People: JMP Group Inc. (JMP)

Edward J. Sebastian has served as a Member of Board of Directors of JMP Group Inc. since August 2004. Mr. Sebastian is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of SMR Group LLC, a private equity investment firm located in Newport Beach, California. Mr. Sebastian is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group, a residential mortgage company headquartered in Columbia, South Carolina, founded by Mr. Sebastian as a division of Republic National Bank in May 1989. Resource Bancshares Mortgage Group went public in 1993 and merged with NetBank, Inc., of Atlanta, Georgia, in March 2002. Prior to that, Mr. Sebastian was Vice Chairman of Bankers Trust of South Carolina and Corporate Executive Vice President of NCNB Corporation, which are both now part of Bank of America. Mr. Sebastian is a current member of the Board of Directors of The South Financial Group, a financial institution headquartered in Greenville, South Carolina, and is currently active on the boards of advisors of various venture capital funds, including Baker Communication Fund of New York, New York, and Vaxa Capital of Greenville, South Carolina. Mr. Sebastian received a BS degree from Pennsylvania State University.