The Advisory Board brings a great deal of investment management, corporate governance and executive operations experience to guide the direction of the fund.

Judith L. Teller

• Former managing partner in Accenture
• Former Chief Information Officer for the State of New Jersey, responsible for the State’s $450 million technology operations
• Former Chief Operating Officer for Acquire Media, a major distributor of online news for users who value instantaneous communications

Thomas J. Skelly

• Former Managing Partner in Accenture
• Board member of U.S. Accenture Foundation, serving as investment committee chairman
• Board member of Clayton Holdings, a publicly list company serving the mortgage backed security industry.  Serves on audit and nominating/corporate governance committees
• Board member of the William Blair mutual fund family, serving on audit and nominating/corporate governance committees

Hines Brannan

• Former Board member of Accenture, serving on the audit committee and was part of the leadership team that took Accenture public in 2001
• Former Managing Partner in Accenture’s financial services consulting practice in the southeastern region of the United States. He worked with a number of Fortune 500 companies on their mergers and acquisitions, systems integration and business process outsourcing initiatives
• Board member of various real estate development companies
• Executive Committee of Georgia Council on Substance Abuse and the Advisory Board for Hands-on-Atlanta
• Foundation Board at Mississippi State University

Elliott Wahle

• Senior Advisor of Prentice Capital Management
• Former Chairman of the Board of Levitz Furniture and Board member of Russ Berrie, Inc.
• Various Executive and Officer positions in Toys “R” Us Inc
• Former President of Babies “R” Us
• Former President and C.E.O. of Dylex Limited – Toronto, Canada
• Former Director of Player Personnel for the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club
• Former Assistant Director, Player Development for the New York Yankees Baseball Club
• Director of PENCIL (Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning)
• Advisory for Ryerson University School of Retail
• Board Director of Canadian Special Olympics Foundation
• Director of Dr. Jay Charitable Foundation
• Past Chairman of Retail Council of Canada
• Past Group Chairman of United Way Annual Campaign
• Past Director of Times Square Business Improvement District Director-Chapters Inc.

J. Peter Ricketts

• Former Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer of Ameritrade Holding Corp.
• Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate race in Nebraska for the 2006 election
• Various environmental and economic consulting roles for Union Pacific Railroad
• Omaha board of Children’s Scholarship Fund, a group founded by the late John Walton to provide educational opportunities to low-income children
• Board member of Gambling with the Good Life
• Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business for the University of Chicago
• Past member on the Metro Board of the YMCA

George R. Trumbull

• Chairman and former CEO of NYMAGIC, INC., a publicly traded (NYSE) specialty insurance company
• Former Chairman and CEO of Encompys, a software start-up funded by Microsoft, Accenture, Compaq, Advent and BoNY
• Former CEO of AMP, a 20,000 employee Australian and U.K. insurance and investment company
• Various executive roles at CIGNA / Connecticut General Corp, including President of Individual Insurance division, Chief Investment Officer, Chairman of CIGNA Funds, President of Pension Division and Chief Administrative Officer
• Board Member and former Chairman of Select Re, a privately held Bermuda reinsurer
• Former Board Member and Chairman of Finance Company of MBIA
• Chairman of the Board of CIGNA Mutual Funds