John Joseph Walker

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Prior to assuming his current role in early 2008, Mr. Walker was GEAM's CFO, responsible for FP&A, Tax, Controllership, and Performance Analytics across all of the firm's business units as well as maintaining dotted-line responsibility for Compliance.
He serves as a Trustee of the GE Benefit Plan Trusts and the Elfun Funds, and is a member of the GEAM Asset Allocation, Credit, Environmental and Investment Committees.
Since joining GE in 1988, he has held several financial management positions in a number of financial services businesses within the company, including commercial and consumer lending and project finance.
Prior to joining GEAM in 1999, his roles included CFO and SVP for GE Money - Global Consumer Finance from 1996 to 1999; Chief Financial Officer for GE Capital - Commercial Finance from 1992 to 1996; and Finance Director positions at GE Capital - TIFC from 1988 to 1992.
Before GE, Mr. Walker was the Assistant Corporate Controller for the General Host Corporation for three years and held various financial positions during his six years with The Continental Group.
He began his career at Price Waterhouse, where he was a Senior Accountant and a member of the Audit Staff.
Mr. Walker holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting from Fairfield University and an Executive Master of Business Administration degree from the University of New Haven (1985) and is a CPA and a member of the FASB Investor Task Force.

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Companies	Position	End
FNC Holdings, Inc. FNC Holdings, Inc. Home Improvement ChainsRetail Trade Operates specialty retail stores for garden and lawn products	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
FirstService Residential Florida, Inc. FirstService Residential Florida, Inc. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance Provides property management services	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
Pricewaterhouse LLP Pricewaterhouse LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides accounting services	Corporate Officer/Principal	-
GE Asset Management, Inc. GE Asset Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance GE Asset Management's (GEAM) core investment strategies include US equities, international equities, fixed-income, real estate and private equity. The firm follows a disciplined, fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in US equities. Their US equity investment approach involves rigorous analyses of financial data, including industry, sector and company information, as well as qualitative assessments of management and their ability to execute business plans. Generally, GEAM invests in companies that are industry leaders with high quality earnings and a history of creating shareholder value. GEAM's international equities approach includes a variety of strategies such as International Equity, Global Equity and Emerging Markets Equity, as well as regional and country specific mandates for Canada, Europe, Euroland, China and India. All strategies are driven by a bottom-up, fundamental research process. GEAM's fixed-income team manages a variety of investment styles and strategies that span the yield curve and credit quality universe. The firm manages a variety of products designed to meet various customer risk/return parameters. GEAM's fixed-income team follows a relative value approach, emphasizing a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing returns while limiting volatility. The firm's International Private Equity team invests in companies domiciled and doing a substantial portion of their business outside of the US. They focus primarily on corporate buyouts and growth-equity investments, but they also selectively consider later-stage venture capital investments. GEAM considers investment opportunities across a broad range of industrial sectors and geographic areas and pursues potential investment opportunities in both developed and emerging markets.	Chief Operating Officer	-

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GE Asset Management, Inc. GE Asset Management, Inc. Investment ManagersFinance GE Asset Management's (GEAM) core investment strategies include US equities, international equities, fixed-income, real estate and private equity. The firm follows a disciplined, fundamental, bottom-up approach to investing in US equities. Their US equity investment approach involves rigorous analyses of financial data, including industry, sector and company information, as well as qualitative assessments of management and their ability to execute business plans. Generally, GEAM invests in companies that are industry leaders with high quality earnings and a history of creating shareholder value. GEAM's international equities approach includes a variety of strategies such as International Equity, Global Equity and Emerging Markets Equity, as well as regional and country specific mandates for Canada, Europe, Euroland, China and India. All strategies are driven by a bottom-up, fundamental research process. GEAM's fixed-income team manages a variety of investment styles and strategies that span the yield curve and credit quality universe. The firm manages a variety of products designed to meet various customer risk/return parameters. GEAM's fixed-income team follows a relative value approach, emphasizing a fundamental, bottom-up process with the objective of enhancing returns while limiting volatility. The firm's International Private Equity team invests in companies domiciled and doing a substantial portion of their business outside of the US. They focus primarily on corporate buyouts and growth-equity investments, but they also selectively consider later-stage venture capital investments. GEAM considers investment opportunities across a broad range of industrial sectors and geographic areas and pursues potential investment opportunities in both developed and emerging markets.	Finance
FNC Holdings, Inc. FNC Holdings, Inc. Home Improvement ChainsRetail Trade Operates specialty retail stores for garden and lawn products	Retail Trade
Pricewaterhouse LLP Pricewaterhouse LLP Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Provides accounting services	Commercial Services
FirstService Residential Florida, Inc. FirstService Residential Florida, Inc. Real Estate DevelopmentFinance Provides property management services	Finance
Fairfield University Fairfield University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services
University of New Haven University of New Haven Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University	Consumer Services