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Charles Van Vleet is Assistant Treasurer and Chief Investment Officer of Pension Investments at Textron Inc., Providence RI. Together with an investment team of four, Charles has Trustee oversight of $10.2bn in defined benefit and defined contribution assets for Textron's US, Canada and UK plans providing retirement security for over 75,00 current and past employees. The Textron retirement Plans are well funded with broadly diversified investments including private equity, hedge funds, commodities, real estate, fixed income and public equity. In addition to investment oversight, Charles serves as a Member of Textron's Investment Committee, Investment Management group, Employee Benefits Committee, Trustee and Board Member of Textron's UK and Canadian Plans. Prior to Textron, Charles spent 8 years as Director, Pension Investments at United Technologies (UTC) in Hartford CT. Prior to pension investment Charles spent 25 years in banking and investment management at several firms including Credit Suisse, Warburg Pincus, Putnam, Alliance Capital and Brown Brothers Harriman. At different times -living and working in New York, London and Tokyo- he has had the opportunity to manage 40Act mutual funds, high net worth, public pension and corporate pension funds. Charles holds bachelor's degrees in Economics and Political Science from UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA and an MBA from the University of CT (UCONN) in Storrs, CT.