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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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.

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.

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.

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".