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h t l a eH ARK has a team of Trustees whose combined skills offer a
n o i t a c u dE wealth of experience and contacts to support ARK in its activities.
The Trustees meet regularly and contribute directly to the
no i t c e t o rP d l i hC
operations. They also demonstrate their commitment by ensuring,
KRA t r o p p uS along with the Patrons, that all administrative costs are covered,
s weN so that 100% of all donations go directly to deliver ARK’s
programmes for children.
KRA ro f k r oW
KRA t c a t n oC S tanley Fink, Chairman

Stanley Fink is Chief Executive Officer of International Standard

Asset Management (ISAM).Previous to this he was Non-executive
Search Deputy Chairman of Man Group plc, the largest listed hedge fund
manager in the world, managing close to US$80 billion of assets.
Man is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index of leading UK shares.

Stanley joined Man in 1987 becoming Group Finance Director in

1992 and led the team responsible for the successful flotation of
the Group in 1994. He was appointed Managing Director of Man
Investments in 1996 and then Chairman in 2002. He became
Group Chief Executive in March 2000 and was appointed Deputy
Chairman in March 2007. The company had around US$1 billion

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of assets under management when he took up the appointment
in 1996.

Stanley Fink studied at Manchester Grammar School and then

Trinity Hall College, Cambridge, qualifying with an MA in Law in
1979. He then qualified as a chartered accountant with Arthur
Andersen and has held positions at Mars and Citibank.

Arpad A. Busson, Founding Chairman

Arpad Busson is the Founder and Chairman of EIM, which

manages assets for institutional investors and high net worth
individuals in delegated investment management; a management
approach based on the evaluation, selection and allocation of
assets to the best specialist managers, both alternative and
traditional investments, globally. As of 2010, EIM assets under
management have surpassed USD $13 billion and since 1992,
EIM has allocated on behalf of clients some $8.7 billion to third-
party money managers. With over 150 employees worldwide, the
group has offices in Geneva, Zurich, London, New York, Tokyo and
Gibraltar.

In addition, Arpad is Chairman of the AAA Foundation, the Swiss

foundation providing Swiss pension funds with access to
investments in multi-manager products.

Paul Dunning

Paul Dunning has been in the hedge fund industry since 1992,
when he was a part of the team that launched the Goldman
Sachs Global Currency Fund. In 2009, he established Finsbury
Capital Advisers Pty Ltd, a firm that advises Australian institutional
investors on their hedge fund investments. Prior to that he was the
CEO of two industry leading hedge fund of funds businesses; the
founding CEO of HSBC Republic Investments Limited (HRIL)
from 1995 until June 2005, a business which garnered in excess
of US$5bn in assets under management, and from Nov 2005
until February 2009 he was the CEO of Financial Risk
Management Limited a leading manager of hedge fund portfolios
for institutional investors around the world with substantial assets
under management.

Paul joined HRIL in 1995 after spending four years at Goldman

Sachs Asset Management International where he was the Chief
Operating Officer. He also had stints at Midland Bank International
and at Chemical Bank. He holds a joint honours degree in
Economics and Economic History from Leicester University.

Kevin Gundle

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Kevin Gundle co-founded Aurum Fund Management in 1994 and
has been involved in alternative investing for almost twenty years.
Aurum is a privately owned investment management group that
specialises in alternative investment strategies.

Aurum manages a range of fund of hedge funds, which provides

access to some of the world’s best alternative investment
managers. Aurum’s investment process is rigorous and is based
on independent and objective research.

Kevin holds a Bachelor of Engineering Honours Degree in

Computer and Control Engineering.

Paul Marshall

Paul Marshall is Chairman and CIO of Marshall Wace LLP, one of

Europe’s leading hedge fund groups. The firm manages a
number of award-winning funds including the Eureka Fund. He is
also a member of the Hedge Fund Standards Board.

He is a founding Trustee of ARK, the children’s charity, and

Chairman of ARK Schools. ARK Schools is one of the UK’s
leading providers of academies and has also played a pioneering
role in the development of training programmes for teachers who
work in inner-city schools. ARK is also active in improving
educational outcomes in India and is the largest provider of HIV
treatment in South Africa

Mr Marshall is also Chairman of Centreforum, the Liberal think

tank which was launched in 2005 and has rapidly gained
prominence in the public policy sphere notably for its contribution
to the debates on education, welfare and the economy. In 2007
Centreforum was named runner up in the Prospect Think-Tank of
the year awards and in 2009 won the Prospect award for “Best
Publication”.

Mr Marshall is author of “Tackling Educational Inequality” (2007)

and co-author of “Aiming Higher: a better future for England’s
schools” (2006). He was also co-author of “The Orange Book”
(with David Laws, MP, 2005)

Jennifer Moses

Jennifer Moses has followed a successful career in investment

banking with leadership roles in public policy. Most recently she
has been a special adviser to the British Prime Minister, Gordon
Brown. She was previously Chief Executive of the thinktank,
Centreforum, following her banking career with Goldman Sachs.

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Ms Moses is a graduate of Brown University and Harvard
Business School. She is a governor of King Solomon Academy in
London and an ARK trustee. She is married with three children.

Michael Platt

Michael Platt, Chief Executive Officer and Head of Trading of

BlueCrest Capital Management Guernsey, Geneva branch, co-
founded BlueCrest Capital Management.

Prior to establishing BlueCrest in April 2000, he was a Managing

Director at JP Morgan in London where, since February 1998, he
was responsible for relative value proprietary trading. Michael
joined JP Morgan in September 1991 and in April 1992, he
assumed responsibility for developing its swaps business and
subsequently its options trading business. In April 1996, he
became Head of Trading for all swaps products relating to the
eleven founder nations of the European single currency.

He holds a BSc (Hons) from the London School of Economics.

Blaine Tomlinson

Blaine Tomlinson is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of

Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global fund of hedge funds
group with offices in London, New York, Tokyo, Hong Kong,
Guernsey, Seoul and Sydney. As Chairman, Blaine focuses on
business strategy development and investment opportunities and
initiatives.

Previously, Blaine was director and a board member of AIG

Financial Products Group, where he was responsible for
establishing, building and managing the European business. He
was also an executive director at Nomura International Limited,
where he established a swap and structured products group.

Blaine holds a MBA and a degree in Economics (Hons) from the

University of Cape Town, and a Bachelor of Economics from
Rhodes University.

Ian Wace

Ian Wace, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Risk Officer is a

founding partner of Marshall Wace LLP. As CEO, he has overseen
the growth and development of the company since the launch of
the Eureka strategy in 1997. Under his stewardship, the firm
pioneered the development of TOPS and is now extending its
manager-based product offering. Ian is closely involved with all
aspects of the management of the firm across all three major
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 geographical regions. As CRO, Ian has ultimate risk management
responsibility across the full range of Marshall Wace funds.

Prior to founding Marshall Wace, Ian was Global Head of Equity

and Derivative Trading at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell (‘DMG’),
where he was responsible for Equity Sales Trading, Programme
Trading, Proprietary Trading, Stock Lending and Balance Sheet
Management. Prior to joining DMG in 1995, he worked for eleven
years at SG Warburg, where in 1988, as the youngest ever
Director, he was appointed head of European Equity Sales and in
1993, head of Proprietary Trading.

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