Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Fleming Asset Management.ANNE MARDEN graduated from Princeton University in 1981 with a BA in Economics, and from I.N.S.E.A.D in 1985 with an MBA. She was undefeated in major single sculls competition in the U.S. from 1985 to 1993. Anne was a member of the 1980 Olympic Team, and competed in the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Games, winning two Silver Medals, in quadruple sculls (1984) and single sculls (1988). Anne joined J. P. Morgan, Asset Management Division, in London in 1986, and is now a Managing Director. Anne is married with one child and lives in Wallingford, England.

STATEMENT: “Although I started my international rowing career in 1978 while a junior at Princeton, it took me until 1985 to break away from the “do as your told” national squad mentality and discover real success. I found a coach (at a local club in France) who made me his number one priority, went to the top international competitions where I could compete against my Olympic rivals, and took full responsibility for everything from planning, logistics, the optimal training program, to figuring out how to pay for it. I attribute my bronze medal finish in the women’s single at the 1985 world championships to this new-found sense of total involvement. My coach had a good expression for how he wanted me to race in the final: with the ‘couteau dans les dents’ (with the knife in your teeth) and I think this sums up the whole thing. I competed for the U.S.A. for 7 more years, always on my own terms and with minimal support from the U.S. rowing federation or the USOC. I lived in Europe and just showed up in the U.S. to win the trials once a year. Unusually, I was able to launch a career in International Asset Management at the same time - this gave me the financial freedom to pursue my own course of action and prepared me for life after the Olympics. International sports have moved along in recent years with all athletes in sports like rowing pursuing training full time, in many cases thanks to increased levels of ’subsistence’ funding. In my view, this can only encourage the ‘do as you’re told’ mentality. I would like to see athletes thinking things through themselves, taking responsibility for all aspects of their training and competition, and not relying too much on a “system” that we have all seen focus too much on managing large groups of people at the expense of targeting success for the top competitors. I see my involvement in U.S. Athletic Trust as a way to help talented athletes pursue excellence with their eyes and ears wide open.”