DRASX BNY Mellon Sustainable Balanced Fund

Paul Benson is the Managing Director, Head of Fixed Income Portfolio Management at Mellon. Mr. Benson joined Mellon in 2005 and was previously a Senior Portfolio Manager, responsible for the Yield Curve Arbitrage strategy within Global Asset Allocation portfolios. Prior experience includes analyzing and managing U.S. and Global Fixed Income active portfolios as well as market-making and proprietary trading with a focus on interest rate swaps and JPN Government Bonds. Mr. Benson attained the Chartered Financial Analyst (“CFA”) and Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (“CAIA”) designations. Mr. Benson graduated with a B.A. from the University of Michigan. He has over 21 years of investment experience.

Mr. Stewart is Head of Responsible Research at Newton. He joined Newton in 2003.

Yuko is a member of the equity opportunities team, where she is a portfolio manager for the Sustainable Global Equity and Sustainable US Equity strategies. She is also involved as a portfolio manager in Newton’s Thematic strategies. Prior to Newton, she worked for Aetos Capital, a fund of hedge funds, and Joho Capital, where she covered Japanese consumer, retail, and internet stocks. She started her career at Morgan Stanley in mergers and acquisitions. Yuko has an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. She is also a member of the Sustainability and Responsible Investment Committee at the Investment Association. Outside of work, Yuko enjoys spending time with her two sons and cooking.

Nancy G. Rogers is a Director, Senior Portfolio Manager, Fixed Income team at BNY Mellon Asset Management North America Corporation. Ms. Rogers joined BNY Mellon AMNA or a predecessor company in January 2013. Ms. Rogers joined Mellon in 1987 and is responsible for the management of domestic and international portfolios.She has been employed by Dreyfus since October 2007. Prior experience includes management of aggregate, government, credit and custom indices as well as trading, performance measurement and portfolio accounting. Ms. Rogers attained the Chartered Financial Analyst ("CFA") designation. Ms. Rogers graduated with an M.B.A. from Drexel University, Investments.

Karen Wong, CFA Managing Director, Head of Index - Portfolio Management Karen is the head of index portfolio management. She is responsible for overseeing equity and fixed income indexing and beta strategies, including exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Karen developed and launched the Carbon Efficiency strategy in 2014, the firm’s first green beta product. Prior to the merger, Karen was the head of equity portfolio management at Mellon Capital, responsible for equity index portfolio management.