Keynotes

Robert E. Diamond Jr.

President and CEO of Investment Banking and Investment Management
Barclays PLC

Robert E. Diamond Jr. Robert E. Diamond Jr. is President of Barclays PLC and Chief Executive of Investment Banking and Investment Management, comprising Barclays Capital, Barclays Global Investors and Barclays Wealth. He is an Executive Director of the Boards of Barclays PLC and Barclays Bank PLC and has been a member of the Barclays Group Executive Committee since September 1997. He joined the firm in summer 1996.

Mr. Diamond was formerly Vice Chairman and Head of Global Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange at CS First Boston. Based in New York, he was a member of the Executive Board and Operating Committee of CS First Boston and a member of the Board of Credit Suisse Financial Products.

Mr. Diamond joined CS First Boston in 1992. Based in Tokyo, he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of CS First Boston Pacific, responsible for Investment Banking, Equity, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange for the Pacific region.

Previously, Mr. Diamond was Managing Director and Head of European/Asian Fixed Income Trading for Morgan Stanley International, and was based in London for four years. He joined Morgan Stanley in 1979 as Director of Management Information Systems and became assistant to the Chief Financial Officer in 1980, spending 13 years with the firm.

Mr. Diamond began his career as a lecturer at the School of Business, University of Connecticut from 1976-1977.

A native of Concord, Massachusetts, USA, Mr. Diamond received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Colby College in Maine (1974) and an MBA from the University of Connecticut, where he ranked first in his class (1977). He was awarded Doctor of Humane Letters from the University of Connecticut in 2006 and Doctor of Laws from Colby College in 2008.

His outside affiliations include:

He is married with three children.

Roger C. Altman

Founder and Chairman
Evercore Partners

Roger C. Altman Mr. Altman began his investment banking career at Lehman Brothers and became a general partner of that firm in 1974. Beginning in 1977, he served as Assistant Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for four years. He then returned to Lehman Brothers, later becoming co-head of overall investment banking, a member of the firm’s Management Committee and its Board. He remained in those positions until the firm was sold to Shearson/American Express.

In 1987, Mr. Altman joined The Blackstone Group as Vice Chairman, head of the Firm’s merger and acquisition advisory business and a member of its Investment Committee. Mr. Altman also had primary responsibility for Blackstone’s international business.

Beginning in January 1993, Mr. Altman returned to Washington to serve as Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury for two years. In 1996, he formed Evercore Partners which has become the most active investment banking boutique in the world. To date, the Firm has handled over $1 trillion of merger, acquisition, recapitalization and restructuring transactions. In its other role, Evercore also manages approximately $3 billion of private equity, venture capital, and public securities.

Mr. Altman is a Trustee of New York-Presbyterian Hospital, serving on its Investment Committee, and also is Vice Chairman of The Board of The American Museum of Natural History. He also is a Trustee of New Visions for Public Schools and is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations. He received an A.B. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.

Robert C. Pozen

Chairman
MFS Investment Management

Senior Lecturer
Harvard Business School

Robert C. Pozen Robert C. Pozen is Chairman of MFS Investment Management, which manages over $200 billion in assets. This represents an increase of 50% from the first half of 2004 when Bob was named to his current position. He also serves as a senior lecturer at the Harvard Business School, and has published on a wide variety of subjects.

In late 2001 and 2002, Bob served on President Bush’s Commission to Strengthen Social Security. He developed two models for closing the system’s long-term deficit. His plan was endorsed by President Bush, and was included in a series of memoranda to President Obama from the Progressive Policy Institute.

In 2003, Bob also served as Secretary of Economic Affairs for Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney. He helped the Governor close the state’s large budget gap and re-organize its functions in business and technology, labor and workforce training and consumer affairs. In addition, he supervised the banking and insurance departments.

Bob was formerly vice chairman of Fidelity Investments and president of Fidelity Management & Research Company, the investment advisor to the Fidelity mutual funds. During Bob’s five years as president, Fidelity’s assets increased from $500 billion to $900 billion. From 1987 to 1996, Bob was managing director and general counsel of Fidelity Investments.

In 1968, Bob graduated summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard College, and in 1973, he received a JSD from Yale.