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Laurence D. Fink, Chairman and CEO of BlackRock

Mr. Fink is founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BlackRock. He also leads the firm’s Global Executive Committee. He is responsible for senior leadership development and succession planning, defining and reinforcing BlackRock’s vision and culture, and engaging relationships with key strategic clients, industry leaders, regulators and policy makers. Mr. Fink co-founded BlackRock in 1988, and under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in investment management, risk management and advisory services for institutional and retail clients.

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Pamela Daley, Former Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development of General Electric Company

Ms. Daley retired from General Electric Company (GE) in January 2014, having most recently served as a Senior Advisor to its Chairman from April 2013 to January 2014. Prior to this role, Ms. Daley served as GE’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development from 2004 to 2013 and as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions from 1991 to 2004. As Senior Vice President, Ms. Daley was responsible for GE’s mergers, acquisitions and divestiture activities worldwide. Previously, Ms. Daley was a Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a large U.S. law firm, where she specialized in domestic and cross-border tax-oriented financings and commercial transactions.

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Gregory J. Fleming, President and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management

Mr. Fleming has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Rockefeller Capital Management since 2018. Previously, Mr. Fleming was the President of Morgan Stanley Wealth Management and Morgan Stanley Investment Management. Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2010, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Merrill Lynch from 2007 to 2009, and previously ran Merrill Lynch’s Global Investment Banking business. Mr. Fleming joined Merrill Lynch as an investment banker in 1992. He was previously a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton. Mr. Fleming also previously served as a director on BlackRock’s Board from 2006 to 2009 as a designee of Merrill Lynch in connection with the merger of BlackRock and Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in 2006. Mr. Fleming is a member of the Board of Advisors for the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York and a trustee at Deerfield Academy. He also serves as a Resource Council member of the Turn 2 Foundation and is a trustee of the Millennium Management Group Trust.

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William E. Ford, Chairman and CEO of General Atlantic

Mr. Ford has served as the Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic since 2007 and as the firm’s Chairman since 2021. Mr. Ford is involved with several educational and not-for-profit organizations. He is Chair of The Rockefeller University board, trustee of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, as well as a trustee of the Simons Foundation board.

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Fabrizio Freda, Former President and CEO of the Estée Lauder Companies Inc

Mr. Freda has served as Special Advisor to the Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (Estée Lauder), a global leader in beauty, since January 2025. He formerly served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Estée Lauder from 2009 to December 2024. Mr. Freda also previously served as Estée Lauder’s President and Chief Operating Officer from March 2008 to July 2009. Prior to joining Estée Lauder, Mr. Freda held various senior positions at Procter & Gamble Company over the span of 20 years. From 1986 to 1988, Mr. Freda directed marketing and strategic planning for Gucci SpA. Mr. Freda serves on the Advisory Board of the Global Business Initiative at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.

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Murry S. Gerber, LEAD INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR
Former Chairman and CEO of EQT Corporation

Mr. Gerber served as Executive Chairman of EQT Corporation, an integrated energy production company, from 2010 until May 2011, as its Chairman from 2000 to 2010, as its President from 1998 to 2007 and as its Chief Executive Officer from 1998 to 2000. Prior to joining EQT Corporation, Mr. Gerber served as the CEO of Coral Energy (now Shell Trading North America) from 1995 to 1998. He is also a member of the board of trustees of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust. Mr. Gerber currently serves as BlackRock’s Lead Independent Director.

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Margaret "Peggy" L. Johnson, CEO of Agility Robotics

Ms. Johnson has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Agility Robotics, the leading manufacturer of mobile manipulation robots, since March 2024. Ms. Johnson previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Magic Leap, Inc., an American augmented reality company, from August 2020 to October 2023. Prior to this role, she was Executive Vice President of Business Development at Microsoft Corporation from September 2014 to July 2020 and was responsible for driving strategic business deals and partnerships across various industries. Ms. Johnson joined Microsoft from Qualcomm Incorporated, where she served in various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing and business development. Ms. Johnson was an Advisor to Huntington’s Disease Society of America, San Diego Chapter from 2010 to 2020.

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Robert S. Kapito, President of BlackRock

Mr. Kapito has been President of BlackRock since 2007 and is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and Chairman of the Global Operating Committee. He also serves as a member of the board of directors of iShares, Inc. Mr. Kapito co-founded BlackRock in 1988. He is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of BlackRock’s key operating units including Investment Strategies, Client Businesses, Technology & Operations and Risk & Quantitative Analysis. Prior to 2007, Mr. Kapito served as Vice Chairman of BlackRock and Head of BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group.

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Cheryl D. Mills, Founder and CEO of BlackIvy Group

Ms. Mills is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the BlackIvy Group, a private holding company that grows and builds businesses in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2013. Ms. Mills was with New York University from 2002 to 2009, where she served as Senior Vice President for Administration and Operations, General Counsel and as Secretary of the Board of Trustees. She also served as Deputy Counsel to President Clinton and as the White House Associate Counsel. Ms. Mills previously served on the boards of Cendant Corporation (now Avis Budget Group, Inc.), a consumer real estate and travel conglomerate, and Orion Power, an independent electric power generating company.

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Kathleen Murphy, Former President of Personal Investing at Fidelity Investments

Ms. Murphy served as President of Personal Investing at Fidelity Investments from 2009 to 2021. From 2022 until her retirement, Ms. Murphy served as the Senior Advisor to the Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Investments. She also held various roles with Voya Financial, Inc. (formerly ING) from 2000 to 2008, including Chief Executive Officer of ING U.S. Wealth Management Services, President of ING U.S. Institutional Businesses and General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer to the Chief Executive Officer of ING U.S. Financial Services. Prior to that, Ms. Murphy served in various positions at Aetna, Inc., including General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Aetna Financial Services, and in various positions in law, government and public affairs.

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Amin H. Nasser, President and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company

Mr. Nasser has served as president and CEO of the Saudi Arabian Oil Company, known as Aramco, since 2015, and as a member of the Board of Directors since 2010. He joined the company in 1982 as a petroleum engineer. As president and CEO, Mr. Nasser leads Aramco’s efforts to produce cleaner energy and products through investments in promising technologies such as crude oil-to-chemicals processes, and renewable energy applications; entrepreneurial start-ups focused on cleaner energy solutions; and industry-wide efforts to minimize greenhouse gas emissions. Nasser is a member of the International Advisory Board of the King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals; the Board of Trustees of the King Abdullah University of Science & Technology; the World Economic Forum’s International Business Council (IBC); the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Presidential CEO Advisory Board; and the JP Morgan International Council.

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Gordon M. Nixon, Former President and CEO of Royal Bank of Canada

Mr. Nixon served as President, Chief Executive Officer and a member of the board of directors of Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) from 2001 to 2014. He first joined RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in 1979, where he held a number of operating positions and from December 1999 to April 2001 was Chief Executive Officer of RBC Capital Markets (the successor company to RBC Dominion Securities Inc.). Mr. Nixon has served on the board of directors of BCE Inc. since 2014 and as Chairman of the board since 2016. He is also on the advisory board of Kingsett Capital.

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Adebayo "Bayo" Ogunlesi, Chairman & CEO of Global Infrastructure Partners

Mr. Ogunlesi is a Founding Partner and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP). He is a Senior Managing Director of BlackRock, a member of the firm’s Global Executive Committee and is based in New York. Prior to the formation of GIP in 2006, Mr. Ogunlesi spent 23 years at Credit Suisse where he held several senior positions, including Executive Vice Chairman and Chief Client Officer of its Investment Banking Division. From 2002 to 2004, he was Head of the Global Investment Banking Division and a Member of the Executive Board and Management Committee. Previously, Mr. Ogunlesi was an attorney with the New York law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore. He also served as a Law Clerk to the Honorable Thurgood Marshall, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. He has been a Lecturer at the Harvard and Yale Law Schools and the Yale School of Management where he taught courses on transnational investment projects. Mr. Ogunlesi holds a B.A. (First Class Honors) in Politics, Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University, a J.D. (magna cum laude) from Harvard Law School and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Boards of Directors of Topgolf Callaway Brands, Kosmos Energy Holdings and Terminal Investment Limited. He was previously the Lead Director of Goldman Sachs Group. He is a Member of the Dean’s Advisory Boards of the Harvard Law and Business Schools and the Harvard University Global Advisory Council.

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Kristin Peck, CEO of Zoetis, Inc.

Ms. Peck is the Chief Executive Officer of Zoetis Inc., the world’s leading animal health company and a member of the Fortune 500. Zoetis delivers a portfolio of medicines, vaccines, diagnostics and technologies to veterinarians and livestock farmers in over 100 countries. Ms. Peck’s career includes numerous leadership roles at Pfizer where she was a member of the executive leadership team and previous positions at Boston Consulting Group, Prudential Realty Group and J.P. Morgan. She is a member of the Business Roundtable and serves on the Board of Catalyst, a global non-profit that creates opportunities for women and other underrepresented groups. She is on the Advisory Board for the Deming Center for Quality, Productivity and Competitiveness at Columbia Business School. Ms. Peck has been recognized for her leadership and strong performance, including being named a Fortune 2020 Businessperson of the Year.

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Charles H. Robbins, Chairman and CEO of Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mr. Robbins serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Cisco Systems, Inc. (Cisco). Prior to assuming this role in July 2015, he was Senior Vice President of Cisco’s Worldwide Field Operations and led its Worldwide Sales and Partner Organization where he helped drive and execute many of Cisco’s investment areas and strategy shifts. He is Chairman Emeritus of the U.S.-Japan Business Council and serves as a member of the International Business Council for the World Economic Forum. Mr. Robbins is also on the board of directors of the Business Roundtable and is a Trustee of the Ford Foundation.

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Hans E. Vestberg, Chairman and CEO of Verizon Communications, Inc.

Mr. Vestberg has served as the Chief Executive Officer of Verizon Communications Inc. (Verizon) since 2018 and as Chairman since March 2019. Prior to these roles, Mr. Vestberg served as Verizon’s Chief Technology Officer and President of Global Networks from 2017 to 2018. Before joining Verizon in 2017, Mr. Vestberg served for six years as President and CEO of Ericsson, a multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company headquartered in Sweden. Mr. Vestberg is a board member of the UN Foundation and the Whitaker Peace & Development Initiative. He also serves as Chairman of the World Economic Forum EDISON Alliance. Mr. Vestberg has lived and worked in China, Chile, Brazil and Mexico, in addition to the U.S. and Sweden.

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Susan L. Wagner, Former Vice Chairman of BlackRock

Ms. Wagner retired as Vice Chairman of BlackRock after serving in that role from 2006 to 2012. Ms. Wagner also served as a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and Global Operating Committee. Ms. Wagner previously served as BlackRock’s Chief Operating Officer and as Head of Corporate Strategy. Ms. Wagner currently serves as a director of Apple Inc., Samsara Inc., and Color Health, a privately held health technology company. She previously served as a member of the board of trustees of Wellesley College.

 

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Mark Wilson, Former CEO of Aviva plc and former President and CEO of AIA

Mr. Wilson served as the CEO of Aviva plc (Aviva), a multinational insurance company headquartered in the U.K., from January 2013 to October 2018. Prior to joining Aviva, Mr. Wilson worked in Asia for 14 years, including as CEO of AIA Group Limited, a leading pan-Asian company.