Mark Raymond Thresher

Nationwide Financial Services, Inc. engages in long-term savings and retirement products. It develops and sells individual annuities, private and public sector group retirement plans, other investment products sold to institutions. It also provides life insurance and investment advisory services. The company was founded in November 1996 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Nationwide Life Insurance Co. engages in the provision of long-term savings and retirement products. It operates through the following segments: Life Insurance, Annuities, Workplace Solutions, and Corporate Solutions and Other. The Life Insurance segment consists of life insurance products such as individual variable universal life, traditional life, fixed universal, and indexed universal life insurance products. The Annuities segment offers individual deferred annuity products and immediate annuities. The Workplace Solutions segment deals with private and public sector retirement plans businesses. The Corporate Solutions and Other segment includes COLI and bank-owned life insurance products, small business group life insurance, spread income on Federal Home Loan Bank of Cincinnati funding agreements, and net investment income on invested assets not assigned to other reportable segments. The company was founded in 1929 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Part of Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co., Nationwide Life & Annuity Insurance Co. is a life insurance company. The company is based in Spartanburg, SC.

Nationwide Mutual Insurance Co. provides insurance and financial services. It offers insurance and protection, investing and retirement, banking and borrowing, life events and planning, claims, pay a bill, and business coverage advisor. The company was founded in 1925 and is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Harleysville Group, Inc. is an insurance holding company. The firm operates its business through the following segments: The personal lines of insurance, the commercial lines of insurance and the investment function. The personal lines of insurance segment include both auto and homeowners. The commercial lines of insurance segment include auto, commercial multi-peril and workers compensation. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Harleysville, PA.

COSI Columbus operates as a science and research center. The non-profit company is based in Columbus, OH.

KPMG LLP engages in the provision of audit, tax, and advisory services. It serves the banking and capital markets, building, construction and real estate, consumer and retail, energy, natural resources and chemicals, financial services, government and public sector, healthcare and life sciences, industrial manufacturing, insurance, media and entertainment, private equity, technology, telecommunications, and venture capital industries. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Nationwide Private Placement Variable Account 2 engages in the provision of insurance services. The company is headquartered in Columbus, OH.

Nationwide Private Placement Variable Account provides insurance brokerage services. The company is headquartered in Columbus, OH.