Crane Capital Group

James R. Crane is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Crane Capital Group. He has also served as Chairman of the Board of Crane Worldwide Logistics, a Houston-based single-source provider of global transportation and logistics services, since August 2008. Prior to that time, he founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of EGL, Inc., a NASDAQ-listed global transportation, supply chain management and information services company based in Houston, Texas, from 1984 until its sale in August 2007. Since February 2010, he has served as a director of Fort Dearborn Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Health Care Service Corporation. Mr. Crane also served on the board of HCC Insurance Holdings, Inc. from 1999 to November 2007. According to published reports, Crane has reached an agreement to purchase control of the Houston Astros baseball franchise.