Eugene Jr.

Mr Flood Jr. was Executive Vice President of TIAA CREF from 2011 until his retirement in 2012, serving on the CREF Board of Trustees and the TIAA CREF Mutual Fund Board of Trustees for seven years, and chairing the Investment Committee. Prior serving TIAA CREF as an executive in 2011, he spent 12 years with Smith Breeden Associates, a North Carolina based fixed income asset manager, as President and CEO. Earlier in his career, he held a range of trading and investment positions with Morgan Stanley from 1987 to 1999 and was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Stanford Business School from 1982 to 1987. He has served as Chairman of the advisory board for the Institute for Global Health and Infectious Diseases at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill since 2014, as a Trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation since January 2016, and as a Director of the Research Corporation for Science Advancement since March 2015. Previously, he served as a Director of The Foundation for the Carolinas from 2012 to December 2015. He has gained experience in his more than 31 years of experience in the asset management industry. He is currently the Chair of the Risk Committee and a member of the Corporate Governance Committee