Rob Kapito

Rob S. Kapito, President and a Director of BlackRock, is a member of BlackRock's Global Executive Committee and Chairman of the Global Operating Committee. He is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of BlackRock's key operating units including Investment Strategies, Client Businesses, Technology & Operations, and Risk & Quantitative Analysis. Mr. Kapito is also a Director of iShares Inc.

Prior to assuming his current responsibilities in 2007, Mr. Kapito served as Head of BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. In this role, he was responsible for overseeing all portfolio management within BlackRock, including the Fixed Income, Equity, Liquidity, and Alternative Investment Groups. Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Kapito was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation.

Mr. Kapito serves as a member of the Harvard Business School Board of Dean's Advisors and the Global Leadership Council at the University of Oxford's Said Business School. He is President of the Board of Directors for Hope and Heroes Children's Cancer Fund. Mr. Kapito is a former Trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and Chairman of the UJA-Federation of New York. He is the recipient of the 2009 Joseph Wharton Leadership Award, the Marine Corps-Law Enforcement Foundation's 2010 Semper Fidelis Award and is a frequent public speaker on best practices in investment management.

Mr. Kapito earned a BS degree in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1979, and an MBA degree from Harvard Business School in 1983.