William Daley

Chairman, Chicago Steering Committee; Chairman, Midwest, J.P. Morgan Chase

William Daley serves as Chairman of the Chicago Steering Committee for the U.S.-Saudi Business Opportunities Forum.  He has been Chairman of the Midwest Region of J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. (J.P. Morgan Chase) since May 2004, serving on both its Executive Committee and International Advisory Council.  Mr. Daley joined J.P. Morgan Chase, after serving as President of SBC Communications Corp. from 2001-2004.

Previously, Mr. Daly was U.S. Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton from 1997-2000. As Special Counsel to President Clinton in 1993, he coordinated the successful campaign to pass the North American Free Trade Agreement. He also collaborated on the effort to secure permanent Normal Trade Relations with China while serving as Chairman of the 2000 presidential campaign of Vice President Al Gore.

Earlier in his career, Mr. Daly was Partner at Mayer, Brown & Platt, President and Chief Operating Officer of Amalgamated Bank of Chicago, and a lawyer at Daley & George Ltd. Mr. Daley served as Vice Chairman of Evercore Capital Partners LP, a private equity investment firm in 2001. He has been a Director of Boston Properties Inc. since 2003, and is the Chairman of the Nominating and Corporate Governance and a Member of the Audit Committee. He has been a Director of Abbott Laboratories since 2004.

Mr. Daley serves as a Director of the U.S.-China Business Council, The Joffrey Ballet of Chicago, Loyola University, and the Committee on U.S.-China Foreign Relations. He also sits on The Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Daly has served as a Director of Merck & Co. Inc. since 2002. He received a B.A. from Loyola University and a law degree from John Marshall Law School, both in Chicago, Illinois.

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  Eng. Azzam Y. Shalabi

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  Rita R. Athas