Brown & Brown Inc.

Mr. Brown has been Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Brown, Inc. since 1993 and the Chairman of the Board of Directors since 1994. Mr. Brown was President of Brown & Brown, Inc. from 1993 to December 2002, and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Brown & Brown’s predecessor corporation from 1961 to 1993. He was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1972 to 1980, and Speaker of the House from 1978 to 1980. Mr. Brown serves on the Board of Directors of SunTrust Banks, Inc., International Speedway Corporation, FPL Group, Inc., BellSouth Corporation, and Rock-Tenn Company, each a publicly-held company. He also serves as Chairman of the Council of Insurance Agents & Brokers and a member of the Board of Insurance Services Office, as well as on the Board of Trustees of Stetson University, of which he is a past Chairman, and the Florida Council of 100. Mr. Brown is a past Vice Chairman of the Florida Residential Property and Casualty Joint Underwriting Association and a past Trustee of the Florida Chamber Foundation.

J. Powell Brown (40) was elected President of Brown & Brown, Inc., in January 2007. Previously he was a Regional Executive Vice President, since 2002, and also serves in an executive officer capacity for certain Brown & Brown subsidiaries. He oversees most of the Company’s wholesale brokerage and public entity operations located throughout the country. From 1998 to 2003, Mr. Brown served as profit center leader of the Company’s Orlando, Florida retail office. Prior to that, he was a sales producer and then Marketing Manager in the Daytona Beach, Florida retail office from 1995 to 1998. Before joining Brown & Brown he was with the Continental Insurance Company. A graduate of the University of Florida, with an MBA from Duke University, Mr. Brown serves on the Board of Directors of the SunTrust Bank/Central Florida and the Boggy Creek Gang. Previously he served on the Board of Governors of the Orlando Regional Chamber of Commerce, and as a member of the Board of Directors of Junior Achievement of Central Florida and the Bolles School Board of Visitors.

Mr. Henderson was elected Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Brown & Brown, Inc. in January 2007. Between 2002 and 2007 he was President and Chief Operating Officer. In addition he serves as director or in another executive officer capacity for several subsidiaries. He was elected Executive Vice President in 1995, and served as Senior Vice President from 1993 to 1995. He served as Senior Vice President of Brown & Brown’s predecessor corporation from 1989 to 1993, and as Chief Financial Officer from 1985 to 1989. Mr. Henderson is a member of the Board of Directors of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the School of Business Administration of Stetson University, and the Florida Hurricane Catastrophe Fund. He previously served as Co-Chairman of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association's Property & Casualty Committee, President of the Central Florida Chapter of Financial Executives International, and as a member of the Board of Directors of United Way of Volusia/Flagler Counties and the Ronald McDonald House.

Mr. Currey served as Chief Executive Officer of Rock-Tenn Company, a publicly-held manufacturer of packaging and recycled paperboard products, from 1989 to 1999 and as Chairman of the Board of Rock-Tenn Company from 1993 to January 31, 2000, when he retired. He also previously served as President (1978-1995) and Chief Operating Officer (1978-1989) of Rock-Tenn Company. Mr. Currey previously served as a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of Rock-Tenn Company, and is currently Director Emeritus of Genuine Parts Company, a publicly-traded company, and a member of the Board of Directors of Enzymatic Deinking Technologies, L.L.C. Mr. Currey is Trustee Emeritus and a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Emory University. He is a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Woodruff Arts Center and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, a division of the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He is also a past Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.

Ms. Varner is a partner in the law firm of King & Spalding, LLP, in Atlanta, Georgia. A graduate of Smith College, where she was named to membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and Emory University School of Law, Ms. Varner was honored with Emory University School of Law's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1998. In 2001, the National Law Journal profiled Ms. Varner as one of the nation's top ten women litigators. With more than 25 years of courtroom experience, she is considered to be among the very best in defending corporations in product liability, commercial and other civil disputes. The author of many books and papers on areas of interest in her practice, she has also served as a member of the faculty of the Trial Academy of the International Association of Defense Counsel and regularly presents at bar association meetings around the country. She has been a trustee of Emory University since 1995 and has served on the Board of Wesley Woods Geriatric Center since 1996.

Mr. Brown founded BAMSI, Inc., a full-service engineering and technical services company, in 1978, and served as its Chief Executive Officer until his retirement in 1996. Mr. Brown currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of SunTrust Bank of Orlando, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida, the Florida Council of 100 and the Florida Council on Economic Education. He is a past Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, and previously served on the Florida Commission on Education, and as Chairman of the Spaceport Florida Authority (now Florida Space Authority) Board of Supervisors. Mr. Brown was previously named Small Business Person of the Year, 1985, by the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Regional Minority Small Business Person of the Year for the Atlanta region, and in 1991, he received the U.S. Small Business Administration's Graduate of the Year Award. He is an inductee of the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame for East Central Florida.

Mr. Smith has served as President of Jan Smith and Company, a commercial real estate and business investment firm, since 1978. Mr. Smith is also the managing general partner of River Bend Road, Ltd., and a Director and President of Travel Associates, Inc. and of Jan Smith and Company. Mr. Smith serves on the Board of Directors of SunTrust Bank/Gulf Coast and the Board of Governors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce, and is also the Chairman of the Campus Board of University of South Florida's Regional Sarasota/Manatee Campus, and a member of the University of South Florida Foundation Board of Trustees. Mr. Smith is a past member of the Board of Directors of GTE of Florida, Inc., a publicly-held company, the Advisory Council of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, the Board of Directors of the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Board of the National Chamber Litigation Center, the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Small Business Administration, the Board of Directors of the Florida Chamber of Commerce Management, Inc., the Florida Education Governance Reorganization Transition Task Force, the Nominating Council of the Public Service Commission of Florida, the Florida Council on Economic Education, and the Manatee County (FL) Independent Insurance Agent Association, and he previously served as a Delegate to the White House Conference on Small Business and to the Small Business National Issues Conference. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Manatee Community College in Florida, and of the Manatee County (FL) Chamber of Commerce, and is an inductee of the Tampa Bay Business Hall of Fame.

Mr. Bell has been a shareholder of the law firm of Pennington, Moore, Wilkinson, Bell & Dunbar, P.A. since January 1, 1998. Prior to that, he was a shareholder and managing partner of Cobb Cole & Bell (now Cobb & Cole, P.A.), and he served as Of Counsel to Cobb Cole & Bell until August of 2002. Mr. Bell was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1974 to 1988. He is Chairman of the Advisory Board for the College of Public Health at the University of South Florida, President of the Florida Public Health Foundation and a member of the Florida Elections Commission. He is also past Chairman of the Florida Legislature's Commission on Local Government II.

Mr. Hoepner is the former Vice Chairman of SunTrust Bank Holding Company. Prior to that, he served as Vice Chairman of SunTrust Banks, Inc., a publicly held company, from 2000 until 2005. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Hoepner was Executive Vice President of SunTrust Banks, Inc. and Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of SunTrust Banks of Florida, Inc. From 1990 through 1995, he served as Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of SunBank, N.A. From 1983 through 1990, he was the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of SunBank/Miami, N.A. Mr. Hoepner is a past Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Rollins College, the Economic Development Commission of Mid-Florida, the Heart of Florida United Way, the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce, the Beacon Council of Miami, Florida, and the Financial Executives Institute of Jacksonville, Florida.

Ms. Jennings served as Lieutenant Governor of the State of Florida from 2003 through 2006, and she served as President of Jack Jennings & Sons, Inc., a commercial construction firm based in Orlando, Florida, from 1982 to 2003. She also served as Secretary and Treasurer of Jennings & Jennings, Inc., an architectural millwork firm based in Orlando, Florida. Ms. Jennings was a member of the Florida Senate from 1980 to 2000, and President of the Florida Senate from 1996 to 2000. She previously served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1976 to 1980. She is a member of the Board of Directors of FPL Group, a publicly-held company, SunTrust Bank/Central Florida and The Nemours Foundation, and she is Chair of the Board of the Florida Chamber of Commerce. She previously served as the Chair of Workforce Florida, Incorporated, and as a director with the Salvation Army Advisory Board, the University of Central Florida Foundation, Enterprise Florida, and the Florida Partnership for School Readiness. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Rollins College.

Wendell Reilly (50) is the Managing Partner of Grapevine Partners, LLC, of Atlanta, Georgia, a private equity investment firm focused on media and communications. Previously he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Grapevine Communications, LLC, a group of local TV stations that were merged to form Piedmont Television. Earlier he was the Chief Financial Officer of Haas Publishing and before that the Chief Financial Officer of The Lamar Corporation, the national outdoor advertising company. Mr. Reilly currently serves on the Board of Directors of Lamar Advertising Company, Piedmont Television, and Wesley Woods Center. He is also on the Board of Trustees of Emory University and The Paideia School. Mr. Reilly is a graduate of Emory University and earned an MBA in Finance from Vanderbilt University.