ANTHONY (Buddy) PISZEL

Executive Vice President
Chief Financial Officer

Anthony "Buddy" Piszel joined Freddie Mac in November 2006 as the executive vice president and chief financial officer. Piszel is a member of the company's senior executive leadership team and reports directly to Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Richard F. Syron.

As chief financial officer, Piszel is responsible for the company's financial controls, financial reporting, tax, capital oversight, and compliance with the requirements of Sarbanes-Oxley. He also oversees the company's annual budgeting and financial planning processes.

Piszel joins Freddie Mac from Health Net, Inc. where he served as executive vice president and chief financial officer since August 2004. While at Health Net, one of the nation's largest publicly traded managed health care companies, he was responsible for all of the organization's finance functions, including accounting, risk management, treasury and financial planning.

Prior to joining Health Net, Piszel served for more than a decade in senior financial positions at Prudential Financial, Inc., most recently as senior vice president and corporate controller from 1998 to 2004. He also served as Prudential's corporate vice president assigned to special finance projects, chief financial officer of the individual life insurance business and chief financial officer of the asset management and retirement business. Piszel played a leading role in transforming Prudential from a private company to a public, SEC registered, company.

Before joining Prudential, Piszel was an audit partner with Deloitte & Touche. He also served for two years as a practice fellow with the Financial Accounting Standards Board.

Piszel received an M.B.A. in accounting from Golden Gate University and a B.A. in economics from Rutgers University. He serves on the board of directors and as chairman of the audit committee of RehabCare Group, Inc.

Freddie Mac is a stockholder-owned company established by Congress in 1970 to support homeownership and rental housing. Freddie Mac fulfills its mission by purchasing residential mortgages and mortgage-related securities, which it finances primarily by issuing mortgage-related securities and debt instruments in the capital markets. Over the years, Freddie Mac has made home possible more than 50 million times, ensuring financing for one in six homebuyers and more than four million renters.

11/06