People: Edgen Group Inc (EDG)

Ms. Cynthia L. Hostetler is Independent Director of Edgen Group Inc. Ms. Hostetler has served as an independent trustee of the Artio Global Investment Funds since 2011 and as an independent director of Artio Global Equity Fund Inc. since 2010. Ms. Hostetler is also a member of the board of managers for TriLinc Global Impact Fund (“TriLinc”), an emerging markets debt fund. TriLinc is a public reporting company that does not trade. From 2001 until 2009 Ms. Hostetler served as the Head of Private Equity and Vice President of Investment Funds at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation. Until 2006, Ms. Hostetler was the President and a member of the Board of Directors of First Manhattan Bancorporation. Ms. Hostetler began her professional career as an attorney in the corporate/banking department of the law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Southern Methodist University and her law degree from The University of Virginia School of Law.