Advisory Board

Mission: to support the Company through industry outreach and guidance in areas critical to its success.

Owen Lamont

Dr. Owen Lamont is a lecturer at Harvard University's Department of Economics, is a Fellow at the Yale School of Management International Center for Finance, and is one of the world's leading academic experts on capital markets, short selling, and behavioral finance. Previously at Yale his titles included Professor of Finance and Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs. He is also the Director of Research (Behavioral Strategies) at DKR Fusion Management, LP, a quantitative asset manager. Dr. Lamont recieved a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Lamont has testified as an expert witness on short selling before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, as well as the House Committee on Financial Services. He has previously taught at Princeton and the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business.

Eileen K. Murray

Ms. Murray has over two decades of experience on Wall Street. Ms. Murray has served in senior leadership roles at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse, serving on their Management Committees, Executive Committees and the Executive Board.

Ms. Murray brings a breadth and depth of experience to DCA, having run some of the most complex finance, risk, operations, and technology groups in the world, heading global teams of 10,000 people and managing multi-billion dollar budgets. She has established and implemented strategy across a wide variety of functional areas, having served as Treasurer, Controller, Principal Accounting Officer, Chief Administrative Officer, and Head of Product Control, Operations and Technology.

In addition to her work in financial services, Ms. Murray is on the Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory and is on the Board of Trustees of Manhattan College. She has served on the Hewlett Packard Financial Services Board of Advisors, OMGEO Board, Depository Trust and Clearing Corporation Board (DTCC) committees and has been a member of the Board of American Women's Economic Development Corporation (AWED).

Ms. Murray has received many awards in recognition of her leadership, including the Women's Bond Club Merit Achievement Award, the Urban Stages Humanitarian Award, and the Legal Momentum's Aiming High Award. In 2007, US Banker named her as one of the 20 Most Powerful Non-Bank Women in Banking.

Kevin J. P. O’Hara

Kevin J. P. O’Hara has been a director of Investment Technology Group since January 2007. From May, 2006 to July, 2007, Mr. O’Hara served as the Chief Administrative Officer and Chief Strategy Officer of CBOT Holdings, Inc. Previously, he served as Chief Administrative Officer, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of Archipelago Holdings, Inc. from 1999 to 2006 and served as Executive Vice President and Co-General Counsel of NYSE Group, Inc. in 2006.

Prior to joining Archipelago, Mr. O’Hara worked in Romania and Lithuania from 1995 to 1999 on the development of legal, regulatory and technology infrastructure of emerging capital markets. He served as Senior Attorney in Bucharest, Romania, for Financial Markets International, Inc. and Project Director in Vilnius, Lithuania, and project Manager on other regional projects while based in the United States for the Pragma Corporation.

Prior to his international experience, Mr. O’Hara worked in the Division of Enforcement of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C., as Senior Counsel from 1994 to 1995 and as Staff Attorney from 1991 to 1993. In 1993, Mr. O’Hara served as Special Assistant United States Attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice. From 1988 to 1991, he practiced corporate and commercial litigation at the Chicago law firm of Ross & Hardies, now McGuire Woods Ross & Hardies. He previously served from 2003 to 2005 on the board of managers of White Cap Trading, L.L.C., an institutional agency broker.

Richard L. Sandor

Richard L. Sandor is chairman, CEO and founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange, the world's first and North America's only voluntary, legally binding integrated greenhouse gas emissions reduction, registry and trading system. He is executive chairman of Climate Exchange plc, an AIM-listed company, which owns the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX) and the European Climate Exchange (ECX). Dr. Sandor is also a research professor at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Member of the International Advisory Council of Guanghua School of Management at Peking University. While on sabbatical from the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1970s he served as Vice President and chief economist of the Chicago Board of Trade. It was at that time that he earned the reputation as the principal architect of the interest-rate futures market. Richard L. Sandor was honored by the City of Chicago and the Chicago Board of Trade for his contribution to the creation of financial futures and his universal recognition as the "father of financial futures". In October 2007, Dr. Sandor was honored as one of TIME Magazine’s “Heroes of the Environment” for his work as the “Father of Carbon of Trading.”

In August 2002 Dr. Sandor was first chosen by Time magazine as one of its "Heroes for the Planet" for his work as the founder of the Chicago Climate Exchange. In November 2004, Dr. Sandor was the recipient of an honorary degree of Doctor of Science, honoris causa, by the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) of Zurich, Switzerland for his pioneer work in the design and implementation of innovative and flexible market-based mechanisms to address environmental concerns. In May 2005, Dr. Sandor was named by "Treasury and Risk Management" magazine as one of the "100 Most Influential People in Finance" and the recipient of the 2008 Financial Management Association's Outstanding Financial Executive Financial Management Association's Financial Executive Award.

Benn Steil

Dr. Benn Steil is senior fellow and director of international economics at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. He is also the editor of International Finance and a co-founder and managing member of Efficient Frontiers LLC, a markets consultancy. Until November 2006, he was also a nonexecutive director of the virt-x exchange in London. Prior to his joining the Council in 1999, he was director of the International Economics Programme at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London. He came to the Institute in 1992 from a Lloyd’s of London Tercentenary Research Fellowship at Nuffield College, Oxford, where he received his PhD in economics.

 

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