Rachel Lord is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. She is a Senior Managing Director, is Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa for BlackRock. Prior to assuming her current role in September 2017, she was EMEA Head of iShares and Head of Global Clients, ETF and Index Investments. Lord joined BlackRock in November 2013 from Citigroup where she was the Global Head of Corporate Equity Derivatives. She joined Citigroup in 2009 after thirteen years at Morgan Stanley. She graduated in 1987 from the University of Leeds with a BA (Hons) First Class in International History & Politics.
Subject: Mark McCombe
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Mark McCombe is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and is the Chief Client Officer of BlackRock overseeing all Global client segments. Before joining BlackRock, he served as Chief Executive Officer in Hong Kong for HSBC. McCombe has served on a number of finance industry bodies including the Risk Management Committee of the Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited, the Banking Advisory Committee for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Hong Kong Association of Banks, and as a council member of the Financial Services Development Council (FSDC). McCombe earned an MA degree from Aberdeen University and attended Wharton Business School, where he completed the Advanced Management Program.
Subject: Christopher J. Meade
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Christopher J. Meade is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is the General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer of BlackRock. Before joining BlackRock, Mr. Meade was the General Counsel of the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Before joining Treasury, Mr. Meade was a partner with the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, where he was a member of the Litigation and Securities Departments. He received his A.B. from Princeton University, magna cum laude, and his J.D. from NYU Law School, magna cum laude, where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review.
Subject: Manish Mehta
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Manish Mehta is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Managing Director and co-chairs its Talent Sub Committee, as well as the firm’s Human Capital Committee. Prior to that Mehta was the Global Head of Markets & Investments for ETF and Index Investments, and previously the Chief Operating Officer for iShares. Mr. Mehta joined BlackRock in 2009 as part of its acquisition of Barclays Global Investors (BGI). Earlier in his career, Mehta was with the Boston Consulting Group He began his career with Accenture where he managed the design and implementation of enterprise technology solutions for clients in the pharmaceutical and insurance industries. Mehta has an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from the University of California, Berkeley.
Subject: Barbara G. Novick
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Barbara G. Novick is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. She is the Vice Chairman and co-founder. Novick headed the Global Client Group and oversaw global business development, marketing and client service across equity, fixed income, liquidity, alternative investment and real estate. In 2009, Ms. Novick formed BlackRock’s Global Public Policy Group, and in 2018, she took on oversight of BlackRock’s Investment Stewardship team. Novick serves as Vice Chairman of Cornell University’s Board of Trustees and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Investment Company Institute. Novick earned a BA degree, cum laude, in economics from Cornell University.
Subject: Salim Ramji
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Salim Ramji is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee. He is a Senior Managing Director and is Global Head of iShares and Index Investments for BlackRock. Ramji joined BlackRock in 2014, serving initially as the Global Head of Corporate Strategy. Before joining BlackRock, he was a Senior Partner at McKinsey & Company. Ramji earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and politics from University of Toronto, a law degree from Cambridge University.
Subject: Gary Shedlin
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Gary Shedlin is a member of BlackRock’s Global Executive Committee and is BlackRock’s Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2013, Shedlin was at Morgan Stanley where he was a Vice Chairman, Investment Banking, and a Managing Director in the Financial Institutions Group. Prior to joining Morgan Stanley, Shedlin was Chairman of Citi’s Financial Institutions Group and a Managing Director and Co-Head of the Financial Institutions Group at Lazard. Shedlin received a BA in Economics, summa cum laude, from Colgate University, and his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Subject: Derek Stein
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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.).
