PAUL MATHIESON

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, Founder and UBO

Paul Mathieson is the Executive Chairman, CEO and Founder of IEC. Mr. Mathieson founded the Mr. Amazing Loans business in the United States in 2008

Mr. Mathieson has over 28 years' finance industry experience in lending, funds management, stock market research and investment banking. His career has included positions from 1995 to 2001 as Financial Analyst/Institutional Dealer with Daiwa Securities, Head of Research for Hogan & Partners Stockbrokers, and Investment Banking Associate with ING Barings.

In addition, from 2002 to 2010, Mr. Mathieson was the Founder and Managing Director of IE Portfolio Warrants, a funds management business that offered high return and leveraged structured equities products.

From 2005 to 2011 Mr. Mathieson was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Amazing Loans, a predecessor of IEC in the form of a brick-and-mortar consumer finance company based in Australia. Mr. Mathieson received a Bachelor of Commerce from Bond University and a Masters of Applied Finance from Macquarie University.

Mr. Mathieson was awarded Ernst & Young's 2007 Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year (Eastern Region) for the success of both the Amazing Loans business and IE Portfolio Warrants funds management business.

GLENDYS AGUILERA

Director and Lending Manager

Glendys Aguilera is an Executive Director and the Lending Manager of Investment Evolution Corporation and has worked with the group since 2011.

As Lending and Compliance Manager of Mr. Amazing Loans, Mrs. Aguilera provides ongoing lending and compliance management for IEC's 6 US state consumer lending licences.

Prior to joining Mr. Amazing Loans, Mrs. Aguilera spent 4 years working for Wells Fargo in Las Vegas as a Personal Banker and Business Banker. Mrs. Aguilera is also Director and Company Secretary of IEC's US subsidiary Investment Evolution Corporation dba Mr. Amazing Loans.

NEIL PATRICK

Non-Executive Director

Neil has 16 years leadership experience in consumer credit (Standard Chartered, Woolwich, Barclays). Neil was co-founding director of two consumer credit businesses (Firstplus Financial Group PLC (“Firstplus”) and Picture Financial Group Ltd. (“Picture Financial”)).

Neil was the principal author of the business plan for Picture Financial which raised £37m start-up investment through Apax Partners. In addition to being a co-founder, Neil served as Chief Operating Officer at Firstplus and Picture Financi al which obtained acquisition offers of £365m for Firstplus and £275m for Picture Financial within 5 years of startup.

Neil's qualifications include a BA (Hons) Business Studies from the University of Brighton, Diploma and current full member Chartered Institute of Marketing, Finance and Leasing Association Diploma (Level 1) and Market Research Society Diploma.

GARETH HAWKINS

Non-Executive Director

Mr Hawkins currently serves as a Director at Angel Syndicate Ltd and Fundry Capital Partners Ltd since 2023, Chairman of Biz Crunch Ltd (T/A BizCrunch) and a non-Executive Director at ElectrAssure Ltd since 2022 and Chairman of Letchworth Garden City since 2022, having been a trustee since 2021. Additionally, Mr Hawkins is an Advisor to a number of investment advisory companies such as Connectd, Stratiphy and Block Dojo.

From 2022 to 2023 he was a member of the Investment Committee at Henley Business Angels Ltd. Prior to this he held various roles at Wholesale Welding Supplies Ltd, subsequently Weldability Sif Ltd, from 1997 to 2021, culminating as Managing Director from 2016. Mr Hawkins gained an MBA through the Quantic School of Business and Technology in 2019.