New York Mercantile Exchange

Mr. Rubin is Senior Vice President, Treasurer and Controller of TICC Capital Corp. He is the former Assistant Treasurer & Director of Financial Planning of the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc., the largest physical commodities futures exchange in the world and has extensive experience with Sarbanes-Oxley, treasury operations and SEC reporting requirements. From 1989 to 1995, Mr. Rubin was a manager in financial operations for the American Stock Exchange, where he was primarily responsible for budgeting matters. Mr. Rubin began his career in commercial banking as an auditor primarily of the commercial lending and municipal bond dealer areas. Mr. Rubin received his BBA in Accounting from Hofstra University where he also obtained his Masters of Business Administration in Finance.

Mark V. Dimon is the sole proprietor of Dimon Oil Corp, a commodity brokerage business he founded in 1988, and has been a member of the New York Mercantile Exchange for 26 years. Mr. Dimon has been a member of the Florence Township Board of Education for seven years and presently serves on the Community Relations, Finance and Curriculum Committees.

DR. JAMES E. NEWSOME has been president of the New York Mercantile Exchange since August 2004. Prior to that, he served as chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) beginning in December 2001. He was a commissioner of the CFTC from August 1998. In addition to his responsibilities at the CFTC, Dr. Newsome served as a member of the President's Working Group on Financial Markets and on the President's Corporate Fraud Task Force to coordinate corporate fraud investigations. Along with Dr. Newsome's board responsibilities at NYMEX, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Dubai Mercantile Exchange, and the National Futures Association. His honors include: Distinguished Alumnus, University of Florida; Alumni Fellow, Mississippi State University; Arthur Kaplan Award, Futures and Options for Kids; and Person of the Year, Stock Futures and Options Publication. Dr. Newsome received his bachelor of science degree in food and resource economics from the University of Florida and his masters of science and doctorate of philosophy degrees from Mississippi State University.

Mr. Schaeffer is chairman of NYMEX Holdings, Inc., and the New York Mercantile Exchange, Inc. Mr. Schaeffer has been a member of the board of directors since March 1990. He was the treasurer of the Exchange from 1993 to 2004, the vice chairman from 2004 to 2006, and has been an executive committee member since 1992. Mr. Schaeffer has been an Exchange member and seat-owner since 1981. A University of Maryland graduate, he was an executive director of global energy futures for ABN Amro, Inc., and a conferring member on behalf of the company and its predecessor, Chicago Corp., since 1987 on all of the New York commodity exchanges.

William Ford is the chief executive officer and a managing director of General Atlantic LLC ( General Atlantic ), a leading global private equity firm which acquired a stake in the Company on March 14, 2006 pursuant to a stock purchase agreement. Mr. Ford has been with General Atlantic (and its predecessor) since 1991. Mr. Ford serves on the compensation, corporate governance and nominating and finance committees. Mr. Ford is the co-chairman of the political action committee. Mr. Ford is a director of NYSE Euronext and Getco Holding Company, LLC.

Kenneth Shifrin is the Chief Financial Officer. Mr. Shifrin joined the Exchange in January 2004 as vice president of finance and most recently served as senior vice president of finance. Previously, he was global controller for two years at Electronic Broking Systems (EBS). Prior to EBS, he held several senior financial roles including chief financial officer of Gateway Logistics, Corp., and chief financial officer and vice president of finance for Hirsch International, Corp. Mr. Shifrin, who has more than 20 years of public and private accounting experience and an extensive background in company operations, also worked as a controller for National Business Products, Inc., and Career Employment Services, Inc. He holds a masters of business administration in accounting from Adelphi University, a bachelor of arts degree in economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook, and he is a certified public accountant.

A. George Gero has been a senior vice president of RBC Wealth Management (formerly known as RBC Dain Rauscher) and a vice president of global futures at RBC Capital Markets since December 2005. Mr. Gero was a senior vice president of Legg Mason Wood Walker, Inc. from 2003 until December 2005. Mr. Gero held various positions with the futures division of Prudential Securities, Inc., from 1981 to 2003, most recently as a senior vice president of investment and as a first vice president. Mr. Gero first served as a board member of NYMEX Exchange in 1976 and has been a member of the COMEX Division since 1976, the American Stock Exchange since 1995, ICE Futures U.S. (formerly the Board of Trade of the City of New York or NYBOT) since 1984, the Philadelphia Stock Exchange since 2003 and NYMEX Exchange since 1966. Mr. Gero is the chairman of the adjudication committee, co-chairman of the arbitration committee, vice chairman of the membership committee, and co-vice chairman of the FCM advisory and political action committees. Mr. Gero also serves on the bylaws, compliance review and finance committees. Mr. Gero is the chairman of the Commodity Floor Brokers and Traders Association. Mr. Gero is currently a board member of the International Precious Metals Institute and the Philadelphia Board of Trade division of the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Mr. Gero is a member of the Financial Planning Association of New York, the Managed Funds Association and a senior conferring member of NYMEX Exchange. He previously served as a director of the New York Futures Exchange, the Commodity Clearing Corporation and FINEX.

Howard Gabler is a managing director of Glocap Search, LLC and has twenty-five years of experience in the executive search business. Mr. Gabler was a founding partner and president of G.Z. Stephens Inc., a retainer-based executive search firm specializing in senior level assignments for investment banks, asset managers, broker dealers, and exchanges both domestically and internationally. Prior to that, Mr. Gabler was responsible for the securities and commodities group at Hadley Lockwood, Inc., servicing a similar client group. He is also a certified public accountant. Previously, Mr. Gabler served as NYMEX Exchange s executive vice president and helped develop its energy contracts. Mr. Gabler previously served as a public director of the Company from August 2005 until the end of his term in April 2006. Mr. Gabler serves on the audit, compensation and compliance review committees.

Stephen Ardizzone is President of Zone Energy Group, Inc., a large independent floor brokerage operation. Mr. Ardizzone has been trading metals and energy since 1981. In 2002, Mr. Ardizzone co-founded Bluefin Trading, LLC, an international proprietary trading company which focuses on market making in exchange-traded derivative products. Bluefin Trading, LLC is a NYMEX Division member firm. Mr. Ardizzone has been active on various committees of our board of directors for the last 20 years. Specifically, Mr. Ardizzone is the Chairman of the Business Conduct, Control, Facilities Committees, Co-Chairman of the Floor Broker/Local Advisory-Marketing, Membership Committees and Co-Vice Chairman of Compliance Review Committee. Mr. Ardizzone serves on the boards of DME Holdings Limited and Dubai Mercantile Exchange Limited.