Darnell Azeez

Lord Abbett & Co. LLC (Lord Abbett) is an independent, SEC-registered investment advisor and mutual fund manager headquartered in Jersey City, New Jersey. Founded in 1929, Lord Abbett provides advisory services to a variety of institutional clients, the Lord Abbett Funds and other registered investment companies sponsored by third parties, the Lord Abbett UCITS Funds, the Lord Abbett Luxembourg Fund, other foreign funds, privately offered commingled funds and various separately managed accounts.

TAMRO Capital Partners LLC is a registered investment advisor located in Alexandria, Virginia. The firm was founded in 2000 with Alleghany Asset Management, Inc. Alleghany was bought by ABN AMRO Group in February 2001. In June 2007, TAMRO closed on a management-led buyout of the assets of the firm from ABN AMRO Asset Management Holdings, Inc. The current firm assumed the TAMRO name as successor to the original company. The employees of TAMRO now own a majority of the firm through equity participation in TAMRO Management LLC. Minority owners are Northern Lights Midco LLC, who helped finance the management-led buyout, and Stellate Partners LLC, an institutional sales and marketing firm. TAMRO's clients include individuals, high net-worth individuals, corporate pension and profit-sharing plans, Taft-Hartley plans, charitable institutions, foundations, endowments, municipalities, public funds, trusts, and limited partnerships. They offer advisory services to wrap sponsors, and provide model portfolio services to several UMA programs. TAMRO also acts as sub-advisor to several mutual funds.