John Weisenseel joined our firm in 2012 as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. From 2004 to 2012, he worked at The McGraw Hill Companies, where he served initially as Senior Vice President and Corporate Treasurer, and, since 2007, as Chief Financial Officer of the firm’s Standard & Poor’s subsidiary. Prior to joining McGraw Hill, Weisenseel was Vice President and Corporate Treasurer for Barnes & Noble, Inc. Before that, he spent 10 years in various derivatives trading and financial positions at Citigroup. A Certified Public Accountant, Weisenseel also worked at KPMG Peat Marwick. He has a BBA in Accounting from Adelphi University and an MBA in Finance and Computer Information Systems from the University of Texas.

Peter S. Kraus was elected Chairman of the Board of AllianceBernstein Corporation, the general partner of AB, and Chief Executive Officer of AB in December 2008. He has in-depth experience in the financial markets, including investment banking, asset management and private wealth management. Kraus served as an executive vice president, the head of global strategy and a member of the Management Committee of Merrill Lynch & Company from September through December 2008. Kraus spent 22 years with the Goldman Sachs Group (“Goldman”), where he most recently served as co-head of the Investment Management Division and a member of the Management Committee, as well as the head of firmwide strategy and the chairman of the Strategy Committee. He also served as co-head of the Financial Institutions Group. Kraus was named a partner at Goldman in 1994 and managing director in 1996. In April 2010, Kraus was appointed a member of the Management Committee of AXA, which was formed by Henri de Castries, Chairman and CEO of AXA, to assist de Castries with the operational management of AXA. Kraus was named a director of AXA Financial, Inc., AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company and MONY Life Insurance Company of America, each of which is a wholly owned subsidiary of AXA, in February 2009. He is not compensated for serving in these roles for AXA and its subsidiaries.

James A. Gingrich is the Chief Operating Officer of AB. He was previously CEO and chairman of the Board for Bernstein Research Services. Gingrich joined Bernstein in 1999 as a senior research analyst, and served as the firm’s global director of research from 2003 to 2006. Prior to that, he was a partner with Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he had leadership responsibility for the consumer products and retailing consulting practice in both Latin America and New York. Gingrich earned a BS in operations research and industrial engineering, an MEng in operations research and an MBA, all with distinction, from Cornell University. Location: New York

Robert van Brugge is the CEO of Bernstein Research Services, a position he assumed in December 2011. Prior to that, he served as global director of research for the firm. Van Brugge was formerly a senior research analyst, and was named to Institutional Investor’s All-America Research team. Prior to joining the firm in 2002, he was an associate principal with McKinsey & Company, where he focused on corporate finance and the consumer goods sector for six years, and prior to graduate school, he served as a commercial lender with First Colonial Bankshares Corp. Van Brugge earned a BA (with honors) in political science and economics from Roosevelt University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was recognized as a Palmer Scholar. Location: New York