Biography

Aziz Hamzaogullari is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of the Growth Equity Strategies Team at Loomis, Sayles & Company. He is the Portfolio Manager of the Loomis Sayles Large Cap Growth, All Cap Growth, Global Growth and International Growth long-only strategies as well as the Long/Short Growth Equity strategy. Offerings include the Loomis Sayles Growth, Global Growth and International Growth mutual funds and products outside the US. Aziz is also a member of the firm’s Board of Directors. He joined Loomis Sayles in 2010 from Evergreen Investments where he was a senior portfolio manager and managing director. Aziz joined Evergreen in 2001, was promoted to director of research in 2003 and portfolio manager in 2006. He was head of Evergreen’s Berkeley Street Growth Equity team and was the founder of the research and investment process. Prior to Evergreen, Aziz was a senior equity analyst and portfolio manager at Manning & Napier Advisors. He has 32 years of investment industry experience. Aziz is a member of the Board of Trustees at Dana Hall School in Wellesley, Massachusetts. He earned a BS from Bilkent University, Türkiye, and an MBA from George Washington University. Aziz is also a CFAĀ® charterholder and a member of the CFA Society of Boston.

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About the Growth Equity Strategies Team

Investors on the Growth Equity Strategies team

Brian P. Coyle, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst, Managing Director
Peter V. Linnard
Senior Equity Analyst, Managing Director
Rayon K. Ward, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst, Managing Director
Igor M. Chan, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst
Lawrence Keegan, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst
Ryan Hill, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst
Olivier Diolosa, CFA
Senior Equity Analyst
Shaelyn Fitzgerald
Research Associate
Hollie C. Briggs, CFA, CAIA
Head of Global Product Management for Growth Equity Strategies
Adam Mushaweh, CFA, CAIA
Investment Director
John P. O'Shea, CFA
Investment Director
Richard E. Geller
Global Head of Alternative Investments
Julien Raynal
Chief Operating Officer of Growth Equity Strategies
Nicholas S. Gagnon
Co-Head of Trading for Growth Equity Strategies
Daniel E. Maturi, CFA, CAIA
Co-Head of Trading for Growth Equity Strategies
Haroon Perveez
Quantitative Trading Analyst
Ralph A. Vitti, CFA
Senior Business Analyst
Cody M. Lowit
Data Analyst
Fabiana Fagundes
ESG Data Analyst

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