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Gregory C. Allen, President and
Director of Research, is responsible for overseeing Callan’s
Fund Sponsor Consulting Group, the Trust Advisory Group, and all
of the firm’s research groups which include: Global Manager
Research, Alternative Investment Research, Capital Market
Research, Database, Client Report Services, and Operations. Greg
is also a member of Callan’s Management Committee, the
Alternatives Review Committee, and the Client Policy Review
Committee. He is also a member of the Investment Committee which
has oversight responsibility for all of Callan’s discretionary
multi-manager solutions. Mr. Allen joined the San Francisco
Office of Callan Associates in 1988 as an analyst in the Capital
Markets Research Group where he focused on capital market
research, quantitative analysis, product development, and asset
allocation liability analysis. After holding several other
positions with the firm, he was promoted to the role of
president in 2007.
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Joseph E. Besecker is Chairman, President and CEO of
Emerald Asset Management, Inc., which he founded in 1991. He has
over twenty years experience in the money management business,
starting his career as an investment professional with Merrill
Lynch and E. F. Hutton. Mr. Besecker has been a key investor and
provided expertise to a number of early-stage venture capital
projects. He was an initial investor and provided advisory
support to BlackLight Power, Inc., The Investor Broadcast
Network, and Auction Inn. He has been recognized for his
achievements in the venture capital community with nominations
as a finalist of both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year
Award and Enterprise Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Mr.
Besecker has received national recognition for his work as an
investment analyst, and appears frequently in the national
financial media.
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Lowell Catlett is a Regent's Professor in
Agricultural Economics and Agricultural Business and Extension
Economics and the Dean of the College of Agriculture and Home
Economics at New Mexico State University. In his presentation,
The Economic Behemoth, he will address how, despite dire
warnings for the last 18 months about recession and economic
collapse, the U.S. economy has chugged along, albeit slowly.
Hear about what got us here as well as Dr. Catlett’s forecast
concerning sectors that will grow and those that will become
obsolete in an economy that is labeled by many as “too big to
fail,” but one that is certainly not “too big to radically
change.” This presentation focuses on the importance of viewing
emotional market issues on a more fundamental, factual basis
which essentially is this—it may seem bad, and it certainly is
unpleasant but, historically, the markets have weathered worse
and will emerge stronger for having gone through the purge.
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Jeanna Cullins joined
EnnisKnupp in September 2008. She is the practice co leader for
the firm’s Fiduciary Service practice. Ms. Cullins has over 20
years of pension fund experience across a wide range of
fiduciary, governance, investment, and pension fund operational
matters. Prior to joining the EnnisKnupp she served as Managing
Director and Operational Review Practice Leader at Independent
Fiduciary Services. During her 10-year tenure at IFS, Ms.
Cullins worked on more than 30 operational reviews (a.k.a.
fiduciary audits), advising the leadership of some of the
largest pension funds in the country to develop effective,
efficient, practical ways to enhance their operations. She
served as Executive Director to the District of Columbia
Retirement Board from 1993 to 1997, and as the Board’s General
Counsel from 1985 to 1993.
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D.J. Gribbin is Managing Director with Macquarie
Capital in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining Macquarie in 2006,
he served as Chief Counsel for the Federal Highway
Administration, where he worked with state and local government
transportation attorneys and other customers to enhance their
understanding of federal laws and procedures relating to highway
transportation. Mr. Gribbin's tenure at FHWA was characterized
by a focus on advancing PPPs. Prior to joining FHWA, he served
as the Director of Public Sector Business Development at Koch
Industries. In that role, he worked with state leaders to
develop public-private transportation ventures. In addition, he
worked on a policy level with Congress and the Administration to
make it easier for states to use innovative financing and
contracting techniques when building highways.
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Martin J. Gruenberg was sworn in as Vice Chairman of
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Board of Directors on
August 22, 2005. Mr. Gruenberg joined the FDIC Board after broad
congressional experience in the financial services and
regulatory areas. He served as Senior Counsel to Senator Paul S.
Sarbanes on the staff of the Senate Committee on Banking,
Housing, and Urban Affairs from 1993 to 2005. Mr. Gruenberg
advised the senator on issues of domestic and international
financial regulation, monetary policy and trade. He also served
as Staff Director of the Banking Committee’s Subcommittee on
International Finance and Monetary Policy from 1987 to 1992. On
November 2, 2007, Mr. Gruenberg was named Chairman of the
Executive Council and President of the International Association
of Deposit Insurers.
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Alan B. Krueger was confirmed
by the U.S. Senate as Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy of
the Treasury Department on May 6th, 2009. He advises the
Secretary on all aspects of economic policy, including current
and prospective macroeconomic developments and the development
and analysis of the Administration’s economic policy
initiatives. He is currently on leave from Princeton
University, where he is the Bendheim Professor of Economics and
Public Affairs at Princeton University. He has held a joint
appointment in the Economics Department and the Woodrow Wilson
School at Princeton since 1987.
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Rumi Masih, Managing Director, is
the Head of the Strategic Investment Advisory Group with JP
Morgan. An employee since 2007, Mr. Masih previously spent 10
years at Goldman Sachs. He was the global econometrician for
both the Global Economics Research Group and the Quantitative
Equity Strategy Group, where he was responsible for developing
various quantitative models and supporting Goldman Sachs trading
and strategy research. He also developed tailor-made products
and performed bespoke services for key quantitative
institutional equity and fixed income clients. Prior to joining
Goldman Sachs, Mr. Masih worked in several government research
departments in Australia for over a decade.
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Amy Walter is one of the
nation's top political forecasters. As the editor-in-chief of
The Hotline, Washington's premier daily briefing on American
politics, she is the publication's primary voice. Her reliably
accurate analysis of the national political environment is
featured in her weekly National Journal.com column, "On The
Trail." She also serves as a regular contributor to the
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS). Named one of the top-50
journalists by Washingtonian magazine, Walter frequently appears
on CNN as a political analyst and has served as a panelist and
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