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Elizabeth Matthews is Chief Executive Officer of ASCAP, the American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers (ASCAP), a membership association of more than 800,000 US composers, songwriters, lyricists and music publishers of every kind of music. ASCAP licenses the public performance of its members' music, collects license fees, tracks performances and distributes to its members royalties based on their performances. Under her leadership, ASCAP has achieved record-breaking financial results, topping $1 billion in revenue for two consecutive years and driving record-high distributions of royalties to ASCAP songwriters, composers and music publishers.

Frank Vella is a business leader equipped to navigate ever-changing market conditions, keeping his company ahead of the crowd with a demonstrated ability to capitalize on emerging opportunities. Over the past 30 years, he has relied on his strength as an operator to help build a lineup of first-rate businesses, displaying time and again both the soft and hard skills needed to drive real shareholder value. As CEO of Information Builders, a leader in business intelligence (BI), analytics, and data management solutions, Mr. Vella leads a workforce of more than a thousand people operating on six continents. Hired as COO in 2017, he promptly led a successful transformation effort across product, marketing, and sales. Today, he continues to bolster the company’s leadership position, defining the role of data and analytics for many Fortune 500 companies, and takes pride in the teams he has assembled and the considerable value those teams create. Mr. Vella’s track record in both venture-backed growth companies and large multinational organizations is unmatched. After a 10-year stay at Microsoft, he joined Quest Software where, as Global Sales leader, he drove significant organic growth. Following that success, he went to then-startup Virtustream as COO and helped lead the company from pre-revenue to $100 million, setting the stage for a $1.2 billion exit. More recently, he ran Global Sales and Field Operations at Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Software where he led strategic sales direction and reconfigured the go-to-market model. Prior to joining Information Builders, he oversaw an enterprise expansion and aggressive growth strategy as Chief Revenue Officer at BlueJeans Network.

Gerdes has served as a member of our board since 2007. He previously served as a director of CBOT since 2005.Gerdes has served as CEO of Pursuant Health (formerly SoloHealth), a private health-care company in Atlanta, since February 2014 and as its Executive Chairman of the Board since November 2013. He was initially appointed to the Board in 2007 and as the Chairman in 2012. He has also served as a general partner of Sand Hill Financial Company, a venture capital partnership, since 1983.Gerdes is also a general partner of Gerdes Huff Investments.Gerdes is a major shareholder and President of Friesland Farms, LLC. Gerdes formerly served as Chairman and CEO of Transcend Services, concluding with the sale of that company in April 2012 and as a director of Access Plans, Inc., from 2001 until its sale in June, 2012.Gerdes is a member of the Dean's Advisory Council for The Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and serves as trustee for Monmouth College.

Frederick Joseph Ryan Jr. (born April 12, 1955) is an American media proprietor, political adviser, and lawyer who serves as the publisher and chief executive officer of The Washington Post. He was the president and chief operating officer of Allbritton Communications Company and founding chief executive officer and president of Politico. He was the chief of staff for former President Ronald Reagan from 1989 to 1995, and is chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation.

Randy Grunow is a Chief Executive Officer at Mediaspace Solutions and is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. He studied at University of Wisconsin-La Crosse between 1986 and 1991.