Mr. Feeney is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer for Boston Partners. He is responsible for the firm’s strategic, financial and operating decisions, and all aspects of investment management including the firm’s fundamental and quantitative research groups. He was one of the original partners of Boston Partners Asset Management in 1995. Prior to assuming these roles, he was Director of Research. Mr. Feeney joined Boston Partners upon its inception in 1995 from Putnam Investments where he managed mortgage-backed securities portfolios. He began his career at the Bank of Boston where he was a loan officer specializing on highly leveraged loan portfolios. Mr. Feeney holds a B.S. degree in finance from the University of New Hampshire and an M.B.A. with High Honors from the University of Chicago. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is past President of the Fixed Income Management Society of Boston. He has thirty-five years of investment experience.

Mr. Burgess is an equity analyst with Boston Partners, specializing in the technology and electronics sectors of the equity market. He joined the firm after spending three years with Putnam Investments where he was a senior investment associate. Mr. Burgess holds a B.S. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from The Wharton School and The School of Engineering and Applied Science, respectively, at the University of Pennsylvania. He also holds an M.B.A. degree from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation. He has over 23 years of investment experience.