Anna Ewa Kozicz-Stankiewicz has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2017. Mrs. Kozicz received a BA in Math and Economics from Columbia College and her MBA from Columbia Business School. She started her career in investment banking in 1996 at Credit Suisse First Boston in its Financial Institutions Group before moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000 where she held multiple positions, including Managing Director, and spent most of her time in the Principal Strategies Group with a focus investing in on the global agricultural sector. During her time at Goldman Sachs, she served as a director on the board of a New York-based federal credit union (PSFCU). She moved to Caxton Associates in 2009 to work as an equity Portfolio Manager before moving to BlackRock in 2012 where she held management roles as Head of US Strategy and Corporate Development as well as investing roles as Portfolio Manager of a private assets portfolio for ABR Re, a Bermuda based reinsurance company which Mrs. Kozicz helped to set up on behalf of BlackRock. In 2017, Mrs. Kozicz left BlackRock  and partnered with Cowen Investment Management to create a new investment fund focused on sustainability in agriculture, energy and transportation services.