Kenneth D. Brody is a co-founder of Taconic Capital Advisors, a multi-strategy, event-driven hedge fund, founded in 1999. He is primarily involved in management and risk control. Taconic currently manages approximately $7 billion and has offices in New York, London and Hong Kong.

Mr. Brody spent 20 years at Goldman, Sachs & Co. where he co-headed the firm’s long-term principal investing activities and was a general partner and member of the firm’s management committee. Mr. Brody served as President and Chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States from 1993 to early 1996. He formerly served as chair of the University of Maryland investment committee and on the Boards of Directors of Quest Diagnostics Incorporated, Alex Brown Incorporated, Federal Realty Investments Trust and Telerate Incorporated. Mr. Brody is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Brody received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with high honors from the University of Maryland in 1964 and an M.B.A. with high distinction from Harvard Business School in 1971, where he was a Baker Scholar.