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Joe Plumeri is chairman and CEO of Willis Group Holdings, one of the world’s leading insurance brokers. Prior to joining Willis Group Holdings, Mr. Plumeri spent 32 years as an executive with Citigroup Inc. and its predecessors, where his responsibilities included overseeing the 450 North American retail branches of Citigroup’s Citibank unit.
Plumeri’s work has been recognized by a number of organizations. He was named the Insurance Leader of the Year by St. John’s University School of Risk Management in 2006 and was honored by the Intrepid Foundation with the 2007 Salute Award in recognition of business achievements and philanthropic activities. The Make-a-Wish Foundation® of New Jersey named him 2006 Humanitarian of the Year, the National Italian American Foundation presented him with the 2004 Award for Special Achievement in Business, and the Boy Scouts of America honored him with the 2004 Good Scout Award. He serves as a board member of the Visitors of the College of William and Mary, the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse, American Friends of the Churchill Museum in London and the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. He was Commissioner of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority from 1997 to 2004. A sports fan and athlete, Plumeri is co-owner of two New Jersey minor league baseball teams – the Trenton Thunder and the Lakewood BlueClaws.
Merrill Lynch is one of the world's leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory companies, with offices in 40 countries and territories and total client assets of approximately U.S. $1.6 trillion. As an investment bank, it is a leading global trader and underwriter of securities and derivatives across a broad range of asset classes and serves as a strategic advisor to corporations, governments, institutions and individuals worldwide.
Merrill Lynch owns just under half of BlackRock, one of the world's largest publicly traded investment management companies with approximately U.S. $1 trillion in assets under management.
EmblemHealth Inc. is the parent company of affiliated groups Group Health Incorporated (GHI) and HIP Health Plan of New York (HIP). With 5,400 employees, GHI and HIP together are now the largest health insurer based in New York State serving more than 4 million people with over 92,000 providers in 142,000 locations across the Tri-State region. For over seventy years HIP and GHI have shared a commitment to providing broad access to quality health care coverage. The companies offer complementary products, programs and networks.
Guy Carpenter & Company, LLC is the world’s leading risk and reinsurance specialist and a part of the Marsh and McLennan Companies. Guy Carpenter creates and executes reinsurance solutions and makes available capital market solutions for clients worldwide through 2,600 professionals across the globe. The firm’s full breadth of services includes 16 centers of excellence in Accident & Health, Agriculture, Alternative Risk Transfer, Environmental, General Casualty, Investment Banking, Life & Annuity, Marine & Energy, Professional Liability, Program Manager Solutions, Property, Retrocessional, Structured Risk, Surety, Terror Risk and Workers Compensation. In addition, Guy Carpenter’s Instrat® unit utilizes industry-leading quantitative skills and modeling tools that optimize the reinsurance decision-making process and help make the firm’s clients more successful.
QualCare, Inc. is a full-service managed care organization that offers self-funded PPO, HMO Network, Point of Service (POS) Network and Open Access Health Plans, third party administration (TPA) services, provider network access, utlization management services and a Workers’ Compensation product including medical case management, network access, TPA services and medical bill review and re-pricing. Headquartered in Piscataway, New Jersey, QualCare is owned by 14 non-profit hospitals and physician-hospital organizations. QualCare contracts with 100 acute, specialty and rehabilitation hospitals as well as over 20,000 physicians and other ancillary providers at 33,000 locations throughout New Jersey.
Headquartered in Basel, Switzerland, Roche is one of the world’s leading research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics. As the world’s biggest biotech company and an innovator of products and services for the early detection, prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases, the Group contributes on a broad range of fronts to improving people’s health and quality of life. Roche is the world leader in in-vitro diagnostics and drugs for cancer and transplantation, and is a market leader in virology. It is also active in other major therapeutic areas such as autoimmune diseases, inflammatory and metabolic disorders and diseases of the central nervous system. In 2007 sales by the Pharmaceuticals Division totalled 36.8 billion Swiss francs, and the Diagnostics Division posted sales of 9.3 billion francs. Roche has R&D agreements and strategic alliances with numerous partners, including majority ownership interests in Genentech and Chugai, and invested over 8 billion Swiss francs in R&D in 2007. Worldwide, the Group employs about 79,000 people.
Assured Guaranty Corp. is a leading provider of financial guaranty insurance in the U.S. and international public finance, structured finance and mortgage-backed securities markets. Assured Guaranty Corp. is rated triple-A (stable) by the three leading rating agencies and is licensed in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Assured Guaranty Ltd. is a Bermuda-based holding company. Its operating subsidiaries provide credit enhancement products to the U.S. and international public finance, structured finance and mortgage markets.
The ACE Group of Companies is a global leader in insurance and reinsurance serving a diverse group of clients. Headed by ACE Limited, a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 stock index, the ACE Group of Companies conducts its business on a worldwide basis with operating subsidiaries in more than 50 countries.
Marsh has 26,000 employees and provides advice and transactional capabilities to clients in over 100 countries. Marsh is a unit of Marsh & McLennan Companies (MMC), a global professional services firm with more than 55,000 employees and annual revenue exceeding $11 billion. MMC also is the parent company of Guy Carpenter, the risk and reinsurance specialist; Mercer, the provider of HR and related financial advice and services; Oliver Wyman, the management consultancy; and Kroll, the risk consulting firm. MMC's stock (ticker symbol: MMC) is listed on the New York, Chicago and London stock exchanges.
Citi Smith Barney is the global private wealth management unit of Citi, a global financial services organization. One of the largest and most successful firms in the United States and Australia, Citi Smith Barney is a leader in the financial services industry. The company offers a broad range of financial products and services, including equity and fixed income investments, cash management facilities, financial planning and more.
New Smith Capital Partners is an independent investment management and corporate advisory partnership with offices in London and Singapore. Wholly owned and financed by its equity partners, the partnership provides asset management services via NewSmith Asset Management LLP.
Commerce Bancorp is one of the nation's fastest-growing financial services retailers with assets exceeding $18 billion and a rapidly expanding network of more than 230 stores. Commerce is maintaining an aggressive expansion pace, working toward a total asset goal of $50 billion and a network of 515 stores by the year 2007. The bank plans to add 46 new locations throughout New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania and Delaware during 2003.
For close to a century, the name Lincoln has been synonymous with luxury, comfort and design.
GUND is known worldwide for its top quality, soft and huggable designs and gift products. Award-winning GUND products appeal to all ages, from infants up, and are perfect for both play and collecting. The 110-year old company is based in Edison, New Jersey, and distributes throughout the United States and Canada as well as in Europe, Japan, Australia and South America. GUND products may be found in gift, specialty, toy, book, museum and department stores and many other retail outlets.
Ortho Biotech Products, L.P. is a leading biopharmaceutical company devoted to helping improve the lives of patients with cancer and with anemia due to multiple causes, including chronic kidney disease. Since it was founded in 1990, Ortho Biotech and its worldwide affiliates have earned a global reputation for researching, manufacturing and marketing innovative products that enhance patients' health. Located in Bridgewater, N.J., Ortho Biotech is an established market leader in Epoetin alfa therapy for anemia management. The company also markets treatments for recurrent ovarian cancer, rejection of transplanted organs and other serious illnesses.