Joseph A. Grundfest — Co-Founder and Director at Financial Engines

Mr. Joseph A. Grundfest, also known as Joe, Co-founded Financial Engines, Inc. in June 1996. Mr. Grundfest is also Founder of Directors' College at Stanford Law School and is principal investigator for Stanford Law School's Securities Litigation Clearinghouse. Mr. Grundfest served as Chief Executive Officer and Special Advisor to Board at BoardVantage Inc. Mr. Grundfest directs the Roberts Program in Law, Business and Corporate Governance at Stanford Law School. He serves as an Independent Director of at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. He has been a Director at KKR Management LLC - Managing Partner of KKR & Co. L.P. since July 15, 2010. He serves as a Director at Quantifind, Inc. Mr. Grundfest has been a Director of Financial Engines Inc. since June 1996. He served as a Commissioner of the SEC from 1985 to 1990. He served as Counsel and Senior Economist for legal and regulatory matters at the President's Council of Economic Advisors. An Attorney and Economist, Mr. Grundfest also practiced law with Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering and has served as an Economist with the Brookings Institution and the Rand Corporation. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Vimicro International Corp. He serves as Member of the American Law Institute. He served as a Director at BoardVantage, Inc. Mr. Grundfest served as a Director of Oracle Corp. from October 2001 to June 2, 2006. He served as Member of Executive Council at TechNet. He serves as director of Directors' College at Stanford Law School. He served as Chairman of Nominating Committee of Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. Mr. Grundfest is the William A. Franke Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School, where he has been on the faculty since January 1990. He was named among the top 10 lawyers in California in 1999, where Mr. Grundfest was ranked second on the list. He is also listed among the 100 most influential attorneys in the United States by the National Law Journal. Mr. Grundfest received the John Bingham Hurlbut Award for Excellence in Teaching as well as the Associated Students of Stanford University award as the best Professor at the Stanford Law, Business and Medical Schools. Mr. Grundfest has been selected as a National Fellow by the Hoover Institution, has been awarded a John M. Olin Faculty Fellowship and is an Adjunct Scholar of the American Enterprise Institute. He is admitted to practice in California and in the District of Columbia. Mr. Grundfest's scholarship in the areas of corporate law, securities regulation and litigation has been published in the Harvard, Yale and Stanford Law Reviews. Mr. Grundfest holds a BA degree in Economics from Yale University in 1973 and completed an M.Sc. program in Mathematical Economics and Econometrics at the London School of Economics in 1972. He holds J.D. from Stanford in 1978, where he also completed all requirements for a Doctorate in Economics but for the dissertation in 1978.