Dennis M. Kass

Dennis M. Kass, age 62, has been a director of Legg Mason since April 2013. Mr. Kass retired in 2012 as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Jennison Associates, an asset management company wholly-owned by Prudential Financial, Inc., having served in that position since 2003. Previously, he had spent more athan a decade with JP Morgans investment management unit, culminating in the position of Vice Chairman of JP Morgan Fleming Asset Management. Mr. Kass served in the Reagan Administration from 1985 to 1987 as the Assistant Secretary of Labor for Pension and Welfare Benefits and was a Special Assistant to the President for Policy Development from 1981 to 1982. Mr. Kass is the Vice Chairman and a Senior Advisor at Ridgeway Partners, an executive search firm. He is a trustee of the Financial Accounting Foundation, serves on the Advisory Board for Finance and the Global Executive Board for M.I.T.s Sloan School of Management, and is on the board of the not-for-profit buildOn.