Jane Mendillo became President and Chief Executive Officer of HMC on July 1, 2008.

Ms. Mendillo returned to HMC after five years as Chief Investment Officer of Wellesley College where she built the college's first investment office, restructured its investment portfolio, and led the endowment to substantial growth through a period of rapidly changing market conditions.

Ms. Mendillo previously spent 15 years at HMC from 1987 to 2002 in key positions, including Vice President of External Management, Vice President for Trusts, Vice President for Private Equity and as a member of the Internal Equities management team.

As Vice President of External Management in the late 1990s, Ms. Mendillo pioneered HMC's first investments in timberland. A relatively undiscovered asset class at the time, timberland quickly became an important and profitable innovation in the portfolio.

Ms. Mendillo received the 2007 Industry Leadership Award given by 100 Women in Hedge Funds in recognition of her "talent, ethics, and passion, which help define the hedge fund industry's standard of excellence."

Ms. Mendillo earned her BA and MBA degrees from Yale University. She began her business career as a management consultant with Bain & Company in Boston. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society, Inc., the Boston Committee on Foreign Relations and the Boston Economic Club.

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