Amy Whitelaw, Managing Director, is the Head of the U.S. & Canadian iShares Equity ETF Portfolio Engineering within BlackRock's Index Equity team. She is responsible for overseeing the management of the Americas listed U.S. & Canadian iShares equity funds.  She is a member of the LifePath Executive Committee and serves as a member of the U.S. & Canada Defined Contribution Operating Committee. Ms. Whitelaw also co-chairs the Women's Initiative Network on the West Coast.

Ms. Whitelaw's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including her years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, she led the Defined Contribution Portfolio Management team in Client Solutions, responsible for the management of defined contribution strategies for institutional and retail investors. Previously, Ms. Whitelaw worked in the Transition Services group as both a transition manager and strategist, and was also an international equity trader on Barclays Global Investors' trading desk. Prior to BGI, she worked in the Institutional Derivatives Sales group at Goldman Sachs.

Ms. Whitelaw earned a BA degree in International studies and French from Dickinson College in 1993.

Alan Mason, Managing Director, is Head of Americas ETF & Index Investments. Mr. Mason's investment team is responsible for Index Equity, iShares Equity, Alternative Beta and Asset Allocation portfolios. Mr. Mason is a member of the EII ExCo, Americas ExCo and Global Human Capital Committees. He is a global sponsor for OUT, the firm's LGBT employee network.

Mr. Mason's service with the firm dates back to 1991, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI, Mr. Mason served as head of portfolio management and strategy for U.S. transitions, strategist for the Global Index and Markets Group, head of U.S. Asset Allocation, and most recently as head of Global Portfolio Management, Client Solutions. Mr. Mason has led three key growth efforts: developing the U.S. transition capability from a service to a business, growing the key asset allocation product for the firm's U.S. DC platform, LifePath, and building the foundation for key dimensions of the firm's rapidly growing solutions business.

Mr. Mason earned a BA degree in music from Baylor University in 1983, summa cum laude, an MA degree in musicology from the University of Louisville in 1989, with honors, and an MA degree in ethnomusicology from University of California Berkeley in 1991. In the same year that Mr. Mason became head of portfolio management for BGI's transitions business, he was advanced to Ph.D. candidacy in ethnomusicology at UC Berkeley, having completed all coursework for the degree and comprehensive doctoral oral examinations with distinction.

Matthew O'Hara, PhD, CFA, Managing Director, is the Co-Head of LifePath and is Chair of the U.S. and Canada LifePath Executive Committee and Co-Chair of the UK LifePath Investment Committee.

Dr. O'Hara's service with the firm dates back to 2003, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. As part of the Multi Asset Strategies (MAS) group Dr. O'Hara is responsible for all investing aspects of lifetime asset allocation globally including the LifePath complex globally and the 529 complex in the U.S. as well as new product development in those areas.

At BGI, he was Director of Research for the U.S. & Canada Defined Contribution Group. He was responsible for research on defined contribution and pension outsourcing issues. Prior to joining the DC group, he was responsible for all research and model creation for asset-backed and commercial mortgage-backed securities. He also worked on corporate long/short strategies including the launch of the Fixed Income Global Alpha (FIGA) fund. Previous to working in finance, he worked as a research and design engineer.

Dr. O'Hara has been a lecturer in the MFE program at UC Berkeley. He has also served as president of the board of the CFA Society of San Francisco and has served as a trustee of the Bay Area Discovery Museum.

Dr. O'Hara earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Maryland in 1992. He earned an MS degree and a PhD in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley in 1995 and 1997, respectively. He also graduated as valedictorian and was awarded the Pyle Prize for best student paper from the Master's in Financial Engineering program at UC Berkeley in 2003.

Greg Savage, CFA, Managing Director, is the Head of the Americas Index Asset Allocation team within BlackRock's ETF and Index Investment Group. He is responsible for overseeing the management of the LifePath Target Date Funds as well as a wide range of fund of funds for both Institutional and Defined Contribution clients. Previously, Greg was the Head of iShares Equity Portfolio Management team within BlackRock's Index Equity team where he was responsible for overseeing the management of the Americas listed iShares equity funds.

Mr. Savage's service with the firm dates back to 1999, including his years with Barclays Global Investors (BGI), which merged with BlackRock in 2009. At BGI he was a senior portfolio manager and team leader in the iShares Index Equity Portfolio Management Group and was previously a transition manager in the Transition Management Group. Prior to BGI, Mr. Savage worked at Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) from 1997 to 1999 in various roles.

Mr. Savage earned a BS degree in Accounting from the University of Colorado at Boulder in 1994.