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Donald H. Layton is Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer of E Trade Financial Corp. He was formerly a special advisor to the Company’s Board of Directors, has been a director and Chairman of the Board of the Company since November 2007. He succeeded George A. Hayter who remains a director of the Company. Mr. Layton became Chief Executive Officer of the Company on March 2, 2008. He retired in 2004 after 29 years at JP Morgan Chase and its predecessors, serving most recently as Vice Chairman, and as a member of its three-person Office of the Chairman and its Executive Committee. Mr. Layton also serves as a director of Assured Guaranty Ltd, a leading provider of financial guaranty and credit enhancement products to investors, financial institutions and other participants in the global capital markets. He also is a Senior Advisor to The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a member of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s International Capital Markets Advisory Committee and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Visiting Committee for Economics. Mr. Layton received Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard University.

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