ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORT
ANNUAL REPORT
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Leonard Fischer – Director and Chief Executive Officer:<br />
Leonhard Fischer was appointed Chief Executive Officer in<br />
January 2009. He was co-Chief Executive Officer of RHJI since<br />
May 2007 and is a member of the Board of Directors since<br />
September 18, 2007.<br />
Prior to joining RHJI, Mr. Fischer was Chief Executive Officer of<br />
Winterthur Group from 2003 to 2006, an insurance subsidiary of<br />
Credit Suisse, and a member of the Executive Board of Credit<br />
Suisse Group from 2003 to March 2007. Mr. Fischer joined Credit<br />
Suisse Group from Allianz AG, where he had been a Member of<br />
the Management Board and Head of the Corporates and Markets<br />
Division since 2001. Previously, he had been with Dresdner Bank<br />
AG as a member of the Executive Board since 1998 and with JP<br />
Morgan in Frankfurt since 1987.<br />
Mr. Fischer holds an M.A. in Finance from the University of<br />
Georgia and a Business Management Degree from the University<br />
of Bielefeld.<br />
He is also on the Supervisory Boards of the Deutsche Presse<br />
Agentur and the Leipziger Verlags- und Druckereigesellschaft,<br />
as well as being a member of the European Publishers Council.<br />
He holds Honorary Offices at the American Academy, the Aspen<br />
Institute, and on the American Jewish Committee.<br />
Dr. Döpfner studied Musicology, German, and Theatrical Arts in<br />
Frankfurt and Boston.<br />
Björn König – Director:<br />
Mr. König, a director since April 1, 2005, is currently an adviser<br />
to private equity and alternative asset management groups.<br />
Mr. König has several years of experience as an investor in<br />
limited partnerships and has served as an advisor in the<br />
establishment of a number of limited partnerships.<br />
Mr. König has a B.S. in Business Administration from the<br />
University of Stockholm, Sweden.<br />
Harvey Golub – Director:<br />
Mr. Golub has been a director of RHJI since September 2006.<br />
Mr. Golub is the Non-Executive Chairman of Ripplewood<br />
Holdings, LLC. He serves as Non-Executive Chairman of the<br />
Boards of Campbell Soup Company and the Reader’s Digest<br />
Association. Mr. Golub also serves on the Boards of the Lincoln<br />
Center for the Performing Arts, the American Enterprise<br />
Institute, and the New York Presbyterian Hospital, and as a<br />
member of the Advisory Board of Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC.<br />
Previously, Mr. Golub has served on the Board of Dow Jones &<br />
Company.<br />
Mr. Golub served as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of<br />
the Board of American Express from 1993 until he retired in<br />
2001.<br />
Prior to joining American Express in 1991, he was a senior<br />
partner with McKinsey & Co.<br />
Mr. Golub attended Cornell University from 1956 to 1958, and<br />
received a B.S. degree from the New York University in 1961.<br />
Mathias Döpfner – Director:<br />
Dr. Döpfner was appointed as a director of RHJI on September<br />
16, 2008. He is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of<br />
Axel Springer AG in Berlin, which he joined in 1998 as Editor-in-<br />
Chief of Die Welt. He has been a Member of the Management<br />
Board there since the year 2000.<br />
Mathias Döpfner has held several different positions in media<br />
companies during his career. Amongst others, as Editor-in-Chief<br />
of the Wochen Post and the Hamburger Morgenpost<br />
newspapers. Since 2006 he has been a member of the Board of<br />
Directors at Time Warner, Inc.<br />
Jun Makihara – Director:<br />
Mr. Makihara, a director since April 1, 2005, is currently the<br />
Chairman of Neoteny Co., Ltd., an early stage venture<br />
investment firm in Japan. From 1981 to 2000, Mr. Makihara was<br />
with Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he served in various<br />
capacities, including as a Managing Director in New York in<br />
Investment Banking from 1998 to 2000, as a Managing Director<br />
in Tokyo as co-head of Equities and co-branch manager from<br />
1995 to 1998 and as co-head of Investment Banking in Tokyo<br />
from 1992 to 1995. Mr. Makihara is a director of Monex Group,<br />
Inc. and the Japan Society.<br />
Mr. Makihara has an B.A. from Harvard College in Economics<br />
and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.<br />
Gerd Häusler – Director:<br />
Mr. Gerd Häusler joined RHJI in October 2008 as a director and a<br />
senior advisor after having served the previous two years at<br />
Lazard as a Vice-Chairman and Managing Director in their<br />
Financial Institutions Group and their Sovereign Debt Advisory<br />
practice.<br />
Between 2001 and 2006 he was counselor and director of the<br />
International Capital Markets Department of the IMF<br />
responsible for all financial markets-related work and is<br />
credited with the creation of the Global Financial Stability<br />
Report; he also represented the Fund at the Financial Stability<br />
Forum. Before, Mr. Häusler was a Member of the Board of<br />
Managing Directors at Dresdner Bank AG in Frankfurt (1996 to<br />
2000) and Chairman of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson in London<br />
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