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R. Martin Chavez

Mr. Chavez currently serves on the Board of Directors of Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL). In addition, he serves on the fiduciary or advisory boards of Abacus.AI, Cambrian Biopharma, Datavant, Earli, Ketch, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Recursion Pharma, Stanford Medicine board of fellows, and the Stanford Center on Longevity. He previously served as President of the Board of Overseers of Harvard University.

Prior to joining Sixth Street, Mr. Chavez served in a variety of senior roles at Goldman Sachs, including Chief Information Officer, where he oversaw the firm’s 9,000 engineers; Chief Financial Officer, and global co-head of the firm’s Securities (now Global Markets) Division. Mr. Chavez was also a partner and member of the Goldman Sachs Management Committee. Mr. Chavez was one of the first developers of SecDB, an early platform that transformed the trading business into a software business. He retired from the firm in 2019.

Prior to joining Goldman Sachs, Mr. Chavez was the CEO and co-founder of Kiodex, and Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Quorum Software Systems.

He holds an A.B. magna cum laude in Biochemical Sciences and an S.M. in Computer Science from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Medical Information Sciences from Stanford.