Commissioner Gross received a bachelor of arts degree, Magna Cum Laude, from Loyola University; a M.A. and Ph.D. in Language and Literature from the University of Kansas; and a M.B.A. with a concentration in Finance and Accounting from the University of Richmond.

L. Charles Landgraf leads the legislative/public policy practice group at Dewey & LeBoeuf and is widely considered one of the top insurance lobbyists in Washington. In addition to leadership responsibilities for the legislative practice group, Mr. Landgraf personally represents a variety of clients in the insurance, energy and real estate industries before Congress and the Administration. As part of his insurance work, Mr. Landgraf has formed several onshore and offshore captives and has obtained amendments to various federal environmental, aviation and maritime statutes for insurer clients in recent years. He regularly practices before the executive branch, including the Departments of Treasury, Commerce, Homeland Security and Transportation, and the Office of Management and Budget.

Regulation of trade in services and international intellectual property law are also areas of concentration. He assisted in drafting the 1993 Russian insurance law, advised the China Insurance Regulatory Commission in 2000 and 2001, and continues to manage trademark and other intellectual property litigation in a score of international countries for a major Washington, DC-based trade association. He is a graduate of Rice University and New York University School of Law.

Prior to joining PCI on September 4, 2007, Sampson served as the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Commerce Department, and previously as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development. Before joining the Bush Administration in August 2001, he served as chair of the Texas Council on Workforce and Economic Competitiveness, as Vice Chair of the Texas Strategic Economic Development Planning Commission, and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Arlington, Texas Chamber of Commerce.

Sampson is a graduate of David Lipscomb University and earned his doctorate at Abilene Christian University. He completed the Program for Senior Executives at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1999.

Previously, Mr. Schraa held senior positions at J.P. Morgan and UBS, at both of which he was a Managing Director and headed the legal service for international private banking businesses based in New York. From 1988 to 1994, based in Brussels, he was the Resident Counsel and a member of the management team of the Euroclear Operations Centre. He came to J.P. Morgan from Davis Polk & Wardwell, having served in its New York and Paris offices.