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 Hilary Kramer is
the Finance Editor for America Online. She is a frequent public speaker
on financial planning, investment management, trends in the global markets, and
is on the Wall Street Journal's Women in Business Advisory Board. She is a
columnist for the New York Post, and has contributed to the Wall Street
Journal, the Fox News Channel website and Techcentral.com. Hilary
was also a commentator and business analyst at the Fox News Channel and
CNBC.
Ms. Kramer has extensive expertise in global financial management, asset
allocation, investment banking, and private equity ventures. She began her
career in investment banking as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley
developing technical models to analyze and develop a full range of capital
market products for companies in the industrial, transportation, and
technology sectors. These products included preferred and common stock,
fixed income and interest rate and currency swaps. She also worked in the
capital markets division analyzing equity and options trading strategies
for institutional accounts.
After graduating from the Wharton School of Business, Ms. Kramer was an
assistant brand manager in the Betty Crocker division of General Mills
where she coordinated trade and promotional programs, product improvement,
packaging and budget plans for the group's flagship brands. Ms. Kramer
returned to investment banking in 1992 and joined Lehman Brothers as
investment banking associate where she prepared financial analyses,
valuations, and proposals and participated in due diligence and prospectus
preparation for public equity and debt offerings. She also assisted the
Head of Strategic Planning and Investment Banking with financial and
operations management for the global division.
Between 1994 and 2002, Ms. Kramer expanded her global and private equity
investment experience at the Cisneros Group. With over 70 companies in 39
countries and annual revenue of $4.0 billion, the Cisneros Group of
Companies is one of the largest privately held broadcast, media,
technology, consumer products and telecommunications organizations in the
world. As Senior Managing Director, Ms. Kramer managed the New York
operations, working on investment strategies as well as execution of the
Group's private equity investments, joint venture partnerships and
acquisition initiatives.
Ms. Kramer also served on the Board of Directors of the Ibero American
Media Partners' Fund (IAMP). Established in 1997 and jointly owned by
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst, Inc. and the Cisneros Group, this was a $500
million private equity fund focused on media and broadcast investments,.
Ms. Kramer also served on the Board of Directors of RSL Communications,
Connectadas and Claxson Interactive Group Inc, one of Latin America's most
successful multiplatform programming companies comprised of 14 pay
television channels, Ibero-American Radio Chile, AEI Music Latin America,
an investment in ArtistsDirect.com and El Sitio.
Until February 2003, Ms. Kramer served as Chief Investment Strategist and
Advisor at Montgomery Asset Management, a global money management firm
with $7.5 billion in assets under management and 150,000 individual and
institutional clients.
Ms. Kramer graduated cum laude from Wellesley College with a BA in
Political Science and Latin American Studies in 1986 and received her MBA
in finance and marketing from the Wharton School at the University of
Pennsylvania in 1991. She is also a Trustee of the Hewitt School in New York
City and was formerly a board member of both the Colombian American and
Venezuelan American Associations. Ms. Kramer is an avid golfer and was
Captain of her college golf team and President of the Wharton Golf Club.
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