David William Musolf

Thornburg Investment Management, Inc. (Thornburg) is a privately-held, SEC-registered investment advisor headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The firm was founded by H. Garrett Thornburg in 1982. Thornburg provides discretionary portfolio management and investment services to a number of client types, including: Thornburg Investment Trust, registered investment companies as to which Thornburg is a sub-adviser, separate accounts for institutional clients and private clients, wrap fee accounts of sponsored program accounts, unified managed account programs, private investment funds and other non-SEC registered investment vehicles.

MBNA Corp. issues credit cards. The company through its subsidiary, MBNA America Bank, N.A., provides various financial services in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland and Spain. The company primarily offers lending, insurance and deposit account products and services. Its lending products include credit cards, consumer loans, home equity loans, aircraft loans, mortgage loans, business credit cards and other business lending products to individuals and small businesses. In addition to its credit card lending, the company makes other consumer loans, including installment and revolving unsecured loan products, mortgage loans, insurance premium financing loans, aircraft loans and other specialty lending products to consumers and commercial loans, which include business card products, professional practice financing loans and other specialty lending products to small businesses. MBNA also offers insurance and deposit products, including money market deposit accounts and certificates of deposit. MBNA is headquartered in Wilmington, DE.