Mr. Pohl brings to these activities a broad background of experience in the investment community. He was formerly a Senior Vice President and Manager of A.G. Becker/SEI Consulting Services. In this responsibility, he headed the Group which conducted all investment manager search studies as well as investment policy/asset allocation projects. He had joined the Funds Evaluation Division of A.G. Becker as a consultant, responsible for all evaluation activities in several Midwestern states. Formerly he had been an Investment Officer of the Trust Department of the First National Bank of Chicago.

Mr. Pohl is a frequent speaker at conferences including the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA), the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans, the Institutional Investor Pension Seminar Series, the National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA), the National Council on Teacher Retirement (NCTR), the National Conference on Public Employee Retirement Systems (NCPERS), various regional Investment Analyst Society meetings, and seminars sponsored by the Investment Management Institute. Mr. Pohl was a former advisor to the Government Finance Officers Association Committee on Retirement and Benefits Administration (CORBA). He is currently an Associate Firm Advisory Member of the National Association of State Retirement Administrators (NASRA) Executive Committee.

Mr. Pohl is a graduate of North Park College in Chicago where he majored in economics with a minor in political science. He attended the Graduate School of Business of Roosevelt University in Chicago, where his major field of emphasis in the M.B.A. program was finance.