Derek Stein is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and is Global Head of Technology & Operations. Stein’s service with the firm dates back to 2005, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. Before joining BGI, Stein was an executive vice president at Knight Capital. Prior to that, Stein spent 10 years with Merrill Lynch & Co. Earlier, he spent several years as a senior manager with Ernst and Young’s capital markets and banking management consulting practice. Before moving to the U.S. from South Africa, Stein managed a long/short equity fund and was a practicing Chartered Accountant. Stein earned a BA degree in computer science and an MS degree in finance, both from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa.
Subject: Mark Wiedman
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Mark Wiedman is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and Head of International and of Corporate Strategy for BlackRock. He oversees BlackRock’s operations in EMEA, Latin America, and Asia Pacific, and global marketing. Before BlackRock, he was Senior Advisor to the Under Secretary for Domestic Finance at the U.S. Treasury and a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He has taught law at Renmin University in Beijing and lectured on finance at Princeton, Stanford, and Yale. He earned an AB degree in Social Studies from Harvard College in 1992, and a JD degree from Yale Law School in 1996.
Subject: Laurence D. Fink
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Laurence D. Fink serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the Chairman and and Chief Executive Officer. He also leads the firm’s Global Executive Committee. Mr. Fink co-founded BlackRock in 1988. BlackRock is the largest money-management firm in the world with more than $6.5 trillion in assets under his management. In April 2018, Fink’s net worth was $1 billion. He graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles (BA, MBA).
Subject: Bader M. Alsaad
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Bader M. Alsaad serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the former managing director of the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA). He was Managing Director of the KIA from December 2003 until April 2017. Prior to his appointment at KIA, Mr. Alsaad served as the Chief Executive Officer of The Kuwait Financial Center. Alsaad is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Daimler AG, a member of the Global Advisory Council of Bank of America, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Kuwait Fund for Economic Development. He is a founding member of the International Forum of Sovereign Wealth Funds and served as its Chairman and Deputy Chairman from its inception in 2009 until October 2015.
Subject: Mathis Cabiallavetta
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Mathis Cabiallavetta serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the former Vice Chairman of the Board Swiss Re Ltd. He has served as a member of the board of directors since 2008 and as the Vice Chairman of its board between 2009 and 2015. Cabiallavetta retired as Vice Chairman, Office of the Chief Executive Officer of Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. and as Chairman of Marsh & McLennan Companies International in 2008. Prior to joining Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. in 1999, Cabiallavetta was Chairman of the board of directors of Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS A.G.). Cabiallavetta received an undergraduate degree from the University of Montreal.
Subject: Pamela Daley
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Pamela Daley serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. She is the former Senior Vice-President of Corporate Business Development, General Electric Company. Daley retired from General Electric Company (“GE”) in January 2014. Prior to this role, she served as GE’s Senior Vice President of Corporate Business Development and as Vice President and Senior Counsel for Transactions. Previously, Daley was a Partner of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, a large U.S. law firm. She also currently serves as a director of both BP plc and SecureWorks Corp. . Daley previously served on the board of BG Group and on the board of Patheon NV, a contract manufacturer of pharmaceuticals, until it was acquired by Thermo Fisher Scientific in August 2017. She received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University and an undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
Subject: Jessica Einhorn
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Jessica Einhorn serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. She is the former Dean Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the John Hopkins University. Prior to becoming Dean, she was a consultant at Clark & Weinstock, a strategic consulting firm. Einhorn also spent nearly 20 years at the World Bank, concluding as Managing Director in 1998. Between 1998 and 1999, Einhorn was a Visiting Fellow at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1978, she held positions at the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. State Department and the International Development Cooperation Agency of the United States. She currently serves as a Director of both the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research. As of July 2012, Ms. Einhorn is resident at The Rock Creek Group in Washington, D.C., where she is a Senior Advisor and longstanding member of The Rock Creek Group Advisory Board. Einhorn holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, an M.A. in international relations from SAIS, and a B.A. from Barnard College.
Subject: William E. Ford
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William E. Ford serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the Chief Executive Officer of General Atlantic. He also serves as Chairman of General Atlantic’s Executive Committee and is a member of the firm’s Investment and Portfolio Committees. He is a member of the board of Rockefeller University, where he is Vice Chair, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a member of the Steering Committee for the CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion initiative. Mr. Ford has formerly served on the boards of First Republic Bank, NYSE Euronext, E*Trade, Priceline and NYMEX Holdings. He graduated from Amherst College (B.A.), and Stanford Graduate School of Business (M.B.A.).
Subject: Fabrizio Freda
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Fabrizio Freda serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the President & Chief Executive Officer at the Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. Mr. Freda previously served as Estée Lauder’s President and Chief Operating Officer from 2008 to July 2009. Prior to joining Estée Lauder, 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.
Subject: Murry S. Gerber
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Murry S. Gerber serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. He is the Lead Independent Director former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of EQT Corporation. Gerber has served as a member of the boards of directors of U.S. Steel Corporation since July 2012 and Halliburton Company since January 2012. Previously, 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. He received an undergraduate degree from Augustana College (Illinois) and a graduate degree from the University of Illinois.
Subject: Margaret L. Johnson
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Margaret L. Johnson serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. She is Executive Vice-President of Business Development at Microsoft Corporation. Johnson joined Microsoft from Qualcomm Incorporated, where she served in various leadership positions across engineering, sales, marketing and business development. She most recently served as Executive Vice President of Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and President of Global Market Development. Ms. Johnson is a Director of PATH and a Trustee of The Paley Center for Media. She received an undergraduate degree from San Diego State University.
Subject: Robert S. Kapito
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Robert S. Kapito serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. 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. Mr. Kapito co-founded BlackRock in 1988 and is also a director of iShares, Inc. Prior to 2007, Mr. Kapito served as Vice Chairman of BlackRock and Head of BlackRock’s Portfolio Management Group.
Subject: Cheryl Mills
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Cheryl Mills serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Mills is Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the BlackIvy Group, an investment company in Sub-Saharan Africa. Previously, she served as Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Counselor to the U.S. Department of State from 2009 to 2013. Mills was with New York University from 2002 to 2009, where she served as Senior Vice President for Administration and Operations and as General Counsel. From 1999 to 2001, Mills was Senior Vice President for Corporate Policy and Public Programming at Oxygen Media. Prior to joining Oxygen Media, she served as Deputy Counsel to President Clinton and as the White House Associate Counsel. She began her career as an Associate at the Washington, D.C. law firm of Hogan & Hartson.
Subject: Gordon M. Nixon
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Gordon M. Nixon serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Nixon was President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Royal Bank of Canada from 2001 to 2014. He first joined RBC Dominion Securities Inc. in 1979, where he held a number of operating positions and served as Chief Executive Officer from December 1999 to April 2001. Mr. Nixon has served on the board of directors of BCE Inc. since 2014 and was named Chairman of the board upon his re-election in April 2016. He is also a director of George Weston Limited and is on the advisory board of Kingsett Capital.
Subject: Charles H. Robbins
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Charles H. Robbins serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Robbins has served as the Chairman of Cisco Systems, Inc. (“Cisco”) since December 2017 and as Chief Executive Officer since July 2015. Prior to assuming this role, 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 serves as Chairman of the U.S.-Japan Business Council, Chair of the IT Governors Steering Committee for the World Economic Forum and is a Member of the International Business Council for the World Economic Forum and The Business Roundtable.
