Laurie Simon Hodrick has served as an Independent Director since 2017. Ms. Hodrick brings almost 30 years of experience and expertise in valuation, asset management, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and liquidity and risk management to her position on the board. She previously served as an independent director/trustee on the boards of a cluster of mutual funds of Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, where she served as a financial expert for the audit committees.

She is currently the A. Barton Hepburn Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business at Columbia Business School and Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford University. She previously served as managing director and global head of alternative investment strategies at Deutsche Bank.