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Published on: 6/5/2002
Last Visited: 6/6/2002
President Robert S. Kapito
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Fink and Schlosstein are officers and Directors, and Mr. Kapito is an officer of BNA.
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Robert S. Kapito, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, Inc., and its predecessor entities since 1988, Mr. Kapito is also Head of the Portfolio Management Group, and is a member of the Investment Strategy Group.Mr. Kapito is responsible for the portfolio management of the Fixed Income, Domestic Equity and International Equity, Liquidity, and Alternative Investment Groups of BlackRock. In addition, Mr. Kapito plays a key role in coordinating the efforts of the analytical and administrative groups with the Portfolio Management Group.He is also involved in marketing and managing several of BlackRock's funds.Mr. Kapito serves as a Vice President for BlackRock's family of closed-end mutual funds and for the Smith Barney Adjustable Rate Government Income Fund. Prior to founding BlackRock in 1988, Mr. Kapito was a Vice President in the Mortgage Products Group at The First Boston Corporation.Mr. Kapito joined First Boston in 1979 in the Public Finance Department.Mr. Kapito left First Boston to complete his MBA degree and returned to the firm in 1983 in the Mortgage Products Group.While with this Group, Mr. Kapito initially traded mortgage securities and then became the head trader of collateralized mortgage obligations (CMOs).Ultimately, Mr. Kapito became head of Mortgage Capital Markets with responsibility for marketing and pricing all of the mortgage-backed and asset-backed securities underwritten by First Boston.In 1982, Mr. Kapito worked as a strategic consultant with Bain & Co. and with two other private companies in Europe.
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The undersigned hereby appoints Anne F. Ackerley, Robert S. Kapito and Henry Gabbay as proxies, each with the power to appoint his or her substitute, and hereby authorizes them to represent and to vote, as designated on the reverse side hereof, all the shares of common stock of The BlackRock North American Government Income Trust Inc. (the "Trust") held of record by the undersigned on June 24, 2002 at the Special Meeting of Stockholders of the Trust to be held on July 31, 2002 or at any adjournments thereof.