ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>AQR Capital</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="TITLE" CONTENT="AQR Capital"> <META NAME="AUTHOR" CONTENT="XCELLENCEIT"> <META NAME="COPYRIGHT" CONTENT="XCELLENCEIT"> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="AQR, CAPITAL"> <META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="AQR, CAPITAL, NEWS, INFO"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="crimson"> <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index"> <link href="layout/css/default.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> </head> <body bgcolor="#DCDFE6"> <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td align="center" valign="middle"> <table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr> <td align="right" valign="bottom"><img src="layout/bara_sus1.jpg" width="7" height="7"></td> <td class="top">&nbsp; </td> <td align="left" valign="bottom"><img src="layout/bara_sus2.jpg" width="7" height="7"></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="12" class="left" rowspan="4">&nbsp; </td> <td width="776" height="107" background="layout/en/header1.gif">&nbsp; </td> <td width="13" class="right" rowspan="4">&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> </tr> <tr> <td width="776" height="100%"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" height="100%"> <tr height="5" bgcolor="#d7def1"><td colspan="3">&nbsp; </td> </tr> <tr> <td align="center" colspan="2"> <img src="layout/en/rb_15iun_01.jpg" border="0" width="776" height="64" alt="bios"> </td> </tr> <tr> <!-- the following bgcolor is the left menu column original color was #f0f0f0 !--> <td width="220" height="100%" valign="top" bgcolor="#e5e5e5"> <ul style="list-style:none;padding-top:30px"> <li class="space"><a href="home.htm" class="leftmenblu" >HOME</a> </li> <li class="space"><a href="about.htm" class="leftmenblu" >ABOUT AQR</a> </li> <!--<li class="space"><a href="http://www.google.com" class="leftmenred" >Search Google</a></li>--> <li class="space"><a href="principal_bios.htm" class="leftmenred" >PRINCIPAL BIOS</a> </li> <li class="space"><a href="research.htm" class="leftmenblu" >RESEARCH LIBRARY</a> <li class="space"><a href="RecruitingHome.htm" class="leftmenblu" >CAREER OPPORTUNITIES </a> </li> </li> <li class="space"><a href="legal.htm" class="leftmenblu" >LEGAL </a> </li> <li class="space"><a href="contact.aspx" class="leftmenblu" >CONTACT US</a> </li> <li class="space"><a href="directions.htm" class="leftmenblu" >DIRECTIONS</a> </li> </ul></td> <td width="556" height="100%" bgcolor="white" valign="top"> <table><tr><td style='padding-top:12px; padding-left:12px;padding-right: 15px;padding-bottom: 12px;'><span class=titlu_albastru>Mark Mitchell, Ph.D.<br> CNH Partners </span><br><br><br><span class=scris_gri><font color="#000000"> <p> Prior to co-founding CNH Partners (affiliate of AQR) in 2001, Mark was a finance professor at University of Chicago (1990-1999) and Harvard University (1999-2003). In academia, Mark authored numerous research papers about mergers & acquisitions and investment management. Four of his papers received paper-of-the-year awards: Smith-Breeden Prize from <i>Journal of Finance</i> for  Limited Arbitrage in Equity Markets ; Merton Miller Prize from <i>Journal of Business</i> for  Managerial Decisions and Long-Term Stock Price Performance ; Graham and Dodd Scroll from <i>Financial Analysts Journal</i> for  The Value of Corporate Takeovers ; and Roger Murray Prize from Institute for Quantitative Research in Finance for  Do Bad Bidders Become Good Targets? . Mark also received five teaching awards at the University of Chicago. He is co-author of the book <i>Mergers, Restructuring and Corporate Governance</i>. Mark is on the board of directors at TD-Ameritrade where he chairs the M&A Committee. He is also a member of the Executive Advisory Board of Clemson University s College of Business & Behavioral Science. In February 2007, Mark served as an emissary of the U.S. State Department to discuss M&A with policymakers, business leaders, academics and reporters in Japan. During 1996-2005, Mark was a board member of Ameritrade Corporation where he chaired the Special Committee (oversaw the merger with TD Waterhouse in 2005) and the Nominating Committee. He was also a member of the NASDAQ Quality of Markets Committee during 2003-2005, and was a founding member of the NASD Economic Advisory Board during 1996-1998. During 1987-1990, Mark worked in the Office of the Chief Economist at the Securities & Exchange Commission where he authored several research papers on M&A. He also worked on merger regulations and led the development of applying financial economics to assist the SEC s enforcement efforts in insider trading cases. Mark holds a Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics from Clemson University and B.B.A. in Economics from University of Louisiana at Monroe. </font></p></span></td></tr></table> </td> </tr> <tr bgcolor="#d7def1" height="15"><td colspan="2">&nbsp; </td></tr></table></td></tr> <tr> <td bgcolor="#b0b3ba" style="padding-top:2px;padding-right:10px;" align="right" valign="top"> <a href="home.htm" class="white">HOME</a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="about.htm" class="white">ABOUT AQR</a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="principal_bios.htm" class="white">PRINCIPAL BIOS</a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="research.htm" class="white">RESEARCH LIBRARY</a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="RecruitingHome.htm" class="white">CAREER OPPORTUNITIES </a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="contact.aspx" class="white">CONTACT US</a><font color="white">|</font> <a href="directions.htm" class="white">DIRECTIONS</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="top"><img src="layout/bara_sus3.jpg" width="7" height="7"></td> <td align="right" style="padding-right:20px;" class="copyright1">2004 &copy; AQRCapital.com. 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