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Introduction

David Puth is an investment banker who has worked in New York City and Boston.

Career History

From mid-2008 through 2011 Mr. Puth was a senior executive at State Street Bank in Boston where he was a member of the company’s twelve person Management Committee and responsible for State Street’s Global Markets division. Prior to joining State Street in August of 2008 Mr. Puth founded The Eriska Group, a risk management consulting firm based in New York. In January of 2007 Mr. Puth retired from JPMorgan Chase after working at the company for nineteen years; at the time of his departure, Mr. Puth was overseeing the company’s Global Emerging Markets, Currency and Commodities divisions and was a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and the Investment Bank Management Group.

Mr. Puth served for twelve years on the Federal Reserve Foreign Exchange Committee which he chaired from 1999-2002. He has also served as an outside director of ICAP, a global financial services brokerage company, and as an outside director of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

Work with Robin Hood

Mr. Puth has served since 1998 as a board member of the Robin Hood Foundation, an innovative organization committed to fighting poverty in New York City. At Robin Hood he has served as Vice Chair of the board and is the head of the board’s Audit Committee.

Other Charitable Work

He was a founding board member and continues to serve on the board of the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. Mr. Puth is a trustee of the Berkshire School, a boarding school in Sheffield, Massachusetts and also oversees the school’s Endowment Committee. Mr. Puth is a member of the board of the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, a major cultural institution and the country’s oldest museum of contemporary art.