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And the Nominees Are…

Penn Alumni has nominated three candidates to fill three alumni-trustee positions for five-year terms starting January 1, 2008.

JUDITH L. BOLLINGER WG’81 | Judith L. Bollinger WG’81 of London is a member of the board of ABG Sundal Collier, a full-service investment bank listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. She also serves as a consultant to the firm with specific responsibility for strategic planning. Ms. Bollinger joined ABG Securities, a small Swedish brokerage firm in 1999, first as research director and later as CEO. In 2001, she executed its merger with Sundal Collier. After receiving her MBA from the Wharton School in 1981, Judith Bollinger moved to New York to join the investment-research department of Goldman Sachs. In 1993, she accepted the position of director of research in the firm’s London office, which is where she and her family reside today.

The Bollingers have a long history of alumni involvement and philanthropic support for the Wharton School. They funded a visiting professorship in 1987. In addition, they have supported Wharton’s European Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative, which researches corporate ethics and responsible investment in Europe. Ms. Bollinger has been a member of the Wharton Executive Board for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East since 2001, and a member of the United Kingdom Leadership Committee since 2004. She has served as an interviewer for Penn’s Secondary Schools Committee in London since 2006. Meeting student applicants is one of Judy’s favorite “jobs.” With the Judith and William Bollinger Endowed Scholarship and Fellowship Funds, the Bollingers hope that many talented students can experience the educational opportunity that Wharton offers and then use that education to pursue a life of purpose and achievement.

DAVID M. BRUSH C’82 | David M. Brush C’82 of London is head of RREEF Europe and global head of RREEF’s Real Estate Opportunities Funds Group (REOF). RREEF is the real-estate and infrastructure-investment management arm of Deutsche Asset Management, a division of Deutsche Bank AG Group. In his current role, Mr. Brush is responsible for RREEF’s real-estate fund operations in Europe (excluding Germany), and for managing the real-estate funds of RREEF/REOF focused on high-yield, real-estate investment on a global basis. Shortly after receiving his B.A. degree in economics and international relations from Penn, David joined Bankers Trust Company (which later became Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas) in its real-estate investment-banking group.

David has served as chair of the United Kingdom Leadership Committee since its inception in 2004. He steps down this year, having served more than three years. He is also an active member of the Penn Lacrosse Alumni Board and attends many related events. In April 2004, he and his wife, Karen Clark Brush W’82, established the Brush Family Endowed Scholarship for students who attended secondary school in the U.K., are not U.S. citizens, and would otherwise be unable to afford a Penn education. David also serves as co-chair of The American School in London Capital Campaign: Karen was appointed director of The American School in London Educational Trust Limited in June 2006. Most recently, David was the featured speaker of the Fox Leadership Program’s “Lessons in Leadership” series.

JOEL M. GREENBLATT W’79 WG’80 | Joel M. Greenblatt W’79 WG’80 of New York is the founder and managing partner of Gotham Capital, a hedge fund he established in 1985. He is the former chair of the board of Alliant Techsystems, a NYSE-listed aerospace and defense company. A recognized financial expert, Mr. Greenblatt has two published books, You Can Be A Stock Market Genius (Simon & Schuster, 1997) and The Little Book That Beats The Market (John Wiley & Sons, 2005). He has been an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School for the past 10 years, where he teaches value and special-situation investing.

Mr. Greenblatt has in recent years made an exceptional personal commitment to educational reform at the primary and secondary levels. Among other efforts, he helped establish and fund the Harlem Success Academy Charter School, an academically rigorous charter school in New York with a focus on language and literacy and an emphasis on cooperative learning and future college attendance. In addition, Mr. Greenblatt serves as director of the Institute for Student Achievement and director of the New York chapter of Say Yes to Education Foundation, founded by George Weiss W’65.

The Greenblatt family has a long history of improving access for Penn students. In the mid-1990s, they established the Greenblatt Family Scholarship Fund, and Mr. Greenblatt continues to actively engage with the scholarship students. In 2006, he established the Greenblatt Scholarship Challenge Fund through the MRM Foundation, Inc., an independent foundation which makes grants primarily for education, and of which he is a director. Mr. Greenblatt joined the Graduate School of Education Board of Overseers in 2006.

Alumni may file other nominations no later than August 21; these nominations must be accompanied by a petition signed by no fewer than 1,500 eligible degree-holding alumni.

For details, please write to Elise Betz, director of Penn Alumni, E. Craig Sweeten Alumni House, 3533 Locust Walk, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6226 or email her at <ebetz@upenn.edu>.