Patrick J. Dunne

iShares Gold Trust is an investment vehicle, which engages in owning gold transferred to the trust in exchange for shares issued by the trust. Its activities include issuing baskets of shares in exchange for the gold deposited with the custodian as consideration; selling gold as necessary to cover the sponsor?s fee, trust expenses not assumed by the sponsor and other liabilities; and delivering gold in exchange for baskets surrendered for redemption. The company was founded on January 21, 2005 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

iShares Diversified Alternatives Trust is an actively managed exchange-traded fund incorporated in the USA. The Trust seeks to maximize absolute returns from its investments in certain futures and/or forward contracts that the advisor selects, following strategies that utilize quantitative methodologies to identify potentially profitable discrepancies in the relative values or market prices of one or more commodities, currencies, interest rates or certain eligible stock and/or bond indices, and seek to control the risks and volatility inherent in these investments by taking long and short positions in historically correlated assets. It was founded on July 30, 2009 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. NA is a national banking association headquartered in San Francisco, California. The firm was founded in 1999 and is a subsidiary of BlackRock Delaware Holdings, Inc., ultimately owned by BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE: BLK). They operate as a limited purpose trust firm.

iShares Commodity Optimized Trust operates as a exchange traded fund. It’s objective seeks to track the results of a fully collateralized investment in futures contracts on an index composed of a diversified group of commodities futures which attempts to minimize contango and maximize backwardation. The company was founded on December 7, 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Founded in 1993, BlackRock Asset Management Investor Services Ltd. is a subsidiary of BlackRock, Inc. that provides asset management services. The company is based in London, UK.

Part of BlackRock, Inc., iShares Delaware Trust Sponsor LLC provides investment services. The company is based in New York, NY. Shannon Ghia has been the CEO of the company since 2022.