R.I.S.E. IX March 26-28, 2009

Jessica M. Bibliowicz

Chairman & CEO, National Financial Partners

Bibliowicz is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Financial Partners. National Financial Partners (NYSE:NFP) is a leading independent distributor of financial services products to the high net worth and growing entrepreneurial corporate markets. Headquartered in New York, NFP operates a national distribution network with over 1,500 producers in 41 states and Puerto Rico. Prior to joining NFP, Bibliowicz served as President and Chief Operating Officer of John A. Levin & Co., a registered investment advisor. Bibliowicz’s career in the financial services industry began in 1981. She spent eight years in the Asset Management Division of Shearson Lehman Brothers and joined Salomon Brothers after they purchased Lehman Management’s Private Client Group. In 1992, she became the Director of Sales and Marketing for Prudential Mutual Funds and in 1994 became head of Smith Barney Mutual Funds. In December 2003, Bibliowicz was honored as the “Innovator of the Year” by American Banker. [top]

Roel C. Campos

Former Commissioner, U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission, Currently Partner-in-Charge, Cooley Godward Kronish LLP

Former Commissioner Campos was first sworn in as a Commissioner of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission on August 22, 2002. On June 2, 2005, he was nominated by President George W. Bush for a second term, and was confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005. Commissioner Campos has served for four years as the Commission’s liaison to the international regulatory community. He has become an influential voice for the convergence of standards and for rational regulation that promotes cross-border transactions. Campos is currently the Partner-in-Charge of the Washington D.C. office of Cooley Godward Kronish, where he is responsible for international regulatory issues and international standard setting. He advises both foreign regulators as well as many foreign issuers. Commissioner Campos has been recognized as one of the top Latino leaders in America. He is a founding member of the New America Alliance, a Latino initiative for raising awareness of investment opportunities in the Latino sector in the United States. [top]

Mark S. Casady

Chairman & CEO, LPL Financial Services

Casady is Chairman and CEO of LPL Financial Services, the nation’s leading independent brokerage firm. Before joining the firm in 2002 as Chief Operating Officer, Casady was Managing Director, Mutual Fund Group, for Deutsche Asset Management, Americas - formerly Scudder Investments. He joined Scudder Investments in 1994 and held roles as Managing Director - Americas; Head of Global Mutual Fund Group; Head of Defined Contribution Services; and was a member of the Scudder, Stevens and Clark Board of Directors and Management Committee. With offices in Boston, Charlotte and San Diego, LPL Financial Services provides financial advisors with best-in-class technology, comprehensive training, unbiased research, as well as non-proprietary investment products and wealth management services to over 10,000 advisors nationwide. The firm has ranked first among independent broker/dealers for 12 consecutive years by Financial Planning magazine (June 1996-2007, based on revenue). [top]

Daniel Clifton

Director, Head of Policy Research

Daniel Clifton serves as the director of Strategas Research Partners Washington, DC office and directs the firms legislative and public policy research efforts. Prior to joining Strategas he served as Executive Director of the American Shareholders Association (ASA), a non-partisan, non-profit organization which analyzes public policy affecting shareholders. His research and political analysis on the interaction between legislation, policy and equity markets has been widely cited in the media. Prior to joining the ASA, Mr. Clifton served as Chief Economist and Federal Affairs Manager for Americans for Tax Reform and as a senior staff member in two gubernatorial administrations working on economic issues. Mr. Clifton received a MS in Public Policy with a specialization in Public Finance from Rutgers University and a BA in Urban Planning and Policy Development also from Rutgers. [top]

Harry S. Dent, Jr.

Founder & President, HS Dent Foundation

Dent is the Founder and President of the HS Dent Foundation, a non-profit organization whose mission is “Helping People Understand Change.” Using exciting new research developed from years of hands-on business experience, Dent offers a refreshingly positive and understandable view of the future. Dent is also a best-selling author. In his book The Great Boom Ahead, published in 1992, Dent stood virtually alone in accurately forecasting the unanticipated “Boom” of the 1990s. Today he continues to educate audiences about his predictions for the next, and possibly last, great bull market run into early to mid 2010. In his latest book, The Next Great Bubble Boom, Dent offers a comprehensive forecast for the next two decades and explains how fundamental trends suggest that we will see strong growth followed by an economic contraction. Dent also publishes the HS Dent Forecast newsletter which offers current analysis of economic and financial market trends. [top]

Jeffrey J. Diermeier, CFA

President & CEO, CFA Institute

Diermeier, has served on the Board of Governors of CFA Institute since 2002 and became its full-time President and CEO January 1, 2005. CFA Institute is the global, professional association that administers the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) curriculum and exam programs worldwide. Diermeier has served the CFA Institute in various volunteer capacities for 19 years, including six years on the CFA Curriculum Committee. Until early 2004, Diermeier was Global Chief Investment Officer at UBS Global Asset Management. In that role, he oversaw the management of more than $400 billion in assets, covering asset allocation, equities, fixed-income, real estate, and currencies, and a staff of 435 investment professionals in 10 countries. [top]

Patrick Dorsey, CFA

Director of Stock Analysis, Morningstar, Inc.

Dorsey is the Director of Stock Analysis for Morningstar, a leading provider of independent investment research in the United States and major international markets. Dorsey leads Morningstar's equity research initiative and manages a team of 90 equity analysts who cover more than 1,800 stocks across 130 industries. He is the author of the book The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing: Morningstar's Guide to Building Wealth and Winning in the Market. He played an integral part in the development of the Morningstar Rating for stocks, as well as Morningstar's economic moat ratings. He also leads the company's selection of its annual CEO of the Year Award. He is widely quoted in the media, and also appears on CNBC, the NBC Nightly News, FOX News and National Public Radio. [top]

Dr. Bob Froehlich

Chairman, Investor Strategy Committee, Deutsche Asset Management

Froehlich has an illustrious professional career that includes both the public and private sectors. When he was the Director of Investment Research, he was selected to several “All-American” Institutional Research Teams. He now chairs the firm’s Investor Strategy Committee. He is the mutual fund industry’s most mediagenic strategist, regularly appearing on a variety of financial television programs. He has delivered investment speeches on six different continents and in all 50 states. He is a prolific writer; his weekly market commentary has gained him acclaim with the brokerage community as one of the most important strategists of our day. He has also authored three books on investing, including a #1 bestseller. Froehlich currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the University of Dayton. [top]

Christopher Gardner

Owner & CEO, Christopher Gardner International Holdings

Gardner is the owner and CEO of Christopher Gardner International Holdings with offices in New York, Chicago, and San Francisco. Surmounting acute obstacles on his road to success, Gardner is an avid motivational speaker, addressing the keys to self-empowerment, beating odds, and breaking cycles. The amazing story of Gardner’s life was published as an autobiography, The Pursuit of Happyness, (Amistad/Harper Collins) on May 23, 2006, and became a New York Times and Washington Post #1 bestseller. Gardner is also the inspiration for the movie The Pursuit of Happyness released by Columbia Pictures on December 15, 2006. The movie was #1 at the box office its opening weekend. Will Smith stars as Gardner and received Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Award nominations for his performance. Always hard working and tenacious, a series of circumstances in the early 1980s left Gardner homeless in San Francisco and the sole guardian of his toddler son. Unwilling to give up Chris Jr. or his dream of financial independence, Gardner started at the bottom. Without connections or a college degree, he earned a spot in the Dean Witter Reynolds training program. Gardner was the sole trainee offered a job at Dean Witter Reynolds in 1981. He spent 1983-1987 at Bear Stearns & Co., where he became a top earner, and then in 1987, he founded the brokerage firm Gardner Rich & Co. in Chicago, an institutional brokerage firm specializing in the execution of debt, equity and derivative products transactions for some of the nation’s largest institutions, public pension plans and unions. The company has expanded into Christopher Gardner International Holdings and now has a business project underway in South Africa. Chris Gardner’s remarkable story of struggle, faith, entrepreneurialism, and fatherly devotion has catapulted him beyond the notoriety he has found on Wall Street. [top]

Dr. Frank M. Hatheway

CFA, Chief Economist, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc.

Hatheway is Chief Economist of the The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., and is responsible for a variety of projects and initiatives to support the NASDAQ market and improve its market structure. Prior to joining NASDAQ, Hatheway was a finance professor at Penn State University and a well-known researcher in market microstructure. He has authored academic articles in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Intermediation and other leading finance journals. Hatheway has served as an Economic Fellow and Senior Research Scholar with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Hatheway received his Ph.D. in Economics from Princeton University and prior degrees from the Wharton School and Dartmouth College. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst. [top]

Dr. Boyan Christov Ivantchev

Economic Advisor, Republic of Bulgaria

Ivantchev is Economic Advisor to the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs in Bulgaria, H.E. Ivailo Kalfin. He began his academic career in 1993 and earned the Doctor of Economics in 2001 in Warsaw. In 1993, Ivantchev also launched his professional life in the banking sector. He gained experience in negotiating techniques and excelled in prominent positions. The milestone in Ivantchev’s career was his appointment as a member of the Operating Committee of Hebros Bank, managing enormous portfolios for the Bulgarian financial sector. Since 2000 he has shared his know-how as a guest lecturer. In 2002, Ivantchev’s career expanded into the political arena. Since 2007, he has been a member of the International Association of Political Consultants. Ivantchev is fluent in most Slavonic languages. [top]

Thomas R. Keene, CFA

Editor-at-Large, Bloomberg News

Keene is the Editor-at-Large providing economic and investment perspective to all of Bloomberg News: print, radio and television. He writes the Chart-of-The-Day story, available on the Bloomberg Professional service, and also presents it on Bloomberg Television. Keene is the host of the weekday program Bloomberg on the Economy on Bloomberg Radio. He worked in the investment industry for 16 years before joining Bloomberg. Keene’s latest book, Flying on One Engine, offers you a window into a realm not often seen even by many sophisticated investors and policy makers: the methods, insights, and predictions of Wall Street’s top market economists. The 16 contributors – a diverse spread of optimists and pessimists, yet realists all – dig deep to help us discern what lies ahead for the world economy. Whether the angle of attack is foreign trade and finance, demographics and deficits, or monetary theory and government policy, their expert views combine to shape a body of understanding that can help market watchers and market makers reach wise, timely investment and strategic decisions. Keene is also a member of the National Association for Business Economics and the CFA Institute. [top]

Georg Kell

Executive Head, United Nations Global Compact

Kell is the Executive Head of the United Nations Global Compact, the world's largest voluntary corporate citizenship initiative, with more than 2,400 participants from more than 80 countries. Following extensive experiences in Africa and Asia as a financial analyst, Kell began his career at the UN in Geneva, where he worked from 1987 to 1990 with the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). In 1990, he joined the New York office of UNCTAD, which he headed from 1993 to 1997. In 1997, Kell became a senior officer in the Executive Office of UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, responsible for fostering cooperation with the private sector. He has served as Executive Head of the UN Global Compact since 2000. A native of Germany, Kell holds advanced degrees in economics and engineering from the Technical University of Berlin. [top]

Dr. Finn E. Kydland

2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics, University of California, Santa Barbara

Kydland is the Jeffrey Henley Professor of Economics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and 2004 Nobel Laureate in Economics. Professor Kydland received his B.A. in Economics from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, and his Ph.D. in Economics from Carnegie Mellon University. After previous appointments at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Texas at Austin, and the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, he joined the UCSB faculty in 2004, where he is also the Director of the Laboratory for Aggregate Economics and Finance (LAEF). He is a Research Associate for the Federal Reserve Banks of Dallas and Cleveland, and a Senior Research Fellow at the IC2 Institute at the University of Texas at Austin. He is an Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, University of Stavanger, and Carnegie Mellon University, and has held visiting scholar and professor positions at, among other places, the Hoover Institution and the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires. He was elected a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992. Professor Kydland was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences jointly with Professor Edward C. Prescott of Arizona State University. Professors Kydland and Prescott received the Nobel Prize for their research on business cycles and macroeconomic policy, specifically, the driving forces behind business cycles and the time consistency of economic policy. [top]

Ronald H. Muhlenkamp, CFA

Founder, President & Portfolio Manager, Muhlenkamp & Company, Inc.

Muhlenkamp is Founder, President, and Portfolio Manager of Muhlenkamp & Company, Inc., established in 1977 to manage private accounts for individuals and institutions. In 1988, Muhlenkamp & Company launched a no-load mutual fund as an investment vehicle for all investors, no matter their asset size. A top-rated investment manager, frequent guest of the media, and featured speaker at investment shows nationwide, Muhlenkamp’s entire business career has been devoted to the professional management of investment portfolios. His work since 1968 has been focused on extensive studies of investment management philosophies, both fundamental and technical. As a result of this research, he developed a proprietary method of evaluating both equity and fixed income securities, which continues to be employed by Muhlenkamp & Company. In addition to publishing his quarterly newsletter, Muhlenkamp Memorandum, Muhlenkamp is the author of Harvesting Profits on Wall Street: Essays in Investing. [top]

Charles V. Payne

CEO & Principal Analyst, Wall Street Strategies, Inc.

Payne is the Principal Analyst and CEO of Wall Street Strategies (WSS). WSS has been in business since 1991 and offers a slate of independent research products to help clients create wealth through the stock market. The clients of WSS range from individual investors to money managers in more than 60 countries. Payne oversees a team of stock analysts that covers specific industry groups, in addition to monitoring the entire market and individual sectors on his own. Payne’s daily market commentary is read by thousands, and he is often quoted in publications ranging from The Wall Street Journal to the New York Post. After a stint in the Air Force, Payne began his career on Wall Street in 1985 as an analyst at E.F. Hutton. His new book, Act Fast, Be Smart and Get Rich, was published in April 2007. [top]

Sandra Pianalto

President and Chief Executive Officer

Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland
1455 East Sixth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

As president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Sandra Pianalto has both national and local leadership responsibilities. She participates in the formulation of U.S. monetary policy, and she oversees 1,600 employees in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh who conduct economic research, supervise financial institutions, and provide payment services to commercial banks and the U.S. government.

Ms. Pianalto joined the Reserve Bank in 1983 as an economist in the Research Department. She was appointed assistant vice president of public affairs in 1984, vice president and corporate secretary in 1988, and first vice president and chief operating officer in 1993. She assumed her current position in 2003.

Before joining the Bank, Ms. Pianalto was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and served on the staff of the Budget Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives. She earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from The University of Akron and a master’s degree in economics from The George Washington University. She is also a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.. [top]

David Rosenberg

Chief North American Economist, Merrill Lynch

Rosenberg is Merrill Lynch’s Chief North American Economist, responsible for formulating and communicating North America economic, interest-rate and earnings outlooks to clients. Rosenberg joined Merrill Lynch in May 2000 as the Canadian Chief Economist and Strategist. He began his investment career in 1983 at the Bank of Canada as an economist. Prior to joining Merrill Lynch, Rosenberg was the Senior Economist at Nesbitt Burns as well as the Bank of Nova Scotia. In the 2002 Brendan Woods International Survey, Rosenberg ranked No. 1 in economics. He has B.A. and M.A. degrees in economics from the University of Toronto. [top]

Tobin Smith

Founder & Chief Investment Strategist, ChangeWave Research

Smith, author of New York Times best-seller ChangeWave Investing, is Founder and Chief Investment Strategist for ChangeWave Research (CWR). A division of Phillips Investment Resources – the world’s largest consumer investment advisory publisher – ChangeWave Research’s core value is in bringing private investors real-time investment advice not available from Wall Street research or financial media. Smith is Editor of ChangeWave Investing and ChangeWave Pro-Trader, online investment and swing-trading advisory services. ChangeWave.com was chosen by Online Publishers Association as one of the top 25 Web destinations for paid revenue content for 2001. Smith is also Editor of WaveWire Weekly, a free electronic newsletter on US economy investing, serving over 200,000 subscribers worldwide. Smith is Chairman and Chief Investment Officer of ChangeWave Management, LLC, an investment fund management firm, which manages individual managed growth and income accounts and a long/short hedge fund, all focusing on beneficiaries and victims of transformational change. [top]

John P. Surma

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, United States Steel Corporation

Surma began his career with Price Waterhouse LLP in 1976, and in 1981 he served in the Manchester, England office of the Price Waterhouse United Kingdom firm. In 1987, he was admitted to the partnership. In 1983, Surma participated in the President’s Executive Exchange Program in Washington, D.C. where he served as Executive Staff Assistant to the Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board. In 1997, Surma joined Marathon Oil Company as Senior Vice President, Finance & Accounting. He was appointed President, Speedway SuperAmerica LLC in 1998, and Senior Vice President, Supply & Transportation, for Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC (MAP) in 2000. He was named President of MAP on January 1, 2001. Effective with the separation from USX Corporation, Surma became Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer of United States Steel Corporation on January 1, 2002. He was named President in March 2003, and President and Chief Operating Officer in June 2003. He was elected President and Chief Executive Officer in 2004, and Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer in February 2006. Surma is a member of the Board of Directors of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation and Calgon Carbon Corporation. [top]

Bob Taft

Former Governor, State of Ohio, Currently Distinguished Research Associate, University of Dayton

Former Governor Taft began his career in public service as a Peace Corps Volunteer, working as a schoolteacher in Tanzania, East Africa, right after graduating from college. He went on to get a master's degree in government from Princeton and a law degree from the University of Cincinnati. His first job in government was with the Bureau of the Budget in the state of Illinois. He has served as an elected official in Ohio for 30 years, as a member of the state legislature, a county commissioner, Ohio Secretary of State and, most recently, as governor of Ohio. Taft is currently a distinguished research associate with the University of Dayton, working with the School of Education and Allied Professions and the University of Dayton Research Institute to establish a new research center for educational excellence. [top]