Paul S. Tufaro

Evercore Trust Co. NA (Investment Management) (Evercore-IM) is the investment management division of Evercore Trust Co. NA, a national trust bank headquartered in New York City. They are ultimately owned by Evercore, Inc. (NYSE: EVR). Evercore-IM was founded in 2009 following Evercore Partners' acquisition of US Trust's Special Fiduciary Services business from Bank of America. The firm provides specialized investment management, independent fiduciary, and trustee services to employee benefit plans. They provide ongoing discretionary responsibility for qualified and non-qualified employee benefit plans, such as defined benefit pension plans, VEBAs, ESOPs, 401(k) plans, profit-sharing plans, and rabbi trusts.

CIT Group, Inc. is a financial holding company, which engages in the financing, leasing and advisory services. It operates through the following business segments: Commercial Banking, Consumer Banking, and Corporate. The Commercial Banking segment consists of four divisions, commercial finance, rail, and real estate finance and business capital. The Consumer Banking segment includes retail Banking, consumer lending, and SBA lending, which are grouped together for purposes of discussion as other consumer banking and legacy consumer mortgages. The Corporate segment refers to the businesses and portfolios that they no longer consider strategic. These portfolios include equipment financing, secured lending and leasing and advisory services to small and middle-market businesses. The company was founded by Henry Ittelson in 1908 and is headquartered in New York, NY.