Mr. Samarias has served as Executive Vice President and Chief Legal Officer since October 2022. Previously he served as Ocwen’s Executive Vice President and General Counsel since April 2019 and as Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel since 2013. Mr. Samarias also serves as the Company’s Chief Ethics Officer and was appointed Company Secretary in April 2020. Prior to joining Ocwen, from 2009 to 2013, he was a senior attorney with the Treasury Department’s Office of Financial Stability (“OFS”). From 2012 to 2013, Mr. Samarias served as Chief Counsel of OFS where he was responsible for directing all legal activities of the Troubled Asset Relief Program, and served as the Chief Legal Advisor to the Assistant Secretary for Financial Stability. Prior to his government service, he was a litigator with several international law firms from 1997 to 2009. Mr. Samarias holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Vanderbilt University, a Juris Doctor from Washington University School of Law, and is a member of the bars of the Commonwealth of Virginia and the District of Columbia, as well as a Florida Authorized House Counsel and a New Jersey In-House Counsel.