Marc Stern is Chairman of The TCW Group, Inc., a Los Angeles-based asset management firm with approximately $200 billion of assets under management. Since 1990, Mr. Stern has held a number of senior management positions at TCW including CEO, President and Vice Chairman. He also held a variety of senior positions at Société Générale Group, one of the largest financial institutions in Europe, which owned TCW from 2001 to 2013. Prior to joining TCW in 1990, Mr. Stern was President and a Director of SunAmerica and prior to that, was a senior executive with the Henley Group and its predecessor companies. Mr. Stern began his career in 1970 as an attorney with the law firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. Mr. Stern is a minority owner of the Milwaukee Brewers. He is also Honorary Chairman of the Los Angeles Opera. In addition, Mr. Stern currently serves on the Boards of The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington DC, The Metropolitan Opera in New York, the Los Angeles 2028 Olympic Committee, the California Institute of Technology and the Alliance for Southern California Innovation. Mr. Stern was formerly a Director of Qualcomm, Inc., a Vice-Chair of The Salk Institute, and was Founding Chairman of both the Mayor’s Fund Los Angeles and of The President’s Council of the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. He holds a BA from Dickinson College, an MA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Public Law and Government and a JD from the Columbia University School of Law.