Robert De Rito is Head of Investment Control Financial Risk Management at APG Asset Management US. APG is an adviser to pension funds based in the Netherlands and does not provide advisory services to persons in the United States. Mr. De Rito has risk-management responsibility for APG’s Americas investments, including hedge funds and other alternative investments. Mr. De Rito has some twenty years of experience in the investment field, including quantitative research, quantitative portfolio management, trading, clearing, consulting, and risk management. He is a member of both the AIMA Council (Board of Directors), at which he represents the Americas, and of AIMA’s Investor Steering Committee. Prior to his investment career in New York, Mr. De Rito was Geophysicist at the United States Geological Survey in Menlo Park, California. He has PhD and MS degrees from the University at Buffalo.