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Silas A. Myers, CFA is a co-founder and controlling shareholder of Mar Vista Investment Partners. He serves as a Portfolio Manager for the firm’s Strategic Growth and Focus strategies and has 20 years of investment experience. Before starting Mar Vista in 2007, Silas spent seven years as a Portfolio Manager and Analyst at Roxbury Capital Management. He was also an Equity Analyst and Product Specialist at Hotchkis and Wiley, where he performed in-depth industry and company analysis. He began his career as a Vice President and Portfolio Manager at Utendahl Capital Management. He has a B.A. in psychology and an M.B.A., both from Harvard University. He is also a Robert A. Toigo Foundation alumnus.

Brian L. Massey, CFA is a co-founder of Mar Vista Investment Partners and serves as a Portfolio Manager for the firm’s Strategic Growth and Focus strategies. He has 19 years of investment experience. Prior to starting Mar Vista in 2007, Brian spent 10 years as both a Portfolio Manager, Analyst, and Director of Research at Roxbury Capital Management. Before coming to Roxbury, Brian was a management consultant in KPMG Peat Marwick’s Corporate Finance and Strategic Consulting group. He has a B.S. in economics from Johns Hopkins University and an M.B.A. from The Anderson School of Management at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Joshua J. Honeycutt, CFA is a partner and serves as a member of the investment team. He is also Co-Portfolio Manager of the Mar Vista Mid-Cap Growth strategy. Before joining Mar Vista Investment Partners in January 2009, he spent seven years as an analyst at Roxbury Capital Management with a special emphasis in covering consumer discretionary and retail stocks. Josh was also an analyst with Harvey & Company, covering mergers and acquisitions and an associate in forensic accounting at Tucker Alan. He has a B.S. with distinction in management/finance from Purdue University.

Jeffrey B. Prestine is a partner and serves as a member of the investment team. He is also Co-Portfolio Manager of the Mar Vista Mid-Cap Growth strategy. Before joining Mar Vista Investment Partners in January 2009, he was an analyst covering technology and energy stocks at Roxbury Capital Management. Jeff joined Roxbury from Seneca Capital Management, where he was a technology and energy analyst for more than five years. He began his career in finance at Prudential Securities as an associate analyst covering enterprise software companies. Prior to entering the investment industry in 1999, Jeff was a senior consultant with Arthur Anderson Business Consulting. Jeff earned his undergraduate degree at the University of Colorado at Boulder and has an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California.

In order to focus on managing client assets, Mar Vista has a contractual agreement with Roxbury Capital Management, LLC ("Roxbury") to provide various services including operations, trading, marketing, client service, compliance, and accounting. Complete biographies of all Roxbury personnel are available upon request.

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