J.K. LASSER

Kathleen Connell is currently President of the Connell Group, an investment advisory firm located in Washington, DC. She also teaches international finance and corporate goverance at the UC Berkeley Haas Graduate School of Business. Dr. Connell has twenty-five years of experience in the field of finance and served as a trustee for CalPERS and CalSTRS for eight years, which together comprise the largest pool of retirement assets in the world. She was recently honored by SmartMoney magazine as one of the thirty smartest people in investing.