People: PowerShares DB Precious Metals Fund (DBP.P)

Mr. Alex Depetris serves as Chief Operating Officer, Director of DB Commodity Services LLC, the Managing Owner of PowerShares DB Precious Metals Fund. Mr. Depetris joined Deutsche Bank AG, a international financial institution, in June 2008 and serves as a Vice President in the DBX Group with responsibility for providing currency and commodity-based investor solutions to the DB sales force in the Americas. The DBX Group is the team that structures and manages exchange-traded products. Mr. Depetris serves as a Vice President of the Managing Owner. Mr. Depetris has been a principal and associated person of the Managing Owner since April 13, 2009 and June 17, 2009, respectively, and an associate member of the NFA since June 17, 2009. From December 2006 to May 2008, Mr. Depetris was an associate with the law firm of Arnold & Porter LLP in New York, and prior to that he was an associate with the law firm Sullivan & Worcester LLP in Boston, Massachusetts from September 2005 through November 2006. Mr. Depetris received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law in 2005 and his Bachelors of Science in Finance from University of Maryland, College Park in 2002.