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Timothy D. Armour is chairman and chief executive officer of Capital Group and chairman of the Capital Group Management Committee. He is also an equity portfolio manager. Tim has 36 years of investment experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, he covered global telecommunications and U.S. service companies. Tim began his career at Capital as a participant in The Associates Program. He holds a bachelor’s degree in economics from Middlebury College. Tim is based in Los Angeles.

Harold H. La is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 21 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 20 years. Earlier in his career, as an equity investment analyst at Capital, Harold covered Indian IT services, Asian semiconductors, Korean small-cap companies, Asian banks and diversified financials. Prior to joining Capital, Harold was an auditor at KPMG. He holds an MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Western Ontario. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. Harold is based in Hong Kong.

Caroline Jones is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. As an equity portfolio manager/investment analyst she covers health care services, retail drug companies and homebuilding in the U.S. She has 21 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 16 years. Earlier in her career at Capital, she also covered U.S. regional banks and small- and mid-cap diversified banks. Before joining Capital, she was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs & Co. She holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where she graduated as a Palmer scholar, and a bachelor’s degree in commerce from the University of New South Wales in Australia. Caroline is based in San Francisco.

Reed Lowenstein is a portfolio manager at Capital Group. He has 21 years of investment experience, all with Capital Group. Earlier in his career at Capital, he was an equity investment analyst with research responsibility for U.S. and European materials, electrical equipment, consumer durables & apparel, as well as European semiconductors, machinery and renewable energy companies. He holds a master’s degree from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in drama from Tufts University, graduating magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. Reed is based in New York.

Mathews Cherian is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. As an equity investment analyst, he covers U.S. and European semiconductor companies, as well as global telecommunications equipment and networking. He has 23 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 16 years. Prior to joining Capital, Mathews was a senior equity analyst for Pangaea Capital in Boston. Before that, he was an equity analyst with David L. Babson and a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and both a master’s degree in computer science and a bachelor’s degree in electrical science and engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Mathews is based in San Francisco.

Richmond Wolf is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. As an equity investment analyst he covers U.S. medical technology companies and REITs. He has 23 years of investment experience and has been with Capital Group for 14 years. Prior to joining Capital, he was the assistant vice president for technology transfer at the California Institute of Technology and a cofounder of WebEventBroadcasting and Xen Golf. He holds a PhD from the California Institute of Technology, and a bachelor’s degree from Princeton University graduating cum laude. Richmond is based in Los Angeles.

Tomoko Fortune is an equity portfolio manager at Capital Group. She has 24 years of investment industry experience and has been with Capital Group for one year. Prior to joining Capital, Tomoko worked as a managing partner at Criterion Capital Management. Before that, she was an associate at Goldman Sachs & Co. She holds an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor's degree in economics from Dartmouth College. Tomoko is based in San Francisco.