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Glenn Hutchins

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Board Member

Glenn Hutchins is chairman of North Island and North Island Ventures, and co-founder of Silver Lake.

He is vice chairman and lead independent director of Santander; lead independent director of CoreWeave; and on the Investment Board and the International Advisory Board of GIC, the sovereign wealth fund of Singapore.

He is also co-chairman of The Brookings Institution, vice-chair of the Obama Foundation, and chairman emeritus of CARE.

From 2003 to 2025, he was a co-owner and served on the Executive Committee of the Boston Celtics Basketball Team (2024 and 2008 NBA World Champions).

He was previously chairman of the board of SunGard Data Systems, Inc. and Instinet, Inc., and a director of AT&T, Nasdaq, Inc. and Virtu Financial.

Mr. Hutchins was a director and chair of the Audit and Risk Committee of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 2011-2020. He served President Clinton in both the transition and the White House as a special advisor on economic and healthcare policy. He was also a director of the Harvard Management Company for a decade and co-chairman of Harvard University’s $9B capital campaign.

Mr. Hutchins and his wife, Debbie, founded the Hutchins Family Foundation which, among other projects, has supported the construction of the Obama Presidential Center and created the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research at Harvard University; the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at The Brookings Institution; the Hutchins Center for Civics at the Lawrenceville School; and the Chronic Fatigue Initiative, which conducted basic research into the cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.

Mr. Hutchins has published essays on economic and public policy in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Fortune and Foreign Affairs. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Mr. Hutchins holds an A.B. from Harvard College, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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