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Richard E. Cavanagh

Chairman, Member of Executive Committee, Member of Governance & Nominating Committee, Member of Performance Oversight Committee and Member of Compliance Committee, BlackRock Core Alternatives FB TEI Portfolio LLC

AgeTotal Calculated CompensationThis person is connected to 77 Board Members in 77 different organizations across 78 different industries.

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Background

Mr. Richard E. Cavanagh, also known as Dick, has been a Senior Advisor at The Fremont Group since 2008. Mr. Cavanagh is a Special Advisor at Echoing Green. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and President at The Conference Board, Inc. from November 1995 to 2007. He was a Partner and served as the Principal of McKinsey & Company Inc. from 1980 to 1988. Mr. Cavanagh spent 15 years at McKinsey & Company, Inc. He led McKinsey’s efforts to reorganize the nation’s bankrupt railroads into Conrail – at the time the largest industrial reorganization in history. He served as an Executive Director at Federal Cash Management, White House Office of Management and Budget, U.S. from 1977 to 1979. He led a government-wide effort to improve cash management that saved $12 billion. He served as an Executive Dean of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University from 1988 to 1995. He served as Acting Director of Harvard Center for Business and Government from 1991 to 1993. He has been the Chairman of various funds of BlackRock fund complex since 2007. Mr. Cavanagh serves as the Chairman of the Board of BlackRock Senior Floating Rate Fund II, Inc. and BlackRock MuniHoldings Quality Fund, Inc. He served as the Chairman of Educational Testing Service from 2005 to 2009. He has been a Director of The Fremont Group since 1996. He has been a Non-Interested Trustee at various funds in BlackRock fund complex since 1994. He has been a Director at BlackRock Senior Floating Rate Fund II Inc. and BlackRock Corporate High Yield Fund III, Inc. since 2007. He serves as Lead Director of Blackrock Florida Insured Municipal 2008 Term Trust. Mr. Cavanagh has been employed of Blackrock Florida Insured Municipal 2008 Term Trust Inc. since inception. He has been a Director of The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America since 1998. He serves as Trustee of Drucker Foundation. He served as a Director of The Conference Board of Canada. He served as an Independent Director of Arch Chemicals Inc., from 1999 to October 20, 2011. He served as a Director at AeroUSA and AeroUSA 3 until July 1, 2004; Airplanes Ltd. until July 1, 2004; LCI International, Inc., since May 1997 and Olin Corporation. He served as a Trustee of Partners Balanced Trust. He served as a Controlling Trustee of Airplanes Trust of Airplanes Ltd. until July 1, 2004. He served as Lead Trustee of various Blackrock funds in the fund complex. He created the “blue ribbon” Commission on Public Trust and Private Enterprise in 2002, which recommended corporate governance enhancements. He served as a Trustee of The Conference Board, Inc. He served as Trustee at BlackRock Insured Municipal Term Trust, Inc. since 2007. He served as a Trustee of Airplanes Group. He served as a Trustee of Aircraft Finance Trust (AFT) from 1999 to 2009. Mr. Cavanagh served as a Trustee of Airplanes Group since 1995. Until July 01, 2004, he was a Trustee Emeritus at Wesleyan University. He was a Trustee of Educational Testing Service (ETS) from 1997 to 2009. He also directed the President's Reorganization Project for domestic programs. He was an Adjunct Professor of Harvard University since 2007. He is a Co-Author of "THE WINNING PERFORMANCE" (best selling management book published in 13 national editions). Mr. Cavanagh holds a BA degree from Wesleyan University and an MBA degree from the Harvard Business School.

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100 Bellevue Parkway
Wilmington, Delaware 19809

United States
Phone: 302-797-2000
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Education

MBA
Harvard Business School
BA
Wesleyan University

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UC Regent Richard C. Blum

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Regent Richard C. Blum

Richard BlumRichard C. Blum is Chairman of Blum Capital Partners, L.P. and Co-Chairman of Newbridge Capital, LLC. Mr. Blum earned his B.A. and M.B.A degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business Alumnus of the Year Award in 1994 and is a member of the Advisory Board of the School.
Mr. Blum serves as a director on a number of boards, including Playtex Products, Glenborough Realty Trust and is Chairman of CB Richard Ellis. He also serves as Co-Chairman of the World Conference on Religion and Peace and is Founder and Chairman of the American Himalayan Foundation and is a board member of the World Wildlife Fund and the Wilderness Society. He is also a trustee and a member of the executive committee of The Carter Center, founded by former President Jimmy Carter.
Mr. Blum was appointed as a Regent in 2002 by Governor Davis to a 12-year term. In 2014 he was reappointed to a 12-year term by Governor Brown.

Term of Appointment

Appointed:
March 12, 2002
Reappointed March 1, 2014
Term expires:
March 1, 2026

Committee Membership (2015-2016)

Governance
Health Services
Oversight of the DOE Laboratories
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Fremont Private Holdings Management Team

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TEAM

Scott Earthy
Scott is the Managing Partner of Fremont Private Holdings, the direct investment division of Fremont Group. Fremont Group was founded more than 25 years ago to manage the assets of the San Francisco-based Bechtel family. Prior to joining Fremont, Scott was a Managing Director and a member of the Investment Committee at Ingleside Investors, a single family investment office for the New York-based Israel family.
Earlier in his career, Scott sourced and executed direct investments on behalf of the Chicago based Pritzker family and the Vancouver based Armstrong family. Scott's other previous work experience includes the mergers and acquisitions practice of Goldman Sachs and the financial institutions group at McKinsey & Company.
A native of Vancouver, Canada, Scott holds a Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen's University and an MBA from Stanford University.
Email: searthy@fremontgroup.com
Tim Sheehy
Tim is a Managing Director of Fremont Private Holdings, the direct investment division of Fremont Group. Fremont Group is the investment office for the San Francisco-based Bechtel family. Tim focuses on sourcing, evaluating and executing investments on behalf of FPH.
Prior to joining Fremont, Tim was with Bunker Hill Capital, a middle market private equity investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Earlier in his career, Tim was a member of the direct private equity investing groups of the Bank of Boston and Bank of America. Tim's other previous work experience includes the investment banking group of Robert W. Baird & Co.
A native of San Francisco, California, Tim holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Email: tsheehy@fremontgroup.com
David Badham
David is a Senior Associate at Fremont Private Holdings. David focuses on sourcing, evaluating and executing direct private investments on behalf of FPH. Prior to joining Fremont, David was an Associate at Metalmark Capital, a middle market private equity firm focused on making control investments in a variety of industries, including Industrials, Healthcare, Energy, and Business Services. Earlier in his career, David worked in the investment banking division at Morgan Stanley.
A native of Raleigh, North Carolina, David holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and History from Duke University.
Email: dbadham@fremontgroup.com
John Hughes
John is a Senior Associate at Fremont Private Holdings. John focuses on sourcing, evaluating and executing direct private investments on behalf of FPH. Prior to joining Fremont, John worked on private equity and debt investments as a Vice President at PineBridge Investments, a global asset management firm. Earlier in his career, John worked in the investment banking division at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
A native of Northern New Jersey, John holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Email: jhughes@fremontgroup.com
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OBIT: Concord Councilman Michael Chavez

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Concord CA 1980's

Mr. Chavez has for years been well-known to downtown merchants and he knew my past work.  I likely built cabinets for his shop like many other salons popping up. 

Like Brian Schwalen of Select Properties Alamo he dropped dead. 

The common denominator between them is Mr. Chavez was the designated lead on the steering committee for the Concord Naval Weapons Station conversion, and candidate Erik Nunn who perished in a fatal flight in LVNV in June 2008 just 36 hours after we'd planned our first face to face meeting.


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2011 UBS rogue trader scandal London to the UBS Bond Desk -

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2011 UBS rogue trader scandal

 
Note: I know a former UBS Bond Trader and Mormon that lost his job after being connected to this story.  He knows Accenture Employee Bishop Lyons who died during a cub scout hike.  I know far too many suspicious deaths within the Danville Stake.  Bishop Lyons knows my former attorney and Nate Greenan who are connected to Alamo 1st who is connected to Bechtel via Fremont Group.

In early September 2011, the Swiss bank UBS announced that it had lost over 2 billion dollars, as a result of unauthorized trading performed by Kweku Adoboli, a director of the bank's Global Synthetic Equities Trading team in London.[1][2]
On 24 September 2011, Oswald Grübel, the CEO of UBS, resigned "to assume responsibility for the recent unauthorized trading incident", according to a memo to UBS staff.[3][4] On 5 October Francois Gouws and Yassine Bouhara, the co-heads of Global Equities at UBS, also resigned.[5] It later emerged that UBS had failed to act on a warning issued by its computer system about Adoboli's trading.[6][7][8]
After two delays requested by Adoboli and a change of legal representation, Adoboli pleaded not guilty to two counts each of fraud and false accounting on 30 January 2012. He was released on conditional bail after a bail application at Southwark Crown Court on 8 June 2012. He was later convicted of both counts of fraud and sentenced to seven years imprisonment. He is currently appealing both conviction and sentence.[9]

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The trading incident

On 15 September 2011, Adoboli was arrested under suspicion of fraud in connection with a loss of a then-estimated US$2 billion, reportedly due to unauthorized trading at the Swiss group’s investment bank. A spokesperson from the Swiss banking regulator FINMA referred to the case as one of the biggest ever seen at a Swiss bank.[1] Adoboli had originally retained the law firm of Kingsley Napley, which previously advised Nick Leeson.[10] However, he has now changed his legal representation to Bark & Co and Furnival Chambers, with the fees being paid by legal aid.[11] On 30 January 2012 he pleaded not guilty to two charges of fraud and two charges of false accounting and faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted of all charges.[12]
The loss to UBS was described as "manageable" although it might cause UBS to report a net loss in the following financial quarter. The bank's net earnings for the year ending June 2011 were $6.4 billion[13] with a gross profit of approximately $1.1 billion reported by UBS for the third quarter of 2011.[14][15] On 15 September, the day of Adoboli's arrest, the price of the stock of UBS closed down 10.8%, while the price of other European bank stocks rose between 3–6%.[16]
It has been reported that Adoboli informed UBS of his unauthorized trades, and then the bank informed the Financial Services Authority and the police.[17] On 16 September, it was announced that City of London Police charged Adoboli with fraud by abuse of position and false accounting.[18]
On 18 September 2011, UBS issued a statement which revealed the losses from the alleged unauthorized trading stood at $2.3 billion. The rogue trader reportedly racked up the losses by speculating on EuroStoxx, DAX and S&P 500 indexes.[19]
The prosecutor in Adoboli's trial, Sasha Wass, stated that Adoboli "was a gamble or two from destroying Switzerland's largest bank for his own benefit."[20]
According to Business Insurance, as in the case of the unauthorized trades by Nick Leeson at the Singapore office of Barings Bank, the Adoboli incident took place at a location away from the bank's central office, where the risk management systems are typically stronger.[21]

The accused trader

Kweku Adoboli was born 21 May 1980.[22] His family home was in Tema, Ghana, but he has lived in the UK since 1991 and been described as "British by culture, citizenry and fame."[23]
He graduated from the University of Nottingham, where he studied computer science and management, in 2003.[1] Prior to this, he studied at Ackworth School (a Quaker-run private boarding school near Leeds), where he was Head Boy between 1997–1998, the year he graduated.[24]
According to the Daily Telegraph, shortly before the news of the incident broke, Adoboli had posted on his Facebook account that “I need a miracle”.[25]
Kweku's father, John Adoboli, is a former Ghanaian official at the United Nations. On the day of his son's arrest, he expressed the family's shock and disbelief: "We are all here reading all the materials and all the things being said about him. The family is heartbroken because fraud is not our way of life."[26]

Mechanics of the incident

According to UBS, Adoboli had disguised the risk of his trades by using "forward-settling" ETF cash positions.[27]
According to the Financial Times, and other sources, Adoboli is suspected to have used the fact that some ETF transactions in Europe are not issued confirmations until after settlement has taken place.[2] The exploitation of this process allows a party in a transaction to receive payment for a trade before the transaction has been confirmed.[28] While the cash proceeds in this scheme can not be simply retrieved, the seller may still show the cash on their books and possibly use it in further transactions.[28] The process of orchestrating fails to deliver trades may then be used in a carousel of transactions.[28][29] Unlike in the United States, no data about the volume of fails-to-delivers is available for Europe.[28][30] CNN and World Finance also stated that some banks have deliberately allowed certain levels of fails-to-deliver, as a method of "dealing with financial stress" so that between accounting cycles the value of securities sold, but not delivered, as well as the value of the cash booked, but not received can be reflected on the books.[28][29][31]
In October 2011, Sergio Ermotti, the interim CEO of UBS, after the departure of Grübel, admitted that the computer system at UBS had detected the unauthorized trading activities of Adoboli beforehand and had issued a warning, but the bank had failed to act on the warning.[6][7][8]
In May 2012, Sergio Ermotti, Group CEO, spoke at the UBS AGM about the changes implemented following the scandal. Ermotti spoke of improved internal monitoring and deficiencies in the financial reporting control system that have been addressed. Ermotti also made reference to employees that have been replaced or had pay docked due to serious mistakes or unreasonable behaviour.[32]

The fallout

On 24 September 2011 Oswald Grübel, the CEO of UBS resigned "to assume responsibility for the recent unauthorized trading incident", according to a memo to UBS staff.[3][4][33] Bloomberg reported UBS to be "in disarray" following the departure of the CEO as a result of the scandal.[34] Ten days later the co-heads of Global Equities at UBS, Francois Gouws and Yassine Bouhara, also resigned.[5]
UBS stated that no clients funds were lost as a result of the scandal, but according to The Daily Telegraph, the reputation of UBS could suffer "significant damage”, and that the amount lost was almost the same as the savings UBS had planned via the elimination of 3,500 jobs.[25]
In mid-November 2011 UBS announced that it would cut back half of the risk-weighted assets in its investment bank over the next five years to reduce risk exposure in the wake of the trading scandal.[35] In June 2012 UBS announced that their ongoing investigation has resolved the weaknesses that made this unauthorized trading possible. Along with their auditors, Ernst & Young Ltd., UBS aim to confirm this with internal control of financial reporting in December 2012.[36]
On 26 November 2012, the United Kingdom's financial regulator fined UBS £29.7 million ($47.6 million) for system and control failings that allowed Kweku Adoboli to cause over $2 billion losses through unauthorized trading in London.[37]
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Obit: Fang v. Bennett (2000)

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How killer cased victim's home

Jim Herron Zamora, OF THE EXAMINER STAFF
Published 4:00 am, Saturday, January 8, 2000


MARTINEZ - Mesa Kasem, who died Tuesday in a failed home robbery invasion, first visited the targeted Alamo home in November while delivering an item the doctor's family had purchased at an auction.

Kasem, who was employed at the time as a deliveryman and laborer for Somerset Auction Co.in Santa Clara, dropped off the item at the home of Kim and Winnie Fang, two well-known East Bay doctors, on Nov. 10. The item, which police would not identify, had been purchased by the Fangs three days earlier, investigators said.

Detectives now believe that after visiting the Fang home, Kasem decided to return and rob it.

"He must have seen something there that he liked," Capt. George Lawrence of the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Department said Friday of Kasem's Nov. 10 visit to the Fang residence.

On Tuesday night, Kasem, 22, returned to Alamo allegedly with fellow Stockton gang member Soknoeun Nem, driving a car they rented in Stockton and carrying a semiautomatic handgun police believe they stole in another robbery on Monday. Lawrence said they burst into the Fang home intent on robbery, but instead encountered fierce resistance from the well-armed doctor and his family.

In the fight and shootout that followed, Kasem and Kim Fang,

49, were killed. Nem, 21, and Winnie Fang, 45, were wounded. Nem was also beaten by family members. The family's nanny, Melee Jung, suffered head injuries when she was pistol-whipped.

Sheriff's deputies say that Kasem and Nem acted alone. "We believe there were no other accomplices," Lawrence said.

But investigators are combing the records of the Somerset Auction Co. to determine if any other homes Kasem visited as a deliveryman have been robbed or burglarized. They do not believe the men committed any other crimes in Contra Costa County, but Lawrence said that his department will send out a Teletype on the case to every law enforcement agency in the state.

Reviewing unsolved crimes

Stockton police also said Friday they were trying to determine whether Nem and Kasem are linked to any unsolved crimes in that city. Police confirmed that they were reviewing unsolved robberies and burglaries.

Police said Kasem may have taken part in a home invasion robbery Monday in Stockton of a family that purchased goods through Somerset auctions years ago. One of two 9mm handguns that investigators say was used in the Alamo robbery attempt Tuesday was stolen during that robbery, but police said it didn't appear that Kasem

ever visited the Stockton home in the course of his employment at the auction house.

Stockton resident Kim Chau told the Stockton Record she believes Kasem was among four masked men who robbed her Monday. She said the men left her home with the 9mm pistol and a .22-caliber weapon, her gold necklace, a ring, a diamond pendant and children's jewelry. They also took about $3,200 in cash, she said. She said investigators told her that Kasem probably targeted her through purchase records kept at Somerset Auctions.

Somerset Auctions was closed Friday and no one from the company could be reached for comment. Officer Doug Anderson, spokesman for the Stockton Police Department, confirmed Friday that Kasem and Nem were considered suspects in the Chau robbery, but declined further comment.

Chau said she and her husband attend many auctions in many cities, and went to Somerset Auctions in Santa Clara several years ago.

Paroled felon

Kasem, a paroled felon who was nearly deported back to his native Cambodia last year, worked at the auction house from the beginning of November until just before Christmas. He left the job without notice during the holidays. At the time he was staying with his girlfriend in the South Bay but fre

quently visited his old North Stockton neighborhood on weekends, investigators said. Investigators believe that is where he linked up with Nem, who is also a Cambodian native.

Stockton police said Kasem had four felony arrests dating back to 1994. He had been arrested at least twice for felonies involving firearms. But Anderson, of the Stockton Police Department, declined to give details, saying that most of the arrests occurred when Kasem was a juvenile.

Lawrence said that investigators "may never know" the exact sequence of events during the shootout at the Fang home Tuesday. Investigators were hoping to interview Winnie Fang to hear her side of the incident. Winnie Fang, an anesthesiologist, has been released from the hospital after treatment for her gunshot wound.

"It is still unclear who shot first (and) who fired the fatal shots into Dr. Fang," Lawrence said.

The two men forced their way into the house after Winnie Fang opened the door to see who was outside. She resisted. Her husband, who was working upstairs, came downstairs with a .38-caliber handgun and opened fire on the intruders, apparently hitting Kasem three times - in the temple, chest and upper thigh, Lawrence said.

In the exchange, Kim Fang was shot twice in the back. Both

rounds exited his chest. He died at the scene. Lawrence said it was not clear if Fang was retreating from the gunmen or if one of the robbers surprised him from behind.

Nem was being held without bail at the Contra Costa County Jail in Martinez on Friday pending charges. Deputy District Attorney Harold Jewett said his office may charge him with murder for Fang's death as early as next week. He said Nem may also be charged for Kasem's murder under California's "provocative act" law. That law allows someone who participated in a violent felony that left an accomplice dead to be charged with the murder of the deceased criminal.

Nem will likely be charged with one or more counts of attempted robbery, as well, he said.

Jewett said that Nem is currently being held on a parole violation to give prosecutors and investigators more time to build their case. <
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The CNET indictments are the tip of the iceberg.  There are many incidents some long forgotten incidents that suggest an ongoing racial targeting campaign was in full force until the CNET arrests.  Even though this Golden Hand of Contra Costa County was quelled it doesn't mean there aren't cases waiting to be resurrected not by the District Attorney but by the US Attorney.
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There are far too many hangings in Contra Costa County that simply stand out when analyzing these events from a Peer Group Study.  The closest statistical match is East of the Mississippi where there is a special DOJ prosecution group for long forgotten hate crimes.
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When the Danville Town Council looked the other way when Danville Building Inspector Gary Collins attacked this former resident in 2004 they allowed the CNET operation to move forward.  When this resident filed
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Complaint Number: 1
Complaint Type: Guardianship
Filing Date: 06/06/2006
Complaint Status: ACTIVE

Party Number Party Type Party Name Attorney Party Status
1  GUARDIAN  MARIANNE G ORTON   BRAY, OLIVER W.  First Paper Fee Paid 
2  MINOR - DEFENDANT  ROBERT EDWIN ORTON IV  Unrepresented  Serve Required (WaitS) 
3  MINOR - DEFENDANT  JOHN TURNER GRAY ORTON   Unrepresented  Serve Required (WaitS) 
4  MINOR - DEFENDANT  CLARE CATHERINE GRAY ORTION   Unrepresented  Serve Required (WaitS) 
5  MINOR - DEFENDANT  NEIL SPELMAN GRAY ORTON   Unrepresented  Serve Required (WaitS) 
Complaint Number: 2
Complaint Type: Sub. Acct. Guardianship
Filing Date: 01/28/2010
Complaint Status: JUDGMENT 03/10/2010

Party Number Party Type Party Name Attorney Party Status
1  PETITIONER  MARIANNE G ORTON   BRAY, OLIVER W.  First Paper Fee Paid 
2  MINOR - DEFENDANT  ROBERT EDWIN ORTON IV  Unrepresented  DISPOSED 03/10/2010 
3  MINOR - DEFENDANT  JOHN TURNER GRAY ORTON   Unrepresented  DISPOSED 03/10/2010 
4  MINOR - DEFENDANT  CLARE CATHERINE GRAY ORTION   Unrepresented  DISPOSED 03/10/2010 
5  MINOR - DEFENDANT  NEIL SPELMAN GRAY ORTON   Unrepresented  DISPOSED 03/10/2010 
Complaint Number: 3
Complaint Type: Sub. Acct. Guardianship
Filing Date: 07/31/2013
Complaint Status: JUDGMENT 09/18/2013

Party Number Party Type Party Name Attorney Party Status
1  PETITIONER  MARIANNE G ORTON   BRAY, OLIVER W.  First Paper Fee Paid 
2  MINOR - DEFENDANT  ROBERT EDWIN ORTON IV  Unrepresented  DISPOSED 09/18/2013 
3  MINOR - DEFENDANT  JOHN TURNER GRAY ORTON   Unrepresented  DISPOSED 09/18/2013 
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