Puneet Mansharamani, CFA, is a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Quantitative Analyst of LSV. Mr. Mansharamani has more than 14 years of investment experience. At LSV, Mr. Mansharamani is part of our quantitative and implementation team, which is responsible for the day-to-day data management, portfolio implementation and ongoing enhancement of our models and systems. Prior to joining LSV, Mr. Mansharamani was an Analyst at Institutional Trust National City Corporation. His responsibilities included project management, systems development and designing financial and analytical applications for the Worldwide Web. Prior to this experience, Mr. Mansharamani was a Systems Consultant for Maximations, Inc. where he was responsible for systems development and programming Mainframe and databases used to calculate revenue streams as well as executive reporting. Mr. Mansharamani was also a Systems Analyst for Case Western Reserve University. Mr. Mansharamani earned a B.S. in Engineering from Delhi University, Delhi College of Engineering in 1995 and an M.S. in Engineering at Case Western Reserve University, Case School of Engineering (2001).

Josef Lakonishok is a Founding Partner, CEO and CIO of LSV Asset Management. Dr. Lakonishok has more than 30 years of investment and research experience. Dr. Lakonishok was, until 2004, the William G. Karnes Professor of Finance at the College of Commerce & Business Administration at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before that, he held staff and visiting professorships at Tel Aviv University, Cornell University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and the University of British Columbia. Dr. Lakonishok is one of the top contributors to major financial journals and has published more than 80 articles. His research covers such diverse areas as analyst forecasts, execution cost measurement, performance evaluation, momentum strategies, fundamental valuation, seasonalities in stock returns, and share repurchases. Dr. Lakonishok’s work has received many awards, including the Roger F. Murray Award for the paper “Contrarian Investment, Extrapolation, and Risk,” written with Drs. Shleifer and Vishny, and the American Association of Individual Investors Award for the article “Fundamentals and Stock Returns in Japan,” written with Drs. Louis K. C. Chan and Yasushi Hamao. Dr. Lakonishok received a B.A. in Economics and Statistics from Tel Aviv University in 1970 and an M.B.A. from that university in 1972. He earned an M.S. in Business Administration in 1974 and a Ph.D. in Business Administration in 1976 from Cornell University.

Menno Vermeulen, CFA, is a Partner, Portfolio Manager and Senior Quantitative Analyst of LSV. Mr. Vermeulen has more than 21 years of investment experience. At LSV, Mr. Vermeulen has developed and written the software for our quantitative models and portfolio management system. He leads our quantitative and implementation team, which is responsible for the day-to-day data management, portfolio implementation and ongoing enhancement of our models and systems. Mr. Vermeulen is also involved in the research process at LSV. Prior to joining LSV, he worked at ABP, the largest pension plan in Europe and one of the largest in the world. At ABP, Mr. Vermeulen was responsible for the development and implementation of quantitative active investment strategies. In this capacity, he built the database and conducted research that led to a quantitative tactical country allocation model. Mr. Vermeulen developed and wrote the PC-based software to implement, update and maintain this model. He was also the Portfolio Manager and responsible for implementing this strategy with futures. Mr. Vermeulen holds a masters degree in Econometrics from Erasmus University at Rotterdam.