Mr. Paul Blinn, portfolio manager, is jointly responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio, including stock selection, investment monitoring and trading. Mr. Blinn has 20 years of capital market experience, during which time he had oversight and direct responsibility for the discretionary trading and risk management of large and complex portfolios of cash and derivative securities using numerous arbitrage strategies that sought to exploit pricing discrepancies identified by statistical models. He acquired this experience as an Executive Director at UBS, a global financial firm, and its predecessor banks from 1985 to 2000, and, most recently, as a Vice President of a leading option market maker and then a Senior Equity derivatives trader for a hedge fund from 2000 to 2005. Mr. Blinn graduated with honors from The University of Texas at Austin with a BBA in Finance.

Mr. Rafael Resendes, portfolio manager, is jointly responsible for the day-to-day management of the Fund’s portfolio, including stock selection and investment monitoring. Mr. Resendes, co-founder of the Applied Finance Group, has over 17 years of capital market experience and has spent the past 12 years in the area of equity research and valuation. Mr. Resendes has been an adjunct professor of finance at DePaul University in Chicago, and is a frequently cited source for publications such as Forbes, The Wall Street Journal, and CBS MarketWatch.com, among others. Mr. Resendes was co-portfolio manager of an equity hedge fund sponsored by AFG from 1998 to 1999. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from The University of California, Berkeley with a BS in Finance and received his MBA from the University of Chicago.