from 1989 until 1993.

Mr. Lockhart co-founded and served as managing director of NetRisk, a risk management software and consulting firm serving major financial institutions, banks, insurance companies and investment management firms worldwide. He held senior positions at National Reinsurance, Smith Barney, Alexander & Alexander and Gulf Oil, in Europe and the U.S. He is a director of Sun Bancorp, Shellpoint Partners and the Bruce Museum. In 2009, he received The American Financial Leadership Award from the Financial Services Roundtable. He is a Fellow of the Association of Corporate Treasurers in the UK. Mr. Lockhart is a co-chair with former Senator Conrad (D-ND) on the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Commission on Retirement Security and Personal Savings.

Mr. Lockhart graduated from Yale University with a BA and received an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as a Lieutenant (j.g.) in the U.S. Navy aboard a nuclear submarine.