Capital Link Forum | Closed-End Funds and Global ETF Conference

Noel Archard is responsible for product management of the Vanguard VIPERs®, Vanguard’s exchange traded funds (ETFs). His focus is on establishing and developing the utilization of the VIPERs across all appropriate business lines within Vanguard. Mr. Archard has been involved with Vanguard’s ETF program since 2003. Mr. Archard joined Vanguard in 1996. He has worked in various roles during that time, running Vanguard’s outside funds program, the brokerage Business Development & Marketing team along with the brokerage Investor Services Group....more.

Steven A. Baffico, Director, is a member of the BlackRock Private Client Group, and serves as the firm's National Product Sales Manager. His responsibilities include marketing and sales across all investment products and platforms including mutual funds, separately managed accounts and closed-end funds....more.

Mr. Blessing joined Merrill Lynch Investment Managers in July 2002. He has over fifteen years of experience in the financial markets on both the buy and sell side. Prior to MLIM Craig spent five years at Chase Fleming Asset Management where he managed multi-sector and Emerging Market Bond portfolios, including the Chase Vista Strategic Income Fund and the Chase Vista Emerging Market Income Fund, both with top quartile track records. Craig was also Director of Fund Management at Serfin Securities, Inc. and the co-head of Emerging Market Fixed Income Sales and Trading at Bank of America....more.

Ms. Mariana F. Bush, CFA
Closed-end Funds & ETF Analyst
Advisory Services Group
Wachovia Securities

Mariana F. Bush is the closed-end fund and exchange-traded analyst at Wachovia Securities. She began her career at Furman Selz in New York as an associate analyst following technology companies long before the internet became a household name. Bush joined Wachovia Securities in 1991 as an analyst in Investment Strategy. In 1993, she began following closed-end funds, and in the late Nineties she also started to cover exchange-traded funds...more.

Terrence S. Gray, CFA
Director
The Korea Fund

Portfolio manager for Alpha Emerging Markets Equity, lead portfolio manager for Scudder New Asia Fund, Scudder Global Discovery Fund and Korea Fund: New York. Joined the Company in 1993, covering global emerging markets and Pacific Basin markets in various capacities; previously head of the Pacific Basin PST and served as an Asian country and sector analyst before joining the Emerging Markets team. BS from Boston College...more

Ms. Susan P. Gulshan
Vice President CEF Secondary Marketing Specialist
Merrill Lynch

Susan joined Merrill Lynch in April 2004 as part of the Investor Strategies Group. Susan comes to Merrill Lynch from Morgan Stanley where she spent the last 8 years in various positions ranging from Equity Marketing, Fixed Income Trading and CEF and ETF Marketing. She most recently served as the ETF Product Manager, overseeing all CEF and ETF secondary marketing to the retail sales force....more.

Mr. John T. Hyland, CFA
Portfolio Manager and
Director of Portfolio Research
United States Oil Fund, LP

Mr. Hyland helps oversee both the day-to-day trading and investments of USOF as well as working on longer term investment issues and strategies. With 20 years in the investment industry, Mr. Hyland has a long background in both portfolio management and investment research....more.

Robert S. Kapito, Vice Chairman of BlackRock, oversees all portfolio management. Mr. Kapito is a member of the Management Committee, the Investment Strategy Group, and the Equity Investment Strategy Group. Mr. Kapito is responsible for overseeing portfolio management of the Fixed Income, Equity, Liquidity, and Alternative Investment Groups of BlackRock....more.

Mr. John A. Key
Executive Director
UBS Investment Bank Global Financial Institutions Group

John Key is an Executive Director in UBS Investment Bank's Global Financial Institutions Group. Mr. Key specializes in working with asset management and related companies. Mr. Key has extensive experience in the origination, structuring and capital raising of investment products on behalf of asset management companies. ...more.

Louis W. Lazzara is a director for Fitch Ratings' Fund & Asset Manager Rating Group in New York. His team is responsible for issuing and surveilling credit and volatility ratings on money market and bond funds. The group also rates local government investment pools, closed-end fund preferred shares/notes, and tradeable credit baskets. ...more.

Mr. Lesan works with the portfolio teams to monitor investment portfolio activity, current positioning and risk attribution. He represents the Portfolio Management Team in market and strategy reviews with Financial Advisors and institutions globally. Immediately before joining Calamos, Mr. Lesan was a research analyst with Schwab Capital Markets' quantitative research group in Chicago where he was responsible for various aspects of their quantitative research as well as representing the firm to their extensive list of institutional clients. ...more.

Mr. Jon Maier
Director, Closed-End Funds and Business Development Companies
UBS Investment Research

Mr. Maier is a director in the closed-end funds group of UBS Investment Research. An analyst since August 1997, Mr. Maier specializes in the coverage of closed-end funds, including index, domestic taxable fixed income, municipal bond and equity funds....more.

Jeffrey Margolin
Vice President and Closed-End Fund Analyst,
First Trust Advisors LP

Mr. Margolin is Vice President, Closed-End Fund Analyst, for First Trust Portfolios L.P. Mr. Margolin joined the firm in February 2005, after 8 years at Ryan, Beck & Co., where he was a Vice President of equity research focusing on NYSE and AMEX-listed closed-end funds. While there, he produced in-depth research reports on closed-end funds, providing insights on relative performance and portfolio strengths and weaknesses....more.

Matt joined the iShares team in April 2002 as the Business Development Officer for the New York Metro territory. In January 2005 he was promoted to National Accounts Manager, covering the home office relationships at the major wirehouses. He began his career in financial services in 1990, and enjoyed a span of nearly 11 years at Morgan Stanley before joining BGI.Over the years Matt has held a variety of proprietary trading, business development and sales management positions...more.

Paul Mazzilli is an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley and is the Director of the Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) Research Team. His team's universe includes actively managed closed-end fund companies and passively managed index-linked ETFs. Paul's team covers a broad range of funds listed on US exchanges that invest in equities in the US and in international regions and countries as well as taxable and municipal fixed income....more.

Karen R. McColl, CFA
Vice President, Investment Product Management
Evergreen Investments

Karen is Vice President of Investment Product Management for Evergreen Investments. Her role includes overseeing both closed end and open-end fund offerings. Karen serves as the primary contact for closed end analysts, directs after-market support efforts, and is also closely involved in new product initiatives....more.

Jennifer Minelli is an associate director in Fitch Ratings' Fund and Asset Manager Rating Group. She is responsible for issuing and surveilling credit and volatility ratings on money market and bond funds. Jennifer also rates local government investment pools, closed-end fund preferred shares/notes, and tradeable credit baskets....more.

Matthew T. Moran is Vice President, Business Development, for the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), and is responsible for many of the exchange's marketing and educational efforts (including advertising, seminars and publications) for pension funds, mutual funds, and other institutional investors. He had a leadership role in the development of the CBOE S&P 500 BuyWrite Index (BXMSM), the first major benchmark for options performance, and he also is involved in the marketing of many other products, including futures on the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX)....more.

Mr. Timothy O'Brien, CFA
Managing Director
Senior Portfolio Manager
Evergreen Investments

Tim is a Managing Director and Senior Portfolio Manager with the Value Equity team of Evergreen's Equity Management group. His responsibilities include managing the Evergreen Utilities & High Income Fund, a closed-end fund, as well as the Evergreen Utility and Telecommunications Fund. ...more.

Alexander Reiss is the Senior Analyst for Closed-End Funds at Ryan Beck and Co. He joined Ryan Beck & Co. in 2002. Previously, Mr. Reiss had been an associate analyst with Gruntal and Co., covering Closed-End Funds....more.

Mr. Kevin Rich
Director in the Commodities Asset Structuring Group
Deutsche Bank

Kevin Rich is a Director in the Commodities Asset Structuring Group at Deutsche Bank and Chief Executive Officer of DB Commodity Services LLC, which is the Managing Owner of the DB Commodity Index Tracking Fund. He is responsible for providing commodity-based investor solutions to the Deutsche Bank sales force in the Americas. ...more.

Thomas N. Rzepski is a Vice President at the American Stock Exchange. He is responsible for new business development in closed-end funds and exchange traded funds. In this role, he initiates relationships with asset management firms to present the benefits of listing closed-end funds and exchange traded funds on the Amex. ...more.

Patricia Rosch joined Scudder Investments in 1998 and is currently a Director in the Closed-end Funds Group at Deutsche Asset Management. Ms. Rosch specializes in marketing for the firm’s sixteen closed-end funds as well as client relations and product origination. Prior to joining Scudder, she was in high yield sales at First Albany and Alex. Brown & Sons. Ms. Rosch holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Delaware....more.

WILLIAM F. SCAPELL is director of fixed income, the portfolio manager for the Cohen & Steers preferred securities portfolios and leads the firm's preferred securities investment and research efforts. He has 14 years of investment experience. ...more.

John F. (Jack) F. Tierney, Executive Director of Unit Investment Trust Product Management for Van Kampen Investments. Jack is responsible for the oversight, implementation and coordination of new business development and product management activities for the firm's Unit Trust business. ...more.