Women appointed to larger board of directors in January 2011 have included two financial experts (CFOs) and a specialist in Government Relations and Sustainability.

January 2011 had some notable appointments:

Ivan G. Seidenber, 63, Chairman and CEO of Verizon joined the board of BlackRock, Inc. Mr. Seidenberg has led Verizon since its inception in 2000 and before that he was Chairman and CEO of its predecessor companies, NYNEX and Bell Atlantic. He created Verizon Wireless in a period of massive industry transformation by merging Bell Atlantic Mobile, GTE Wireless and portions of Vodafone AirTouch. In June 2010, President Barack Obama appointed him to the President’s Export Council and in 2007 President George W. Bush named him to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. Mr. Seidenberg is a member of the New York Academy of Science’s President’s Council and serves on the board of trustees of the New York-Presbyterian Hospital, The New York Hall of Science, Pace University and the Paley Center for Media.