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New York, February 13, 2007
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George Abercrombie
Madeleine K. Albright
Chris Beyrer
Carol M. Browner
Richard A. Clarke
Jack Cogen
Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG OBE
Robert L. Grenier
Gary S. Guzy, J.D.
Gary S. Lynch, CISSP
Timothy J. Mahoney, Jr.
James C. O'Brien
Dawn Rittenhouse
Wendy R. Sherman
Brian M. Storms
George Abercrombie
President and CEO, Roche North American Pharmaceuticals Operations

George B. Abercrombie joined Roche in January 2001 and is responsible for leading the company's North American Pharmaceuticals Operations, which include Hoffmann-LaRoche Inc. in Nutley, N.J. and the Canadian affiliate Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. in Mississauga, Ontario.

Before joining Roche, Abercrombie was senior vice president of U.S. commercial operations at Glaxo Wellcome, with responsibilities encompassing pharmaceutical sales and marketing, electronic-commerce, the U.S. managed care system, disease management, business planning and development, and late-stage clinical drug studies. He joined Glaxo as vice president and general manager of the Glaxo Pharmaceuticals Division in 1993 following 10 years at Merck, where he held a broad range of positions in sales, marketing, executive sales management, and business development.

He began his career as a pharmacist after receiving a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, N.C. and then went on to earn an MBA from Harvard University. He has served on many boards and organizations, including the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health Advisory Board and the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association.

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Madeleine K. Albright
Founding Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Madeleine K. Albright is a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm. She is instrumental in developing relationships and securing agreements between The Albright Group’s national and international clients and key stakeholders worldwide. Dr. Albright utilizes her extensive experience in global affairs and renowned diplomatic skills to help domestic and international businesses and nongovernmental organizations foster strategic partnerships, address geopolitical risks, and manage crises. She is also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

Founded in 2001, The Albright Group assists clients in building successful strategies to meet their global business objectives, including brokering strategic agreements, identifying and addressing political and regulatory risks, and developing public-private partnerships.

Dr. Albright is the first Michael and Virginia Mortara Endowed Distinguished Professor in the Practice of Diplomacy at the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. She chairs both the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, and the Pew Global Attitudes Project and serves as president of the Truman Scholarship Foundation. Dr. Albright co-chairs the UNDP’s Commission on Legal Empowerment of the Poor, serves on the Board of Directors of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Board of Directors of the Center for a New American Security, and the Board of Trustees for the Aspen Institute.

Dr. Albright was the 64th Secretary of State of the United States. In 1997, she was named the first female Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, and became, at that time, the highest ranking woman in the history of the U.S. government. As Secretary of State, Dr. Albright reinforced America’s alliances, advocated democracy and human rights, and promoted American trade and business, labor, and environmental standards abroad.

Accomplishments during former Secretary Albright’s tenure include expanding and modernizing NATO and inspiring NATO’s successful campaign to reverse ethnic cleansing in Kosovo; promoting peace in the Balkans; reducing the nuclear threat from Russia; strengthening democracy in Europe, Africa, Asia, and Latin America; skillfully managing the multifaceted relationship with China, including trade as well as human rights; encouraging the growth of trade between the Americas and Africa through the African Growth Opportunity Act; and successfully concluded hundreds of other agreements that facilitated American business overseas.

From 1993 to 1997, Dr. Albright served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations and as a member of the President’s Cabinet. In 1995, she led the U.S. delegation to the United Nation’s Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing, China.

During the decade prior to her return to public service, she was the Director of Women in Foreign Service Programs and a Research Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University. As a professor, Dr. Albright wrote extensively on change in communist systems, concentrating on the role of the media. From 1989 to 1992, she served as President of the Center for National Policy, a non-profit public policy organization based in Washington, D.C.

Dr. Albright was a member of President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Council and White House staff from 1978 to 1981, and from 1976 to 1978, she served as Chief Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Edmund S. Muskie.

Dr. Albright earned a B.A. with Honors from Wellesley College, and Master’s and Doctorate degrees from Columbia University’s Department of Public Law and Government, as well as a Certificate from its Russian Institute.

Her autobiography Madam Secretary: A Memoir was published in 2003. In 2006, Dr. Albright’s book, The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs, was published.

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Chris Beyrer MD, MPH
Professor of Epidemiology and International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Chris Beyrer, MD, MPH, is professor of epidemiology and international health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland.

He serves as director of Johns Hopkins Fogarty AIDS International Training and Research Program (AITRP) and director of the Center for Public Health and Human Rights. He is currently the chair of the Injecting Drug Use Working Group of the HIV Vaccine Trials Network and a senior scientific liaison for the network.

Dr. Beyrer has extensive experience in conducting international collaborative research and training programs in HIV/AIDS and other infectious disease epidemiology, infectious disease prevention research, HIV vaccine preparedness, health and migration, and health and human rights.

As director of the Johns Hopkins Fogarty AITRP Program, Dr. Beyrer has provided fellowships for more than 1,400 international scholars in HIV/AIDS prevention, research, and treatment.

Dr. Beyrer has served as field director of the Thai PAVE and HIVNET studies from 1992-1997, based in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, and has done extensive research in the epidemiology of HIV in Thailand, Burma, China, India, and across Southeast Asia.

Dr. Beyrer has authored the 1998 book War in the Blood: Sex Politics and AIDS in Southeast Asia and is the editor of the forthcoming Public Health and Human Rights: Evidence-Based Approaches.

Dr. Beyrer currently serves as a member of the Global Health Advisory Council of the Open Society Institute; a trustee of the Institute for Asian Democracy; and advisor to the Asia Society's Social Issues Program, the International Partnership for Microbicides, and the HIV Vaccine Trials Network.

He has previously served as advisor to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Office of AIDS Research of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, the US Military HIV Research Program, the World Bank Institute, the World Bank Thailand Office, the Royal Thai Army Medical Corps, and the Thai Red Cross, as well as numerous other organizations.

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Carol M. Browner
Principal, The Albright Group, LLC

Carol M. Browner brings her background as Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Cabinet-level position she held for eight years, to her role as a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm. She is also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

Founded in 2001, The Albright Group assists clients in building successful strategies to meet their global business objectives, including brokering strategic agreements, identifying and addressing political and regulatory risks, and developing public-private partnerships. Utilizing her expertise to position clients from a broad range of sectors, Ms. Browner, an attorney, provides strategic counsel in the critical areas of environmental protection, climate change, and energy conservation and security.

Ms. Browner currently serves on the board of several non-profit organizations, including as chair of the National Audubon Society, one of the nation’s oldest environmental organizations, and as a member of the Board of the Directors of the Center for American Progress.

Leading the EPA from 1993 to 2001, she was the longest-serving Administrator in the history of the $7 billion, 18,000 employee agency. In that position, Ms. Browner developed partnerships with business leaders, community advocates, and all levels of government. She is widely known for championing common-sense, cost-effective solutions to the world’s most pressing environmental and public health challenges.

Accomplishments during Ms. Browner’s tenure at EPA include enacting the strongest-ever national air pollution standards; creating innovative and flexible alternatives to traditional regulatory programs; and developing the highly successful Brownfields program to clean up and redevelop abandoned, contaminated urban properties, a program that leveraged more than $1 billion in public and private funds. With her direction, the agency also forged broad bipartisan support to pass the landmark Food Quality Protection Act and the Safe Drinking Water Act. It completed three times the number of Superfund clean-up projects than in the hazardous waste cleanup program’s previous 13 years. Ms. Browner is also responsible for the creation of the first EPA Office of Children’s Health Protection, the Office of Environmental Information, and the Office of Reinvention.

Ms. Browner represented the United States in numerous international negotiations. She chaired the NAFTA U.S.-Canada-Mexico Commission on Environmental Cooperation and the 1998 G8 Environment Ministers’ Meeting.

From 1991 to 1993, Ms. Browner was Secretary of the State of Florida’s Department of Environmental Regulation, one of the nation’s largest state environmental agencies. Prior to that, from 1988 to 1991, she was the Legislative Director for U.S. Senator Al Gore. From 1986 to 1988, Ms. Browner worked in Washington, D.C. for U.S. Senator Lawton Chiles.

Ms. Browner earned both a B.A. and J.D. from the University of Florida.

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Richard A. Clarke
Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting, LLC

Richard Clarke is an internationally recognized expert on security, including homeland security, national security, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism. He is currently an on-air consultant for ABC News.

Clarke served the last three Presidents as a senior White House advisor. Over the course of an unprecedented 11 consecutive years of White House service, he held the following titles: special assistant to the president for global affairs; national coordinator for security and counterterrorism; and special advisor to the president for cyber security.

Prior to his White House years, Clarke served for 19 years in the Pentagon, the intelligence community, and the Department of State. During the Reagan administration, he was deputy assistant secretary of state for intelligence. During the Bush (41) administration, he was assistant secretary of state for political-military affairs and coordinated diplomatic efforts to support the 1990-1991 Gulf War and the subsequent security arrangements.

As chairman of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, Clarke advises clients on a range of issues including corporate security risk management; information security technology; dealing with the federal government on security and information technology issues; and counterterrorism.

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Jack Cogen
President, Natsource LLC

Jack D. Cogen, president and CEO of Natsource LLC (New York, New York), is one of the founders of the Natsource group of companies.

Prior to founding Natsource in 1994, Cogen created and managed the Commodities Group at Euro Brokers Capital Markets, Inc., where he was employed from 1991 to 1994. At Euro Brokers, he set up the first over-the-counter (OTC) natural gas swap desk.

Between 1981 and 1990, Cogen was employed by The Chase Manhattan Bank (National Association). In his last position there, he was the global risk manager of the Commodity Risk Management Group. He held several risk management positions at Chase, including senior analyst for the Asset/Liability Management Committee and risk manager for the U.S. dollar interest rate-cap book.

Cogen is a board member of the International Emissions Trading Association (IETA). He is also a founding officer of the Energy Brokers Association. Cogen is a regular moderator and speaker at global conferences on the global carbon market and has authored and co-authored a number of studies and reports on the market.

In 2004, he was inducted into the Energy Risk Magazine Hall of Fame. He has a master of science in mathematics and a master of business administration, both from New York University, and a BA from Rutgers College.

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Sir Richard Billing Dearlove KCMG OBE
The Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge University

Sir Richard Dearlove served as Chief (known as 'C') of the Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) from August 1999 until his retirement in July 2004. For the preceding five years he was Director of Operations and, from 1998, Assistant Chief. As Director of Finance, Administration and Personnel he also oversaw the move of SIS into its Headquarter Building at Vauxhall Cross in 1994. He is a career intelligence officer of thirty-eight years standing and has served in Nairobi, Prague, Paris, Geneva and Washington as well as in a number of key London-based posts. Sir Richard took up the Mastership of Pembroke College Cambridge on 1 October 2004.

He is also a trustee of Kent School, Connecticut, Honorary Fellow of Queens' College Cambridge, a member of the International Advisory Board of AIG and senior Adviser to the Monitor Group.

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Robert Grenier
Managing Director of Business Intelligence and Investigations (BI & I), Kroll, Inc.

Robert L. Grenier is a managing director with wide-ranging responsibilities in the firm. Following a 27-year career with the CIA , Grenier has exceptional experience in global intelligence, security, foreign affairs, and strategic and covert operations. Throughout his career, Grenier has worked with all levels of government, from representing the CIA at the White House with the most senior officials responsible for national security to service in remote areas in third-world countries.

Grenier joined the CIA in January 1979 as a career trainee and was assigned to the Near East and South Asia Division. He spent 14 years in overseas assignments for this division, including multiple tours as chief of base and chief of station, most recently in Islamabad, Pakistan. His tenure with the CIA included assignments as the deputy national intelligence officer for Near East and South Asia on the National Intelligence Council and as a special assistant for Near East and South Asia to the undersecretary of state for political affairs. Grenier was instrumental in organizing the CIA's Counter-Proliferation Division and served as its first chief of operations. He was responsible for coordinating all CIA analytic and operational activities in Iraq just prior to the March 2003 invasion and for the first 18 months of the counterinsurgency effort. He served extensively in Pakistan before and following the attacks of September 11 and for two years was the CIA's representative to the White House on Iraq. His most recent position was director of the Counter Terrorism Center (CTC), where he led the CIA's involvement in the Global War on Terror.

As chief of "The Farm," the CIA's basic training facility, Grenier was responsible for guiding and preparing all officers entering the CIA's clandestine service.

Grenier holds an AB in philosophy, with distinction, from Dartmouth College. He also attended the University of Virginia, where he studied Foreign Affairs.

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Gary S. Guzy, J.D.
Marsh's National Practice Leader, Emerging Environmental Risk

Mr. Guzy is the National Practice Leader for Emerging Environmental Risk at Marsh USA. He develops new solutions for clients by responding to emerging environmental risks and trends, spearheading Marsh's global efforts in the climate change arena. He is based in Marsh's Washington, D.C. office.

Mr. Guzy has extensive experience in the environmental field. He was appointed by the President and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve as the General Counsel of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency from 1998 to 2001. In that role, he served as the agency's Chief Legal Officer; was as a member of EPA's senior management team working with the administrator to establish and carry out strategic regulatory, legislative and public relations goals; and was known for bringing together disparate groups to resolve major environmental conflicts. He also served as Counselor to the Administrator at EPA-as the Agency's Deputy General Counsel-and was a senior attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he handled major environmental litigation from the Everglades to Alaska.

Mr. Guzy has practiced environmental law in the private sector as a partner with the law firm of Foley Hoag LLP; has served as a consultant to the U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation; and has been a visiting scholar at the Environmental Law Institute. Mr. Guzy frequently testifies as an environmental expert before Congress and speaks on emerging environmental issues at law schools. He began his legal career as a judicial clerk to the Honorable Elbert P. Tuttle, Senior Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit in Atlanta.

Mr. Guzy graduated from Cornell University with a B.A. in 1979 and from Cornell Law School in 1982.

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Gary S. Lynch, CISSP
Managing Director, National Continuity Risk Management Practice Leader

Gary Lynch is the National Leader of the Marsh Risk Consulting Continuity Risk Management practice. In this capacity, he is responsible for business and content development, and serves as a change agent responsible for transitioning the way organizations think about and manage risk. He is also responsible for continuity risk management services for catastrophic events such as terrorism, health/pandemics, IT, weather/hurricanes, and climate change.

Mr. Lynch has held leadership positions in the Operational & IT risk management profession for the past 28 years. As an industry practitioner, he built Global Continuity and IT Security programs and served as the Information Security and Business Continuity Executive at Chase Manhattan Bank (now JPMorgan Chase) and The Prudential.

As a management consultant and partner for Booz Allen Hamilton, Mr. Lynch built a private/public sector information assurance and business resiliency practice. He also served as Research Director and Market Analyst at the Gartner Group, and launched one of their most successful research offerings: The Information Security Service.

Mr. Lynch is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), has a Bachelor of Science Degree, Finance, from the New York Institute of Technology, and is a Guest Lecturer in Operational Risk a the NYU Stern School of Management. He has received extensive first responder training including arson investigation, fire fighting and fire inspection. He served 28 years as a volunteer firefighter and fire officer in New York and New Jersey.

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Timothy J. Mahoney, Jr.
CEO, Americas & G5, Managing Director, Marsh Inc.

Timothy Mahoney is CEO of the Americas and G5. Mahoney is responsible for managing Marsh's operations in the United States, Canada, and Latin America. In addition, he heads the G5 global client initiative, which is the firm's global approach for its largest, most complex clients.

Previously, he was head of Marsh's Global Client Development (GCD), responsible for the client executive, sales, and industry practices and GCD's marketing and operations. Mahoney is a member of Marsh's global operating committee, North America executive committee, and compliance review board.

Mahoney began his career at Marsh in 1989 as an account representative in FINPRO, which specializes in financial and professional products. He held numerous positions while in the New York office, including head of sales, client executive, and FINPRO manager, responsible for broking professional and fiduciary liability insurance. In addition, he was business development manager; co-leader of the weather derivatives team, responsible for integrating capital markets with insurance markets.

In 2000, Mahoney transferred from the New York office to Marsh's Chicago office as head of sales for the Chicago operations and regional co-manager and head of origination for Marsh's Advanced Risk Solutions. In this role, he was responsible for all new and expanded business, marketing, and communications. Additionally, he was responsible for research, development, and sales of financial instruments used to mitigate and transfer balance sheet risk, and managed 16 specialists throughout the Midwest region.

In 2002, Mahoney became head of risk management for Chicago and the Midwest Region. His responsibilities included managing brokerage, client executive, and sales and marketing operations in the 16 offices in the Midwest.

Mahoney has an MBA from Kellogg Business School, Northwestern University, and a BA in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a frequent panelist and guest speaker on various industry issues. He was selected by Crain's Business Insurance as one of the "Forty under Forty People to Watch."

Mahoney is a foundation board member of the Children's Memorial Hospital-Chicago and a board member of Kohl's Children's Museum in Evanston, Illinois. He is a former board member of the John Street Club, New York, the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, and Miami Project "Cure for Paralysis."

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James C. O'Brien
Founding Principal, The Albright Group LLC

James C. O’Brien brings to his role as a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, nearly twenty years of high-level experience working with international businesses, governments and nongovernmental organizations. Mr. O’Brien is also a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

Founded in 2001, The Albright Group assists clients in building successful strategies to meet their global business objectives, including brokering strategic agreements, identifying and addressing political and regulatory risks, and developing public-private partnerships.

Mr. O’Brien is a seasoned international negotiator, advising clients in transitional states around the world, including Central and Eastern Europe and the Middle East. He works with clients on portfolios across a broad public-private spectrum, including consumer goods, health, entertainment, environment, and finance. He has successfully helped clients locate strategic partners with access to markets, secure contracts, expand market share, and resolve regulatory and legal disputes.

From 2000 to 2001, Mr. O’Brien served in the Clinton Administration’s Department of State as special presidential envoy for the Balkans, with responsibility for U.S. diplomatic, economic, and security policy in the region. From 1997 to 2000, he was Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, as well as Principal Deputy Director of Policy Planning, charged with post-conflict planning and ensuring that the Department’s priorities and its $23 billion budget were aligned.

Mr. O’Brien was attorney-adviser at the Department of State from 1989 to 1997 and served as adviser to then United Nations Ambassador Albright from 1994 to 1997. He developed, negotiated, and helped implement U.S foreign policy, including scientific, environmental, nonproliferation, and military decisions.

He participated in numerous high-profile international negotiations--leading deliberations during the Dayton Agreement, which ended the Bosnian conflict; guiding U.S. support for the International Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; and finalizing agreements to control weapons of mass destruction in the former Soviet Union. Additionally, he negotiated agreements protecting intellectual property rights for scientific cooperation with China; promoted environmentally-sound international trade regulations for hazardous and recyclable materials; and worked to make public-private partnerships and corporate social responsibility a central element in American foreign policy.

Mr. O’Brien clerked for Judge John Minor Wisdom on the Fifth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals. He earned a B.A. from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Master’s from the University of Pittsburgh, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Dawn Rittenhouse
Director, Sustainable Development, DuPont Company

Dawn Rittenhouse is director, sustainable development for the DuPont Company.

Rittenhouse joined DuPont in 1980 and has held positions in technical service, sales, marketing, and product management within the packaging and industrial polymers business and crop protection business. In late 1997, she began working in the corporate organization to assist DuPont businesses in integrating sustainability strategies into their strategy and business management processes. She leads DuPont's efforts at the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and with the UN Global Compact. She also manages the corporate recognition program for Sustainable Growth Excellence.

In 2001 and 2002, Rittenhouse served a co-chair of the Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) working group that developed the SD Planner?. She also co-chaired the WBCSD working groups on innovation, technology, and sustainability through the market.

Rittenhouse has a double major in chemistry and economics from Duke University.

Rittenhouse and her two children live in Wilmington, Delaware. When she is not being a taxi service to school, the stables, and soccer activities, she loves to run.

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Wendy R. Sherman
Founding Principal, The Albright Group LLC

Wendy R. Sherman brings extensive public and private sector executive-level management experience to her role as a principal of The Albright Group LLC, a global strategy firm, and as a principal of Albright Capital Management, an investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets.

Founded in 2001, The Albright Group assists clients in building successful strategies to meet their global business objectives, including brokering strategic agreements, identifying and addressing political and regulatory risks, and developing public-private partnerships.

Ambassador Sherman draws on her extensive previous experience as a senior-level diplomat and on her expertise in foreign relations to advise businesses and nongovernmental organizations throughout the world. A seasoned community organizer, she is skilled at engaging stakeholders and building broad coalitions. Her diverse client portfolio includes a particular focus on Asia, the Middle East, and Russia. Ambassador Sherman is a recognized expert on national security issues and serves as a frequent analyst in major news outlets.

Ambassador Sherman serves on the Board of Directors of Oxfam America and the Board of Advisors for the Center for a New American Security and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Aspen Strategy Group. She is also a member of the US-India Strategic Dialogue and a regular participant of the Australian American Leadership Dialogue.

She served as Counselor and chief troubleshooter for Secretary of State Madeleine Albright at the Department of State from 1997 to 2001, appointed to the position by President Bill Clinton and confirmed by the U.S. Senate with the rank of ambassador. During that time, Ambassador Sherman served as Special Adviser to the President and the Secretary of State, as well as Policy Coordinator on North Korea.

From 1996 to 1997, she was President and CEO of the Fannie Mae Foundation and a member of Fannie Mae’s Operating Committee. From 1993 to 1996, under Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Ambassador Sherman was Assistant Secretary for Legislative Affairs, where she coordinated the legislative activities of the State Department with the U.S. Congress. In that capacity, she led a successful effort to obtain congressional funding for Russia and the newly-independent states after the break-up of the Soviet Union and also helped win congressional support for the 1995 Dayton Agreement, which ended the conflict in Bosnia.

From 1991 to 1993, Ambassador Sherman specialized in strategic communications as a partner in the political and media consulting firm of Doak, Shrum, Harris and Sherman. Prior to that, she directed EMILY’s List, the largest financial and political resource for pro-choice Democratic women candidates.

She ran Campaign ’88 for the Democratic National Committee and worked in a variety of positions in both government and non-profit organizations. As director of the State of Maryland’s Office of Child Welfare, she supervised protective services, foster care, adoptions, and group homes. She was also a cabinet-level Special Secretary for Children and Youth in Maryland; campaign manager for Barbara Mikulski’s first successful Senate campaign; and, before that, Representative Mikulski’s Chief of Staff.

Ambassador Sherman attended Smith College, and earned a B.A. cum laude from Boston University and a Master’s in Social Work, Phi Kappa Phi, from the University of' Maryland.

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Brian M. Storms
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Marsh Inc.

Brian M. Storms is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Marsh Inc., the world's leading risk and insurance services firm. Marsh conducts business in 112 countries around the world and is a subsidiary of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC).

A member of the Executive Committee of MMC, Mr. Storms was President and Chief Executive Officer of Mercer Human Resource Consulting prior to his appointment at Marsh Inc.

At Mercer, Mr. Storms led the development and implementation of the firm's growth strategy, executing on the vision of world-class consulting complemented by world-class products and solutions. He implemented a comprehensive restructuring of Mercer's governance and organizational structure, and he focused on optimizing Mercer's core consulting businesses while simultaneously diversifying Mercer's portfolio with significant investments in HR outsourcing and investment management.

Before joining Mercer, Mr. Storms was President and Chief Executive Officer of UBS Global Asset Management-Americas and a member of both the UBS Global Asset Management Executive Committee and the UBS Group Managing Board.

At UBS, he was responsible for the day-to day management of both the wholesale and institutional businesses throughout North America, leading an organization with $130 billion in assets under management. He joined UBS in 1999 as President and Chief Operating Officer of Mitchell Hutchins Asset Management, the $60 billion asset management subsidiary of Paine Webber, where he was responsible for developing, marketing and servicing Paine Webber's mutual funds, individual managed accounts and institutional business.

In 1996, Mr. Storms became President of the $70 billion Prudential Investments mutual fund and annuity complex. While there, he served as President of the Prudential Mutual Funds and PRICOA offshore mutual funds, and was a member of the Prudential Securities board.

Mr. Storms joined Fidelity Investments Institutional Services in 1991 as Senior Vice President and Director of the Banking Division in Boston. Prior to his departure in 1996, he was the Managing Director of Fidelity's International Retirement Group.

From 1989 to 1991, Mr. Storms served as Chief Executive Officer and President of Financial Services Advisors, a subsidiary of J.K. Schofield & Co., in Winter Park, Florida. For the five years prior, he held the title of Senior Vice President for IFSA Corporation in Tampa, Florida. Concurrently, he worked as President of Invest Sales Company.

Mr. Storms began his career as an account executive at E.F. Hutton & Co. in New York. Recruited to Invest, he rose to Vice President and Regional Director. He earned a B.S. degree in Economics from SUNY Stony Brook.

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