Connie K. Duckworth was a Partner and Managing Director of Goldman Sachs, a multinational investment bank and financial services company, until 2000, when she retired following a 20-year career. Ms. Duckworth was named Partner in 1990, the first female sales and trading partner in Goldman Sachs’ history. After Goldman Sachs, Ms. Duckworth founded a social enterprise ARZU, Inc., in 2004 to empower destitute women weavers in rural Afghanistan and served pro bono as its Chairman and CEO until its merger with UK based Turquoise Mountain in 2019. Since 2010, Ms. Duckworth has served as a director of Steelcase Inc. (NYSE: SCS), a manufacturer of commercial furniture and related products. Previously, she served as a trustee of Equity Residential (NYSE: EQR), a Maryland real estate investment trust, until June 2022, and served on the boards of directors of Northwestern Mutual, Russell Investment Group, Nuveen Investments, Smurfit Stone Container Corporation, and DNP Select Income Fund. In her philanthropic work, Ms. Duckworth is a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and chairs the International Board of Advisors of the University of Texas at Austin. She serves on the board of Northshore-Edward-Elmurst Health, in Evanston, Illinois, where she was the first and only female Chairman of the Board. She is a founding member of the U.S.-Afghan Women’s Council in Washington, D.C., and a member of the Bush Institute’s Women’s Initiative Policy Advisory Council in Dallas. The recipient of numerous awards for leadership, social impact and innovation, Ms. Duckworth holds an M.B.A. from the Wharton School and a B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.