Bob Mazzarella

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Mr. Bob Mazzarella serves as Board Member at Placemark Investments and is the Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Mazzarella. Bob Mazzarella has more than 30 years experience in the securities industry, including 18 years at Fidelity Investments, where he served most recently as president of Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC. Mr. Mazzarella joined Fidelity in 1983 as vice president of client services for national Financial Correspondent Services (NFCS), which provides correspondent brokerage services to banks, broker/dealers, and insurance firms. He served as president of NFCS from 1991 to 1995. He then became president of Fidelity Brokerage Services and president of the Institutional Group in 1999. As the head of the brokerage unit, he was responsible for all of Fidelity's retail brokerage products and services, including the company's investor centers and its rapidly growing online business. He stepped down from his role at the firm at the end of 2001. While at Fidelity, Mr. Mazzarella was a member of the board of directors at the Securities Industry Association (SIA), chaired the SIA's Discount Brokerage Committee, and was a member of the SIA's Market Structure Committee. He has served on the board of the Philadelphia Stock Clearing Corporation and Depository, and served on the boards of The Chicago Board of Options Exchange, the Cincinnati Stock Exchange, the Boston Stock Exchange and Redibook, Inc. Mr. Mazzarella was a member of The New York Stock Exchange, and served on the New York Stock Exchange's Regional Firms Committee.