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Ten12 Advisory board

The Ten12 advisory board is composed of leaders from the Financial Industry, Financial Industry Trade Associations and Financial Regulators. A1

Industry

Chris Corrado

Mike Rushmore

Trade Associations

Bob Pickel

Paul Schott Stevens

Regulators

Paul Atkins

Sharon Brown-Hruska

Chris Corrado

Mr. Corrado has over 35 years of technology and business experience domestically and abroad. Industries include financial services, consulting, computer hardware and services, telecommunications, wireless and e-commerce. Management of large, global teams driving innovative technologies supporting leading edge businesses. Mr. Corrado has served as the COO/CIO of the London Stock Exchange Group (2015-2020). Prior to joining LSEG, Mr. Corrado served as CTO of MSCI, where he was responsible for technology, data services and program management, CIO/CTO, since 2013. He has also worked for high growth technology companies as CTO at eBay, CIO at AT&T Wireless, and SVP of Technology, Strategic Initiatives and Business Architecture at Asurion, the mobile technology protection company. He began his career at IBM. He graduated with a B.S. in Management Information Systems & Business Administration from the University of New York at Albany. Mr. Corrado held a variety of senior CTO roles in leading banks, including Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, Merrill Lynch and UBS.

Mike Rushmore

Mr. Rushmore began his career as an industrial engineer working on the oil fields and refining centers of Montana. He transitioned to finance in 1985, joining a large commercial bank, holding various credit analysis, sales and research positions over 15 years. In 2000, Mike founded and built LoanX as the first credit pricing consortium of commercial and investment banks. Mike served as CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors of LoanX until its merger with Markit. At Markit, Mike served on the Executive Management Team as the Global Head of Sales and Marketing as the business grew from under 100 employees to over 3,000 employees, and a public market valuation exceeding $4 billion. Mike is the Founder and current Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Eagle Valley Community Foundation, an organization that addresses food insecurity in Eagle County, Colorado. Mr. Rushmore graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a BS in Industrial Engineering and received his MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 1985.

Bob Pickel

Mr. Pickel serves as the Chair of the Management Board of the Panel of Recognized International Market Experts in Finance (“P.R.I.M.E. Finance”). P.R.I.M.E. Finance is composed of a panel of over 200 legal and financial experts, including sitting and retired judges, central bankers, regulators, academics, representatives from private legal practice and derivatives market participants. From 1997 to 2014 Mr. Pickel served in several roles at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), including Chief Executive Officer, Executive Vice Chairman and General Counsel. During his time at ISDA, Mr. Pickel led the organization through the most comprehensive changes ever to the OTC derivatives market, helping to coordinate the industry’s response to a variety of regulatory reforms, including the Dodd-Frank Act and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, among others. As CEO, he was also a key driver behind several other milestones, including development of the ISDA novation protocol in 2005, which created a uniform process for the transfer of interest rate and credit derivatives contracts to third parties, and the successful completion of the ‘Big Bang’ protocol in 2009, which incorporated auction settlement terms into standard credit default swap documentation. Prior to joining ISDA, Mr Pickel was a lawyer at a global energy company and a major New York law firm, where he represented ISDA on a variety of matters.

Paul Schott Stevens

Mr. Stevens has served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Investment Company Institute (ICI) since June 2004, retiring in 2020. From 1993 to 1997, he was ICI's General Counsel. Outside ICI, Stevens' career has included varied roles in private law practice, as corporate counsel, and in government service. From 1999 to 2004, he was a leader of the financial services practice of Dechert LLP, an international law firm. He was general counsel for mutual funds and international enterprise at Charles Schwab & Co., Inc. in San Francisco from 1997-99. Earlier in his career, he was a partner and associate of Dickstein Shapiro & Morin in Washington. Between 1985 and 1989, Stevens served as Special Assistant for National Security Affairs to President Reagan, as Executive Secretary and Legal Adviser of the National Security Council , and in other senior positions at the White House and the Pentagon. Upon leaving government service, he received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service, DOD's highest civilian decoration. A Scholar of the House at Yale University, Stevens received his B.A., magna cum laude, in 1974; he received a J.D. from the University of Virginia in 1978.

Sharon Brown-Hruska

Dr. Sharon Brown-Hruska has served in senior leadership roles in business and government over her 30-year career in economic policy, regulation, and markets. Designated by President George W. Bush as Acting Chairman of the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), she was appointed and twice Senate confirmed as Commissioner (2002-2006) of the CFTC. As the Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of State, she led the Office of the Chief Economist, focusing on finance, governance, and technology. She also served as Public Director, MarketAxess Holdings, an electronic market for fixed income securities and credit derivatives, Director and Chairman of the Regulatory Oversight Committee of ELX, and Trustee of the International Securities Exchange (ISE). Previously, she was Managing Director at National Economic Research Associates (NERA) and Professor in the Energy Institute in the A.B. Freeman School of Business at Tulane University. She is an expert in markets, securities, derivatives, int'l finance and development, FX, energy, crypto, HFT and risk, and has published in the Barrons, Forbes, Financial Times, and others. She holds a PhD in economics from Virginia Tech.

Paul Atkins

Mr. Atkins is the CEO and founder of Patomak Global Partners, where he leads client work for financial services firms regarding an array of matters, including Dodd-Frank Act compliance, domestic regulatory issues, European regulatory advice, and corporate governance. Mr. Atkins regularly serves as an independent compliance consultant and a court-appointed monitor in settlements involving federal agencies and regulators. His expert witness engagements include federal, state, and foreign litigation, as well as U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission matters.

Since 2017, Mr. Atkins has led industry efforts to develop best practices for digital asset issuances and trading platforms as co-chair of the Token Alliance. From 2012 to 2015, Mr. Atkins served as an independent director and non-executive Chairman of the Board of BATS Global Markets, Inc., a leading operator of electronic U.S. and European securities markets trading listed cash equity securities and equity options. Prior to founding Patomak, Mr. Atkins served as an SEC Commissioner from 2002 to 2008 where he advocated for transparency, consistency, and the use of cost-benefit analysis at the agency. He represented the SEC at meetings of the U.S.-E.U. Transatlantic Economic Council, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, the World Economic Forum, and the Transatlantic Business Dialogue.

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