PBO: Board of Directors

Chris McCrum
Vice President
Chair, Nominating Committee

Board member since: 2003

Bio: Chris McCrum is the Head of Human Resources for Barclays Global Investors (BGI), and previously served as BGI's co-CFO. Prior to joining BGI in 2001, Chris was CFO for iAsiaworks, a pan-Asian web-hosting company. Chris spent 11 years at Bank of America in varied Finance roles, including Executive Vice President with overall finance responsibility for the technology, operations and administrative groups. Chris also served as CFO of Bank of America's Real Estate Group. Chris trained as a public accountant, and worked at KPMG and Price Waterhouse. Chris holds a BA with honors in Accounting from Exeter University in England.

Other volunteer activities: past board member of British American Chamber of Commerce

Hometown: Philadelphia, raised in Oxford, England

Special Interests: playing keyboard instruments; singing

Instruments: various keyboard; cello; saxophone

Favorite composer/composition: Choral works by JS Bach