John Reiersen began his insurance career with the New York Insurance Department ending his 25 years there as Chief Examiner in the Property and Casualty Insurance Bureau. At the Insurance Department, John was instrumental in getting many statutes and regulations enacted including the automobile no-fault program, the photo inspection law the IIES program and many other cost containment measures. Mr. Reiersen also pioneered in the market conduct examination process and was responsible for drafting the fair claim practices regulation(Regulation 64). Mr. Reiersen was also responsible for the enactment of many rules in the New York Automobile Insurance Plan (NYAIP) including the Producer Certification Program and increasing the public member representation on the governing committee to seven. He was responsible for the development of the NYAIP LAD, and CLAD, programs, the Public Auto Pool and the Special Risk Distribution Procedure. During the liability insurance crisis of 1985-1986, Mr. Reiersen was responsible for establishing a number of market assistance programs and in getting cancellation/nonrenewal and flex-rating legislation enacted into law.

    In 1989, Mr. Reiersen joined the Robert Plan Corporation in a senior executive position and from 1990-2000 served as President of the Eagle Insurance Group. Mr. Reiersen served as Chairman of the NYAIP Governing Committee, the Motor Vehicle Accident Indemnification Corporation and the New York Insurance Association. He currently serves on the Legislatures Industry Advisory Committee on Coastal Insurance, and continues to serve on many other insurance industry boards and committees. Mr. Reiersen was elected President of Commercial Mutual Insurance Company (CMIC) in 1999 and in 2001 was elected to the position of Chief Executive Officer. Effective July 1,2009, CMIC converted to a stock property and casualty insurance company and became Kingstone Insurance Company (KICO), where Mr. Reiersen continues to serve as Executive Vice President. Mr. Reiersen brings to KICO a significant amount of both regulatory and industry experience in KICO’s effort to become a medium size insurer providing valuable insurance markets to New York producers.

    John Reiersen holds the professional designations of Chartered Property and Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), Certified Financial Examiner(CFE), and Certified Insurance Examiner (CIE). He is a graduate of Brooklyn College and holds a Bachelors of Science Degree in Accounting. John and his wife Jeanie have 2 children and 5 grandchildren.

    Mr. Goldstein joined the Kingstone Insurance Company Board of Directors in 2005 and was elected as its Chairman and Chairman of the Executive Committee in January 2006. In 2008 he was elected to serve as our Chief Investment Officer. Mr. Goldstein serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Kingstone Companies, Inc., parent of Kingstone Insurance Company. Mr. Goldstein received his B.A. and M.B.A. from State University of New York at Buffalo.

    Mr. Brodsky was appointed as Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Kingstone Companies, Inc. in July 2009 and serves as its Principal Financial Officer for SEC purposes, after serving as Chief Accounting Officer since 2007. Mr. Brodsky’s experience includes mergers and acquisitions, spin-offs, financings, registration statements and SEC reporting as well as executive management. Prior to joining Kingstone, he served in various senior management capacities. Mr. Brodsky spent 16 years at the CPA firm of Michael & Adest in New York. Mr. Brodsky earned a Bachelor of Business Administration from Hofstra University in 1981, with a major in accounting and is currently a licensed CPA in New York.

    William Muller was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised on Long Island. He attended Nassau Community College and Long Island University. He moved upstate to Saugerties, NY in 1990 where he & his wife raised two daughters, now 15 and 16 years old. He has been employed in the insurance industry since 1991. He was a former member of the Ulster County Arson Task Force. He has a General Adjuster’s License and holds AIC, PCLS AND PCLA designations. After several years of field assignments with a prior carrier he was brought in house to supervise the claims department.

    Thom was born in Brooklyn, NY and raised in Nassau County. He is a graduate of Chaminade High School and received a BA from the University of Richmond in 1989. He earned a JD from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 2004. He holds CPCU, AIC, AU, ARM, ARe, AIS, ARC, AIM, AIT, API, AAI, AMIM, and ACP insurance designations. He was admitted to the NYS Bar and the USDC for the Eastern and Southern Districts of NY in 2004. His prior employment includes 14 years with a NY based property casualty insurance company, serving the company’s various regulatory, reinsurance and risk management needs. In addition, he spent four years litigating with insurance defense litigation firms in NYC and on Long Island. He joined Kingstone Insurance in 2008.

    Mr. Shapiro founded, invested in and has grown many businesses in New York, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Florida and elsewhere. His primary focus has been on distribution including retail, wholesale and logistical planning. Mr. Shapiro is a 1974 graduate of the State University of New York at Buffalo. He joined the Kingstone Insurance Company Board of Directors in 2006 and is the Chairman of the Nominating Committee. He and his wife Joni reside in Dix Hills, New York.

     Mr. Seibald is a Senior Managing Director of Concept Capital Markets, LLC and serves the company in a variety of areas, including business and client development and legal and compliance matters. Mr. Seibald also serves as a member of the Board of Managers of Concept Capital Holdings, LLC, the company’s parent, of Concept Capital Administration, LLC, which provides administrative services to the company and its affiliates, and of Concept Capital Fund Services, LLC, which provides fund administration and risk management services to investment managers. Mr. Seibald has been affiliated with the firm and its predecessors since 1995 and has extensive experience in equity research, investment management, and prime brokerage services dating back to 1983. From 1997 to 2005, Mr. Seibald was also a Managing Member of Whiteford Advisors, LLC, an investment management firm, where as co-founder he co-managed several pools of funds. He began his career at Oppenheimer & Co. as an equity analyst covering the retailing industry and has also been affiliated with Salomon Brothers, and Morgan Stanley & Co in similar positions. Mr. Seibald also operated The Seibald Report, Inc., an independent research firm specializing in the retailing sector. He holds an M.B.A. from Hofstra University and a B.A. from George Washington University.

    Floyd R. Tupper is a certified public accountant in New York City. For over 25 years, Mr. Tupper has counseled high-net worth individuals by creating tax planning strategies to achieve their goals as well as those of their families. He has also helped small businesses by developing business strategies to meet their current and future needs. Mr. Tupper began his career in public accounting with Ernst & Young prior to becoming self-employed. Mr. Tupper holds an M.B.A. in Taxation from the New York University Stern School of Business and a B.S. from New York University. From 1990 until 2010, Mr. Tupper served as a Trustee of The Acorn School in New York City. He was also a member of the school’s Executive Committee where he served as Treasurer from 1990-2010. Mr. Tupper is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the New York State Society of Certified Public Accountants.

    Samuel Yedid is a partner in the Melville law firm of Lazer, Aptheker, Rosella & Yedid, P.C. where he co-chairs the firm's Real Estate practice group. For over 30 years, Sam has counseled a wide range of clients, ranging from small closely-held and family businesses to large public companies, in structuring and negotiating various types of real estate transactions. A large part of Sam's practice is devoted to the representation of some of the largest landlords in the New York Metropolitan area in the leasing of office, industrial and retail properties.

Sam is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Virginia School of Law. Since 1998, Sam has served as a Trustee of the Long Island Chapter of The Nature Conservancy and, in July, 2009, he was appointed a Vice Chairman of the Chapter’s Board of Trustees. In 2004, he helped found the Long Island Real Estate Group (“LIREG”) with several important Long Island developers/owners and other real estate professionals and today sits on LIREG’s Executive Board and Structure Committee and serves as its Vice President. For the last 15 years, Sam has served as Chairman of the Yale Alumni Schools Committee for Northern Nassau County which is responsible for interviewing high school students from that area who desire to attend Yale University.

Sam and his wife Carol have two children and live in Hewlett Harbor.

    Mr. Haft served as the Vice Chairman of Kingstone Companies' Board from February 1999 until March 2001. From October 1989 to February 1999, he served as the Chairman of the Board. Mr. Haft has been engaged in the practice of law since 1959 and since 1994 has served as counsel to Parker Duryee Rosoff & Haft (and since December 2001, its successor, Reed Smith). From 1989 to 1994, he was a senior corporate partner of that firm. Mr. Haft is a strategic and financial consultant for growth stage companies. He is active in international corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions.

    Mr. Haft also represents emerging growth companies. He has actively participated in strategic planning and fund raising for many high-tech companies, leading edge medical technology companies and marketing companies. He is a director of many public and private corporations, including DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Oryx Technology Corp., and also serves on the Board of the United States-Russian Business Counsel.

    Mr. Haft is a past member of the Florida Commission for Government Accountability to the People, a past national trustee and Treasurer of the Miami City Ballet, and a past Board member of the Concert Association of Florida. He is also a trustee of Florida International University Foundation and serves on the advisory board of the Wolfsonian Museum and Florida International University Law School. Mr. Haft received B.A. and LL.B. degrees from Yale University.

    Mr. Lyons joined Kingstone Companies' Board in July 2005 and is the Chairman of the Audit Committee. Mr. Lyons has extensive merger and acquisition experience as well as direct experience in the public markets. He is currently a Principal of Den Corporate Advisors, LLC, a firm focused on the development, implementation and management of business strategies, including financing, merger and acquisition strategies, for public and private companies.

    Since 2002, he has been a partner in the Nacio Investment Group, LLC, which acquired, financed and managed Nacio Systems, Inc., a privately owned managed hosting company, from bankruptcy to operating profitability in July 2004. From 1997-2002 he served as Vice President of Acquisitions for Expanets, a company founded and capitalized by NorthWestern Corporation, and was responsible for formulating and implementing a consolidation plan in the voice and data communications market. Expanets completed 28 acquisitions resulting in annualized revenues of approximately $1.3 billion, serving over 800,000 customers throughout the U.S. He was a founder and served as Chairman and CEO of Amnex, Inc., a public company providing telecommunication network services. Amnex, applying an approach that included organic growth in conjunction with strategic acquisitions, grew annual revenues to over $80 million employing approximately 350 people.

    Prior to that Mr. Lyons served as a founder and President of Walker Telephone Systems, Inc., a startup subsidiary of a public company. Walker developed and distributed business telephone systems through a network that grew organically to over 225 independent vendors throughout the United States and Canada, with annual revenues in excess of $40 million. Mr. Lyons is a graduate of The John Marshall Law School in Chicago, IL and practiced Corporate and Securities law.

    Mr. Feinsod has been Chief Executive Officer of Ameritrans Capital Corporation, a closed-end investment company, since October 10, 2008. Mr. Feinsod has been President of Ameritrans Capital since November 2006 and also serves as its Chief Compliance Officer. He serves as Senior Vice President of Elk Associates Funding Corporation, a subsidiary of Ameritrans Capital, and has served as a director of Ameritrans Capital and Elk Associates Funding Corporation since December 2005.

    Since January 1999, Mr. Feinsod has been Managing Member of Infinity Capital, LLC, an investment management company. He served as an investment analyst and portfolio manager at Mark Boyar & Company, Inc., a broker-dealer, from June 1997 to January 1999.

    He is admitted to practice law in New York and served as an associate in the Corporate Law Department of Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP from 1996 to 1997.

    Mr. Feinsod holds a Juris Doctorate degree from Fordham University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Washington University.

    Karl is on the Board of Kingstone Insurance Company, and has been with the company since 2002 as the Treasurer and Chief Financial Officer. His past experience includes management in Reinsurance Accounting at Liberty Regional Agency Markets and Frontier Insurance Group in New Hampshire and Rock Hill, NY. He began his career at Colonial Indemnity and Colonial Cooperative Insurance Companies, serving first as a Statutory Accountant, and advancing to Accounting Supervisor.

    Karl received his Accounting degree from the State University of New York, College at Plattsburgh, and has earned the designation of Associate in Reinsurance (ARe). He is an active member of the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA) of the Northeast.