Shaping the Future - Milken Institute
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panelists<br />
David Fischer is Senior Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of Reinsurance Group of America Inc.,<br />
responsible for handling asset allocation, investment strategy, alternative assets and investment reporting. He and<br />
his team manage an $18 billion global investment portfolio for RGA around <strong>the</strong> world. The company has substantial<br />
investments in fixed-income securities in six major currencies, as well as investments in private placements, commercial<br />
mortgage loans, private equity and alternative assets. Fischer oversees an internal investment management team and<br />
eight third-party money managers for various investment mandates. He focuses primarily on investment policies,<br />
investment strategy and tactics, and risk management. Before joining RGA in 2004, he was a principal at Capstone<br />
Advisors and a vice president and portfolio manager with Lincoln National. Fischer is a member of <strong>the</strong> CFA <strong>Institute</strong>, <strong>the</strong><br />
CFA Society of St. Louis and <strong>the</strong> Investment Analysts Society of Chicago.<br />
John Fisher is <strong>the</strong> President of Pisces Inc., a company he founded in 1992 as an investment and management office<br />
for <strong>the</strong> Fisher family. In addition, he is a founding partner of Sansome Partners, an investment partnership. Fisher is<br />
chairman of <strong>the</strong> KIPP Foundation board of directors and serves on <strong>the</strong> board of <strong>the</strong> Alliance for School Choice and <strong>the</strong><br />
Charter School Growth Fund. He and his bro<strong>the</strong>rs started and serve on <strong>the</strong> board of <strong>the</strong> City Fields Foundation, which<br />
was established in 2005 to address <strong>the</strong> ongoing shortage of playfields in San Francisco and to help <strong>the</strong> city provide<br />
sports facilities for all types of play. Fisher holds a B.A. from Princeton University and an M.B.A. from <strong>the</strong> Graduate School<br />
of Business at Stanford University.<br />
Henrik Fisker is <strong>the</strong> Co-Founder and CEO of Fisker Automotive Inc. He and partner Bernhard Koehler founded Fisker<br />
Coachbuild LLC in 2005 with <strong>the</strong> goal of designing and creating environmentally friendly cars that don’t compromise on<br />
beauty or design. Fisker has spent 20 years in auto design, leaving his thumbprint on such vehicles as <strong>the</strong> BMW Z8, <strong>the</strong><br />
Aston Martin DB9 and B8 Vantage, as well as <strong>the</strong> Fisker Tramonto and Latigo CS. Previously, Fisker held several positions<br />
at Ford Motor Company, including creative director for Ingeni, Ford’s London-based design center; board member and<br />
design director for Aston Martin; and director of Ford’s Global Advanced Design Studio in Irvine, California. Before that,<br />
Fisker was president and CEO of Designworks/USA, BMW’s California-based industrial design subsidiary. He began his<br />
career at BMW Technick GmbH in Germany. Fisker is a graduate of The Art Center College of Design.<br />
Pierre Fitzgibbon joined Atrium Innovations as President and CEO in 2007. Atrium Innovations is a leader in <strong>the</strong><br />
development, manufacturing and marketing of added-value products for <strong>the</strong> health and nutrition industry. In 2002,<br />
Fitzgibbon joined National Bank Group as a vice chairman of National Bank Financial, bringing a range of expertise,<br />
including corporate direction and finance, mergers and acquisitions, and strategic planning. From 2005 he held <strong>the</strong><br />
position of senior vice president of finance, technology and corporate affairs at National Bank of Canada. Fitzgibbon<br />
also served as president and managing director of New World Mobility, a wireless communications solutions provider in<br />
Hong Kong. He also held executive positions in finance, corporate and business development at Telesystem International<br />
Wireless in Canada and Asia. Fitzgibbon received a bachelor’s degree from l’École des hautes études commerciales of<br />
Montréal (affiliated with l’Université de Montréal) and a certificate in general management from Harvard Business School.<br />
William Fleissig is President of Communitas Development Inc., a San Francisco-based company focused on mixedincome<br />
and mixed-use projects in three niche locations: university towns, transit station districts and older “greyfield”<br />
malls. Communitas also advises property owners and cities on how to achieve <strong>the</strong>ir development goals. Through an<br />
affiliate company, Urban Villages Inc., Fleissig is a partner in developing West Village at <strong>the</strong> University of California,<br />
Davis. Now under construction, <strong>the</strong> 130-acre village will incorporate 2,000 student beds; 343 affordable faculty and<br />
staff homes; a mixed-use village square with shops and services; classroom space; parks and recreation fields; and all<br />
on-site infrastructure. Until 2005, Fleissig was a co-founder of Continuum Partners LLC, where he was responsible for<br />
coordinating <strong>the</strong> firm’s planning, design and entitlement activities on all projects. He received a B.A. from <strong>the</strong> University<br />
of Pennsylvania; a B.Arch from <strong>the</strong> City College of New York and an M.P.A. from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.<br />
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