Geoffrey D. Flynn

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 Copper Trust sells copper and issues Baskets in exchange for the copper deposited with the custodian as consideration. The Bank of New York Mellon is the trustee of the company. The objective of the trust is for the value of the Shares to reflect, at any given time, the value of copper owned by the trust at that time, less the trust’s expenses and liabilities. The trust is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

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.