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John H. Biggs Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF

John H. Biggs is former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF. Mr. Biggs became Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in January 1993. Previously, he served as President and Chief Operating Officer from 1989-1993.

Mr. Biggs began his professional career with the General American Life Insurance Company in 1958. He served in various actuarial management positions for the company and in 1970 was appointed Vice President and Controller. In 1977, Mr. Biggs became Vice Chancellor for Administration and Finance at Washington University in St. Louis. He was named President and CEO of Centerre Trust Company, St. Louis, in 1985.

A native of St. Louis, Mr. Biggs earned an A.B. degree in classics from Harvard University, and a Ph.D in economics from Washington University, St. Louis. He is a fellow of the Society of Actuaries.

Mr. Biggs is a Director of the Boeing Company, and a Trustee of the International Accounting Standards Committee Foundation, Washington University, The Danforth Foundation in St. Louis, The J. Paul Getty Trust, and The Santa Fe Opera. He is also a Director and former Chairman of the United Way of New York City and the Foreign Policy Association.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the Council on Foreign Relations. He is Treasurer of the New York City Investment Fund. He is also a member and former Chairman of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Mr. Biggs has published a number of papers on variable annuities, social security, regulation and taxation of pension plans, and demographic effects on pensions.

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John H. Boyd Chair of Finance Department and Kappel Chair in Business & Government, University of Minnesota

John H. Boyd holds the Kappel Chair in Business and Government at the Carlson School, University of Minnesota, where he is also Chairman of the Finance Department. Prof. Boyd's primary research interests include financial intermediation, finance and economic development, banking, bank regulation, optimal contracting and the economics of gun ownership.

He has published in most of the major finance and economics journals, and is presently a consultant to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and the International Monetary Fund. Previously, he has been consultant to the U.S. Treasury, the General Accounting Office, the Council of Economic Advisers and the World Bank, and has testified before U.S. Congress on banking matters.

Prof. Boyd received his Ph.D. in applied economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and his B.A. in economics from Willamette University. He also has studied at the London School of Economics.

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Jamie Dimon Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bank One Corporation

Since Jamie Dimon moved to Chicago to lead Bank One 30 months ago, he has made dramatic improvements. He has strengthened the management team by promoting talented managers and by recruiting experienced leaders. The company has fortified its balance sheet, improved customer service, and become much more efficient. He has also brought together the people of Bank One, promoting a new level of teamwork that has improved morale and increased productivity.

These changes have been felt at the bottom line: Bank One posted earnings of $2.6 billion in 2001 despite a difficult economy. His leadership on corporate governance has also been crucial to Bank One's credibility. In July 2002, for example, Bank One was one of the first companies to expense options. The company also has strict corporate governance principles that include requiring the board of directors to meet at least twice a year without management present. In addition, both the Board of Directors and Bank One's Planning Group have taken pledges to retain their ownership stakes in the company, ensuring that they are focused on the long term value of the company.

A summa cum laude graduate of Tufts University, Mr. Dimon holds an M.B.A. degree from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business, where he was a Baker Scholar. Prior to joining Bank One, Mr. Dimon was President of Citigroup Inc., the global financial services company formed by the combination of Travelers Group and Citicorp in October 1998. In addition, he served as Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Salomon Smith Barney Holdings Inc., the company’s investment banking and securities brokerage subsidiary. He began his professional career at American Express, serving as assistant to then-president Sandy Weill.

Jamie and his wife Judy have three daughters. They reside in Chicago.

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Charles D. Ellis Senior Advisor, Greenwich Associates

Charles D. Ellis is a Senior Advisor of Greenwich Associates, the international business strategy consulting firm he founded in 1972. Greenwich Associates each year now serves virtually all of the major commercial banks, investment banks, securities dealers, investment managers and insurance companies in North America, Latin America, Europe and Asia.

The author of ten books — "Winning the Loser’s Game" (1998), "Wall Street People" (2001), "The Investor’s Anthology" (1997), "Classics" (1989), "Classics II" (1991), "Investment Policy" (1985), "The Second Crash" (1972), "Institutional Investing" (1970) and "The Repurchase of Common Stock" (1970) — he has written more than 80 articles for business and professional magazines, including Harvard Business Review, FORTUNE, Institutional Investor and Financial Analysts Journal. “The Loser’s Game” won the Graham & Dodd Award in 1977.

His professional service activities include two terms as a trustee of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, of which he was also President. He served ten years as a governor of the Association of Investment Management and Research and one as Chair.

In 1970 and again in 1974, he was appointed to the faculty of the Harvard Business School, where he taught the second-year course in investment management. In 1986, he taught the comparable course as a member of the faculty of the Yale School of Management. From 1978 to 1998, he taught in AIMR’s Investment Workshop at Princeton.

Charley is a Successor Trustee of Yale University, where he chairs the investment committee, and a Trustee of the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. He has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Business School, and as a Trustee of Phillips Exeter Academy and Eagle Hill School. He is an Overseer of the Stern Schools of Business at New York University.

Prior to founding Greenwich Associates in 1972, he was Vice President of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (1966-1972), an Associate of Rockefeller Brothers, Inc. (1963-1966), and Assistant General Manager of WGBH (1960).

A graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy, Charley received a B.A. in art history at Yale, an M.B.A., with distinction, at the Harvard Business School, and a Ph.D. at New York University. He received the Distinguished Alumnus award at both New York University and the Harvard Business School.

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Patrick Finnegan, CFA, CPA Senior Vice President, Life & Health Insurance, Moody's Investors Service

Patrick Finnegan is a Senior Vice President in the Financial Institutions Group of Moody's Investors Service. Mr. Finnegan joined Moody’s in September 1993. He concentrates on the credit ratings of U.S. life, property and casualty and managed care companies as well as Japanese life insurance companies. He is the chairperson of the firm’s Priority of Claim/Accounting Committee.

Before joining Moody's, Mr. Finnegan had 10 years of diverse experience in public accounting where he reached the partner level with the accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche.

He earned a B.S./B.A. in accounting from the Georgetown University’s School of Business in 1980.

Mr. Finnegan is a CFA charterholder and a Certified Public Accountant.

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John M. "Neel" Foster Board Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB)

John M. "Neel" Foster was appointed to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) in July 1993. He was reappointed to an additional five-year term in 1998.

Prior to joining the Board, Mr. Foster was Vice President and Treasurer of Compaq Computer Corporation since 1983, the first year of Compaq's operations. In addition to treasury, tax and corporate finance responsibilities, Mr. Foster was Compaq's Principal Accounting Officer. Mr. Foster also was employed by Price Waterhouse for eight years, where his principal clients were in the energy, manufacturing and construction industries.

Mr. Foster was a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) since 1992 and was a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA), the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Executives Institute.

Mr. Foster holds a B.A. in economics from Colorado College, where he graduated with honors and was Phi Beta Kappa. He also studied accounting at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs.

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Hon. Neil F. Hartigan
Justice, Illinois Appellate Court
Chairman, World Trade Center Chicago

Neil F. Hartigan was elected Justice of the First District, Illinois Appellate Court, in November 2002, and was sworn in on December 2, 2002. He is currently serving a ten-year term on that Court. Justice Hartigan is also Chairman of the World Trade Center Chicago. Before taking his position on the Illinois Appellate Court, he was a partner at the internationally renowned law firm of McDermott, Will & Emery. Earlier, he was a partner at the law firm of Gardner, Carton & Douglas. He also served two terms as the Attorney General for the State of Illinois, and was Lieutenant Governor of Illinois. Justice Hartigan previously was Senior Vice President for International Banking in the Western Hemisphere of First National Bank of Chicago; President and CEO of Real Estate Research Corporation; General Counsel for the Chicago Park District; Legislative Counsel for the City of Chicago; Legal Counsel for the Chicago Board of Health for health and mental health; and Deputy Mayor for the City of Chicago.

In October 2002, he was awarded the insignia of Honorary Commander of the Order of the British Empire in recognition of his commitment to the cause of peace and prosperity in Northern Ireland and as a friend of Great Britain in establishing the Sister City link between Chicago and Birmingham.

In the international arena, Justice Hartigan, as Chairman of the World Trade Center Chicago, has worked to promote international services and education to the local business community and to help make Chicago a leading international destination. Additionally, he has served on the Environmental Advisory Board to the President of the European Bank of Reconstruction and Development. He has been invited by presidents Carter, Reagan, Bush and Clinton to serve various roles in international relations. In 1978, he attended the inaugurations of the presidents of Venezuela and Brazil a part of the President's delegation. President Reagan appointed him a member of the Delegation on Trade and Economic Development in Beijing in 1988 where he spoke on reverse direct investment in the Great Hall of the People. He joined President Clinton on his delegation to Ireland last fall and has participated in numerous international trade-related activities.

His board memberships include: Georgetown University; University of Chicago/Harris School of Public Policy (Visiting Committee); Economic Club of Chicago (Membership Committee); Loyola University Alumni Association (President); Library of International Relations, Chicago-Kent College of Law/Illinois Institute of Technology; United Cerebral Palsy Association of Greater Chicago; Georgetown University Alumni Association (President); Illinois Mental Health Association; Institute of Psychiatry, Northwestern Memorial Hospital; Loyola University Law School; Mercy Hospital and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (life member); and Illinois Judges Association.

Justice Hartigan is a graduate of Loyola Academy and Georgetown University. He received his law degree from Loyola University in Chicago. He also holds three honorary degrees from Martin Luther King College, Lincoln College and John Marshall Law School. He has received numerous awards for civic and philanthropic activities.

Justice Hartigan and his wife Marge have four children and five grandchildren.

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Duane R. Kullberg Retired CEO, Anderson Worldwide

Duane R. Kullberg was Managing Partner-Chief Executive Officer of
Andersen Worldwide from 1980 to 1989. He retired from the firm in 1989. During the 1980s, he was active in a number of international, national and Chicago-area civic organizations. He serves on the Chicago Board Options Exchange as a public member and on the boards of The John Nuveen Company, Carlson Companies, Inc. and Visibility, Inc.

Mr. Kullberg has been a member of the Northwestern Board of Trustees
since 1980, and was elected a life trustee in 1997. He also has served on the Audit Committee. In addition to his Northwestern affiliations, he is a life member and past chair of the Board of the University of Minnesota Foundation, a life member of the Board of The Art Institute of Chicago, and a life member and past chairman of the Board of Governors of the School of the Art Institute. He was past chair of and currently serves on the Board of Directors of The Swedish Council of America Foundation.

Mr. Kullberg received his undergraduate degree with honors from the University of Minnesota. In 1990, he received the Outstanding Achievement Award of that university, and in 1995 he received the Regents Award from the University of Minnesota Board of Regents.

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Almarin Phillips Emeritus John C. Hower Professor of Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania

Dr. Almarin Phillips is Emeritus John C. Hower Professor of Public Policy and former Professor of Economics and Law at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Phillips is also Chairman and President of Almarin Phillips, Incorporated, a firm offering consulting and litigation support services.

Dr. Phillips received his B.S. and M.A. degrees from Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Harvard University. He has held teaching positions at Harvard, the University of Virginia, the University of Hawaii, Warwick University (England), the London Business School (England), Ohio State University, McGill University (Canada), the California Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, Arizona State University and INSEAD (France). He served in several administrative capacities at the University of Pennsylvania, including Chairman of the Department of Economics, Associate Dean of the Wharton School, Dean of the School of Public and Urban Policy, and Chair of the Faculty Senate.

Dr. Phillips' fields of specialization are Industrial Organization, Regulation and the Economics of Technological Change. Dr. Phillips is the author or co-author of five books, and the editor of three others. He has written more than 100 articles, notes and comments for professional journals. His books, articles and consulting have dealt with numerous U.S. and foreign industries including aircraft, banking and securities, air transportation, energy, computers and telecommunications.

Dr. Phillips has held editorial positions with the Journal of Industrial Economics, the American Statistician, the Southern Economic Journal, the Review of Social Economy, the Antitrust Bulletin and the Journal for Reprints in Antitrust Law and Economics. He has served on the Board and Executive Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Telecommunications Society.

Dr. Phillips was Co-Director of the President's Commission on Financial Structure and Regulation, a Public Member of the National Commission on Electronic Funds Transfer, and a member of the Economic Advisory Committee of the National Commission for the Revision of Antitrust Laws. He was Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Information Technology and Financial Services of the Office of Technology Assessment, U.S. Congress. He has served in consultative roles with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Secretary of the Treasury and other governmental agencies.

Dr. Phillips has had extensive experience in private consulting on antitrust, regulatory, intellectual property and contract matters.

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Barbara Ley Toffler Adjunct Professor of Management, Columbia University Graduate School of Business

Barbara Ley Toffler, Adjunct Professor of Management at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, is the author of "Final Accounting: Pride, Ambition, Greed, and the Fall of Arthur Andersen." In 1995, Barbara, a former Harvard Business School professor with a Ph.D. from Yale, was brought in to Arthur Andersen as a partner to develop consulting services in ethics and responsible business practices. She left Andersen four years later, because of many of the concerns that are now common knowledge. Barbara has been prominent in the field of business ethics since the early 80s. Her book, "Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics," published in 1986 and reprinted in paperback in 1991 as "Managers Talk Ethics: Making Tough Choices in a Competitive Business World," was one of the first books to explore the experience of managers and business leaders as they grapple with the ethical challenges of a rapidly changing global economy. She is presently speaking and writing about the challenges corporate America faces to rebuild trust in out business leaders, reshape corporate governance, and realize anew the role of the stock market as a builder of the U.S. and global economy.

Barbara advises, teaches and consults in the areas of leadership, managerial decision-making, responsible business practices, and organizational ethics. She was a founding Principal of Resources for Responsible Management, Inc., a Boston-based consulting firm. Barbara served on the faculty of the Boston University School of Management for two years, and on the Harvard Business School faculty for eight years. In addition, she taught dental ethics at the Tufts School of Dental Medicine, and was a lecturer at the Yale School of Management.

She has consulted on, designed and taught programs in organizational behavior, management practices, and ethics for more than 60 companies and agencies including Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Bankers Trust, B.F. Goodrich, British Telecommunications, Chemical Bank, Daiwa Securities, Deutsche Bank, Exxon, General Electric, General Mills, General Motors Canada, General Public Utilities (GPU), Hershey Foods, Internal Revenue Service, Manitoba Telephone Association, Newmont Gold Company (including Indonesian facilities), Polaroid Corporation, Sumitomo Bank, The Boeing Company, The Chase Manhattan Bank, The Massachusetts Department of Revenue, the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, The Prudential Companies, Sony Electronics, and The United Way.

Barbara has presented seminars at the Amana Key Institute in Sao Paulo, Brazil, IBM Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, the Australian Institute of Management, the Public Service Commission of Perth, the Royal Australian Institute of Public Administration, Bankers Trust in Sydney, and a series at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. She was the keynote speaker at "Ethics 2000: A Symposium in Leadership Ethics" in Juneau, Alaska. She also has given presentations to numerous organizations and associations, including Andersen Consulting, The American Law Institute of The American Bar Association, The American Corporate Counsel Association, The American Public Power Association, The Aspen Institute, The Association of American Publishers, Brown University, The Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, Commonfund, The Covey Institute’s Masters of Excellence Program, The Institute of Internal Auditors, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Principal Financial Group, The Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, The Stock Transfer Association, The Treasury Executive Institute of the U.S. Treasury Department, and The U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Committee of 100.

Of note is Barbara’s enthusiastically-received program, Dramatic Beginnings in Management Ethics, in which professional actors present scenes from plays and other forms of dramatic literature as the basis for business and management-related discussion which she facilitates.

Barbara is considered one of the nation’s leading experts on management ethics. She has been frequently interviewed and quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and Fortune magazine. Her television appearances include “The Lehrer NewsHour,” CBS’ “MarketWatch,” CNNfn’s “Market Call,” WB11’s, “News Close-Up,” ABC’s “Good Morning America,” and CNBC’s “The Dick Cavett Show.”

Her research on professional responsibility in the corporation and documentation of real-life ethical problems faced by managers in their day-to-day environments drew national attention with the publication of her book, "Tough Choices: Managers Talk Ethics," published in paperback as "Managers Talk Ethics: Making Tough Choices in a Competitive Business World." She has authored numerous articles and most recently co-authored “Managing Ethics and Legal Compliance, What Works and What Hurts,” the first scientific study of the behavioral and attitudinal effects of corporate ethics programs, published in the California Management Review (Winter 1999).

Barbara was story consultant and on-camera narrator for Business Ethics (Blue Ribbon Award, American Film & Video Festival), Business Ethics: We Were Just Following Orders and What Are Friends For? (“Recommended” - ABC-CLIO Video Rating Guide for Libraries) videotapes produced by WGBH for Coronet/MTI (film division of Simon & Schuster). She also was the producer and writer for Business Practices Reviews vignette based videos for The Exxon Corporation and several of its divisions.

Barbara is included in Who's Who of American Women, Who's Who Registry of Global Business Leaders and the International Who's Who of Professional and Business Women. She also chairs the Advisory Board of the International Business Ethics Institute. Barbara holds a bachelor's degree from Columbia University where she was designated a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Administrative Sciences from Yale University.

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Samuel Zell Chairman of the Board, Equity Group Investments, L.L.C.

A native Chicagoan, Samuel Zell is a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Michigan Law School. Mr. Zell began his career in real estate while an undergraduate at the University by managing apartment buildings throughout Southeast Michigan. He continued his interests in real estate with the founding of Equity Group Investments, L.L.C. (formerly known as Equity Financial and Management Company), an entrepreneurial investment firm based in Chicago where he currently serves as Chairman of the Board.

Mr. Zell maintains substantial interests in and serves as Chairman of the Board of various corporations, including Anixter International (AXE), a value-added provider of integrated networking and cabling solutions that support business information and network infrastructure requirements; Angelo and Maxie’s (AGMX), an owner and operator of restaurants; Manufactured Home Communities, Inc. (MHC), a self-administered and self-managed equity real estate investment trust which owns and operates manufactured home communities in 26 states; Equity Residential Properties Trust (EQR), the largest apartment real estate investment trust in the United States; Equity Office Properties Trust (EOP) the largest office portfolio of any publicly traded, full-service office company in the United States; Capital Trust (CT), a specialized real estate finance company; Danielson Holding Corporation (DHC), a financial services and investment company; and iDine Rewards Network Inc. (IRN), a leading provider of dining rewards programs. All of these are publicly traded companies.

Mr. Zell recently completed a two-year term as Chairman of the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts (NAREIT). He serves as a Trustee of the Field Museum in Chicago. He serves on the President’s Advisory Board at the University of Michigan and the Visitor’s Committee at the University of Michigan Law School, and with the combined efforts of the University of Michigan Business School, established the Zell/Lurie Entrepreneurial Award Program, an innovative attempt to fund entrepreneurial awareness and sensitivity. Mr. Zell’s continued assistance to Michigan’s M.B.A. program has also enhanced the Business School’s Polish Studies Program. He was appointed a DeRoy Visiting Professor in Honors at the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at the University of Michigan. He is a long-standing supporter of the University of Pennsylvania Wharton Real Estate Center and has endowed the Samuel Zell/Robert Lurie Real Estate Center at Wharton. Mr. Zell is a member of the Visiting Committee of the University of Chicago’s School of Public Policy.

Mr. Zell is an avid skier and racquetball player and enjoys riding motorcycles. He is a frequent contributor of articles to various publications and is often heard as keynote speaker throughout the United States and Europe.

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