Mr. Edelman is a portfolio manager, a director and CIO US Large Cap Core Growth Equities for Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2004. He has 30 years of investment-industry experience. Mr. Edelman previously worked at Alliance Capital Management, where he developed a large-cap equity product and managed institutional portfolios; before that, he was a research analyst specializing in the consumer products and services sector. He has a B.A. in history from Columbia College and an M.B.A. in finance from New York University.

Ms. Hiatt, CFA, is a senior portfolio manager and director with Allianz Global Investors. Ms. Hiatt has 20 years of investment-industry experience. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, she was a vice president at Bioscience Securities, a boutique research and investment-banking firm, where she covered food and agricultural biotech companies and constructed merger and acquisition valuation models. She has a B.S., cum laude, in finance from Santa Clara University.

Mr. Migliori, CFA, portfolio manager, is a managing director and CIO Equity US with Allianz Global Investors, which he joined in 2003. He has 19 years of investment-industry experience and previously worked with Provident Investment Counsel. Mr. Migliori has a B.S. in accounting from University of Southern California, a JD from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.