Leadership

Richard G. Gould, Executive Vice President. Until October 2006, Mr. Gould was with Morgan Stanley where, during a 20 year career, he held several executive positions. His experience with Morgan Stanley included global sales management, marketing, new product innovation and capital markets. He initially joined Morgan Stanley’s London office as a sales manager of European Equity Derivatives to start the firm’s options, futures and portfolio trading businesses in Europe. He was promoted to Vice President in 1988; Principal in 1990; and Managing Director in 1992. Mr. Gould then moved to Tokyo in October 1992 where he was responsible for equity derivative sales for the Asian Region, subsequently becoming head of the Japanese Equity Division. He moved to Morgan Stanley’s New York headquarters in January, 1996, where he held executive positions including head of the Global Pensions Group, head of Quantitative Research, head of Global Derivative Sales and later served as co-head of North American equity distribution.