Stephen M. Waters. Mr. Waters is a partner at Compass Advisers an independent advisory firm established in 2001 and Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Compass Partners International which he founded in 1996. Prior to this Mr. Waters spent over twenty years advising corporate and financial entities both in the U.S. and internationally. Mr. Waters served from 1992 to 1996 as Co-Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Europe and was a member of Morgan Stanley’s worldwide 12-person Operating Committee. Mr. Waters joined Morgan Stanley as a Managing Director in the Mergers and Acquisitions Department in June 1988 and was Co-Director of that department from January 1990 to early 1992. Mr. Waters was Co-Director of the Mergers and Acquisition Department at Shearson Lehman Brothers from 1985 to 1988. He is a Director of Compass Partners European Equity Fund serves as Vice Chairman of the Harvard College Fund Chair of Harvard University Committee on Student Excellence and Opportunity and is a member of the Board of Visitors to Harvard Business School and the Investment Committee of Princeton Theological Seminary. He is also Vice Chairman of the United States Naval Institute. |