Jerry is a Managing Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, and Head of Emerging Markets Equity. Jerry has been with Evergreen since 2004. Previously, he served as a Vice President at Oppenheimer Asset Management (1999-2004). Jerry has been working in the investment management field since 1999. He received a BA in Finance from Nankai University (1993) and a PhD in Economics from Vanderbilt University (1999). Jerry has been awarded the use of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation by the CFA Institute, and he is a member of the Boston Securities Analysts Society.

Derrick Irwin is a portfolio manager with the Berkeley Street Emerging Markets team at Wells Capital Management. He joined WellsCap from Evergreen Investments, where he served as a senior research analyst since 2005. Earlier, he served as an analyst with Advest Inc. and as a portfolio manager with Goldman Sachs & Co. He began his investment industry career in 1993 as an analyst with Merrill Lynch & Co. Derrick earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Colgate University and a master’s degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance from the University of Pennsylvania. He has earned the right to use the CFA designation and is a member of the Boston Security Analysts Society.

Richard Peck is the director of research with the Berkeley Street Emerging Markets Equity team at Wells Capital Management. Prior to joining Wells Capital Management in 2010, he served as an emerging markets equity research analyst at Fidelity Management & Research and American Century Investments focusing on the Latin American equity markets. Richard began his investment industry career in 2000 as an analyst at Goldman Sachs in the firm’s Latin America Equity Research department. He earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and a master’s degree in finance at Brandeis University. He has earned the right to use the CFA designation.