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Richard I. Morris Jr. Mr. Morris retired as Vice Chairman of Putnam Lovell NBF on December 31 2002. He joined Putnam Lovell (formerly known as Putnam Lovell Securities Inc.) a financial services investment banking firm in July 1997 as Chief Operating Officer and Managing Director and established the firm’s London office. Mr. Morris was elected President of Putnam Lovell in June 2001 and became Vice Chairman following the company’s acquisition by National Bank Financial Inc. a subsidiary of National Bank of Canada in June 2002. Prior to joining Putnam Lovell Mr. Morris served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Cursitor Alliance LLC. Mr. Morris was a co-founder Principal and Chief Financial Officer of the Cursitor companies an international asset management and research group. He established The London Partnership Limited which became part of Cursitor in July 1983 and was a founding director of Cursitor Management Limited and Cursitor-Eaton Asset Management Company the principal investment management units of the group. Prior to joining Cursitor Mr. Morris spent fifteen years at The Boston Company beginning as a junior programmer in the Investment Technology Group and ending as Vice President with responsibility for finance and administration of its asset management business. Mr. Morris currently serves as an advisor to TA Associates a leading private equity investor identifying and developing asset management investments in Europe. He is also a Special Advisor to FRM Holdings Limited a leading manager of funds of hedge funds. He formerly served as a director of Arrowstreet Capital L.P. the Tavistock and Portman NHS Trust and the Tavistock Clinic Foundation. | 