David Coates is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 1993. Coates, a retired managing partner of KPMG's Burlington, Vermont, office, also held several key leadership positions at the New England Culinary Institute. Coates is a member of the Vermont District Advisory Board of Key Bank; Director of Green Mountain Power Corp., A.N. Deringer, Inc., Union Mutual Fire Insurance Company, New England Guaranty Insurance Company, Inc. Lake Champlain Maritime Museum and director of the Fletcher Allen Health Care Foundation. Coates was elected as the Vermont Chamber's Citizen of the Year in August of 2003. He is a member of the Governor's Council of Economic Advisors, the Governor's Advisory Board for Economic Development, the Vermont Debt Affordability Advisory Committee, the Vermont Municipal Bond Bank and the American Institute of CPAs.

Deborah Ellinger is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 2007. She was previously the Chief Executive Officer, President, and Chief Operating Officer of Wellness Pet Food and Old Mother Hubbard, the Massachusetts-based manufacturer of healthy natural pet food. Ellinger’s previous posts include executive vice president of CVS Pharmacy, senior vice president of Staples, and a partner with the Boston Consulting Group. Earlier in her career she was also a vice president with Mellon Financial Services, with positions in Pittsburgh, London, and Los Angeles. She is a graduate of Cambridge University in England, and also a Barrister-at-Law in the Courts of England and Wales.

Bruce Lisman is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 2002. Lisman is the Senior Managing Director and head of the Global Institutional Equities Division of Bear Stearns Companies in New York. He is also a member of the Bear Stearns Company Board of Directors, serving as a member of the Management Committee as well as various operating committees. Lisman is also a Director of Central Vermont Public Services, VELCO, Merchants Bancshares, American Forests, and is a Trustee of The Shelburne Museum. Lisman is a graduate of the University of Vermont and is the Immediate Past Chair of the Board of Trustees.

Louise McCarren is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 2002. McCarren is Chief Executive Officer of Western Electricity Coordinating Council. She is the former Chair of the Fletcher Allen Board of Trustees and a former member of the Board of Directors of the Vermont Business Roundtable, the Vermont Technology Council, VTAC, Lake Champlain Regional Chamber of Commerce, and the New England Council. She is also a member of the Board of Trustees of Vermont Law School. McCarren is the former president and chief executive officer of Verizon-Vermont, former chair of Vermont's Public Service Board and was an assistant to the president of the University of Vermont.

Roger Porter is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 1996. He is the IBM Professor of Business and Government and the Master of Dunster House at Harvard University. He is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and serves on the Board of Directors of Zions Bancorporation, Tenneco Automotive, Inc., Pactiv Corporation, Extra Space Storage and Packaging Corporation of America. He is a Board Member of the White House Historical Association and a Trustee of the Gerald R. Ford Foundation.

Miles Prentice, III is a Director of National Life Group and was elected to the Board in 1991. He is a Partner in the New York City law firm of Eaton & Van Winkle. Prentice is a Trustee of Washington and Jefferson College and the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues, Inc. Prentice is Director of Gold Banc Corporation in Leawood, Kansas, as well as a Director of a number of wholly-owned U.S. subsidiaries of various foreign corporations. He is a majority owner and President of Midland Sports, Inc., which operates the Midland Rockhounds AA minor league team in the Texas league, as well as Director of the Texas League of Professional Baseball Clubs, Inc. Prentice is also the majority owner and President of Odessa Sports, Inc. which operates the Odessa Jackalopes, a minor league hockey team in the Central Hockey League.

Mehran Assadi joined National Life Group in September 2003 as Interim Chief Information Officer. In May of 2004, he was named Interim Chief Operating Officer, with responsibilities encompassing all of the company's distribution, sales and marketing areas, as well as new business and customer service. In April of 2005, Assadi accepted the position of President - Life and Annuity. Assadi previously served as Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Information Officer at Provident Mutual in Newark, Delaware. Prior to his association with Provident Mutual he served in various senior positions with United States Fidelity and Guaranty of Baltimore.

Michele S. Gatto joined the company in 1999 as Senior Vice President and General Counsel. She was appointed Executive Vice President - Corporate Services and General Counsel of the National Life Group in May, 2003. Formerly she was vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Massachusetts Casualty Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (U.S.), from 1997 until its sale in 1999. From 1986 until 1997, Gatto served in a number of positions with increasing legal and management responsibility within the Law Department at The Paul Revere Corporation, now merged with UNUM-Provident Corporation.

Edward J. Parry, III was named chief financial officer of National Life Group in May 2008 after serving as interim chief financial officer since November 2007. He came to National Life from The Hanover Group where he had been appointed chief financial officer and a member of the company’s Operating Committee in 1996. He was named executive vice president in October 2003 and was appointed to the Board of Directors in December 2003. He led the company’s financial, claims, investment, life insurance and technology operations.

Parry joined The Hanover Insurance Group as a mergers and acquisitions specialist in 1992. He was appointed vice president and treasurer in 1993 and played a lead role in the many critical strategic and financial initiatives undertaken by the company since that time, including, notably, the conversion to a publicly held company in 1995, and the sale of the company’s variable life insurance and variable annuity business to The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. in 2005.

Christian W. Thwaites joined National Life Group in January 2005. He is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Sentinel Funds, Sentinel Asset Management, Inc. and Sentinel Administrative Services, Inc.; and Chief Executive Officer of Sentinel Financial Services Company. Previously he was the CEO of Skandia Global Funds PLC, where he built and led Skandia's global investment management and multi-manager mutual fund group from 2001 to 2004. Prior to his leadership of the Skandia fund group, he served as senior vice president and national marketing director of American Skandia, Inc. He was formerly with the Monitor Group, a Boston-based investment consulting firm, and between 1988 and 1995, he served as vice president of Aetna Life and Annuity, heading the marketing operations for that company's mutual fund business.