Richard Q. Armstrong
Richard Q. Armstrong is an independent director of the UBS Brinson Advisors Funds Group, New York. He concentrates on the activities of his own firm, RQA Enterprises, following a career that included the presidency of Canada Dry International, Canada Dry Worldwide and the combined companies of Canada Dry and Dr. Pepper.
Arne Carlson
Arne Carlson is the chairman of the board of the American Express Funds. He is a former governor of the state of Minnesota. Prior to serving as governor, he served as Minnesota's State Auditor. In addition to his service on the board of the American Express Funds, he serves on the boards of ActiPep Biotechnology, Inc., Tekna Seal, LLC and Fairview Lakes Regional Health Care.
Faith Colish
Faith Colish is a trustee of Neuberger Berman Equity Funds; Neuberger Berman Advisers Management Trust Investment Companies for variable annuities; and Neuberger Income Funds. She is chairman, contract review committee for each fund group. A practicing attorney, she has worked at the SEC and the ICI as well as Scudder, Stevens & Clark.
Peter S. Drotch
Peter S. Drotch is an independent trustee of BlackRock Funds. He headed PricewaterhouseCooper's global leadership team for the investment management industry until he retired in November 2000. At PWC, his business unit was responsible for services to investment advisors and mutual funds, pension plans, variable annuities, pooled and common trust funds, and alternative products. He has been active with the National Investment Companies Service Association, serving as president and chairman.
Carl Frischling
Carl Frischling is an independent trustee of the Aim Funds. He is senior partner of the Financial Services Group at Kramer, Levin Naftalis & Frankel, New York. He is a pioneer in the field of bank-related mutual funds and has counseled clients in developing and structuring comprehensive mutual fund complexes. He also advises mutual funds and their independent directors/trustees. Previously, he was chief administrative officer and general counsel of a large mutual fund complex. In addition, he has served on the board of the Investment Company Institute.
John Hill
John Hill is chairman of the board of trustees of Putnam Mutual Funds. He is vice chairman of First Reserve Corporation and has been with the firm since 1983. He was a co-founder of Meridien Capital Company and earlier served as president and chief executive officer of F. Eberstadt & Co., Inc., and president and chief executive officer of Marsh & McLennan Asset Management.
Karen Horn
Karen Horn is a director of the T. Rowe Price Mutual Funds and also a director of Eli Lilly and Company, Georgia-Pacific Corporation and the Simon Property Group. She is also a director of The U.S.-Russia Investment Fund, a private equity fund, and a Senior Managing Director of the Brock Capital Group. Previously, she has served as Managing Director and President of Global Private Client Services for Marsh, as Head of International Private Banking for Bankers Trust, as Chairman and CEO of Bank One, Cleveland, as President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, and as Treasurer of the Bell Telephone Company of Pennsylvania.
Jock Patton
Jock Patton is independent chairman of the ING Funds Unified Board. Prior to becoming chairman, he was lead trustee and chaired the valuation and proxy committee. He is currently a director of two NASDAQ listed companies and has served on many public company boards. From 1991-1997, he was President of StockVal, Inc., a provider of proprietary data and equity valuation analytics to the investment management industry. From 1999 to 2001, he was CEO of Rainbow Multimedia Group, a producer of digital entertainment. Prior to joining StockVal, Mr. Patton headed the securities and corporate finance practice of a major Phoenix law firm.
Fergus Reid
Fergus Reid is chairman of the JP Morgan/Chase Mutual Fund Group and independent trustee of the Morgan Stanley Fund Group. He has served in those capacities for ten or more years. He has served as a director of Park Avenue Funds, and the Dreyfus National Bank & Trust Company. Currently he is chairman and chief executive officer of Lumelite Corporation.
Michael Scofield
Michael Scofield has been an independent trustee of Evergreen Mutual Funds (and its predecessor) since 1984. He has been the independent chairman of the board since 2000. Mr. Scofield also served as an independent trustee of the Mentor Funds. In addition to his responsibilities with Evergreen, Mr. Scofield is chairman of the board of Branded Media Corporation. He is an attorney. His lengthy legal career included tenure as an Assistant U.S. Attorney before he entered private practice. He is a board member of the Mutual Fund Directors Forum and the Independent Directors Council of the Investment Company Institute.
Ken Scott
Ken Scott is an independent director of the American Century Funds. He is professor emeritus in law and business at Stanford Law School and a senior research fellow at the Hoover Institution. He has served as general counsel to the Federal Home Loan Bank Board and is a member of the state bar in New York, California and the District of Columbia.
James M. Storey
James M. Storey is an independent director of the SEI Funds. A lawyer, he has 40 years experience in mutual fund governance, including a stint at the SEC and teaching at the Boston University School of Law. He is co-author of "The Uneasy Chaperone, a Resource for Independent Directors of Mutual Funds" and "The Mutual Fund Law Handbook," both written with Thomas M. Clyde.
Robert Uek
Robert Uek is a trustee of the TT International Funds. Mr. Uek is a retired PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, who now works as an independent consultant.
John Winthrop
John Winthrop is an independent trustee with the Pioneer Funds. He heads his own firm, John Winthrop & Company, and is a founding partner of Winthrop, Melhado, Flynn and president of Ivanhoe Plantation, Inc. He has served as a director of a number of corporate and not-for-profit entities.
Clayton Yeutter
Clayton Yeutter is a trustee of one group of the OppenheimerFunds. Mr. Yeutter is chairman of his board. From 1985-88 he served as U.S. Trade Representative. In 1989, Yeutter was named secretary of agriculture. In 1991, he was elected Republican National Committee chairman, and a year later President Bush persuaded him to return to the administration in a cabinet-level post as counselor to the president. A practicing attorney, he is a partner with Hogan & Hartson, practicing in the international trade and food and agriculture areas.
Marco Adelfio
Marco Adelfio is a partner with Morrison & Foerster. His practice focuses on investment companies and investment advisers. Investment company clients include both open-end and closed-end companies, series funds, multi-class funds and master-feeder funds. He has represented several fund companies since their inception and also counsels the independent directors of other fund companies. He joined the Washington, D.C., office in 1985 after a stint with Steptoe & Johnson.
Julie Allecta
Julie Allecta is a partner in the San Francisco office of the Paul Hastings law firm where she heads the firm's investment management practice. She began her career in 1977 with the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. After several years with the SEC in its Office of General Counsel, she entered private practice. She has specialized in counseling investment management firms and investment fund fiduciaries since 1985.
Barry P. Barbash
Barry P. Barbash is a partner at Willkie Farr & Gallagher and is the head of the firm's Investment Management Group. He earlier served as the director of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Investment Management, in which capacity he was among the most senior financial services regulators in the United States.
Geoffrey H. Bobroff
Geoffrey H. Bobroff is the principal of Bobroff Consulting which provides custom-tailored business consulting services to firms in the investment management industry. Prior to establishing his consulting practice in 1993, he was senior vice president of Lipper Analytical Services, Inc. He had been executive vice president of Integrated Resources, Inc.; and executive vice president of J.& W. Seligman & Co. He had been a trial attorney for the Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C.
Arthur J. Brown
Arthur J. Brown is a partner with Kirkpatrick & Lockhart. His career in the corporate and federal securities law field spans 25 years and incorporates government and law firm professional experience. After working in the SEC's Division of Investment Management, he came to K&L in 1982. In his current practice, he serves as lead partner on significant investment company, investment adviser and broker-dealer representations and on representations of independent directors to funds.
C. Meyrick Payne
C. Meyrick Payne is a senior partner of Management Practice, a consulting firm specializing in fund governance. Mr. Payne has had more than 20 years of management consulting experience, including six years with McKinsey & Company. He currently works with fund directors on issues such as contract review negotiations and compensation review. In addition, his firm conducts numerous surveys on fund governance issues, uncovering statistics on matters such as the frequency of board meetings and director compensation.
Paulita Pike
Paulita Pike is a partner with Bell, Boyd & Lloyd. She represents more than 200 mutual funds or their boards as well as investment advisors and fund service providers. Ms. Pike is an adjunct professor at Northwestern University School of Law. In addition, she is a member of the Chicago Bar Association Investment Management Practice Group and the Goodman Theatre Scenemakers Council.
Greg Sheehan
Greg Sheehan is a partner in Ropes & Gray LLP's Boston office. He is currently chair of the firm's Investment Management Group. With over 24 years of experience in investment management and corporate work, Greg's practice includes representing registered investments companies (both as fund counsel and counsel to the independent directors), registered investment advisers, hedge funds and their sponsors and other institutional investors in all aspects of their regulatory, compliance and business activities.