ABN AMRO

Appointed to the Board in March 2006, Mark Fisher is a career banker having joined National Westminster Bank Plc in 1981. In 2000, he was appointed Chief Executive, Manufacturing with various responsibilities including the integration of RBS and NatWest systems platforms. Mark is Chief Executive Officer of ABN AMRO and was appointed as Chairman of the Managing Board in November 2007.

Gerard Hartsink is Senior Executive Vice President of the European Union Affairs and Market Infrastructures Directorate at ABN AMRO. During his career he had managerial roles in sales, product development and operations in several of the Business Units of the ABN AMRO Group.

Angela O'Banion is an accomplished operations improvement executive with nearly 20 years of technology management and consulting experience. She is a First Vice President at ABN AMRO, which is the 11th largest European Bank and the corporate parent of LaSalle Bank. At ABN AMRO, Ms. O'Banion manages employees responsible for providing global computing solutions to risk management and finance operations. Ms. O'Banion received her M.B.A from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University . She is a cum laude graduate of Purdue University where she earned her B.S. in Computer Information Systems.

Lisa has over 12 years experience as a HR and campus recruitment professional within the investment banking and asset management sectors. Her previous roles have included running the global campus recruitment and development functions at ABN AMRO, Schroders and HSBC. Her background also includes significant expertise in the areas of organizational development, change management and generalist HR. Prior to entering the City, she began her career as a graduate trainee with Marks and Spencer. She has extensive experience in all aspects of campus recruitment and graduate development including best practice selection, graduate marketing and graduate training and coaching. At ABN AMRO she set up the global function from scratch and managed analyst and associate recruitment activities in the Netherlands, the US, India and Asia Pacific. She was also involved in implementing a global application tracking system and outsourcing recruitment administration. As an associate she has worked on a wide range of graduate recruitment and development projects for financial services clients including a recent assignment to design and deliver competency based interview training for a private banking client. Lisa has a first class honours degree in International Studies and French from the University of Birmingham. She is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development and is a qualified OPQ and MBTI practitioner.

Mr. Ferrone is a veteran marketing and sales executive with demonstrated national leadership of strategic and tactical distribution initiatives through intermediary channels. He has a proven career of growing and managing businesses including nine years of service with ABN AMRO Asset Management as genesis architect of its marketing strategy and responsibility for its mutual fund and separate accounts distribution network. Mr. Ferrone is a graduate of Northwestern University and Loyola School of Law and began his professional career in Chicago, Illinois as a felony trial prosecutor for Cook County. He later transitioned into the field of comprehensive wealth management as a principal in a successful fee-based money management practice, a concept that was still new at that time. He sold his interest in that business to become Regional Marketing Director at Schwab Institutional where he opened the Midwest office. He built and led a team providing technology solutions to asset managers, achieving a 76% per year increase in sales with consistent top ranked profitability. Subsequently, as the National Sales Director for ABN AMRO, Mr. Ferrone set the strategic marketing plan and led the sales team he created to raise net new investment sales of over $9 billion dollars over his nine-year tenure.

Patrick is in charge of portfolio management, research and programming. His day to day responsibilities are wide ranging and include updating the models, portfolio construction and research into new models, markets and products. He is also responsible for trading the Japanese portfolio. He has worked closely with Dan since 2000, first at ABN AMRO as a Junior Portfolio Manager until they both moved to Sabre in 2002. He started his career in BNP London as a Quantitative Trader in the Forex markets.

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Mr. Lord has been associated with ABN AMRO Asset Management since 2006 as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer. In his role, he is responsible for establishing and overseeing all compliance programs, as well as interacting with regulators and compliance counterparts in other parts of the ABN AMRO organization. Furthermore, he analyzes and interprets new regulatory developments, provides legal counsel to the firm, and develops and implements our adviser compliance education program. Mr. Lord has over twelve years experience in Legal/Compliance in the financial services industry. Previously, he served as Senior Attorney in LaSalle Bank's Legal Department providing advice on the investment advisory and brokerage activities of LaSalle Bank and LaSalle Financial Services. He holds an LLM in international business from the London School of Economics and a JD from Northern Illinois University. In addition, he holds Series 65, 24, 7, and 63 securities licenses.

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David joined Lansdowne Capital as Vice President in 2005 from Commerzbank Securities, where he worked within the UK corporate finance team and was involved in Commerzbanka s capital increase. David also worked for ABN AMRO in the Corporate Finance consumer team from 1999 to 2002, where he advised blue-chip consumer industries companies such as Sara Lee, Heineken and Reckitt Benckiser. He also advised several private equity houses on acquisitions in the consumer sector, such as the take-private of Ontex by Candover and the acquisition of Accantia by ABN AMRO Capital. Prior to working for ABN AMRO, David was a member of Salomon Smith Barneya s Industrials corporate finance team focusing on the aviation sector. David has a degree in modern languages from Oxford University.

Mr. Duret is the Global Chief Investment Officer at ABN AMRO N.V. Private Clients, based in Geneva, and serving the bank's private clients worldwide. He held previous positions in the ABN AMRO group in the private banking arena as Head of Product Development for one European region, Head of Financial Products in Switzerland, and Head of Portfolio Management in Geneva. Before joining ABN AMRO in 1998, he was Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management at UBS Geneva and Senior Economic Advisor in Paribas Switzerland. He also worked as a Junior Economist at the International Monetary Fund during his post graduate internship. Mr. Duret holds a Masters degree in Economics and a Masters degree in Political Sciences from the University of Grenoble and also did postgraduate studies in Finance at Ecole Superieures des Affaires/Hautes Etudes Commerciales, in Montreal.

Mr. Wojtczak has been associated with ABN AMRO Asset Management and its predecessors and/or affiliates since 1991. Currently, he is Director of Information Technology for ABN AMRO Asset Management. In this role, he oversees the technology and management information systems operations for the organization. Mr. Wojtczak joined a predecessor affiliate, Chicago Title and Trust Company, in 1991 as a LAN Administrator. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Wojtczak was a network consultant for Netcom Associates, Inc., and Head of Technology Support & Production for Statewide Microcomputer Support Corporation. Mr. Wojtczak currently serves as a member of the Senior Management and the Disaster Management Executive Committees for ABN AMRO in Chicago. He also is a member of the Working Council of Chief Information Officers. Mr. Wojtczak earned an electronics Technician degree from DeVry Institute of Technology.

Emily is the Director of Corporate Leadership at The Climate Group. This role involves coordinating engagement with our corporate members across the regions to ensure they are involved with core initiatives and programmes. She is also responsible for developing a platform for best practice sharing that enables members to address climate change and implement of solutions for a low carbon economy. Prior to joining The Climate Group in 2006, Emily worked for the global environmental consultancy firm Environmental Resources Management where she was the Manager of the New York City Office and a Senior Consultant in the Strategic Advice Group. Emily has over twelve years experience in consulting. Her focus has been on assisting companies develop and implement solutions for environmentally sustainable business practices. Emily has a Masters degree in Environmental and Management Sciences and began her career in the Power Sector assisting electricity companies with the implementation of environmental management systems.

Ian Martin joined Amethon Solutions in August 2007 as a non-executive director and has over 20 years of experience in the areas of telecommunications policy, regulation and research. Since 1994 Mr. Martin has worked as a telecommunications research analyst in the global investment markets with BZW, Macquarie Bank and ABN Amro. This includes periods as the independent analyst in BZW's role of adviser to the Australian Government on the Telstra privatization as well as head telecommunications analyst with ABN Amro Australia, which held the lead investment-banking role in the sale of Telstra 2. He is currently the lead Telecommunications analyst for ABN Amro in Australia.

Katie Morrison is head of equity capital markets and mergers & acquisitions compliance at ABN AMRO. Previously she was director in the compliance department at Deutsche Bank AG, responsible for global corporate finance. Prior to this, Katie spent four years covering the bank's equity department.

Kimberly (Kim) Sleeman graduated from Cornell University in 1991 and joined ABN AMRO on the Australian equity sales desk. Kim began her executive search career in 1999 with LAI Worldwide/TMP. She then helped establish a boutique financial services search firm in New York in 2001. Kim has been with Eban New York since its inception in April 2003, and focuses on international equity searches.

Mr. Martien van Osch, Managing Partner, Forbion Capital Partners (formerly ABN AMRO Capital Life Sciences), joined ABN AMRO in 1996 and has a background in Econometrics and Finance (University of Groningen).

Michael studied at the University of Melbourne and achieved a Bachelor of Science / Commerce (Hons). He currently works at ABN AMRO in Hong Kong.

Morten Sundsto serves as Chairman of the Board and is a co-founder of NattoPharma. Mr. Sundsto has a M. Sc in business administration from Norwegian School of Management (BI) from 1994. He has extensive experience from the Norwegian capital market from the past 12 years working as a financial analyst, and 7 of these 12 years as Head of Research, latest at ABN Amro Alfred Berg. Mr. Sundsto has for the last three years worked as an independent industrial investor and holds a number of board positions.

Nick Gibson has worked in compliance for ABN AMRO since the mid-1990s. He is currently leading the regulatory element of ABN AMRO's EU-wide implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, having spent the last 12 months establishing the group compliance global centre of expertise, responsible from a content perspective for group wide policy, training, IT and sharing best compliance practice. Until January 2005 he was the head of wholesale global compliance products and hubs as well as global equity compliance head, having started in UK equities and corporate finance in 1996. Nick previously worked as a UK regulator for 12 years, ultimately for the Securities and Futures Authority running Supervision for corporate finance/investment banking.

Dr Peter Jackel received his DPhil from Oxford University in 1995. In 1997, he moved into quantitative analysis and financial modelling when he joined Nikko Securities. Following that he worked as a quantitative analyst in the Quantitative Research Centre of the enlarged Royal Bank of Scotland Group where his primary responsibilities were independent model validation and derivatives modelling research. Peter then worked as the Global Co-Head of Financial Engineering at Commerzbank Securities. He is now Global Head of Credit, Hybrid and Commodity Derivatives at ABN Amro. Peter is the author of Monte Carlo Methods in Finance, published by John Wiley & Sons.

Richard is responsible for new business development in Eastern Michigan and Ohio. He has over 25 years of asset-based lending experience, which includes 15 years at Walter E. Heller Co. and five years with LaSalle National Bank, ABN AMRO. The last 15 years he owned his own consulting business, which specialized in turnarounds and asset-based lending refinances. Richard attended Syracuse University with majors in Economics and Accounting.

Mr. Marinko has been associated with ABN AMRO Asset Management and its predecessors and/or affiliates since 1998. Currently, he is Director of Investment Operations for all affiliates of ABN AMRO Asset Management. In this role, he oversees the management of all investment accounting and back office operations for the organization. Prior to joining the firm, Mr. Marinko was Director of North American Futures Operations Warburg Dillon Read LLC and its predecessor companies. Mr. Marinko currently serves as a member of the Senior Management and the Disaster Management Executive Committees for ABN AMRO in Chicago and has a B.S. degree from Northern Illinois University.

Tim Ryan was born and raised in East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He attended Boston College, graduating with a degree in Finance. He played second base on the Division I baseball team. After graduating, Tim moved to New York City to work in the financial services industry. Presently he is an Associate, covering Financial Institutions within the Debt Capital Markets group of RBS Greenwich Capital. In the spring of 2007, Tim and two fellow Boston College alumni embarked on a seven day, 150 mile journey through the Gobi Desert in the Kasgar region of China. The race took them through 1,000 feet sand dunes, 100 degree temperature swings and harrowing traverses, with only the equipment and food on their backs. Before they left, the group contemplated the magnitude of the event and the region of the world where their journey would take them. They decided they wanted to give back to the very people from whom they would learn. In considering how to do so, they decided to dedicate their efforts to orphaned and disadvantaged children in China. They looked for an organization working to assist these children in a positive and sustainable way and, thinking globally, one whose work could be modeled for children in other parts of the world. It was essential to them that the organization they chose be dedicated to the well-being of children who would likely not be adopted out of their circumstances but who would face the challenge of entering their own society with purpose and dignity. After careful consideration they chose to partner with The Grace Children's Foundation (TGCF) and on June 17, 2007, Grace's Eagles began their journey, or rather took flight, across the desert. After a successful fund-raising campaign, Tim realized that he had been so moved by the people he had met and the dedication he witnessed on the part of TGCF that he wanted to work with The Grace Children's Foundation. The goals of the organization and the passion of its members were not something that he could leave behind. Tim has always felt that all of the world's problems could be solved with increased education opportunities, improved health care and most importantly, hope, for those in such dire need. The Grace Children's Foundation's mission of providing medical care, education and humanitarian aid falls directly in line with his core beliefs. Tim was honored when asked to join TGCF's Board of Directors. Tim Ryan is the point person for the Grace Youth Initiative which works with students and young professionals, young people from across America and China, to raise awareness and funds to support TGCF's Academic and Vocational Education Programs on behalf of the children who wait.

Ms Beattie joined ABN Amro in 2000 as Global Head of Research, culminating in her appointment to the bank?s Global Equity Directorate and Global Financial Markets Board. Ms Beattie was the former Global Head of both Debt and Equity Research at ABN Amro Bank NV, based in London. Ms Beattie began her career in 1978 in Australia where she worked for the Tasmanian Government Department of Treasury. After some time raising her family she joined Smith New Court in Australia in 1989 as an Economist and a year later became Head of Research and Chief Economist at the enlarged firm of E.L. & C. Baillieu/Smith New Court. In 1994 Ms Beattie moved to McIntosh Securities as Research Director, running Australia?s largest research team; where she catapulted the firm from the number 6 ranking to number 2 in only 2 years. After McIntosh was taken over by Merrill Lynch, Ms Beattie was appointed Director of Research Management at Merrill Lynch Australia. In 1998, Ms Beattie relocated to London as Head of Research Management for Merrill Lynch in Europe and, as part of the European Management Team, oversaw the transition of a disparate country based team into the number 1 rated pan-European sector based team in 1999. In 2000 Ms Beattie joined ABN Amro as Global Head of Research, culminating in her appointment to the bank?s Global Equity Directorate and Global Financial Markets Board. Ms Beattie holds a Bachelor of Economics degree from the University of Tasmania.

Rijkman Groenink is the former CEO and Chairman of the Managing Board of ABN AMRO. His banking career at ABN Amro was extremely varied with a large part being focused on Private Equity. He was head of the private equity investment committee at ABN Amro for 15 years and in 2004 was named "European Banker of the Year".