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John Chirico Managing Director Co-Head of NAM BCMA 388 Greenwich Street , NY 10013

John Chirico co-heads Citi's Banking, Capital Markets & Advisory (BCMA) businesses in North America. This group is responsible for Corporate and , Capital Markets underwriting and syndication and the businesses at Citi operating in the U.S. and Canada.

He has advised some of the largest and most influential clients of the firm including , GE, AIG, AT&T, Ford, Dell, Tesla, Becton Dickinson, Centene, US Treasury, Prudential, MetLife, Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Warburg Pincus, SilverLake Partners and many others. In addition, he has advised man emerging growth companies such as Zillow, Yelp, GrubHub, GoPro, WebMD, and GoDaddy.

John began his Investment Banking career with in 1997 advising corporate clients on corporate finance and M&A advisory Technology, Media, and Telecommunications sectors.

In 2000, he joined Citi’s equity capital markets focusing on TMT sector and was promoted to head Equity Capital Markets broadly in the Americas for Citi in 2006.

In 2008 John was to become Co-Head of Capital Markets Origination a multidisciplinary team responsible for the underwriting and syndication of high grade loans and bonds, equity, and leveraged finance products in the Americas. He was promoted to his current role in 2018.

Prior to his career, John worked for ten years as an engineer and product manager with Bell Laboratories with AT&T and later Lucent Technologies. He focused on digital wireless and network systems equipment and semiconductor technology for both commercial and military applications. John lived in China during the period 1991 to 1994 and helped to establish AT&T and Bell Laboratories in the Greater China region.

John holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union, a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from and an MBA in International Finance from the Stern Graduate School of Business at New York University. --

Deirdre K. Dunn Co-Head of Global Rates Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Ms. Dunn is currently a Co-Head of Global Rates. In this capacity, Deirdre oversees the North American sales, trading, and origination businesses of Citi's Global Rates franchise. Deirdre is a member of Citi’s Pension Plan Investment Committee.

Prior to this appointment, Deirdre was running North American G10 Rates Markets, responsible for the Trading, Structuring and North American Distribution of G10 Products. Deirdre joined Citi in July 2011 to run the mortgage pass through trading desk. Prior to joining Citi, she ran the US Interest Rate Swaps Trading Desk for Capital. She also spent two years with Barclays Capital in , managing the long end of European Government business, and then building out a cross currency Sovereign Supranational and Agency Trading business.

Deirdre began her career in 1999 at . In 10 years there and at , she traded a variety of different residential and commercial mortgage products, ultimately running the pass through trading business.

Deirdre holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Ms. Dunn holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 3, 7, 24 and 63.

Deirdre is a member of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, which is an advisory committee governed by federal statute that meets quarterly with the Treasury Department. The Borrowing Committee presents their observations to the Treasury Department on the overall strength of the U.S. economy as well as providing recommendations on a variety of technical debt management issues. Deirdre is a member of the Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG), which is sponsored by the Federal Reserve of New York. She is a member of the Executive Council of the Susan F. Smith Center for Women’s Cancers at Dana Farber. She is also a member of the Foundation of Paul Taylor’s American Modern Dance. --

Francisco (Paco) Fernandez De Ybarra CEO, Institutional Clients Group Managing Director 33 Canada Square London, GB E14 5LB

Paco Ybarra is CEO of Citi’s Institutional Clients Group, which comprises Banking, Capital Markets and Advisory, Markets and Securities Services, Treasury and Trade Solutions and the . He is a member of the Executive Management Team, Chairman of the Institutional Clients Group Risk Management Committee and serves as a Member of the Board of Grupo Financiero Citibanamex, S.A. de C.V.

Prior to assuming his current role in May 2019, Mr. Ybarra was Global Head of Markets and Securities Services. He joined the bank in 1987 in Spain as a Management Associate. During his career he has held positions in Spain, , Singapore, New York and London. In November 2006, he became Co-Head of Global , and in 2011 he was appointed Global Head of Markets. In November 2013, his responsibilities were expanded to include the Securities Services businesses. He was appointed Deputy Head of the Institutional Clients Group in October 2018.

Mr. Ybarra holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Valencia in Spain and an M.B.A. from I.E.S.E. in Barcelona. He is a member of the of EMPower in the United Kingdom, which supports local organizations in emerging markets countries that provide at-risk youth with the tools and resources they need to lead healthy, productive lives, and is a member of the Alumni Board of the IESE Business School. Mr. Ybarra holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, Series 24 and Series 63. --

Daniel Keegan Chairman, CEO and President of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Dan Keegan is Head of North America Markets and Securities Services at Citi and President and CEO of Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI). He is based in New York.

As Head of North America Markets and Securities Services, Dan is a partner to the Global and Regional Product heads in defining and executing the regional strategy, managing the regional North American roles and matrix managing the product roles. He works closely with the Legal, Compliance, Risk, Audit and Finance functions to ensure strong governance and controls, in addition to leading a management office that maintains a culture of responsible finance and ethics.

Dan joined Citi in 2007 as part of Citi’s purchase of Automated Trading Desk (ATD), where he was on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors. He has held several roles at Citi including Co-Head of Global Equities and Securities Services, Head of Equities Americas, Head of Global Cash Equities and Head of Global Electronic Trading.

Prior to joining ATD, where he was responsible for building their Institutional Equities business, Dan held numerous management positions at JP Morgan.

Dan was also previously a Board Member of the Better Alternative Trading System (BATS), BIDS Trading, and Level.

Dan is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame, as well as Notre Dame Law School. Mr. Keegan holds FINRA licenses, SIE Series 7, Series 9, Series 10, Series 23 and Series 63. --

Scott C. Kursman Chief Compliance Officer, CGMI and CBNA Swap Dealer Activities Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Scott C. Kursman is a Managing Director and Chief Compliance Officer for Citigroup Global Markets, Inc. (Broker-Dealer, Swap Dealer and Futures Commission Merchant) and the N.A., Swap Dealer. Prior to joining Citi in 2009, Scott was Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel for Global Compliance at Lehman Brothers and a Director at Barclays Capital. Between 1998 and 2005, Scott served as Vice President/Associate General Counsel for the Securities Industry Association (now SIFMA) where he advised member firms and advocated for regulatory changes in the area of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, technology and regulation, equity and options trading and general compliance and supervision. Prior to 1998, Scott was an Associate Vice President and Assistant General Counsel at Prudential Securities with responsibility for advising the firm's equity trading unit. Scott began his legal career at the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1992 as an attorney-adviser in the Division of Market Regulation (now Trading and Markets) where he worked on marketplace rules for the government bond, municipal bond, listed and OTC equity, and listed options markets. An active industry participant and frequent conference speaker, Scott currently serves as a Vice President on SIFMA’s Compliance & Legal Society Executive Committee and as a member of SIFMA’s Compliance & Regulatory Policy Committee.

Scott is a graduate of Tufts University and Boston University School of Law, is a member of the Pennsylvania and New Jersey Bar Associations and holds FINRA Series 7, 14, 24 and 65 licenses.

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Carey F. Lathrop Global Co-Head, Markets Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Carey Lathrop is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Markets.

Carey has been with Citi for more than 30 years. Prior to his current position, Carey was COO of Citibank N.A. (CBNA) and Chair of the Citigroup Business Practices Committee (BPC). He has held several leadership positions during his tenure at Citi. Most of these roles were within Markets, including Co- Head of Global Securitized Markets and Global Markets, Head of Global Credit Markets, Global Head of Credit Trading, Global Head of Investment Grade and High Yield Trading, Global Head of Emerging Markets Credit Trading and Head of the US Investment Grade Syndicate Desk.

Carey is a former member of the US Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC) of The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA), a position he held from December 2012 through April 2018. His responsibilities included providing market feedback on a regular basis to the Treasury Department on a variety of fundamental and technical debt-related topics.

Carey earned an M.B.A. degree from and a B.S. degree from Stony Brook University. Mr. Lathrop holds FINRA licenses, SIE Series 3, 7, 24, 55 and 63. --

Andrew Morton Global Co-Head, Markets Managing Director 33 Canada Square London, GB E14 5LB

Andy Morton is a Managing Director and Global Co-Head of Markets at Citi. He has been with Citi since 2008, and was previously head of the G10 Rates, Markets Treasury and Finance businesses and was responsible for the Markets Quantitative Analysis (MQA) function.

Prior to joining Citi Andy spent fifteen years at Lehman Brothers during which he held several positions including Head of European Fixed Income and Global Head of Fixed Income.

Andy began his working career as an academic in mathematical finance. He is the co-author of the HJM interest rate model, a widely used framework for the valuation of interest rate derivatives. He earned a B. Math from University of Waterloo and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Cornell University.

Debbie Ng Chief Risk Office – Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Debbie Ng is a Managing Director and Chief Risk Officer (CRO) of Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Citi’s U.S. Broker Dealer, responsible for overall risk oversight of the entity including credit, market and operational risk as well as risk governance. Debbie is also a Senior Credit Officer in the Convergence Risk Group within the Institutional Clients Group which focuses on the approval, governance and analytics of derivatives, secured financing transactions and other complex and structured financing activities that cross the nexus of market and credit risk. Prior to her current role, Debbie was a risk manager in Structured Products Risk Management where she covered and its derivative portfolio, infrastructure energy finance, asset-based lending and the Asset Finance Group. Prior to her roles in ICG Risk, Debbie worked in various business roles covering the structured finance space including Global Securitized Products.

Debbie brings with her a breadth of skills in structured finance, risk governance, regulatory relations and legal entity risk management. She holds a Bachelor of Arts from Barnard College and a Master degree in International Finance & Economics from Columbia’s SIPA Program. Ms. Ng holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, and Series 63. --

Dan Palomaki ICG Controller, and Chief Financial Officer for Citigroup Global Markets Inc. Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Dan Palomaki is a Managing Director, ICG Controller, and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI). Dan is responsible for (1) the accounting and financial reporting matters for CGMI, (2) establishing, implementing and maintaining accounting policies, (3) coordinating with and advising CGMI’s Treasurer and Finance staff on finance and other accounting issues, and (4) producing technical accounting analysis of new complex products for all business lines within CGMI. Dan is responsible for the integrity and control of CGMI’s financial books and records and specializes in accounting for derivatives, hedging activities, securitizations and financial instruments. Dan is a member of the AICPA Stockbrokerage and Investment Banking Committee. Prior to joining Citi, Dan was a partner at Arthur Andersen. Dan also served as a Practice Fellow at the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from 1998 to 2000.

Dan holds a Masters of Accounting and BBA degrees from the . Dan is a member of the AICPA and is a licensed CPA in the states of New York and Michigan. Mr. Palomaki holds the FINRA license Finance and Operations Principal (Series 27). --

Christopher Perkins Global Co-Head of Futures, Clearing and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Christopher R. Perkins, Managing Director, is the Global Co-Head of Futures, OTC Clearing and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage (FCX) at Citi. In this capacity, he delivers leading listed derivative electronic and voice execution and comprehensive central clearing capabilities to institutional clients across the world. He also leads Citi’s globally acclaimed, #1 ranked OTC clearing and Foreign Exchange Prime Brokerage (FXPB) businesses.

In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, Mr. Perkins founded Citi’s OTC clearing business and is a recognized, international authority and published “thought leader” on central clearing. He oversees a clearing business that has successfully cleared hundreds of trillions of dollars notional in client Interest Rates Swaps, Credit Default Swaps and Foreign Exchange Swaps and safeguards approximately $40 billion in client assets.

Appointed as the Global Head of FXPB in 2018, he architected and executed a comprehensive restructuring and integration plan across multiple geographies. These efforts improved profitabilityand risk management while driving an industry-leading market share.

Prior to joining Citi in 2008, Mr. Perkins served as the U.S. Head of Derivatives Intermediation at Lehman Brothers managing a portfolio of over $100 billion in notional across credit and interest rate derivatives.

An Iraq war veteran, Mr. Perkins served in the U.S. Marine Corps for nine years achieving the rank of Captain. Highlights of his military career include leading the reconstruction, civil affairs, logistics, public affairs and fire support coordination effort in Ar Ramadi, capital of the Al Anbar Provinceand commanding Battery F, 2nd Battalion, 11th Marines. He is the founder of the Citi Military Veteran’s Networks, which include approximately 3,000 employees across 16 locations in the U.S.and United Kingdom. Mr. Perkins was instrumental in the formation of Citi Salutes (www.citisalutes.com) and served as co-founder of Veterans on Wall Street (www.veteransonwallstreet.com) a national initiative focused on veterans employment and empowerment. He was named “Employee of the Month—35 People Worthy of Emulation” (Esquire, Fall 2012) and recipient of Columbia University’s “Peter J. Awn Community Service Award” in 2018.

Mr. Perkins serves on the Executive Committee and Board of Directors of FIA, Inc. He also serves as Vice Chairman on the Board of Directors of Team Rubicon, an organization of approximately 150,000 volunteers that unites the skills and experiences of military veterans to rapidly deploy emergency response teams during natural disasters. Additionally, he serves on the Leadership Council of the Bob Woodruff Foundation, and is a member of the Economic Club of New York, the Nationswell Council, and Business Executives for National Security (BENS). Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Traiana, Inc.

Mr. Perkins has a Bachelor of Science Degree from the U.S. Naval Academy, with distinction, and a Master of Arts Degree from Georgetown University. --

Antonio Reyes Miras Americas Head of Futures, Clearing, and FXPB Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Antonio relocated to NY in January 2014 to take on the role of Regional Head of Futures, Clearing and FXPB. He joined Citigroup in March 2011 as Global Head of Electronic Execution Products for Listed Derivatives, responsible for the re-engineering of the Firm’s electronic execution platform servicing external clients and internal desks. Before joining Citi, he spent 12 years at J.P. Morgan performing in a variety of roles in the Electronic Execution space, including Global Head of Electronic Client Solutions for Cash Equities and Listed Derivatives and Global Head of Electronic Products for Prime Services.

Antonio holds an MSc in international securities, investments and banking (ICMA Center-Reading University, U.K.), MSc financial markets (INESE-Madrid), and B.Sc. (Honors) in business administration (Universidad Autonoma-Madrid). Mr. Reyes holds FINRA licenses SIE, Series 7, Series 9, Series 10, Series 17 and Series 32. --

Santo Trombetta ICG O&T Chief Operating Officer Managing Director 388 Greenwich Street New York, NY 10013

Santo is responsible for leading the ICG Operations and Technology (O&T) Chief Operating Officer (COO) where he works closely with the O&T senior leadership team to support the ICG businesses by assisting in the development and execution of strategic objectives and controls. As COO, Santo supports O&T’s 50 thousand global employees and $4 billion budget. Leads the Risk & Controls and Production Support teams, which are integral to ensuring O&T have appropriate controls, oversight and reporting in place across all products, processes and systems to protect the Firm and our Clients. In addition, he serves as Region Head for ICG North America Operations and is a member of the ICG O&T Operating Committee.

Santo joined Citi in 2008 as a Managing Director where he led the formation of the ICG Global Operations Controls and Reporting team. In 2013, he assumed responsibility of Technology Controls, further strengthening the control framework and creating a single O&T risk management organization to support the businesses. In 2019, Santo assumed responsibility for ICG Production Support and Business Unit Management. Throughout his time at Citi and his career, he is credited with delivering both strategic solutions and governance to improve controls and transparency across Operations, Technology, Regulatory Reporting, Data, Reconciliations and Asset Recovery. His efforts have led to significant reductions in risk, losses and produced cost savings and operating efficiency.

Prior to joining Citi, Santo obtained 30 years of Bank and Broker Dealer experience holding Senior management positions in Operations, Finance and Expense Management from his time at Credit Suisse, Lehman Brothers and the Bank of New York.

Educational Background and Certifications:

Earned his Business Degree from the City University of New York Holds a FINRA Series 27 - Financial and Operations Principal --

Sabrina Wilson, Managing Director Global co-Head of Futures, Clearing and FX Prime Brokerage 33 Canada Square Canary Wharf, London E14 5LB, United Kingdom

Sabrina a Managing Director and the Global Co-Head of the Futures, Clearing & FX Prime Brokerage (FCX) business at Citi. She joined Citi in 2017 as the European Head of the FCX business and was also globally responsible for the Listed Derivatives Electronic and Algorithmic Execution.

Sabrina has over 20 years’ experience in the Clearing industry having held a variety of senior roles in New York, London and Singapore across Sales, Product Development and leadership roles at JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs and .

Sabrina received a Masters and a Post Graduate in Economics at the University of Paris – Assas Sorbonne. She is a member of the Futures Industry Association European Advisory Board and was voted amongst the Top 100 Most Influential Women in Finance by Financial News in 2017.