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Jeffrey 'Jeff' Swanhorst works at CoBank and a Board Member at Federal Farm Credit Banks and Chief Executive Officer at AgriBank FCB. He has experience at St Paul Bank For Cooperatives and has worked as Chief Credit Officer at AgriBank FCB and Senior VP:Credit at CoBank. Jeffrey attended University of Wisconsin-Madison and South Dakota State University.

I lead a $133 billion cooperative bank and member of the Farm Credit System that serves vital agricultural and infrastructure industries across all fifty states of rural America. I have over 20 years of leadership experience in the financial services industry and have extensive experience working with customers all around the world including the solicitation, review, structuring and approval of loan, and bond transactions in multiple industries around the world. My background also includes significant enterprise-wide risk management experience, having served in leadership roles responsible for financial risk disciplines including credit, market, operational, reputational and liquidity. I bring a broad global perspective to my work based on experiences derived from living and working 16 years in Europe and Asia, and advising customers in over 50 countries in Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Africa, the Middle East and Asia. I hale from a rural family of farmers and infrastructure providers and I am proud to support the rural economy every day and believe deeply in serving rural communities across the country.

Jacques Ripoll entered Société Générale in 1991 within the Inspection générale, and joined the Equity Derivatives department in 1998. He became Head of European Equity Sales and Trading in 2003, then Head of Société Générale’s group strategy between 2006 and 2009. At that date, he entered the Executive Committee, supervising four of the group’s businesses: Asset Management, Private Banking, Investors Services and Newedge. In 2013, Jacques Ripoll joined Banco Santander as Head of Global Corporate Banking for the United Kingdom. In 2015, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of Santander Group in charge of Global Corporate Banking worldwide. Jacques Ripoll graduated from Ecole Polytechnique.

Seth P. Bernstein was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of AllianceBernstein (AB) in 2017. In 2018, he was appointed Senior Executive Vice President of Equitable Holdings. Prior to his appointment at AB, Bernstein had a distinguished 32-year career at JPMorgan Chase, most recently as managing director and global head of Managed Solutions & Strategy at J.P. Morgan Asset Management. In this role, he was responsible for the management of all discretionary assets within the Private Banking client segment. Among other roles, Bernstein served as managing director and global head of Fixed Income & Currency for 10 years, concluding in 2012. Prior to that, he held the position of chief financial officer at JPMorgan Chase’s Investment Management and Private Banking division. Bernstein holds a BA in political science and economics from Haverford College, and is a member of the Board of Managers of Haverford College. Location: New York.

Brendan Swords is a Chairman and CEO at Wellington Management and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.