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Mr. Gorman is Chairman and CEO of Morgan Stanley. Mr. Gorman became CEO in January 2010 and Chairman in January 2012. He joined the Firm in February 2006 and was named Co-President in December 2007. Before joining Morgan Stanley, Mr. Gorman held a succession of executive positions at Merrill Lynch. Prior to this, he was a senior partner of McKinsey & Co. and began his career as an attorney in Melbourne, Australia. Among his civic activities, Mr. Gorman serves as a Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Columbia Business School, the Monetary Authority of Singapore International Advisory Panel, the Business Council, and the Board of the Institute of International Finance. He formerly served as President of the Federal Advisory Council to the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, Co-Chairman of the Partnership for New York City, Chairman of the Board of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association and Co-Chairman of the Business Committee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Mr. Gorman, who was born in Australia, earned a B.A. and Law degree from the University of Melbourne and an M.B.A. from Columbia University

Glenn is a strategic business / real estate lawyer and founding member of Williams, Graffeo & Stern, LLC. Previously, Glenn served as Executive Vice President and General Counsel to a global technology and communications company where he was instrumental in growing the company, which went public, established strategic alliances with industry notables Yahoo, Microsoft, AT&T, AOL, LG and Cisco, and raised $2 billion in capital in a series of public and private transactions before successfully going private via a merger transaction. He was responsible for the company's legal, human resources and real estate departments. Glenn previously served as Associate General Counsel to its affiliated parent company, a multifaceted global communications and entertainment company. Glenn has also held senior positions in commercial real estate involving consulting and brokerage services and with owner/operator/developers of franchised hotels, restaurants, and large-scale shopping centers, where he contributed to the successful expansion of real estate holdings and commercial operations via business and real estate acquisitions and development. Prior to going in house, Glenn represented the New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority and Warren County Community College as outside general counsel. He was involved in a number of deals involving professional sports franchises Giants, Jets, Nets and Devils and sponsors Phillip Morris, Anheuser Busch and Coca-Cola, as well as the naming of Continental Airlines Arena, one of the first naming rights deals of the time, the expansion of Giants Stadium and development of the first college campus for Warren County Community College.Prior to becoming a lawyer, Glenn led business development for a commercial contracting firm where he was responsible for projects such as the Bridgewater Commons Mall, Morristown Memorial Hospital and Federal Express.Specialties: Business & Corporate Law, Real Estate

Mr. Colin Heffron has been GFI’s President since February 2004. Mr. Heffron is responsible for all of GFI’s brokerage, data and analytics businesses. He joined the company in 1988 as a broker of foreign currency options in New York, before moving to London to assist in the establishment of GFI’s London office. From 1991 until 1994, Mr. Heffron headed GFI’s currency options business. From 1994 until 1997, Mr. Heffron ran the day-today operations of all GFI’s European businesses. From 1998 until February 2004, Mr.Heffron was head of all operations in Europe and joint-head of Asian operations. Mr. Heffron has been a member of GFI’s Board of Directors since 2001.

Lee Olesky is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW), and serves on the company’s board of directors. He co-founded Tradeweb in 1996, and since then has been a central figure in the evolution of electronic trading globally.From its start trading U.S. treasuries in the early days of the Internet, Tradeweb has grown to become a leading, global operator of electronic marketplaces for rates, credit, equities and money markets. Olesky has been at the forefront of the trend towards electronic execution and digital processing, using machine learning and a range of other advanced technologies to promote smarter trading decisions, more efficient risk transfer, and robust compliance processes for approximately 2,500 Tradeweb clients in more than 65 countries. In all, he has led Tradeweb for over 20 years, from an early-stage startup with $8 million in financing to becoming one of the most successful IPOs of 2019, surpassing $10 billion in market capitalization during its first year of listing. Prior to Tradeweb, Olesky served as Chief Operating Officer for the Fixed Income Americas division at Credit Suisse First Boston. In 1999 he made a brief detour from Tradeweb to launch BrokerTec, relocating to London where he served as the company’s founding CEO prior to its sale to ICAP. He rejoined Tradeweb as President in 2002. Olesky is a member of the SEC’s Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee (FIMSAC) and the CFTC’s Technology Advisory Committee (TAC). He serves on the board of trustees of Mount Sinai Health System in New York City and the board of Credit Benchmark, a provider of consensus credit risk analytics. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of BritishAmerican Business and a member of the Leadership Council of Habitat for Humanity New York City. Olesky earned a bachelor of arts in history from Tulane University and a juris doctorate from George Washington University. He has lectured at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge, and Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mortimer J. "Tim" Buckley (born 1969) is an American executive at The Vanguard Group. The Vanguard Board elected him unanimously to succeed F. William McNabb III as chief executive officer upon McNabb's retirement at the end of December 2017.

William Stromberg (born March 10, 1960) is President and CEO of T. Rowe Price, a Baltimore-based global asset management firm.