Robert C. Troxler.  Mr. Troxler's  near-forty year  career has been dedicated almost entirely to investment related activities within the Citibank/Citigroup organization. After a number of corporate and investment banking assignments within Citibank's Institutional Banking organization in Europe, Mr. Troxler headed Citigroup's Investor Relations Department in New-York from 1966 to 1969 with responsibility for the corporation's communications with the worldwide institutional investment community.  For the next sixteen years, he led (from New York and London), the Citibank team responsible for building investment management relationships with governments, pensions funds and investment agencies around the world. A substantial number of these were from the Middle East.  Commencing in 1996, Mr. Troxler,  operating from Switzerland, led a team providing wealth management for private clients throughout Europe and the Middle-East though its offices in Switzerland, London and New-York. Retiring from Citigroup in May 2006, Mr. Troxler has launched Global View Asset Management, S.A. an investment advisory firm based in Geneva focused on providing global investment management the corporate and High Net Worth client segment in Europe and the Middle East. Prior to his banking career, Mr. Troxler served in the US Army in the United States and in Germany.  A resident of Geneva since 1996 and citizen of the United States Mr. Troxler is a graduate of Harvard Business School (MBA 1970) and the Virginia Military Institute (BA 1963).