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GEORGE J. MAZIN  Partner
Dechert LLP
George J. Mazin is a partner in the financial services group. He concentrates his practice on the structuring and organization of domestic and offshore funds, private placements of securities, structured products, private equity investing, and broker-dealer and investment adviser compliance.
Mr. Mazin is frequently sought after as a speaker on the subject of hedge funds and has authored many articles on this and other subjects in the securities field.
Professional Activities
Mr. Mazin is the chair of the Private Funds Committee of the Bar of the City of New York, a member of the Advisory Board of the Regulatory Compliance Association (“RCA”), and a RCA CCO University Faculty Professor. He was previously a member of the Board and a member of the legal committee of the Wall Street Hedge Fund Forum. He has served on the Opinion Committee and Limited Partnership Act Revision Committee of the Corporate and Business Law Section of the New Jersey Bar Association.
Education
Queens College of the City University of New York, B.A., magna cum laude, 1972
Cornell University, M.R.P., 1974
Rutgers University School of Law, J.D., 1981
Bar Admissions
Member, New York and New Jersey Bars
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JAMES S. CHANOS Chairman
Coalition of Private Investment Companies (CPIC)
Jim Chanos is the founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates. As the largest exclusive short selling investment firm, Kynikos provides investment management services for both domestic and offshore clients. Through investment funds, partnerships, corporations and managed accounts, both domestic and offshore, Kynikos Associates maintains private portfolios of securities for clients. The funds, Ursus Partners, as well as Ursus International for non-U.S. clients, attempt to profit from the unusually high alphas found on the short side of the U.S. equity market.
Mr. Chanos opened Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered while beginning his Wall Street carreer as a financial analyst with Paine Webber, Gilford Securities and Deutsche Bank. Throughout his investment career, Mr. Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; among them, Baldwin-United, Commodore International, Coleco, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco and Tyco International. His celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was recently dubbed by Barron's as "the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years."
Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Mr. Chanos currently lives in New York with his four children and is active in many charitable foundations and educational institutions. Mr. Chanos received his BA in economics and political science in 1980 from Yale University.
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ANANDA RADHAKRISHNAN Director
Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight
US Commodity Futures Trading Commission
Ananda Radhakrishnan is Director of the Division of Clearing and Intermediary Oversight (DCIO) of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). In this role, he leads DCIO in its oversight programs for futures clearinghouses and intermediaries. In addition, he provides policy advice that promotes an effective, flexible oversight environment responsive to continually evolving market conditions.
Immediately prior to becoming Director of DCIO in October 2005, Mr. Radhakrishnan served as Legal Counsel and Advisor to Chairman Reuben Jeffery on legal, regulatory, and policy issues affecting the CFTC, with specific emphasis on clearing and market oversight and enforcement matters.
Prior to joining the CFTC, Mr. Radhakrishnan worked for seven years in the Clearing House Division at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Inc. (CME), where he was responsible for strategic and risk management planning and project management for the CME clearinghouse. He also worked on initiatives such as cross-margining and mutual offset arrangements and the clearinghouse credit facility.
A native of Singapore, Mr. Radhakrishnan practiced law in Singapore from 1985 to 1987 and was a police officer with the criminal intelligence division of the Singapore Police Force from 1979 to 1984.
Mr. Radhakrishnan has an MBA in Finance and Marketing from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a law degree from the National University of Singapore Law School. He is admitted to practice law in New York and Singapore.
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JOHN G. GAINE President
Managed Funds Association (MFA)
John G. Gaine has been president of Managed Funds Association (MFA) since 1997. MFA, headquartered in Washington, D.C., is the only U.S.-based membership organization that represents the interests of managed funds professionals internationally. MFA promotes a beneficial regulatory environment, improved public relations, growth of the managed funds industry, and increased member and investor knowledge. Prior to becoming MFA's president, from 1993 to 1997, Mr. Gaine was MFA's director of government relations and general counsel.
From 1981 to1993, Mr. Gaine worked in private practice specializing in commodities and related areas, and, from 1977 to 1981, he was the General Counsel for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. Gaine received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame in 1964, and his LL.B. from Harvard University in 1967. He is admitted both to the Washington, D.C. bar and the New York bar.
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LISA S. MCGREEVY EVP & COO
Managed Funds Association (MFA)
Lisa McGreevy is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Managed Funds Association (MFA). She is an advocate for the alternative investments industry on Capitol Hill and at the Federal Regulatory Agencies. McGreevy has been recognized as a leader in Washington, making "the Hill" newspaper's 2004 top 40 lobbyist list (out of 25,000 registered lobbyists), and named one of the "Most Powerful Women in Washington" by the U.S. Banker in 2005.
McGreevy joined MFA in July of 2006 from the Financial Services Roundtable (FSR) where she was the Executive Vice President of External Affairs and President of the Government Affairs Council.
Prior to joining FSR, McGreevy led the policy development efforts and creation of an international division at the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS).
McGreevy was Senior Legislative Manager at the Department of Treasury during the four years of President George H. Bush's Administration. She served in the Reagan Administration as Special Assistant to the President for Political and Intergovernmental Affairs.
McGreevy received her B.A. from Southern Methodist University, Dallas Texas.
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ANDREW LOWENTHAL Managing Director
Coalition of Private Investment Companies (CPIC)
Andrew Lowenthal is President of Porterfield & Lowenthal, LLC, a government relations firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to establishing his partnership with Lendell Porterfield, Lowenthal was a Vice President at Van Scoyoc Associates, representing a variety of financial services entities. From 2001 to 2003, Mr. Lowenthal was a Director of Government Relations at Freddie Mac, a Fortune 50 housing finance corporation.
Before joining Freddie Mac, Lowental was Chief of Staff at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission under Chairman Bill Rainer. During that tenure, Lowenthal assisted in the overhaul of US regulatory approach towards the $100 trillion market for derivative instruments and futures, culminating in passage of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000.
Lowenthal served as the first Legislative Director for Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. As Minority Staff Director of the Senate Subcommittee on Securities, Lowenthal was the principal Senate Banking Committee staff person for Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut. Lowenthal was senior aide to Dodd during passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act of 1997 and the National Securities Markets Improvement Act of 1996. Lowenthal also had the opportunity to play a role brokering a compromise between the banking industry and the independent insurance agents that helped pave the way for eventual repeal of Glass-Steagall in the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act of 1999. Lowenthal was Legislative Director for U.S. Representative Carolyn Maloney of New York and previously served as her Chief of Staff in the New York City Council.
A graduate of Cornell University, Lowenthal, lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.
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