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Mr. O'Connor joined the Company as CEO in 2002. He was previously an Executive Director of Standard Bank London ("SBL"). Mr. OConnor was one of the founding executives of SBL, which is now a recognized player in the global emerging markets with a total staff numbering 1,300. As Chief Executive - Americas, Mr. OConnor had specific responsibility for building, from the ground up, a capital markets trading and originations business in Latin America which is now widely recognized in these markets. More recently, Mr. OConnor started an asset management business for Standard to leverage the expertise in EM debt. Mr. OConnor served as CEO and Chief Investment Officer and was responsible for setting investment strategy and overseeing day-to-day investment management of the funds. Over a period of two years more than $500mm was raised for the various products which had top quartile performance over this period. | 