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As MSCI’s Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Henry Fernandez has led the firm for over two decades to its position today as a premier provider of indexes and portfolio construction and risk management tools for institutional investors. Headquartered in New York, and with 32 offices in 21 countries, MSCI is a central connecting point for the global investment industry. MSCI’s clients are the world’s largest investors, including pension funds, sovereign wealth funds, asset managers, mutual funds, ETF providers, hedge funds, and banks. The firm has pursued a successful growth strategy, both organically and through the acquisition of market-leading brands such as Barra and RiskMetrics, and by developing an integrated set of industry-standard offerings to meet the rapidly-changing needs of sophisticated global investors. Prior to becoming CEO, Mr. Fernandez was a Managing Director at Morgan Stanley, where he worked in emerging markets business strategy, equity derivatives sales and trading, mergers and acquisitions, mortgage-backed securities and corporate finance. Prior to Morgan Stanley, he was President of private equity firm HispaniMedia, Inc. and he founded Ferco Partners, Inc., a private equity investment firm in Mexico. Early in his career, he was a diplomat at the Embassy of Nicaragua in Washington, DC. Mr. Fernandez has a BA in economics from Georgetown University, an MBA from Stanford University, and pursued doctoral studies in economics at Princeton University.

Daniel 'Dan' Barclay is a CEO & Head:Capital Markets at Bank of Montreal (BMO) and CEO/Group Head at BMO Capital Markets and is based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has worked as Chief Executive Officer at BMO Capital Markets, Co-Head:Global Investments & Corporate Banking at BMO Capital Markets, and Mng Dir:Mergers & Acquisitions at BMO Capital Markets. Daniel works or has worked as BOARD MEMBER at Children’s Aid Foundation of Canada. He attended University of Alberta between 1984 and 1988, Haskayne School of Business between 1989 and 1991, and UCalgary.

Kenneth M. Jacobs (born 1957/1958) is the chairman and chief executive officer of Lazard since November 16, 2009. Jacobs joined Lazard in 1988. Jacobs was named a Lazard Partner in 1991, and in 2002 he was named Deputy Chairman and Head of North America for Lazard. In this role, he focused on enhancing the firm's business by entering into new markets and adding new practices, such as restructuring, strategic capital structure advice, and private fund advisory. He also focused on bringing in new staff specializing in energy, technology and healthcare.

John Bonow is a Managing Director at Public Financial Management, Managing Director at Pfm Asset Management, and Board Member at PFM Group and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He has worked as Analyst at Public Financial Management. John attended Yale University between 1987 and 1991.

Robert Steers, Chief Executive Officer of Cohen & Steers, founded the firm with Martin Cohen in 1986 as the first investment advisor dedicated to real estate securities. He serves on the Advisory Committee for the International Monetary Fund’s Staff Retirement Plan. At his alma mater of Georgetown University, Mr. Steers is Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Steers Center for Global Real Estate and is a member of the Endowment Investment Committee. From 1982 to 1986, he was Chief Investment Officer of National Securities and Research Corporation, where he and Mr. Cohen organized and managed the first real estate securities mutual fund in the United States. Prior to that, Mr. Steers was an analyst and portfolio manager of Citibank’s Emerging Growth Stock Fund. Mr. Steers holds a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from George Washington University. He is based in New York.

Margaret Caswell is an Executive Assisant to CEO & CFO at Loomis Sayles & Company and Executive Assistant to CEO, CFO & COO at Loomis Sayles & Company and is based in Boston, Massachusetts. She has worked as Investor Relations Assistant at Highfields Capital, Full Discretion Administrative Assistant at Loomis Sayles & Company, and Garden Design Department Administrator at Winston Flowers. Margaret attended Gonzaga University between 2004 and 2004 and University of Southern California between 2002 and 2006.

A vision driven leader with a record of driving revenue growth and profitability by developing and executing highly effective strategies within defined risk parameters. Russ Holland has over 26 years of diverse financial services experience involving over $6 billion of consumer, entertainment and commercial loans originated across the United States. In 2013 Russ joined the executive leadership group of SouthCrest Bank NA in Metro Atlanta. At SouthCrest he established a credit culture built to produce high quality consumer and small business banking relationships within this growth oriented financial services company. In 2016, he led the bank's entry into the Entertainment Banking market segment. From 2006 to 2013, Russ Holland was an integral member of the executive management team at Seacoast National Bank, a $4+ billion bank operating 40 retail offices throughout Central and South Florida. At Seacoast he was responsible for the growth, risk management and performance of all lending functions including Business Banking and residential, consumer, commercial and commercial real estate lending. In 2001 Holland joined Union Bank of Florida (now part of BB&T). Here Holland played a critical role in developing the bank's lending teams in order to provide the appropriate platform to grow this South Florida community bank from under $400 million in assets to over $1 billion in assets at the time of its ultimate sale for four times book value in 2005. Holland's career is built on a strong commercial credit foundation beginning at the accounting firm KPMG in Stamford, CT. This foundation was strengthened by the credit policy and commercial credit roles held by Holland at Barnett Bank and it's successors NationsBank and Bank of America. In addition, Mr. Holland was the Chief Financial Officer for the Swerdlow Real Estate Group, a private commercial REIT where Holland helped raise capital and arrange debt to acquire and develop over $1 billion in assets.