Biography

Robert C. Hain has been a director of ARMOUR since November 2009. Mr. Hain was also a director of JAVELIN from June 2012 until April 2016. Mr. Hain became a director and the Chairman of City Financial Investment Company Limited (“City Financial”), a private manager of funds organized under the laws of the United Kingdom and authorized by the Financial Conduct Authority, in January 2006, and was the Chief Executive from February 2018 to March 2019. In March 2019 and during Mr. Hain’s service as the Chief Executive and director, the directors of City Financial voluntarily placed City Financial into administration pursuant to the insolvency laws of England and Wales. Investment funds managed by City Financial were transferred to other regulated investment managers. Mr. Hain was also director of Wittering Limited from 2008 to 2018, which was engaged in asset management in the United Kingdom, Europe, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. Mr. Hain is currently a director and Chief Executive of Sound Diplomacy Holdings Ltd., a London-based group of economics consultancies, a director of White Desert Limited, a luxury hotelier operating in Antarctica, and President of Laurier Partners, a specialist consulting firm in Nova Scotia. Previously, Mr. Hain has been a director and Vice Chairman of Chika’s Wholefoods Africa Limited based in Nigeria and a major shareholder of Minois Limited, a British snack food distributor of which he was Chairman from 2017 to 2023, a director of HomeChoice International Plc (Mauritius), a retailer of home furnishings to South Africans listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange from 2014 to 2022. He was a partner at Shadbolt Partners LLP from 2005 to 2018, a director of Majorpoint Limited from 2006 to 2014 and Kingsway Consultancy Limited from 2007 to 2017, the Non-Executive Chairman of Dundee Wealth SA (Luxembourg) from 2007 to 2009, a director of Tailwind Financial Inc. (Canada) from 2006 to 2009 and the Vice Chairman of CSS Stellar Holdings Inc. from 2005 to 2006. Mr. Hain was also the Chief Executive Officer of Invesco UK (Invesco Perpetual), a prominent British asset manager, from 2002 to 2004, and Chief Executive Officer of Invesco Canada (AIM Trimark), a Canadian mutual fund company, from 1998 to 2002. Mr. Hain was a member of the Executive Management Committee of Amvescap Plc (now Invesco Ltd.), from 1998 to 2005. Mr. Hain holds degrees from the University of Toronto (Innis College) and the University of Oxford (Merton College).