American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. Adds Two Members To Its Board of Directors
BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE) ("MTGE" or the "Company") announced that at a meeting today, the Company's Board of Directors voted to increase the size of the Board by two and elected Prue B. Larocca and Samuel A. Flax to the new positions.
"We are very excited to have Prue and Sam join our Board of Directors," said Malon Wilkus, Chair and Chief Executive Officer of MTGE. "Both of these Directors bring a wealth of insight and experience, which will be invaluable to our Board, and I expect that they will play an integral role in guiding MTGE in the years ahead."
Ms. Larocca retired in 2011 from Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), where from 1997 until her retirement, she was a Managing Director in the firm's Mortgage Backed and Asset Backed Finance Group. She is a widely recognized expert in the areas of housing finance and securitization and is a member of the board of the Housing Preservation Foundation as well as having previously served two terms on the board of the American Securitization Trade Association. Prior to joining RBS, Ms. Larocca was a Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers in the mortgage finance business, managed the consumer and single family securitization business for the Resolution Trust Corporation, practiced law with the firms of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley and McCloy as well as Kutak Rock. She is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and Indiana University.
Mr. Flax has served as Executive Vice President and Secretary of the Company and its manager, American Capital MTGE Management, LLC, since their formation in 2011. Mr. Flax is also the Executive Vice President and Secretary and a member of the Board of Directors of American Capital Agency Corp. Also, he has served as Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Secretary of American Capital, Ltd. since 2005. Prior to joining American Capital, Ltd., Mr. Flax was a partner in the corporate and securities practice group of the Washington, D.C. law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP from 1990 to 2005, where he was American Capital's principal outside counsel.
ABOUT AMERICAN CAPITAL MORTGAGE INVESTMENT CORP.
American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. is a real estate investment trust formed in 2011 that invests in and manages a leveraged portfolio of agency mortgage investments, non-agency mortgage investments and other mortgage-related investments. The Company is externally managed and advised by American Capital MTGE Management, LLC, an affiliate of American Capital, Ltd. ("American Capital"). For further information please refer to www.MTGE.com
ABOUT AMERICAN CAPITAL
American Capital (Nasdaq: ACAS) is a publicly traded private equity firm and global asset manager. American Capital, both directly and through its asset management business, originates, underwrites and manages investments in middle market private equity, leveraged finance, real estate and structured products. American Capital manages $18.6 billion of assets, including assets on its balance sheet and fee earning assets under management by affiliated managers, with $118 billion of total assets under management (including levered assets). American Capital, through a wholly-owned portfolio company, manages publicly traded American Capital Agency Corp. (Nasdaq: AGNC) with approximately $10 billion market capitalization and American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp. (Nasdaq: MTGE) with approximately $850 million market capitalization. From its eight offices in the U.S. and Europe, American Capital and its affiliate, European Capital, will consider investment opportunities from $10 million to $750 million. For further information, please refer to www.AmericanCapital.com.
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SOURCE American Capital Mortgage Investment Corp.
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