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
Subject of Interest
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
Subject of Interest
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
Subject of Interest
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
Subject of Interest
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
Subject of Interest
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
Subject of Interest
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.
Subject: Marco Antonio Slim Domit
Subject of Interest
Marco Antonio Slim Domit serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Slim has been Chairman of the board of directors of Grupo Financiero Inbursa, S.A.B. de C.V. since 1997 and previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Grupo Financiero Inbursa from 1997 until April 2012. Slim is also a member of the board of directors of Grupo Carso, S.A.B. de C.V. and Chairman of The Carlos Slim Health Institute and of Impulsora del Desarrollo y el Empleo en América Latina, S.A.B. de C.V. (IDEAL), an infrastructure company. Slim was a member of the board of directors of Teléfonos de México, S.A.B. de C.V. from 1995 until April 2014.
Subject: Susan L. Wagner
Subject of Interest
Susan L. Wagner serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Wagner retired as a Vice Chairman of BlackRock on July 1, 2012. In addition to serving as Vice Chairman 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. She currently serves as a director of Color Genomics, Apple Inc. and Swiss Re Ltd. She graduated from University of Naples Federico II in March 1981.
Subject: Mark Wilson
Subject of Interest
Mark Wilson serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. Wilson served as the Chief Executive Officer of Aviva plc, a multinational insurance company headquartered in the UK, from January 2013 to October 2018. Prior to joining Aviva, he worked in Asia for 14 years, including as Chief Executive Officer of AIA Group Limited, a leading pan-Asian company. He graduated from the University of Waikato.
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Victim: Barker Minerals
Victim - Company
Louis E. Doyle founded Barker Minerals Ltd. Currently, he is President, CEO & Non-Independent Director at this company. Mr. Doyle is also Owner at Gold Discovery Enterprises Corp. The Company operates in the Cariboo Gold District of East Central British Columbia, an area that has yielded 3.7 million ounces of gold. Barker Minerals is a victim of naked short selling. Barker Minerals remains a functioning business despite the fact that the shares ceased trading after they could no longer afford to have financial statements produced by an external auditor. Barker Minerals continues in operations today, primarily using personal funding after the stock ceased trading on 5 April 2019.
Academic: James J. Angel
Academic
James J. Angel specializes in the market structure and regulation of global financial markets. He teaches undergraduate, MBA, and executive courses, including Investments and Capital Markets at Georgetown University. ”Dr. Jim” has testified before Congress about issues relating to the design of financial markets. Dr. Jim began his professional career as a rate engineer at Pacific Gas and Electric. Along the way he has also worked at BARRA (later part of Morgan Stanley). He has also served as a Visiting Academic Fellow in residence at the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD – now FINRA) and also as a visiting economist at the Shanghai Stock Exchange. He has also been chairman of the Nasdaq Economic Advisory Board, a member of the OTC Bulletin Board Advisory Committee, and has served on the board of directors of the Direct Edge Stock Exchanges (later part of BATS Global Markets). He graduated from the University of California-Berkeley, Ph.D.
Analyst: James Altenbach
Analyst
James Altenbach, CFA is a Portfolio Analyst. He joined DFPG Investments in 2019. Previously, he was an investment advisory professional at Penniall Associates. Prior to that, he had been Principal of Florentez Investment Management, an ETF sponsor. Since the firm’s inception, he served as an advisor to the President on strategic matters including research and proprietary analysis and product development on ETFs. Prior to that Altenbach was an equity research analyst with RedChip Companies. He did his undergraduate work in business administration (Finance) at California State University, Los Angeles, with distinction, and holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
Subject: Bradley Abelow
Subject of Interest
Bradley Ira Abelow is an American businessman and democratic political leader who formerly served as Chief of Staff to the Governor of New Jersey in the Cabinet of Gov. Jon Corzine. Prior to entering Governor Corzine’s Cabinet as State Treasurer, he was a top executive for the Wall Street firm of Goldman Sachs. After working in Corzine’s cabinet he was Global Chief Operating Officer of MF Global He served for 15 years in executive positions with Goldman Sachs, where he worked with Governor Corzine, the investment bank’s former CEO. Treasurer Abelow headed the company’s global operations and at one point ran its Hong Kong office. While at Goldman Sachs, Abelow served on the Board of Directors of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation. He graduated from Northwestern University (BA), Yale University (MBA).
