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Paul Mandeville Hazen is chairman of the board of directors of Accel-KKR and KKR Financial Holding Corporation and the former chairman and chief... executive officer of Wells Fargo & Company. Hazen was born in Lansing, Michigan. He received his BS degree in finance from the University of Arizona in 1963 and his MBA degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1964. Starting his banking career with Security Pacific National Bank in 1964, he joined Union Bank in 1966 and Wells Fargo & Company in 1970. At Wells Fargo, Hazen was an executive with several of the banks subsidiaries, including serving as president of the Wells Fargo Real Estate Investment Trust, a publicly traded REIT, from 1973 to 1978. Moving up to the parent company, he was elected executive vice president of Wells Fargo in 1978 and vice chairman in 1981. Elected president and chief operating officer of Wells Fargo in 1984, Hazen led the bank through mergers with Crocker National in 1986 and Barclays Bank of California in 1988 and the recession of the early 1990s. He succeeded Carl E. Reichardt as chairman and chief executive officer in January 1995.
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Mr. Bond retired as Group Chairman of HSBC Holdings plc on May 26, 2006. He had been associated with the Hongkong Shanghai Banking Corporation for 45 years. .

Arun Sarin was the CEO of Britain's Vodafone Group plc. On June 29, 2008, he announced his resignation as CEO of Vodafone Group. He is a senior... adviser at the private equity firm KKR. He serves on the board of directors of Cisco Systems and Safeway, Inc. He received an honarary knighthood from the Queen at Buckingham Palace on March 10, 2010. He is an American citizen. Sarin graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a B.Tech degree in Metallurgical Engineering in 1975. He was a resident of Rajendra Prasad Hall. He received the B C Roy gold medal for the best all round graduating student in 1975. In 1978 he gained a MS in Engineering and an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to this he did his schooling from Military School, Bangalore. He excelled in studies, sports and co curricular activities. He was known for his sharp intelligence and good sporting skills especially in hockey and boxing in school.
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