Lewis S. Ranieri has served as a director of CA since 2001. He was lead independent director from 2002 to 2004, and served as Chairman of the Board from 2004 until 2007.
Lewis is the prime originator and founder of the Hyperion private equity funds and chairman and/or director of various other non-operating entities owned directly and indirectly by Hyperion. He also serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Ranieri & Co., Inc., a private investment advisor and management corporation. Lewis is also Chairman of American Financial Realty Trust, Capital Lease Funding, Inc., Franklin Bank Corp. and Root Markets, Inc., an internet-based marketing company.
Prior to forming Hyperion, Lewis had been Vice Chairman of Salomon Brothers, Inc., and worked for Salomon from July 1968 to December 1987. He has served on the National Association of Home Builders Mortgage Roundtable continuously since 1989. Lewis acts as a trustee or director of Environmental Defense and the Metropolitan Opera Association and is Chairman of the Board of the American Ballet Theatre and Vice Chairman of the Kennedy Center Corporate Fund Board. |