Danielle DiMartino Booth

<p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><u><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">ABOUT DANIELLE DIMARTINO BOOTH:</span></span></span></u></strong></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><strong><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">Danielle DiMartino Booth is CEO &amp; Chief Strategist for QI Research,&nbsp;</span></span></span></strong><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">a research and analytics firm. &nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">DiMartino Booth set out to launch a #<em>ResearchRevolution</em>, redefining how market intelligence is conceived and delivered to guide portfolio managers and promote financial literacy.&nbsp;To build QI, she brought together a core team of investing veterans to analyze the trends and provide critical analysis on what is driving the markets &ndash; both in the United States and globally.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">&nbsp;<br /> Since their inception in 2015, commentary and data from DiMartino Booth&rsquo;s&nbsp;<em>The Daily Feather&nbsp;</em>and<em>&nbsp;The Weekly Quill&nbsp;</em>have appeared in other financial sources such as Bloomberg, CNBC, Fox Business, Institutional Investor, Yahoo Finance, The Wall Street Journal, MarketWatch, Seeking Alpha, TD Ameritrade,&nbsp;TheStreet.com, and more.<br /> &nbsp;<br /> A global thought leader in monetary policy, economics, and finance, DiMartino Booth founded QI Research in 2015.&nbsp; She is the author of&nbsp;</span></span></span><span style="color:black"><a href="https://quillintelligence.us14.list-manage.com/track/click?u=a93505e1ffc51c4d9790b4c97&amp;id=dcbc376f33&amp;e=93c07ca37d" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color:rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); color:blue"><strong><em><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">FED UP: An Insider&rsquo;s Take on Why the Federal Reserve is Bad for America</span></span></span></em></strong><strong>&nbsp;</strong></a></span><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">(Portfolio, Feb 2017), a business speaker, and a commentator frequently featured on CNBC, Bloomberg, Fox News, Fox Business News, BNN Bloomberg, Yahoo Finance and other major media outlets.&nbsp;<br /> &nbsp;<br /> Prior to QI Research, DiMartino Booth&nbsp;spent nine years at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. She served as Advisor to President Richard W. Fisher throughout the financial crisis until his retirement in March 2015. Her work at the Fed focused on financial stability and the efficacy of unconventional monetary policy.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">&nbsp;</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin:0in 13.7pt 0in 0in; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:12pt"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="background-image:initial"><span style="background-position:initial"><span style="background-size:initial"><span style="background-repeat:initial"><span style="background-origin:initial"><span style="background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana,sans-serif"><span style="color:black">DiMartino Booth began her career in New York at Credit Suisse and Donaldson, Lufkin &amp; Jenrette where she worked in the fixed-income, public equity, and private equity markets. DiMartino Booth earned her BBA as a College of Business Scholar at the University of Texas at San Antonio. She holds an MBA in Finance and International Business from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Journalism from Columbia University.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>