Dan Chung, CFA is Chief Executive Officer, Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager of several Alger strategies. Dan joined Alger in 1994 and has 27 years of investment experience. He was named Chief Investment Officer in September 2001, President in 2003, and CEO in 2006. Dan is also a member of The Alger Partners Plan. Throughout his tenure at Alger, he has made numerous TV appearances on Bloomberg, CNBC, and Fox Business. Dan has also been featured and quoted frequently in Barron’s, Citywire, Forbes, Investment News, Pensions & Investments, and USA Today. Prior to joining Alger, Dan was an associate at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York City in 1989 while he earned an LL.M. from New York University. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1987, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. After graduating, he served as law clerk for the Honorable Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, United States Supreme Court. Dan graduated from Stanford University with B.A. and B.S. degrees, with Distinction and Phi Beta Kappa, in 1984. Dan is also a CFA charterholder and a member of the CFA Institute. Dan currently serves as a board trustee and former chairman of The Nature Conservancy in the State of New York and is a Global Campaign Committee Member of The Nature Conservancy. He is also actively involved with the Stanford in New York Internship Program, and frequently contributes to and supports various charitable organizations including the Harlem Education Activities Fund (HEAF) and Target Margin Theater.

Brandon Geisler is Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager of the Mid Cap Growth Strategy. He joined Alger in 2022 and has 21 years of investment experience. Before joining Alger, Brandon was a Partner, Managing Director of Research, Portfolio Manager and Senior Securities Analyst for Marsico Capital Management, where he managed several billion dollars in large and mid cap U.S., global and focused growth portfolios for mutual fund, institutional and high net worth clients. During his tenure at Marsico, his insights into market trends and company fundamentals were highlighted and quoted in a number of publications such as Barron’s, The Wall Street Journal, Citywire and Bloomberg. His managed strategies have also been named to “Barron’s Top-Performing Sustainable Funds” in both 2021 and 2022. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, where he was a Vice President of Equity Research with experience in the consumer, technology and energy industries. Brandon earned an honors B.S. and an MBA from McMaster University.