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Biographies

 Abby Joseph Cohen Abby Joseph Cohen is president of the Global Markets Institute and senior investment strategist. She serves on the firm’s Investment Retirement Committee. She became a partner in 1998 and has served on the Partnership Committee. Cohen joined Goldman Sachs in 1990 having specialized in quantitative strategy and economics at other major financial firms. She began her career as an economist at the Federal Reserve Board in Washington, DC. Cohen is a frequent guest lecturer at several universities and graduate schools of business. She holds degrees in economics from Cornell University and The George Washington University and has received three honorary doctorates. Abby has been recognized as a leader in U.S. portfolio strategy for more than 15 years, and has been ranked No. 1 by Institutional Investor magazine and Greenwich Associates. She has been honored by many groups, including the Financial Women’s Association, New York Stock Exchange, the Wall Street Week Hall of Fame and leading financial publications.
   
 Robert Doll Robert Doll is vice chairman and global chief investment officer of equities at BlackRock®, a premier provider of global investment management, risk management and advisory services. Doll also is a member of the BlackRock Executive Committee and lead portfolio manager of BlackRock’s Large Cap Series Funds. Prior to joining BlackRock, Doll was president and chief investment officer of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers. BlackRock has $1.37 trillion in assets under management as of June 30, 2009.
   
 Joel Greenblatt Joel Greenblatt is a managing partner of Gotham Capital, a hedge fund that he founded in 1985. He has been a professor on the adjunct faculty of Columbia Business School since 1996 where he teaches Value and Special Situation Investing. Greenblatt is the former chairman of the board of Alliant Techsystems, a NYSE listed aerospace and defense company. He is chairman of Harlem Success Academy I and III, and the Success Charter Network, a chain of charter schools in New York City. He is the author of two books, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and the New York Times bestseller, The Little Book That Beats the Market (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). Greenblatt holds a BS and an MBA from the Wharton School.