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Name | Title | Since | Until |
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Daniel Babkes | Principal & Senior Research Analyst | 2024 | Now |
Biography | Daniel L. Babkes, Principal and Senior Research Analyst. Mr. Babkes became a member of the firm in 2016. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Babkes worked as an analyst at LG Capital Management, an event-driven hedge fund, and as an investment banker in the restructuring group at Evercore Partners. He began his finance career as a trader at Chesapeake Partners, a multi-billion dollar hedge fund. He earned a B.A. cum laude from Amherst College and an M.B.A from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
John J. Flynn | Principal & Portfolio Manager | 2017 | Now |
Biography | John J. Flynn, Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Flynn is a co-portfolio manager for the U.S. Mid Cap and Large Cap strategies, along with the Focused Value and Small Cap Focused Value services. Mr. Flynn became a member of the firm in 2005. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Flynn was an associate at Weston Presidio, a middle-market private equity investment firm. He earned a B.A. in Music from Yale University and an M.B.A. with distinction from the Harvard Business School. | ||
Benjamin S. Silver | Principal & Portfolio Manager | 2012 | Now |
Biography | Principal and Portfolio Manager. Mr. Silver is a co-portfolio manager for the Global strategies and the U.S. Large Cap, Mid Cap, Focused Value and Small Cap strategies. He is also a portfolio manager for Global Best Ideas. He previously served as co-Director of Research for 9 years. Mr. Silver became a member of the firm in 2001. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Silver was a research analyst at Levitas & Company and a Manager for Ernst & Young LLP. He earned a B.S. magna cum laude in Accounting from Sy Syms School of Business at Yeshiva University. | ||
Richard S. Pzena | Founder, Managing Principal, Co-CIO, Portfolio Manager | 1996 | Now |
Biography | Richard S. Pzena, Founder, Managing Principal, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager, and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Pzena is the architect of the firm’s investment strategy and conceived and developed our proprietary screening model. He serves as co-portfolio manager for the U.S. Large Cap and Mid Cap strategies, Focused Value, and U.S. Best Ideas. Mr. Pzena began the firm in 1995. Prior to forming Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Pzena was the Director of U.S. Equity Investments and Chief Research Officer for Sanford C. Bernstein & Company. He joined Bernstein as an oil industry analyst and was named to the Institutional Investor All America Research Team for three years running. Mr. Pzena also served as Chief Investment Officer, Small Cap Equities. Prior to joining Bernstein, Mr. Pzena worked for the Amoco Corporation in various financial and planning roles. He earned a B.S. summa cum laude and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. | ||
John Paul Goetz | Managing Principal | 1996 | 2017 |
Biography | Managing Principal, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager, and member of the firm’s Executive Committee. Mr. Goetz is a co-portfolio manager for the Global, International, European and Japan Focused Value strategies. He also previously served as the Director of Research and was responsible for building and training the research team. Mr. Goetz became a member of the firm in 1996. Prior to joining Pzena Investment Management, Mr. Goetz held a range of key positions at Amoco Corporation, his last as the Global Business Manager for Amoco’s $1 billion polypropylene business. | ||
Tony DeSpirito | Managing Director | 1996 | 2014 |
Biography | Antonio (Tony) DeSpirito, Managing Director, is Chief Investment Officer for the US Fundamental Equities business of BlackRock's Portfolio Management Group. Mr. DeSpirito is head of the US Income & Value pillar and the lead Portfolio Manager for the BlackRock Equity Dividend, Large Cap Focus Value, Mid-Cap Value, High Equity Income, Sustainable US Value and Large Cap Concentrated Value portfolios. Prior to joining BlackRock in 2014, Mr. DeSpirito worked at Pzena Investment Management, where he served as Managing Principal, portfolio manager, and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. DeSpirito was responsible for a suite of large-cap value, all-cap value and two hedge fund portfolios. Having managed value equity assets since 1996, Mr. DeSpirito served as a portfolio manager for the John Hancock Classic Value, PACE Large Company Value, and Vanguard Windsor funds. Mr. DeSpirito earned a BS degree in economics with concentration in finance, summa cum laude, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1990, and a JD degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1993. | ||
Rama Krishna | - | 2003 | 2005 |
Biography | Mr. Krishna was previously President, International of Pzena Investment Management, Inc. (NYSE:PZN) and Managing Principal, Member of Executive Committee, and Portfolio Manager of its operating company in New York. He led the development of the firm's International Value and Global Value strategies and co-managed the Emerging Markets Value strategy, in addition to managing the US Large Cap Value strategy in his early years at Pzena. Prior to joining Pzena in 2003, Mr. Krishna was at Citigroup Asset Management, where he was Chief Investment Officer and Head — Institutional and International, and represented the asset management business on the Citigroup Management Committee. He also directly managed the Global Emerging Markets Equity strategy. Prior to Citigroup, Mr. Krishna was Director of International Equity Research, Portfolio Manager, International Equities and Chief Investment Officer, Emerging Markets Equities at AllianceBernstein in New York, London and Tokyo. He has also worked at Credit Suisse First Boston, first as an Equity Research Analyst and ultimately as Chief Investment Strategist and Director — Equity Research, in New York, Tokyo and Singapore. Mr. Krishna earned a joint M.B.A./M.A. in Asian Studies with a Japan Specialization from the University of Michigan in 1987 and a B.A. (Honors) in Economics from St. Stephen’s College, The University of Delhi in 1984. Mr. Krishna received the Prize Fellowship in Japanese Business and the University Fellowship at the University of Michigan as well as the Middlebury College Scholarship. He was on the MSCI Editorial Advisory Board and is a Chartered Financial Analyst. | ||
Bryan Cheng | Analyst | 2003 | 2005 |
Biography | Before joining ARGA in 2010, Mr. Cheng was Associate at Gryphon Investors, a middle-market private equity firm in San Francisco. While at Gryphon from 2005 to 2007 he evaluated new investment opportunities in the Consumer Products and Retail sectors and executed acquisitions and financings. Previously, Mr. Cheng was an investment banking analyst with Goldman Sachs & Co. in its Technology, Media & Telecommunications Group in San Francisco, where he worked on M&A transactions for clients including NTT DoCoMo, AT&T Wireless and eBay. Mr. Cheng began his career as an analyst with Citigroup / Salomon Smith Barney in its Global Consumer Group in New York. Mr. Cheng earned an M.B.A from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 2009 and graduated with Honors from the University of California, Berkeley in 2002 with a B.S. in Business Administration. |
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