Pershing

   Richard Brueckner
   Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
   Pershing, a BNY Mellon company
   Senior Executive Vice President
   BNY Mellon

Richard Brueckner is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Pershing, a BNY Mellon company. Mr. Brueckner is also a Senior Executive Vice President of BNY Mellon and a member of its Executive Committee and Operating Committee. Mr. Brueckner joined BNY Mellon in May 2003, when the company acquired Pershing from Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB). He served as Chief Executive Officer of Pershing and as a member of the CSFB Executive Board after CSFB’s acquisition of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) Securities Corporation and Pershing in November 2000. Mr. Brueckner joined DLJ in 1978 and served as Treasurer of DLJ and Chief Financial Officer of Pershing, where he has held a variety of senior management positions in administration, finance, marketing and operations. Prior to that, he was a member of the management group of the Investment Services Department of KPMG Peat Marwick.

Mr. Brueckner currently serves on the Board of Governors of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc. (FINRA, formerly known as the NASD), the largest independent regulator of all securities firms doing business in the United States. He is also Chairman of the Finance and Operations Committee and a member of the Executive Committee. He has previously served as Chairman of the NASD’s National Adjudicatory Council and as Chairman of the NASD’s New York District Committee. Mr. Brueckner is on the Board of Directors of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA) and has served as SIFMA’s Co-Treasurer and as Co-Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. He is also a Trustee of SIFMA’s Foundation for Investor Education. He has been active in SIFMA, serving as the founding Chairman of the Clearing Firms Committee, Chairman of the Membership Committee, Chairman of the New York District and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education.

Mr. Brueckner has also served on the Board of Archipelago LLC and as a Trustee for the Frontier Trust Company in Fargo, North Dakota, and the United Way of Hudson County, New Jersey. Mr. Brueckner is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics from Muhlenberg College, and in 1973 he became a Certified Public Accountant in New York.