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november 15, 2011 Too Dull for Davos: My Life in Long-Only, Objective-Based, Active Money Management and Why I Think It Still Makes Sense Paul G. Haaga, Jr., Chairman of the Board, Capital Research and Management Company Paul G. Haaga, Jr. is Chairman of the Board of Capital Research and Management Company. He is Vice Chairman of the fixedincome funds in the American Funds Group and Chairman of Capital International Fund. He is also an officer and/or director of a number of other CRMC-managed mutual funds. Prior to joining Capital in 1985, Paul was a partner in the law firm of Dechert Price & Rhoads (now known as Dechert) in Washington, D.C. From 1974 to 1977, he was a senior attorney for the Division of Investment Management of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Paul earned a bachelor’s degree
in economics from Princeton University, an M.B.A. from the Wharton School, and a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He is a member of the Executive Committee (Chairman from 2002–2004, Vice Chairman from 2004-2006) of the Board of Governors of the Investment Company Institute (the national association of the U.S. mutual fund industry) and serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History. He is a trustee of the Huntington Library, Museum and Gardens in San Marino, California, and Chairman of the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Paul is a member of the National Public Radio (NPR) Board of Directors. He has also served as president and Major Gifts chair for Princeton’s Class of 1970 and is a trustee of the Princeton Rugby Endowment.
March 2, 2011 Competitive Places and Inner City Opportunities: Reflections on 25 Years of Community Investment Jeremy Nowak, President and Chief Executive Officer, The Reinvestment Fund Jeremy Nowak is the President of The Reinvestment Fund, a community development financial institution that manages $700 million. The Reinvestment Fund (TRF) provides financing in support of affordable housing, small businesses, commercial real estate and community facilities. TRF has allocated more than $1 billion, leveraging $3.5 billion in development capital. TRF is a thought leader in the creative use of geo-spatial data to facilitate investments into distressed communities. Its proprietary mapping tool, PolicyMap, is the most comprehensive web-enabled data base for location-based intelligence. TRF led the movement to finance supermarkets in lowincome communities, first as manager of the Pennsylvania Fresh Food Financing Initiative and today as one of the architects of the White House’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative. Mr. Nowak is the Vice Chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and a member of the Fed’s Council of Chairs. He is also a board member of the Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency, the agency responsible for billions of dollars of annual bond and tax credit financing.
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He was the founding Chair of the Board of Mastery Charter Schools, a network of inner city schools recognized as the most effective management organization in the nation for turning around low performing schools. And he was the founding Board Chair of Alex’s Lemonade Stand, a charity that supports pediatric cancer research and in six years has raised more than $35 million from lemonade stands held by thousands of families and children. Mr. Nowak is the author of numerous reports and articles including recent work on creativity and neighborhood development. He holds an undergraduate degree in philosophy (Pennsylvania State University, Phi Beta Kappa, 1973) and a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology (New School for Social Research, 1986). He was a Fellow at the Aspen Institute’s program for leaders in education and is a member of Harvard University’s roundtable on social enterprise and poverty. Mr. Nowak has received numerous awards including the Philadelphia Award (1995), the city’s highest civic honor; as well as honorary doctorates from Villanova University (2000) and La Salle University (2008).
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