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BIOGRAPHY FOR JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN Jeffrey E. Epstein is Chairman and CEO of Th e Financial Trust Company, an exclusive private trust company that provides a unique array of financial planning for families with a minimum net worth of a Billion Dollars. Services encompass tax planning, investments and fiduciary arrangements utilizing the expertise of some of the world's leading financial expert. Mr. Epstein is a member of the Trilateral Commission; the Council of Foreign Relations; The HE, the parent organization for the Fulbright Scholarship Program; The New York Academy of Science and a former Rockefeller University Board Member. Mr. Epstein is actively involved in the Santa Fe Institute, The Theoretical Biology Initiative at the Institute of Advanced Study and The Quantum Gravity Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Epstein is also involved with the Evolutionary Dynamics Program, the Placebo Study and sits on the Mind, Brain & Behavior Advisory Committee at Harvard. Mr. Epstein also hosted and sponsored an Artificial Intelligence Symposium at the University of the Virgin Islands in conjunction with Marvin Minsky, the cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Additionally, Mr. Epstein is highly active in the Virgin Islands education system, showing his commitment in a number of ways. Examples are the support of a school counselor, capital improvements to the new Enhanced Education building on the Antilles School campus, and helping to sustain summer enrichment and reading programs such as Upward Bound, the New Image Foundation, Future Business Leaders of America, Beacon Schools and Friends of St. Thomas Libraries. Mr. Epstein also provides academic and financial needs scholarships to children with limited financial resources who wish to attend private and/or EFTA00729687 parochial school as well as attend the local university. Globally, Mr. Epstein has funded the High Energy Physics Project in South Africa and the Theoretical Physics Project in India. Mr. Epstein started his career at Bear Steams with an educational background in physics. His philanthropic affiliations include both the Wexner Foundation and the COUQ Foundation. EFTA00729688  BIOGRAPHY FOR JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN Jeffrey E. Epstein is Chairman and CEO of The Financial Trust Company, an exclusive private trust company that provides a unique array of financial planning for families with a minimum net worth of a Billion Dollars. Services encompass tax planning, investments and fiduciary arrangements utilizing the expertise of some of the world's leading financial expert. Mr. Epstein is a member of the Trilateral Commission; the Council of Foreign Relations; The IIE, the parent organization for the Fulbright Scholarship Program; The New York Academy of Science and a former Rockefeller University Board Member. Mr. Epstein is actively involved in the Santa Fe Institute, The Theoretical Biology Initiative at the Institute of Advanced Study and The Quantum Gravity Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Additionally, Mr. Epstein is involved with the Evolutionary Dynamics Program, the Placebo Study and sits on the Mind, Brain & Behavior Advisory Committee at Harvard. Mr. Epstein also hosted and sponsored an Artificial Intelligence Conference in St. Thomas in conjunction with Marvin Minsky, the cofounder of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Globally, Mr. Epstein has funded the High Energy Physics Project in South Africa and the Theoretical Physics Project in India. Mr. Epstein started his career at Bear Stearns with an educational background in physics. His philanthropic affiliations include both the Wexner Foundation and the COUQ Foundation. EFTA00729689  J. EPSTEIN VI FOUNDATION Educational Related Contributions 2000-2004 1. Enhanced Education $280,000 • Support of a school counselor at $70,000 per year with a five year commitment (expires — June 2007). • Provided $70,000 for capital improvements to the new Enhanced Education building on the Antilles School campus. • Purpose is to create and manage a program to assist students (K-12) in achieving their academic goals within their regular academically competitive school environment. The program is open and free of charge to all students within the St. Thomas community. 2. University of the Virgin Islands Symposium $ 72,000 • Artificial Intelligence Symposium held at UVI on April 14-17 2002. • Cost paid by JEVIF for site expense, hotel, travel and incidentals of participants. • Symposium was open to UVI faculty and students majoring in computing science. 3. Summer Enrichment and Reading Programs ...5 37,000 • Upward Bound — A program that assists student who have college potential but have needed additional academic preparation to succeed in college. • New Image Foundation — A program that assists adults with the transition from public assistant to full time employment. The program provides basic training such as computer skills as well as entrepreneurial training. • Future Business Leaders of America — Program provides leadership skills within the middle school curriculum. • Beacon Schools — Operates after school community learning centers that serve over 4,000 middle, low and very low income children throughout the Virgin Islands. • Friends of St. Thomas Libraries — Program operates a summer reading program for children as well as it provides books to the public library. 4. Academic and Financial Need Scholarships .$233,000 This funding provided academic and financial scholarships to children with limited financial resources who wish to attend a private and/or parochial school as well as attend the local university. • All Saints School • AZ Academy • Antilles School • Harvard University • Montessori School • University of the VI EFTA00729690  BIOGRAPHY FOR JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN Jeffrey Epstein is Chairman and CEO of The Financial Trust Company, an exclusive private trust company that provides a unique array of financial planning services for families with a minimum net worth of a Billion Dollars. Services encompass tax planning, investments and fiduciary arrangements utilizing the expertise of some of the world's leading financial experts. Mr. Epstein is a member of the Trilateral Commission; the Council of Foreign Relations; The HE, the parent operation for the Fulbright Scholarship Program; The New. York Academy of Science and a former Rockefeller University Board Member. Mr. Epstein is also actively involved in the Santa Fe Institute, The Theoretical Biology Initiative at the Institute for Advanced Study, The Quantum Gravity Program at the • University of Pennsylvania, and also sits on the Mind, Brain & Behavior Advisory Committee at Harvard. Mr. Epstein started his career at Bear Steams with an educational background in physics. His philanthropic affiliations include both the Wexner Foundation and The COUQ Foundation. EFTA00729691