Arthur Nelson
President and Chairman of the Board

In forty years of entrepreneurial experience, Arthur Nelson has founded seventeen diverse companies - a collection of eight corporations and nine non-profit organizations - ranging from manufacturing, real estate, social research, education, entrepreneurial studies, communications and civil service. Since 1952 Arthur Nelson has built his companies around the same foundation, the application of technology and innovation to solve social problems. Most recently Arthur Nelson was named as one of the twelve Ernst &Young 1999 Entrepreneurs of the Year.

For complete biography of Arthur Nelson, please read history and founder section.

Dan diBartolomeo
Treasurer

Mr. diBartolomeo is President and founder of Northfield Information Services, Inc. Based in Boston since 1986, Northfield develops quantitative models of financial markets. The firm's clients include more than one hundred financial institutions in a dozen countries. He is an active member of the Financial Management Association, the Chicago Quantitative Alliance, QWAFAFEW, the Society of Quantitative Analysts, the Southern Finance Association and the Eastern Finance Association. Mr. diBartolomeo is a former member of the Board of Directors of The Boston Computer Society. He is a Trustee of Woodbury College and formerly served on the industry liaison committee of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Sciences at New Jersey Institute of Technology. He pursues an interest in international policy matters through a membership in the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. diBartolomeo teaches continuing education courses for financial analysts sponsored by the Boston Security Analyst Society. He regularly lectures at universities such as MIT and Northwestern. Mr. diBartolomeo has been admitted as an expert witness in litigation matters regarding investment management practices and derivatives. His publications include "Socially Screened Portfolios: An Attribution of Relative Performance" (with Lloyd Kurtz) that appeared in the Fall 1996 Journal of Investing; "Investment Performance Measurement and the Probability Distribution of Pension, Assets, Liabilities and Surplus" that appeared in the Spring 1997 Journal of Performance Measurement; and two papers in Financial Analysts Journal, "Approximating the Confidence Interval on Sharpe Style Weights" (with Angelo Lobosco, July 1997) and "Mutual Fund Misclassification" (with Erik Witkowski, September 1997). Other writings include an investment technology chapter in The Handbook of Municipal Bonds and "The Risk of Equity Securities and Portfolios" published by AIMR in Equity Specialization Program Readings 1997.

Harry "Hawk" S. Furman

Mr. Furman is a retired entrepreneur. He was the founder and CEO of Hawk Communications, a private pay- telephone company which provided public pay-telephone service through out New England. He was one of the founders and Director of Highland American Corporation, a company that developed and manufactured a revolutionary new wallboard. Mr. Furman spent most of his career at Furman Lumber Inc. where he was president from 1982 –1990. He built the company into a national distributor of softwood forest products establishing distribution yards around the country and driving sales up three fold. Mr. Furman started his business career with Procter & Gamble in 1969. Mr. Furman has also been a columnist for the National Home Center News. He is a great believer in education and donates time to Tilton School and Cornell University. He is active in fund raising for these institutions, and is a past President of the Cornell Club of Boston. Mr. Furman has his BA from Cornell University, and attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program. He is married to Maria Furman who is a Managing Director of Standish, Ayer & Woods. Mr. Furman has four children and lives in Needham, Massachusetts.

Linda Zhang

Linda joined State Street Research in 2003, which just merged into Blackrock February 1, 2005. Linda is the head of the firm’s Quantitative Strategy Group. She is also a portfolio manager and a member of the Asset Allocation Committee for the Blackrock Asset Allocation Fund. Prior to joining the firm, Linda served as a vice president and a senior quant equity research analyst at the Central Research Team at Baring Asset Management. She also held a position as the associate portfolio manager for the North America Fixed Investment Team. Prior to that, she was an investment research consultant at Windham Capital Management conducting research on global asset allocation and currency risk management. Linda also served as an assistant professor of finance at New Hampshire College’s Graduate School of Business, conducting research and teaching MBA classes. She holds a BS with honors from the School of Business at the University of Regina in Canada, an MS in applied economics and a PhD in finance from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Linda is an affiliated member of AIMR and the Boston Security Analysts Society. She served on the BSAS education committee in 2000 and 2001. Linda has 10 years of investment industry experience.