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This excerpt taken from the AYR DEF 14A filed Apr 3, 2009. Nominees
Set forth below is information regarding the nominees for
election:
Wesley R. Edens is the Chairman of the board of directors
and the Chief Executive Officer of Fortress Investment Group LLC
(“Fortress”). Mr. Edens has been a principal and
the Chairman of the Management Committee of FIG LLC
(“FIG”) since co-founding FIG in May 1998.
Mr. Edens is responsible for the Fortress private equity
and publicly traded alternative investment businesses. He is
also the Chairman of the board of directors of each of Aircastle
Limited, Brookdale Senior Living Inc., Eurocastle Investment
Limited, GateHouse Media, Inc., Mapeley Limited and Newcastle
Investment Corp. and a director of GAGFAH S.A. Mr. Edens
served as the Chief Executive Officer of Newcastle Investment
Corp. since inception until February 2007. Mr. Edens was
the Chief Executive Officer of Global Signal Inc. from February
2004 to April 2006 and the Chairman of the board of directors
from October 2002 to January 2007. Mr. Edens serves in
various capacities in the following five registered investment
companies: Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Trustee of
Fortress Registered Investment Trust and Fortress Investment
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Trust II; Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fortress
Brookdale Investment Fund LLC and Fortress Pinnacle
Investment Fund LLC and Chief Executive Officer of RIC
Coinvestment Fund LP. Prior to forming Fortress,
Mr. Edens was a partner and a managing director of
BlackRock Financial Management Inc., where he headed BlackRock
Asset Investors, a private equity fund. In addition,
Mr. Edens was formerly a partner and a managing director of
Lehman Brothers. Mr. Edens received a B.S. in Finance from
Oregon State University.
Peter V. Ueberroth was elected to AYR’s Board on
August 2, 2006. Mr. Ueberroth is an investor and
Chairman of the Contrarian Group, Inc., a business management
company, and has held this position since 1989. He is the
non-executive co-chairman of Pebble Beach Company and a director
of the
Coca-Cola
Company.
If any of these nominees for director becomes unavailable, the
persons named in the enclosed proxy intend to vote for any
alternate designated by the Board.
The Board recommends a vote FOR the above-named nominees to
serve as our directors until the 2012 Annual General Meeting of
Aircastle or until their office shall otherwise be vacated
pursuant to our Bye-laws.
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