Dianne F. Lob was named Head of Global Business Development in 2018. She focuses on the global sales strategy for AB’s broad equity, fixed income and multi-asset services, as well as new product development, thought leadership and the creation of marketing materials. Lob coordinates globally with the Institutional, Retail and Private Client teams. From 2014 to 2018, she was head of Equity Business Development. From 2010 to 2015, she was the president and a director of the Sanford C. Bernstein Mutual Fund Board. From 2004 to 2014, she was chair of Bernstein Global Wealth Management’s Private Client Investment Policy Group, responsible for asset allocation and investment strategies in the Private Client business. Lob was a founder of AB’s women’s initiatives including Synergy, the employee resource group dedicated to women’s empowerment, and the Women’s Leadership Council. Prior to joining the firm in 1999 as a senior portfolio manager, she spent 22 years at J.P. Morgan, where she was a managing director and investment banker specializing in providing mergers and acquisitions advice and debt and equity financing for large-capitalization industrial companies. From 1991 to 1995, Lob was a senior member of the team that built J.P. Morgan’s equity business. Previously, she held various positions in international corporate finance, interest and currency swap marketing, lease advisory services and media client banking. Lob holds a BA in economics from Tufts University and an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. She is Chair of the board of HIAS, a refugee rescue and resettlement organization. Location: New York