Todd Johnson is an audit partner in the asset management group of Ernst & Young. He is also national director of investment performance services at Ernst & Young and has extensive experience with the Global Investment Performance Standards. Mr. Johnson has coordinated numerous firm-wide verifications and performance examinations, developed the Ernst & Young learning materials related to investment performance, and conducted seminars on GIPS compliance and verification for Ernst & Young professionals in the Americas. He is a member of the Verification/Practitioner Subcommittee of the GIPS Executive Committee. Mr. Johnson holds a graduate degree from Boston College.

David D. Spaulding, CIPM, is founder and president of The Spaulding Group, Inc., and founder and publisher of The Journal of Performance Measurement. He is the author or contributing author of several books on investment performance, including The Handbook of Investment Performance, and has written articles for numerous industry publications. Mr. Spaulding is a member of a number of committees and working groups including the United States Investment Performance Committee (formerly the AIMR-PPS Implementation Committee) and the GIPS Executive Committee Promotion and Awareness Subcommittee. He holds a BA in mathematics from Temple University, an MS in systems management from the University of Southern California, and an MBA in finance from the University of Baltimore.

Karyn D. Vincent, CFA, CIPM, is founder of Vincent Performance Services LLC, which provides GIPS consulting and verification services. Previously, she served as the global practice leader for investment performance services at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Ms. Vincent serves on the GIPS Executive Committee (EC), chairs the Interpretations Subcommittee of the GIPS EC, and is a member of the Certificate in Investment Performance Measurement (CIPM) Advisory Council. From 2002 to 2006, she chaired the AIMR-PPS Implementation Committee and the Verification Subcommittee of the Investment Performance Council. Ms. Vincent holds a BS in accounting from the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth.