Board of Directors

Armando M. Codina (1)

Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Codina Group, Inc., a real estate investment development, construction, brokerage and property management firm; 59 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2005.

Jill K. Conway (2)

Visiting Scholar, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; former President of Smith College; 71 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 1978.

Alberto Cribiore (3)

Managing Principal of Brera Capital Partners LLC, a private equity investment firm that he founded in 1997; former Co-President of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc.; former Senior Vice President of Warner Communications (Time Warner, Inc.); 60 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2003.

John D. Finnegan (4)

Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Chubb Corporation, a property and casualty insurance company; former Executive Vice President of General Motors Corporation; former Chairman and President of General Motors Acceptance Corporation; 57 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2004.

Heinz-Joachim Neubürger (5)

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Siemens AG; Member of the Executive Committee of the Managing Board of Siemens AG; 53 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2001.

David K. Newbigging (6)

Chairman of the Board of Talbot Holdings Limited, a non-life insurance company whose operations are based in the U.K.; former Chairman of the Board of Friends Provident plc; former Chairman of the Board of Equitas Holdings Limited; former Chairman of the Board of Rentokil Group plc; former Chairman of the Board and Senior Managing Director of Jardine, Matheson & Co. Limited; 72 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 1996.

E. Stanley O'Neal (7)

Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer and President of Merrill Lynch; joined Merrill Lynch in 1986; 54 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2001.

Aulana L. Peters (8)

Corporate Director; Retired Partner in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP; Member, International Public Interest Oversight Board; former Member, Public Oversight Board of AICPA; former Commissioner of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission; 64 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 1994.

Joseph W. Prueher (9)

Corporate Director; Consulting Professor at the Stanford University Institute of International Studies and Lecturer and Senior Advisor to the Stanford-Harvard Preventive Defense Project; former U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China; U.S. Navy Admiral (Ret.), Commander-in-Chief of U.S. Pacific Command; 63 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2001.

Ann N. Reese (10)

Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of the Center for Adoption Policy, a not-for-profit corporation; former Principal of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, Inc., an equity investment firm; former Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of ITT Corporation; 53 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2004.

Charles O. Rossotti (11)

Senior Advisor to The Carlyle Group, a private global investment firm; former Commissioner of Internal Revenue at the Internal Revenue Service; former Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer of American Management Systems; 65 years old; elected a Director of Merrill Lynch in 2004.

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