F. Warren Hellman, Co-Chairman

A member of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s transition team and Economic Recovery Council, F. Warren Hellman is the Chairman and co-founder of San Francisco-based Hellman & Friedman, LLC, a private equity investment firm.

Since he founded the company in 1984, Mr. Hellman has grown Hellman & Friedman into one of the top 100 private equity funds in the country, prompting BusinessWeek to name him “the Warren Buffett of the West.”

Since its inception, Hellman & Friedman -www.hf.com- has raised and managed more than $5 billion in capital and invested in over 45 job-creating companies.

Both the California and San Francisco Public Employees Retirement Systems have invested hundreds of millions of dollars with funds managed by Hellman because of his funds’ consistently strong performance.

Mr. Hellman’s firm also has advised some of Northern California’s largest companies, including American President Lines, Franklin Resources and Clorox. Mr. Hellman is currently a Director of The NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc., in which Hellman & Friedman is a 10% investor.

Previously, Mr. Hellman was a general partner of Hellman, Ferri Investment Associates, Matrix Management Company and Lehman Brothers. At Lehman Brothers, he served as president and chairman of Lehman Corporation.

A native of New York City, Mr. Hellman is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley and the Harvard Business School. He is a board member of the San Francisco Committee on Jobs and SFSOS; a trustee of The San Francisco Foundation; and a member of the University of California Walter A. Haas School of Business Advisory Board. Mr. Hellman has led a variety of San Francisco civic causes, including the 1998 campaign to preserve San Francisco museums in Golden Gate Park and construct an underground parking facility for visitors.

Mr. Hellman and his wife, Chris, endow a variety of charitable foundations and are among the top supporters of the University of California. In 1994, they established the Hellman Family Faculty Fund, which last year gave $400,000 to help attract and retain outstanding educators at UC Berkeley.

Mr. Hellman has been profiled in the San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Business Times, BusinessWeek, and the University of California’s Cal Monthly, all of which have chronicled his passion for the outdoors, 100-mile ultramarathons and his Arabian horses. Mr. Hellman and Chris live in San Francisco and have four children and twelve grandchildren.