Ms. Merkle has served as a director of Onity Group since April 2024. Ms. Merkle serves as an Advisory Board member of HomeLend Inc. and is the former Chief Executive Officer of NMI Holdings Inc., a publicly traded private mortgage insurer and the parent company of National Mortgage Insurance Corporation (National MI), a position she held from 2019 to 2021. Under her leadership, National MI was recognized on Fortune’s 100 Fastest-Growing Companies list in 2020 and was consistently recognized as one of the best places to work in the U.S. In 2021, Ms. Merkle was named one of the Most Influential Women in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times. Prior to her role as CEO, Ms. Merkle held multiple executive leadership positions since joining National MI in 2012, including President; Chief Operating Officer; Executive Vice President, Chief of Insurance Operations; and Senior Vice President, Underwriting Fulfillment and Risk Operations. Earlier in her career, she served as Vice President, National and Regional Accounts, Risk and Operations, and previously as Managing Director at PMI Mortgage Insurance Co. She holds a B.S. degree in management from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.