COMPENSATION COMMITTEE

 
Our compensation committee consists of Arshad Matin, chairman, and Francisco Alvarez-Demalde. Our compensation committee is responsible for, among other things, establishing cash compensation levels, adopting and administering our bonus programs, reviewing and approving severance arrangements and employment agreements to maintain competitiveness and improve our performance objectives, establishing and recommending to our board of directors corporate goals and relevant objectives to compensation for our executive officers (including the Co-Chief Executive Officers), as well as recommending to our board of directors the form and amount of cash-and equity-based and other compensation to be paid to the non-employee members of the board of directors. 

As a foreign private issuer, our compensation committee is not required to satisfy the 303A.05 rule of the NYSE Corporate Governance, including to be made up by “independent directors” as defined in such rule. While we are not required to make a determination as to whether the members of our compensation committee are “independent directors” for purposes of Section 303A.02 of the Corporate Governance Rules of the NYSE, we are of the view that (1) Mr Alvarez-Demalde may or may not meet the independence requirements of such rule and (2) Mr. Matin would satisfy such independence requirements.